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Yikai Si, Shanshan Qin (2026). Continual-learning rules shape representational drift. arXiv.

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Shanshan Qin, Joshua L. Pughe-Sanford, Alexander Genkin, Pembe Gizem Ozdil, Philip Greengard, Anirvan M. Sengupta, Dmitri Chklovskii (2026). A network of biologically inspired rectified spectral units (ReSUs) learns hierarchical features without error backpropagation. AAAI 2026.

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Siyuan Zhao, Hao Shen, Arnau Marin-Llobet, Shanshan Qin, Shouhao Jiang, Xin Tang, Madeleine Lee, Xinhe Zhang, Jaeyong Lee, Juntao Chen, Jia Liu (2026). Realigning representational drift in mouse visual cortex by flexible brain-machine interfaces. bioRxiv; Nature Biomedical Engineering (in press).

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Maoshen Xu, Fei Song, Yuxiu Shao, Bailu Si, Shanshan Qin (2025). The Principle of Isomorphism: A Theory of Population Activity in Grid Cells and Beyond. arXiv.

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Yifei Cai, Jean Kanyo, Rashaun Wilson, Shveta Bathla, Pablo Leal Cardozo, Lei Tong, Shanshan Qin, Lukas A. Fuentes, Iguaracy Pinheiro-De-Sousa, Tram Huynh, Liyuan Sun, Mohammad Shahid Mansuri, Zichen Tian, Hao-Ran Gan, Amber Braker, Hoang Kim Trinh, Anita Huttner, TuKiet T. Lam, Evangelia Petsalaki, Kristen J. Brennand, Angus C. Nairn, Jaime Grutzendler (2025). Subcellular proteomics and iPSC modeling uncover reversible mechanisms of axonal pathology in Alzheimer's disease. Nature Aging.

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Bo Liu, Shanshan Qin, Venkatesh N. Murthy, Yuhai Tu (2024). One nose but two nostrils: Learning to align with sparse connections between two olfactory cortices. PRX Life.

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Albert Lin, Shanshan Qin, Helena Casademunt, Min Wu, Wesley Hung, Gregory Cain, Nicolas Z. Tan, Raymond Valenzuela, Leila Lesanpezeshki, Vivek Venkatachalam, Cengiz Pehlevan, Mei Zhen, Aravinthan D. T. Samuel (2023). Functional imaging and quantification of multineuronal olfactory responses in C. elegans. Science Advances.

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Shanshan Qin, Shiva Farashahi, David Lipshutz, Anirvan M. Sengupta, Dmitri B. Chklovskii, Cengiz Pehlevan (2023). Coordinated drift of receptive fields in Hebbian/anti-Hebbian network models during noisy representation learning. Nature Neuroscience.

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Paul Masset, Shanshan Qin, Jacob A. Zavatone-Veth (2022). Drifting neuronal representations: Bug or feature?. Biological Cybernetics.

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Yuan Yuan, Huixia Ren, Yanjun Li, Shanshan Qin, Xiaojing Yang, Chao Tang (2022). Cell-to-cell variability in inducible Caspase9-mediated cell death. Cell Death & Disease.

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Yuxuan Liu, Qianyi Li, Chao Tang, Shanshan Qin, Yuhai Tu (2021). Short-Term Plasticity Regulates Both Divisive Normalization and Adaptive Responses in Drosophila Olfactory System. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.

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Shanshan Qin, Nayantara Mudur, Cengiz Pehlevan (2021). Contrastive Similarity Matching for Supervised Learning. Neural Computation.

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Katrin Vogt, David M. Zimmerman, Matthias Schlichting, Luis Hernandez-Nunez, Shanshan Qin, Karen Malacon, Michael Rosbash, Cengiz Pehlevan, Albert Cardona, Aravinthan D. T. Samuel (2021). Internal state configures olfactory behavior and early sensory processing in Drosophila larvae. Science Advances.

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Shanshan Qin, Qianyi Li, Chao Tang, Yuhai Tu (2019). Optimal compressed sensing strategies for an array of nonlinear olfactory receptor neurons with and without spontaneous activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Zongmao Gao, Haoyuan Sun, Shanshan Qin, Xiaojing Yang, Chao Tang (2018). A systematic study of the determinants of protein abundance memory in cell lineage. Science Bulletin.

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Shanshan Qin, Chao Tang (2018). Early-warning signals of critical transition: Effect of extrinsic noise. Phys. Rev. E.

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Zongmao Gao, Siheng Chen, Shanshan Qin, Chao Tang (2018). Network Motifs Capable of Decoding Transcription Factor Dynamics. Scientific Reports.

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Li-Hui Cao, Dong Yang, Wei Wu, Xiankun Zeng, Bi-Yang Jing, Meng-Tong Li, Shanshan Qin, Chao Tang, Yuhai Tu, Dong-Gen Luo (2017). Odor-evoked inhibition of olfactory sensory neurons drives olfactory perception in Drosophila. Nature Communications.

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Yuqing Song, Shanshan Qin, Yangwei Zhang, Wanqin Gao, Jinping Liu (2010). Large-Scale Porous Hematite Nanorod Arrays: Direct Growth on Titanium Foil and Reversible Lithium Storage. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C.

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