Assistant Professor · Recruiting students & open to collaboration

Tingting Dan

Assistant Professor · Computational Neuroscience · Machine Learning · AI4Science · Multi-Agent Systems

I build brain-inspired machine intelligence — teaching graphs, manifolds and neural dynamics to reveal how the human brain works and how disease spreads through it.

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Nature Comms
2025 · First author
15+ NeurIPS
2023 – 2025
IEEE TPAMI
2026 · First author
npj Digital Medicine
2026 · First author
0
Peer-reviewed papers
0
Journal · IEEE TPAMI, TMI, MIA
0
Conference · NeurIPS / ICML / ICLR
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Nature Communications
About me

Bridging geometry, graphs & the brain

👋 Hi, thanks for stopping by! I'm an Assistant Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, working closely with Dr. Guorong Wu's lab. I earned my Ph.D. at South China University of Technology, advised by Prof. Guorong Wu and Prof. Hongmin Cai.

My research develops brain-inspired machine intelligence: rethinking graph neural networks through continuous diffusion and mean-field games, modeling neural dynamics on Riemannian manifolds, building AI4Science and multi-agent systems for neuroscience, and uncovering how neuropathology propagates across human connectomes — work that has appeared in Nature Communications, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, IEEE TPAMI and TMI.

🧠 Computational Neuroscience 🤖 Machine Learning 🔬 AI4Science 🛰️ Multi-Agent Systems
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We're recruiting — join our lab! Our lab (PI: Dr. Guorong Wu) is looking for highly motivated students in computer science, medical image analysis, machine learning & bioinformatics — PhD / RA / TA / (remote) externship / internship / visiting positions. Interested candidates are encouraged to contact Dr. Wu by email with a resume and transcripts.
Featured project

CyberNeuro Assistant

An agentic AI platform we're building for next-generation mental-health and brain research.

🧠 AI4Science · Multi-Agent · Live

Your AI co-pilot for brain science

A Next-Generation Platform for Mental Health Research

CyberNeuro Assistant brings large medical foundation models and a team of cooperating AI agents to the neuroscientist's desk — turning raw connectomes and neuroimaging data into insight through natural-language conversation and interactive visualization.

  • Chat with your data — ask questions about brain networks & neuroimaging in plain language
  • Multi-agent reasoning that plans, retrieves and analyzes across modalities
  • Interactive 3D visualization of complex brain connectivity & network structures
  • Built for the MedGemma Impact Challenge to accelerate mental-health discovery
▶ Watch demo 🌐 Live demo 𝕏 Read the thread 📝 MedGemma writeup
Interactive · WebGL

Play with the Brain

Real 3D neuroimaging, right in your browser — spin it, zoom in, and explore. Drag to rotate · scroll to zoom.

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Developed by my students Yucheng Li & Yiyao Chen 💜

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Always happy to discuss computational neuroscience, machine learning, AI4Science and multi-agent systems — or potential collaborations.

✉️ Email me 𝕏 @dan_tingting Google Scholar GitHub

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