Dr. Juan (Helen) Zhou
Assoc. Prof. Juan (Helen) Zhou
Principal Investigator
Centre for Sleep and Cognition, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Centre for Translational Magnetic Resonance Research, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National University of Singapore
Director
Centre for Translational Magnetic Resonance Research, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore helen.zhou@nus.edu.sg
orcid.org/0000-0002-0180-8648Dr. Juan (Helen) Zhou is an Associate Professor at the Centre for Sleep and Cognition and Director of the Centre for Translational Magnetic Resonance Research at the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. She is also affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the School of Design and Engineering, NUS as well as Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
Her research focuses on selective brain network-based vulnerability in aging and neuropsychiatric disorders, leveraging multimodal neuroimaging and machine learning approaches. She is widely recognized for her pioneering work on multimodal brain connectome, particularly in aging and neuropsychiatric disorders. More recently, her team has made advances in brain foundation models using deep learning for non-invasive brain decoding and outcome prediction.
Helen earned her bachelor’s and Ph.D. in Computer Science at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is the recipient of undergraduate scholarship from the Ministry of Education, Singapore and the nominee for the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal and the Institution of Engineers Singapore Gold Medal, Singapore. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Memory and Aging Center, Department of Neurology, University of California, San Francisco, USA. She also worked in the Computational Biology Program at the Singapore-MIT Alliance and the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New York University, USA.
Helen has served as a Council Member of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) and Program Committee member of both OHBM and the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM). She is an OHBM Fellow and on the advisory board of Cell Reports Medicine. She has served as editor for multiple journals including Nature Communications Biology, eLife, NeuroImage, Scientific Reports, and Human Brain Mapping. She is now the handling editor of Imaging Neuroscience and regional editor of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Helen’s research has been supported by various funding bodies in Singapore, the Royal Society (UK), and the NIH (USA).
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