Assistant Professor Thomas Yeo (NUS – Electrical and Computer Engineering) is the 2019 recipient of the prestigious Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) Early Career Investigator Award.
This honor is awarded to one scientist each year for significant contributions to the field of human brain mapping. Previous winners include Russ Poldrack (Stanford), Randy Buckner (Harvard) and Steve Smith (Oxford).
Thomas is the first person from Asia to receive this award in the 25-year history of the organization.
Thomas’s lab develops machine learning algorithms to automatically generate scientific discoveries from large-scale data sets comprising thousands of subjects with brain magnetic resonance imaging, behavioral, genetic and other physiological measures. His group is especially known for estimating high quality atlases of brain networks, which are widely used as references to study human brain organization and disorders.
