Kunpeng Yu

Research Technician

Kunpeng has been a member Qi Wang's Neural Control Lab since 2021 when he was a Master's student in the Biomedical Engineering Department. He subsequently joined the lab as a Research Assistant and has contributed to a number of projects. He is currently helping to lead an investigation of the role of multiple neuromodulatory systems in contributing to an organism's detection of a tactile stimulus and what relationships exist between broad levels of norepinephrine in the brain, pupil-linked arousal, and performance on a tactile discrimination task.

Education:

M.S. Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2021

B.S. Neuroscience, Brandeis University, 2018

B.S. Biology, Brandeis University, 2018