Neuroscientist, Professor @UCLA — studying the neural basis of social behavior

Los Angeles, CA
Joined February 2019
We often think of survival as an individual act. But when facing hardship together, social groups may function more like a unified system than a collection of separate individuals Excited to share our latest work @NatureNeuro on collective social dynamics rdcu.be/e8LrV
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Excited to share our latest work in @Nature showing shared neural substrates for parenting and prosocial helping behavior - fantastic work by @Fangmiao4, @KaylaYingYan, and Emily Wu. Full text available here: rdcu.be/e6PnY
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Join us in beautiful Montreal for the 2026 S4SN Conference (Aug 23–26)! Share your latest research, spark new collaborations, and engage with a vibrant social neuroscience community! Symposium proposals and individual abstract submissions are underway: event.fourwaves.com/s4sn2026…
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We are excited to share our latest work in @ScienceMagazine studying cooperative behavior in both biological and artificial intelligence systems — fantastic work by @JanineJiang22, Linfan Gu, and wonderful collaboration with @JonathanCKao! science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Thrilled to share our latest work in @Nature studying inter-brain neural dynamics in both biological and artificial intelligence systems — amazing work by @xzh_brain, Nguyen Phi, and fantastic collaboration with @JonathanCKao! Read the full article here: rdcu.be/euu5Z
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So proud of @lylekingsbury who has just won the Donald B. Lindsley Prize in Behavioral Neuroscience from @SfNtweets for his amazing PhD work in our lab. Lyle was the first graduate student to join my lab in 2016. Congratulations Lyle!
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A postdoctoral position is available @TheHongLab @UCLA Interested in the neural circuit of social behavior in mice? We study how neural dynamics regulate social behavior and how inter-brain properties arise across socially interacting brains.
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