Oral Presentations/ Invited Talks
- Integrating measurements of the autonomic nervous system and heart-brain interactions with sleep and memory research. Speaker at the 3rd International Sleep Replay Workshop (ISRW), Huntington Beach, CA, USA (April, 2023)
- The Role of the Autonomic Nervous System in the Science of Sleep. Symposium speaker at the 35th Annual Meeting of the American Associated Professional Sleep Societies, Virtual (June, 2021)
- The sleeping brain switches from frontal-subcortical working memory to hippocampal episodic memory processing during NREM sleep. Speaker at the 35th Annual Meeting of the American Associated Professional Sleep Societies, Virtual (June, 2021)
- Competitive dynamics underlie cognitive improvements during sleep. Virtual (June 2021)
- Trusting Your Heart during Sleep in the Fight Against Cognitive Aging. Speaker at the UCI Grad Slam Semi-Final Competition, Virtual (Jan, 2021)
- Vagolytic effect of Zolpidem on Sleep-dependent Memory: A Trade-off between Working Memory and Long-term Memory. Speaker at the 2020 Neuromatch Conference 3.0, Virtual (2020, Oct)
- Unsupervised Learning of Sleep Stages from Polysomnography (PSG) Data. 2nd Annual Computational Data Neuroscience Symposium, Virtual (2020, Oct)
- Age-related Losses in Cardiac Autonomic Activity during a Daytime Nap. 2nd Annual Computational Data Neuroscience Symposium, Virtual (2020, Oct)
- Competitive Dynamics between Working Memory and Long-term Memory Processing during Sleep. Speaker at the 2021 Virtual Working Memory Symposium, Virtual (June, 2021)
- Coupling of Autonomic and Central events during Sleep Boosts Working Memory in Healthy Young Adults. Speaker at the 2020 Virtual Working Memory Symposium, Virtual (June, 2020)
- The Sleeping Brain Switches between Working Memory and Long-term Memory Processing. Data Blitz Speaker at the Spring Conference at UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Irvine, CA (2021, May)
- Trust your Heart in Sleep to Fight against Cognitive Aging. Speaker at UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory Award Ceremony, Irvine, CA (2021, May)
- The Roles of Autonomic Activities during Sleep on Cognition. Data Blitz Speaker at the Spring Conference at UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, Irvine, CA (2019, May)
- Neural mechanisms of sleep and memory consolidation. Guest lecture on Psych 129 Sleep & Memory at UCI, Virtual (2021, May)
- The sleeping brain switches between frontal-subcortical working memory to hippocampal episodic memory processing during NREM sleep. AGS Virtual Symposium (2021, April)
- Sleep Interventions to Boost Memory. Guest lecture on Psych 121S Sleep & Consciousness at UCI, Virtual (2020, Nov)
- Spindles switch the sleeping brain from frontal lobe to hippocampal processing: a pharmacology study. Speaker at UCI CogSci Colloquium Flash Talks Series, Virtual (2020, Oct)
- Sleep in the COVID Pandemic. Guest lecture on Psych 121S Sleep & Consciousness at UCI, Virtual (2020, Nov)
- Cued memory reactivation during sleep influences skill learning. Guest lecture on Psych 129 Sleep & Memory at UCI, Virtual (2020, May)
- Autonomic-central couplings during Sleep Drives Sleep-dependent Working Memory Gains. Cognitive Science Advancement Talk, Virtual (2020, May)
- Autonomic-central couplings during Sleep Drives Sleep-dependent Working Memory Gains. Cognitive Science 3rd-year Talk at UCI, Irvine, CA (2020, Jan)
- Enhancing Working Memory by Closed-loop tACS during NREM Sleep. Concentration Exam Talk at UCI, Irvine, CA (2019, Feb)
- Age-related Sleep and Cognitive Declines: Sleep Disorders and Etiology. Guest lecture on Psych 121S Sleep & Consciousness at UCI, Irvine, CA (2019, Nov)
- Why Do We Sleep? The Impacts of Sleep on Emotion and Memory. Guest speaker at Academic Salon at Taiwanese Graduate Student Association at UCI, Irvine, CA (2017, Dec)
Presentations/ Peer-reviewed Abstracts
- Does cardiac autonomic variation across sleep stages differentially impact emotional and neutral memory consolidation? Poster at Learning & Memory 2023, Huntington Beach, CA, USA (2023, April)
- Identifying Novel Markers of Memory in REM Sleep. Poster at the International Conference on Learning & Memory 2023, Huntington Beach, CA, USA (2023, April)
- How do Slow Oscillation and and Vagal Activity Support Working Memory? An EEG/fMRI Study. Poster at the 35thAnnual Meeting of the American Associated Professional Sleep Societies, Charlotte, NC, USA (2022, June)
- Slow oscillation power and heart rate variability during sleep predicts next-day subjective sleepiness in healthy young adults. Poster at the 35th Annual Meeting of the American Associated Professional Sleep Societies, Charlotte, NC, USA (2022, June)
- The sleeping brain switches between working memory and long-term memory processing. Women in STEM Symposium 2021, Virtual (2021, April)
- Age-Related Changes in Central Autonomic Couplings During Sleep. Poster presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the American Associated Professional Sleep Societies, Virtual (2020, Aug)
- Coupling of Autonomic and Central events during Sleep Boosts Working Memory in Healthy Young Adults. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the World Sleep Congress, Vancouver, BC, Canada (2019, Sep)
- Parasympathetic Activity during Sleep, but not Wake, Facilitates Working Memory Improvement: A Comparison of Young and Older Adults. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the World Sleep Congress, Vancouver, BC, Canada (2019, Sep)
- Coupling of Autonomic and Central events during Sleep Boosts Working Memory in Healthy Young Adults. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Associated Professional Sleep Societies, San Antonio, TX (2019, June)
- A Daytime Nap Facilitates Working Memory in Healthy Young Adults. Poster presented at the International Conference on Learning and Memory 2018, Huntington Beach, CA (2018, April)
- Discrepancy between Subjective and Objective Actigraphic Sleep Estimation for Individuals with Low and High Sleep Vulnerability. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the 30th American Associated Professional Sleep Societies, Denver, CO (2016, June)