FACULTY PROFILE BRAIN 2020 Sandra is currently based at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Assistant Dean for Student Support in the Faculty of Medicine. Sandra received her MBChB from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK), the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists, and the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Psychiatry). Her current clinical expertise encompasses mood disorders, neuroimaging-guided neuromodulation for treatment-refractory depression, and psychodynamic psychotherapy; while her research interests lie in functional brain mapping for mood disorders, and network- informed transcranial magnetic stimulation for treatment-refractory major depressive disorder. Sandra CHAN Her research has been widely published in leading international peer- review journals. She has received multiple competitive grants and funding for both population-based and clinic-based studies from organisations such as the US National Institute of Health, the Hong Kong Research Grant Council and the Hospital Authority Health Care & Promotion Fund, where she regularly collaborates with local and international institutions in the capacity of principle or co-investigator. Aside from her everyday duties, Sandra is actively involved with professional societies, and holds many positions including, among many others, the incumbent Chair of the Research Committee and Council Member of the Hong Kong College of Psychiatrists; Chair and Convenor of the DEC Subcommittee for MMR, the Mental Health Association of Hong Kong; and a Member of the World Psychiatric Association Psychotherapy Section. Carol is an Assistant Professor at Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Carol’s main research interest is “imaging of the eye”, based on the concept that the eyes are the “window” to the human circulation and nervous systems. She has been working in the field of ocular imaging for more than 13 years in Hong Kong and in Singapore, focus on development and application of image analysis techniques and artificial intelligence for studying eye diseases, and also relationship between retinal imaging markers and Alzheimer’s diseases. Carol is a principal investigator of multiple research grants on the Carol CHEUNG development and application of novel imaging techniques, and how these techniques can be used to improve clinical practice and public health outcomes. Carol has authored more than 190 original research articles and 21 review articles in SCI international indexed peer reviewed journals, and 10 book chapters. In addition to Carol’s research and teaching, she serves as a regular reviewer for international scientific journals and for international grant funding agencies. She is a secretary-general of Asia Pacific Ocular Imaging Society. She is a council board member and treasurer of Asia Pacific Tele-Ophthalmology Society. FACULTY PROFILE Xiujuan has over 10 years of research experience in neuroimaging and neuroscience. Her research ranges from advanced methodology development in neuroimaging to the investigation of neural basis of cognitive/emotional processing under developing brain and mentally diseased populations. Before moving to the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she worked as a research faculty member at the University of North Carolina (UNC), USA and the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She serves as regular reviewers and board members for world-leading journals and conferences in neuroimaging and medical imaging fields. Xiujuan GENG Xiujuan research has been published in high-impact international journals, such as Brain, Cerebral Cortex, Neuroimage, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, etc. Her current research focuses on building multi- modal imaging and machine learning algorithms to study the early brain developmental trajectory in infants and children, and the neuroimaging markers predictive to later behavioural outcomes. Ying-Yi is Choh-Ming Li Professor of Marketing at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Ying-Yi obtained her Ph.D. from Columbia University. Before returning to teach at CUHK, Ying-Yi has taught at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore). Her research focuses on culture and cognition, multicultural identity and intergroup relations, and uses multidisciplinary methods, including social psychological (e.g., priming), economic (behavioral games), and bio-physiological methods (e.g., fMRI, genetic analysis). Ying-Yi HONG Ying-Yi has published over 120 journal articles and book chapters and her work has been extensively cited (H=58). She has received several awards for her pioneering work, including the Otto Klineberg Intercultural and International Relations Award in 2001, the International Society for Self and Identity Outstanding Early Career Award in 2004 and the Nanyang Award for Research Excellence in 2013. Her book The Oxford Handbook of Multicultural Identity has won the 2015 Ursula Gielen Global Psychology Book Award. She just completed a fellowship (2018-2019) at Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. FACULTY PROFILE Yaou, as a neuroradiologist, has been dedicating to basic and clinical neuroimaging research and focusing on elucidating the MRI features of neuroimmune disease especially neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) and its clinical relevance. He has symmetrically demonstrated the specific patterns of brain damage in NMOSD including alterations of visual, motor and cognition related brain areas and subtle widespread white matter demyelination. Furthermore, the neural mechanism of cognitive impairment in NMOSD was revealed mainly in deep gray matter specifically hippocampus and thalamus. Then he mainly focused on thalamus and spinal cord to pursue the MRI biomarkers to monitor the clinical disability and disease progression. He utilized Yaou LIU these MRI biomarkers to achieve early diagnosis, assess therapeutic effect and predict clinical conversion. These findings offered theoretical principles and clinical biomarkers for cognitive impairment and clinical disability of NMOSD, with scientific and clinical significance, and can be extended and applied to other neurological diseases. Yaou was awarded two PhD from Capital Medical University (China, 2013) and VU University, Amsterdam (The Netherlands,2017) , he has published 55 SCI papers including Immunity, Brain, Neurology, Radiology, which have been cited 747 times. He is the chief editor of the book “Neuroimage in central nervous system demyelinating diseases”(in Chinese). Fifteen international prizes in neuroimage and neuroimmune disease field were awarded including McDonald Fellowship from Multiple Sclerosis International Federation (MSIF), Young investigator award and Best poster award of Pan-Asian Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (PACTRIMS), Educational award from American society of MS (ACTRIMS), Merit Award from Radiological Society of North America (RSNA). He serves as the committee member for several international scientific organizations e.g. Central Organizing and Scientific Committee of PACTRIMS, Editor of Neuroradiology and principle investigator of three national funds. FACULTY PROFILE Urs is an Associate Professor at the Department of Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research focuses on cognitive and neural aspects of spoken and written language processing. He is particularly interested in reading acquisition, dyslexia, and second language learning. One goal of his work is to use neural markers of language processing to inform screening and intervention practices for dyslexia. His research involves behavioral and functional neuroimaging techniques, such as EEG and fMRI. He received his PhD at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He then pursued postdoctoral studies at the University of Zurich and at the Weill Urs MAURER Medical College of Cornell University in New York City. Before joining the Chinese University of Hong Kong he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Zurich, funded through the Swiss National Science Foundation’s prestigious research professor scheme. Lin is an Associate Professor in Department of Imaging and Interventional Radiology (DIIR), The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is the Director of Division of Imaging Informatics, DIIR. Her research interests are mainly in the field of multimodal image quantification of brain to support clinical research and practice. She has been awarded the Best Young Engineer’s Paper Award, by Biomedical Division, The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. She founded a startup company, BrainNow Ltd. to promote the clinical applications of neuroimage analysis technology, which won the Gold Award with the Congratulations of the Jury in the 46th International Lin SHI Exhibition of Inventions Geneva in 2018. FACULTY PROFILE Yannie is a Neurologist, Clinical Professional Consultant and Honorary Clinical Assistant Professor at CUHK. After graduating from CUHK in year 2000, she underwent neurology training at Prince of Wales Hospital, and overseas training in stroke neuroimaging in Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. In 2012, she pioneered 24-hour thrombolysis using telestroke with iPad in Hong Kong, which won the Asia Pacific HIMSS Healthcare award in 2013 and the Hospital Authority Outstanding Team award in Hong Kong in 2019. She is