Chaoming Wang
Principal Investigator
Group Leader, Digital Brain Laboratory · Guangdong Institute of Intelligence Science and Technology
Biography
Dr. Chaoming Wang is a principal investigator at GDIIST and leads the Digital Brain Laboratory. He received his B.E. from Beijing Jiaotong University, his Ph.D. from the joint doctoral program between Peking University and the Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing (CIBR), and was a Boya Postdoctoral Fellow at Peking University.
His research focuses on software, algorithms, and computational models for large-scale brain simulation. He has published over 10 papers in Nature Communications (2025, 2026), eLife (2023), Cell Reports (2024), ICLR, and others, and holds multiple Chinese invention patents.
He has developed several open-source brain dynamics frameworks: BrainPy (eLife 2023; ICLR 2024), BrainUnit/SAIUnit (Nature Communications 2025), BrainTrace (Nature Communications 2026), applied to multi-scale brain modeling (Cell Reports 2024).
His work is supported by the China Brain Project (STI 2030) and won the OpenI Outstanding Project Award two years running (2021, 2022). He leads grants from the China Postdoctoral Fund and NSFC, and was awarded a Tier-1 rating in China's national postdoctoral assessment.
Research Interests
His research centers on large-scale brain simulation, spanning foundational software, modeling algorithms, computational models, and real-world applications. A full list of publications is available on the lab website.
Appointments
- 2025–present Principal Investigator, Group Leader of the Digital Brain Laboratory, Guangdong Institute of Intelligence Science and Technology (GDIIST)
- 2023–2025 Boya Postdoctoral Fellow, Peking University (Collaborating Advisor: Prof. Si Wu)
Education
- 2018–2023 Ph.D., Computational Neuroscience, Peking University & Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing (CIBR), joint Ph.D. program (advisor: Prof. Si Wu)
- 2014–2018 B.A., Computer Science, Beijing Jiaotong University
Grants
- China Brain Project, STI 2030 Major Project
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- China Postdoctoral Science Fund
Academic Service
- Editorial board Brain Horizons (Editorial Board Member)
- Journal reviewer eLife · PLOS Computational Biology · Scientific Reports · Cognitive Neurodynamics · Brain Informatics · Discover Artificial Intelligence
- Conference reviewer NeurIPS · ICLR · IJCAI
Awards
- 2026 Recognized High-Level Talent in the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin
- 2025 Tier-1 National Postdoctoral Performance Award (YJA20250195) Sole Tier-1 awardee in the Psychology field in 2025
- 2025 Outstanding Oral Presentation Award, Cross-disciplinary Postdoctoral Forum on Brain Science and Brain-Machine Intelligence.
- 2023 Outstanding Graduate Award, Peking University.
- 2022 Outstanding Project Award (BrainPy), OpenI New-Generation AI Open-Source Platform.
- 2022 President's Scholarship, Peking University.
- 2021 Outstanding Project Award (BrainPy), OpenI New-Generation AI Open-Source Platform.
- 2020 National Scholarship for Doctoral Students.
- 2019 President's Scholarship, Peking University.