Chaoyi Zhang

Postdoc in Guoping Feng Lab, McGovern Institute at MIT - J. Douglas Tan Postdoctoral Fellow

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Office:46-3115

43 Vassar Street

Cambridge, MA 02139

Hi friends, welcome to my personal website — I’m glad you’re here.

I was born and raised in Taizhou, a seaside city in eastern China, then studied in Wenzhou and Hangzhou, Zhejiang. These days I live in Boston, on the east coast of the US, where I’m a postdoc in the Guoping Feng lab at MIT, studying the neurobiological mechanisms of psychiatric disease using non-human primate models.

I’ll keep updating this site with my progress and thoughts along the way.

news

Nov 6, 2026 Upcoming talk at the MIT Simons Center for the Social Brain Lunch SeriesReading the social brain: volumetric functional ultrasound imaging in behaving marmosets
Aug 31, 2026 Wrapped up a summer mentoring two students and a new technician :smile:
Aug 15, 2026 Gave a talk and presented a poster at the 2026 In Vivo Ultrasound GRS and GRC :microphone:
Oct 23, 2025 Attended the 10 Questions for NHP Systems Neuroscience Workshop at Carnegie Mellon University
May 15, 2025 Volunteered with ACEing Autism, supporting children and adults with ASD through tennis :tennis:

latest posts

selected publications

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    Dynamics of a disinhibitory prefrontal microcircuit in controlling social competition
    Chaoyi Zhang, Hong Zhu, Zheyi Ni, Qiuhong Xin, Tingting Zhou, and 9 more authors
    Neuron, 2021