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Jinyang Liu

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Biography

Jinyang Liu received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of New Mexico in 2005. Before joining HHMI in 2007 as an instrument control software developer, he developed high-resolution control algorithms for the NASA-funded earth orbital low-temperature experiment DYNAMX at the University of New Mexico and the California Institute of Technology. This work achieved control resolution of 0.1 nano-Kelvin, one of the highest reported around the critical point of liquid helium.

At HHMI, Jinyang has developed software for instrument control and GUIs, firmware and FPGAs for microcontroller systems, and data/image acquisition and analysis for over different labs. His key projects include:

  • LED panel display controller project (Reiser lab)
  • Q-imaging camera control project (Svoboda lab)
  • Heat mapping project (Simpson lab)
  • Place learning project (Jayaram lab)
  • Adaptive optics project (Keller lab)
  • Fly behavior analysis projects (Flybowl, Flybubble, Sleeprig, etc.) (Rubin Lab)
  • Olfactory arena project (Aso lab)
  • Fly flipper robot arm upgrade project (Invertebrate Shared Resource)
  • JetCam project (Janelia Experimental Technology)
  • Pfly project (Otopalik lab)