Chrissy Luo, a co-founder of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI) was honored by the China Institute at their 2023 gala on Thursday, January 26th as one of this year’s “Outstanding Asian American Women Who Dared to Change Our Community and Future.” The award recognizes women who do great things in the world and […]

The second annual Chen Brain and Mind Lecture will take place on Wednesday, February 1st at 7pm at the California Academy of Sciences. This year, neuroscientist, opera stage director, and 2023 Osher Fellow, Dr. Indre Viskontas will lead the audience on a journey explaining how our brains turn sensory perceptions into meaningful and moving experiences […]

The inaugural Chen Institute Data Science and AI for Neuroscience Summer School took place July 5 – 15, 2022 at the historic Seeley Mudd estate in San Marino. Over the nine days, Caltech neuroscience graduate students and postdocs learned cutting-edge computational methods in data science and machine learning.   Instructors included both Caltech and visiting […]

The Chen Institute Brain & Mind Lecture series is an annual event at the California Academy of Sciences that explores brain science and mind health in our rapidly changing world.   For the inaugural lecture, A New Era of Experiential Medicine: Technology to Enhance Cognition, UCSF’s Dr. Adam Gazzaley described his research on integrating technology […]

To help promote the focus of the Chen Frontier Lab for A.I. and Mental Health, the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute recently released a five minute video which explores what we do and don’t know about human cognition. The Institute worked with kurzgesagt GmbH, the creators of the popular Youtube series In a Nutshell to […]

TCCI® Neurochat, an online conference focused on cognitive science for young Chinese scientists around the world, took place on May 28 and, during the three-day event, 18 Chinese scientists discussed research recent achievements in the field of cognitive science with thousands of attendees. The conference was voluntarily organized by young scientists and sponsored by Tianqiao […]

On May 25, Tao Hu, Deputy Director and Researcher at Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Investigator at the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute, won an Outstanding Contribution Award for Young Scientists in Shanghai.     Hu has been long been devoted to researching on new micro […]

On May 16, Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute (TCCI®) announced Pavlov: Brain’it on, its first brain cognition training game jointly developed with Tencent Games. It is expected to go live within this year.   The game is designed to improve the cognitive ability of teenagers. It consists of dozens of mini games that have different […]

The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Neuroscience at Caltech announced the recipients of this year’s Chen Institute Diversity and Inclusion Awards. These awards, for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in neuroscience at Caltech, are intended to recognize active individuals for the uncompensated time and effort they are dedicating to achieve diversity and inclusion at […]

Neuroscience has a new home. On Friday, January 29, Caltech hosted a virtual dedication for The Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Neuroscience Research Building (CNRB), the newest addition to campus. Although the pandemic prevented the community from gathering in person to celebrate the opening of the new building, more than 850 Caltech leaders, researchers, students, alumni, […]