Dr. Zhe Chen received the Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering in 2005 from McMaster University, Canada. He was a research scientist in the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (2005-2007) and a senior research fellow in Harvard Medical School and MIT (2007-2014). Since 2014, he became an Assistant Professor at the New York University School of Medicine, with joint appointment at the Department of Psychiatry and Department of Neuroscience and Physiology. Meanwhile, he has kept active research collaboration on a few research projects with Professor Matthew Wilson at MIT. His research interests include computational neuroscience, neural engineering, neural signal processing, machine learning, and Bayesian modeling. He is the lead author of the book ``Correlative Learning'' (Wiley, 2007) and the editor of the book “Advanced State Space Methods for Neural and Clinical Data” (Cambridge University Press, 2015). He is the Senior Member of the IEEE and the action editor of Neural Networks (Elsevier).