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Education

  • Harvard University
    • Since 2021, Doctor of Philosophy, Engineering Sciences
    • 2021-2024, Master en Route, Engineering Sciences
  • Carnegie Mellon University
    • 2019-2020, Master of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • 2014-2018, Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Software Engineering

  • JPMorgan Chase & Co. (2021) - Software Engineer
  • Duolingo (2018-2019) - Android Developer
  • Facebook (Now Meta) (Summer 2018) - Software Engineer Intern
  • Google (Summer 2017) - Software Engineer Intern
  • Google (Summer 2016) - Engineering Practicum Intern
  • Expii (Fall 2018) - Engineer Intern

research

Stem Cell Engineering

  • Cyborg islets: implanted flexible electronics reveal principles of human islet electrical maturation
    • Science, to appear in 2026.
    • Authors Li, Q.†, Liu, R.†, Lin, Z.†, Zhang, X.†, Wang, W.†, Silva, I.G., Liu, M., Gao, Z., Pollock, S.D., Alvarez-Dominguez, J.R.‡ and Liu, J.‡
  • Flexible Nanoelectronics Reveal Arrhythmogenesis in Transplanted Human Cardiomyocytes
    • Science, 2025.
    • Authors Aoyama, J.†, Liu, R.†, Zhang, X.†, Zhu, A., Luanpaisanon, P., Garbern, J., Cao, F., Barrera, I., Sokol, M., Dasariraju, S., Fandl, H., Gil, E.S., Aleksi, E., Amanuma, T., Velayutham, N., Saucerman, J., Chen, F., Liu, J.‡ and Lee., R.T.‡
  • An AI-Cyborg System for Adaptive Intelligent Modulation of Organoid Maturation
    • bioRxiv, 2024.
    • Authors Liu, R.†, Ren, Z.†, Zhang, X.†, Li, Q., Wang, W., Lin, Z., Lee, R.T., Ding, J., Li, N.‡ and Liu, J.‡

Brain-Machine Interfaces

  • Riemannian Geometry for the Classification of Brain States with Intracortical Brain Recordings
    • Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2025.
    • Authors Marin‐Llobet, A.†, Sánchez‐Manso, S., Manasanch, A., Tresserras, L., Zhang, X., Hua, Y., Zhao, H., Torao‐Angosto, M., Sanchez‐Vives, M.V. and Dalla Porta, L.‡
  • In Vivo Neural Stimulation and Recording using Flexible Bioelectronics
  • Benchmarking spike source localization algorithms in high density probes
    • arXiv, 2025.
    • Authors Zhao, H.†‡, Zhang, X.‡, Marin-Llobet, A., Lin, X. and Liu, J.
  • Plastic-elastomer heterostructure for robust flexible brain-computer interfaces
    • bioRxiv, 2025.
    • Authors Lin, X.†, Zhang, X., Wang, Z., Chen, J., Lee, J., Lee, A.J., Yang, H., Remy, A., Shen, H., He, Y., Zhao, H., Zhang, X., Wang, W., Aljovic, A., Vlassak, J.J., Lu, N., Liu, J.‡
  • Realigning representational drift in mouse visual cortex by flexible brain-computer interfaces
    • bioRxiv, 2024.
    • Authors Zhao, S.†, Shen, H.†, Qin, S., Jiang, S., Tang, X., Lee, M., Zhang, X., Lee, J., Chen, J. and Liu, J.‡

Bio-Inspired and Agentic AI

  • DeviceAgent: An autonomous multimodal AI agent for flexible bioelectronics.
    • bioRxiv, 2025.
    • Authors Lee, J.†, Lin, Z.†, Wang, W.†, Baek, J.†, Lee, A.J., Aljovic, A., Marin-Llobet, A., Zhang, X., Liu, R., Li, N. and Liu, J.‡
  • An AI Agent for cell-type specific brain computer interfaces
    • bioRxiv, 2025.
    • Authors Marin-Llobet, A.†, Lin, Z.†, Baek, J.†, Aljovic, A., Zhang, X., Lee, A.J., Wang, W., Lee, J., Shen, H., He, Y., Li, N., Liu, J.‡
  • An autonomous AI agent for universal behavior analysis
    • bioRxiv, 2025.
    • Authors Aljovic, A.†‡ Lin, Z.†‡, Wang, W., Zhang, X., Marin-Llobet, A., Liang, N., Canales, B., Lee, J., Baek, J., Liu, R., Li, C., Li, N., Liu, J.‡
  • Spatial transcriptomics AI agent charts hPSC-pancreas maturation in vivo
    • bioRxiv, 2025.
    • Authors Lin, Z.†, Wang, W.†, Marin-Llobet, A., Li, Q., Pollock, S.D., Sui, X., Almir Aljovic, Lee, J., Baek, J., Liang, N., Zhang, X., Wang, C.K., Huang, J., Liu, M., Gao, Z., Sheng, H., Du, J., Lee, S.J., Wang, B., He, Y., Ding, J., Wang, X., Alvarez-Dominguez, J.R.‡ and Liu, J.‡
  • Spike sorting AI agent
    • bioRxiv, 2025.
    • Authors Lin, Z.†, Marin-Llobet, A.†, Baek, J., He, Y., Lee, J., Wang, W., Zhang, X., Lee, A.J., Liang, N., Du, J., Ding, J., Li, N. and Liu. J.‡
  • Drift to Remember
    • arXiv, 2024.
    • Authors Du, J.†, Zhang, X., Shen, H., Xian, X., Wang, G., Zhang, J., Yang, Y., Li, N., Liu, J.‡ and Ding, J.‡

Miscellaneous Research

  • Explainable multi-task learning for multi-modality biological data analysis
    • Nature communications, 2023.
    • Authors Tang, X.†, Zhang, J.†, He, Y.†, Zhang, X., Lin, Z., Partarrieu, S., Hanna, E.B., Ren, Z., Shen, H., Yang, Y., Wang, X., Li, N., Ding, J.‡ and Liu, J.‡
  • Carla simulated data for rare road object detection
  • Error-In-Variables Methods for Efficient System Identification with Finite-Sample Guarantees
    • arXiv, 2025.
    • Authors Zhang, Y.†, Zhang, X., Liu, J. and Li, N.‡

Awards and Honors

Talks and Presentations

  • 2025 Harvard University Center for Brain Science Retreat (Poster)
  • 2025 Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center Biomedical Science and AI Symposium (Poster)
  • 2025 National Science Foundation Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (Poster)
  • 2024 National Institutes of Health BRAIN NeuroAI Workshop (Poster)
  • 2024 Harvard University BE131 Neuroengineering (Guest lecture)
  • 2024 Harvard University BE129 Introduction to Bioelectronics (Guest lecture)

teaching

Tutoring

Academic tutor, Pittsburgh, PA

  • 2015-2020, College Reading and Learning Association Certified Level 2 Advanced Tutor
    • Computer Science
      • Principles of Computing
      • Fundamentals of Programming
      • Principles of Imperative Computing
      • Functional Programming
      • Computer Systems
    • Electrical and Computer Engineering
      • Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering
      • Signals and Systems
    • Mathematics and Physics
      • Concept of Math
      • Matrices and Linear Transformations
      • Physics for Engineering

Mentorship

Academic Advisor, Pittsburgh, PA and Boston, MA

  • 2022-2024, First-Year Advisor, Harvard University
  • Fall 2020, Peer Advisor, Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University

Teaching Assistant, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Fall 2020, Deep Reinforcement Learning
  • Spring 2020, Signals and Systems
  • Fall 2019, Signals and Systems
  • Spring 2018, Signals and Systems
  • Spring 2017, Fundamentals of Programming
  • Fall 2016, Signals and Systems
  • Spring 2016, Fundamentals of Programming
  • Fall 2015, Fundamentals of Programming
  • Summer 2015, Principles of Computing

Harvard University

Teaching Fellow, Boston, MA

  • Fall 2025, Theory of Neural Computation
  • Fall 2025, Neuroengineering
  • Fall 2024, Neuroengineering
  • Fall 2022, Systems Development for Computational Science