Dr. Changsong Zhou, Professor and Head, Department of Physics, Director of Centre for Nonlinear Studies, Deputy Director of Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). He obtained his PhD degree at Nankai University, and served as Postdoctoral Fellow at National University of Singapore (1997-1999), Visiting Research Scholar at HKBU (1999-2000) and Humboldt Research Fellow and Research Scientist at University of Potsdam, Germany (2000-2007). He joined HKBU as Assistant Professor in 2007 and received HKBU President’s Award for Outstanding Young Researcher 2011 and President’s Award for Outstanding Performance in Scholarly Work 2021. He has published over 150 research papers in interdisciplinary journals such as PNAS, PRL, National Science Review, J Neuroscience, NeuroImage, Cerebral Cortex, PLoS Computational Biology. He currently serves as Academic Editors of Scientific Reports, PLoS One and Cognitive Neurodynamics.  

Dr. Zhou’s research interest is dynamical processes on complex systems. His current emphasis is on analysis and modeling connectivity and activity in neural systems in collaboration with experimental neuroscientists, using the approaches of oscillatory dynamics networks and covering broad scales from network of excitatory-inhibitory neurons to interacting functional brain regions and functional EEG and cognitive variability and disorders. He has strong interest in brain-inspired artificial intelligence based on complex neural dynamics.