CV

Robust research methods and applications

General Information

Full Name Xiaowei Song
Languages English, Chinese

Education

  • 2006 - 2008
    Master
    State key laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
    • Resting-state fMRI toolkits (REST, http://resting-fmri.sourceforge.net/ and http://restfmri.net)
  • 1999 - 2003
    Bachelor
    Department of automation, Zhengzhou University, Henan, China
    • Mechanical design and drawing for a whole year 1999~2000.
    • Analogic and Digital electronics
    • Classical and mordern control theory, i.e., automation theory
    • Electrical motor design and theory
    • Applied industry control theory

Working Experience

  • 2003 - 2004
    Field Automation engineer
    150 rolling factory, Tegang company, Shougang group
    • Designed a set of automatic controls to engage raw steel into fire stove before rolling
    • Help engineers debug and fix a set of problems with the original Italian 16mm auto rolling machines
    • Got a prize on deeply involved into the supervising and building of a new factory, from raw materials to final building, including electrical motor, control units, gear boxes ...
  • 2004 - 2006
    C/C++/Asm/WinAsm/Delphi programer
    Various software companier in Zhengzhou and Beijing
    • A set of softwares including information management system
    • A set of tranlastion assistant tools, including huge file transferring among translators with 163 email system
  • 2008 - 2012
    Research assistant, and assistant researcher
    Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Science
    • A set of tools for automatic rebuilding of 3D virus (including HIV) structure from cryoET and cryoEM
  • 2013 - 2022
    Neuroimaging programmer
    Northwestern University
  • 2013 - 2022
    Rhesus/marmoset/squirril monkey + human research
    NIDA, NIH
  • 2022 - 2025
    Healthcare Data analyst, Senior
    GDIT

Open Source Projects

  • 2007-2015
    REST
    • A set of tools to help analyze resting-state fMRI brain data.

Academic Interests

  • Robust.
    • Statistics.
    • Control theory.
    • Linear/Nonlinear methods.
  • Simplest and most efficient Algorithms.
    • PCA.
    • ICA.
    • Dictionary learning.

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: building house, chopping fell trees, etc.