Wenhao Zhang

Wenhao Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics and a secondary appointee at the O'Donnell Brain Institute of UT Southwestern Medical Center. His research focuses on bridging biological and artificial systems through computational neuroscience, particularly in normative theories of neural information processing.

• Education:
• Ph.D. in Theoretical Neuroscience (2016), Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• B.E. in Biomedical Engineering (2009), Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Dr. Zhang's lab develops biologically plausible models to explain perception, cognition, and behavior, combining techniques from nonlinear dynamics, Bayesian inference, and information theory. He has published influential papers at top venues like ICLR and NeurIPS, often collaborating with experimentalists and theorists across institutions.

Scientific Awards:

• Lupe Murchison Foundation Scholar in Medical Research

The lab trains graduate and undergraduate students in computational neuroscience and machine learning, with alumni including visiting students from prestigious universities like Carnegie Mellon and Peking University. His group actively seeks postdocs and Ph.D. candidates with quantitative backgrounds.