Shuo Wang, PhD

Shuo Wang, PhD, is an associate professor of radiology and principal investigator in the Neuroimaging Labs Research Center for WashU Medicine Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (MIR). His research integrates multimodal, advanced measurement techniques with sophisticated computational approaches to elucidate the neural mechanisms and computations underlying face and object processing, visual attention, emotion and memory.

The overarching questions guiding his work focus on how the brain recognizes faces and objects, discerns environmental significance and translates visual information into memory. Using a multimodal approach, he investigates these questions at both the microscopic level — through single-neuron recordings in humans and macaques — and the macroscopic level, employing fMRI, EEG and intracranial EEG. These experimental methods are complemented by advanced computational techniques designed to handle complex, large-scale datasets. His research also includes characterizing individual differences in cognitive processes, particularly to understand how these processes are disrupted in autism.

Also an associate professor of neurosurgery and biomedical engineering, Wang and his work have been recognized with a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, U.S. Department of Defense Young Investigator Award, Dana Foundation Clinical Neuroscience Award, Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award and Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS) Mid Career Award. He was selected as an inaugural SANS fellow as well.

Wang received his doctorate from California Institute of Technology and completed his postdoctoral training at Caltech and Princeton University.