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2026-09
Paper accepted by NeurIPS.
2026-08
Together with Kevin Wenliang Li, we got $5,000 support from Google DeepMind for NeuroAI annual meeting 2026!
2026-08
Together with Jesse Geerts, we got £5,000 support from Callosum for NeuroAI annual meeting 2026!
2026-07
Paper accepted by Science Advances.
2026-06
Paper accepted by Nature Neuroscience. Collaboration with Changmin Yu.
2026-03
4 posters presented at Cosyne 2026.
2026-02
Talk at Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) “Thalamocortical Networks in Sensation, Behavior, and Disease”, Lucca, Italy
2026-01
Paper accepted by Nature Communications. Collaboration with Chaoming Wang.
2025-12
Paper accepted by Nature Communications.
2025-12
Talk at the conference “Exploring the frontiers of brain science and brain-inspired intelligence”, at Chinese Institute of Brain Research (CIBR), Beijing, China
2025-10
Talk at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, London, UK
2025-08
1 poster presented at CCN 2026. Collaboration with Callum Marshall.
2025-07
Together with Jesse Geerts, Sadra Sadeh and Caswell Barry, we (UCL NeurAI) got £4,000 support from the Crick Networking Fund!
2025-06
Talk at the Gerald Choa Neuroscience Institute(GCNI) Rising Stars Symposium, Hongkong, China
2025-02
Paper accepted by Hippocampus.
2024-08
Paper accepted by Current Biology. An accompanying commentary is available here.
2024-01
Paper accepted by eLife. Collaboration with Tianhao Chu.
2023-09
Paper accepted by Current Biology. See the news from Alzheimer’s Research UK. Collaboration with Andrea Castegnaro
2022-06
Talk at the 4th Chinese Computational & Cognitive Neuroscience Conference, Virtual.

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Dorsoventral gradient of theta sweeps in medial entorhinal cortex.

Dorsoventral gradient of theta sweeps in medial entorhinal cortex.

Ji, Z.*, Zhang, H.*, Marshall, C., Stonis, R., & Burgess, N.

Science Advances, 2026

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Hippocampal theta sweeps indicate goal direction.

Hippocampal theta sweeps indicate goal direction.

Yu, C., Ji, Z., Ormond, J., O’Keefe, J., & Burgess, N.

Nature Neuroscience, 2026

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Dynamical modulation of hippocampal replay through firing rate adaptation.

Dynamical modulation of hippocampal replay through firing rate adaptation.

Ji, Z.*, Chu, T.*, Dong, X.*, Yu, C., Bush, D., Burgess, N., & Wu, S.

Nature Communications, 2026.

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Unfolding the Black Box of Recurrent Neural Networks for Path Integration.

Unfolding the Black Box of Recurrent Neural Networks for Path Integration.

Chu, T., Wu, Y., Burgess, N., Ji, Z., & Wu, S.

NeurIPS, 2025

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Phase Precession Relative to Turning Angle in Theta‐Modulated Head Direction Cells.

Phase Precession Relative to Turning Angle in Theta‐Modulated Head Direction Cells.

Ji, Z.*, Lomi, E.*, Jeffery, K., Mitchell, A. S., & Burgess, N.

Hippocampus, 2025

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A systems model of alternating theta sweeps via firing rate adaptation.

A systems model of alternating theta sweeps via firing rate adaptation.

Ji, Z.*, Chu, T.*, Wu, S., & Burgess, N.

Current Biology, 2025

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Firing rate adaptation affords place cell theta sweeps, phase precession, and procession.

Firing rate adaptation affords place cell theta sweeps, phase precession, and procession.

Chu, T.*, Ji, Z.*, Zuo, J., Mi, Y., Zhang, W.H., Huang, T., Bush, D., Burgess, N. and Wu, S.

Elife, 2024

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Overestimation in angular path integration precedes Alzheimer’s dementia.

Overestimation in angular path integration precedes Alzheimer’s dementia.

Castegnaro, A.*, Ji, Z.*, Rudzka, K., Chan, D. and Burgess, N.

Current Biology, 2023

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Noisy adaptation generates Levy flights in attractor neural networks.

Noisy adaptation generates Levy flights in attractor neural networks.

Dong, X., Chu, T., Huang, T., Ji, Z.#, & Wu, S.#

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2021

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