Lin Du 🧠

Lin Du

Research Scholar
lindu[at]fas.harvard.edu
ldu[at]mit.edu

Harvard University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

About Me~

Hi my name is Lin Du. I’m a Research Scholar affiliated with Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences | McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT and Department of Psychology | Center for Brain Science, Harvard University. I’m advised by Nancy Kanwisher and Randy Buckner.

Education & Training

Research Scholar

2026-03-01
Present

MIT | Kanwisher Lab

Research Fellow

2025-07-01
Present

Harvard University | Buckner Lab

MEng Computer Science

2023-09-01
2026-07-31

Beijing Normal University | McGovern Institute for Brain Research | Liu Lab

Interests

Cognitive Neuroscience Computational Neuroscience NeuroAI Vision Sciences
📚 My Research

I have had experience in Computational & Cognitive Neuroscience research using Contrastive Deep Learning Methods, Diffusion Models, Reinforcement Learning, Transformer-based Frameworks, LLMs, and Precision fMRI Analysis.

Please reach out to collaborate 😃

Featured Publications
Decoupling MCI-specific signatures from shared neurobiological substrates of cognitive aging via deep learning featured image

Decoupling MCI-specific signatures from shared neurobiological substrates of cognitive aging via deep learning

The specific neuroanatomy of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is obscured by its clinical heterogeneity and confounding effects from normative variation. This problem is compounded …

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An Efficient Contrastive Deep Learning Model for Identifying Schizophrenia-Specific Neuroanatomical Variations featured image

An Efficient Contrastive Deep Learning Model for Identifying Schizophrenia-Specific Neuroanatomical Variations

Background and Hypothesis: Schizophrenia (SZ) is a debilitating mental disorder characterized by heterogeneous clinical manifestations and widespread brain structural …

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The Neurodynamic Computational Model Reveals Abnormal Multistable Spatiotemporal Patterns and Mechanisms in Schizophrenia featured image

The Neurodynamic Computational Model Reveals Abnormal Multistable Spatiotemporal Patterns and Mechanisms in Schizophrenia

In this study, we established a link between data-driven dynamic organizational modeling (including co-activation pattern and hidden Markov model) and theory-driven neurodynamic …

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Low-Dimensional Temporal Representations of Brain Functional Networks Using a Transformer-Based Autoencoder featured image

Low-Dimensional Temporal Representations of Brain Functional Networks Using a Transformer-Based Autoencoder

In this study, we developed a Transformer-based autoencoder (TAE) model for temporal dimensionality reduction of fMRI data, harnessing the Transformer's ability to capture temporal …

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🎓 Defended Master's Degree

Lin defended his Master's degree in Computer Science at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University.