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+title: "Three amazing people in Turing"
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+date: 2019-08-13
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+author: Ang Li
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+Some amazing people I met at the Turing. :)
+
+## Bo Wang
+
+Bo Wang is a visiting researcher at the Turing and work with Professor Terry Lyons based at Oxford. 
+I know him because he is one of the organizers for Data science for mental health, an interest group aiming
+to lead to suitable clinical interventions for mental health by using multi-modal data. Bo is interested in 
+developing a clinically useful application for mental health through his expert in deep learning. He’s also working 
+on some other projects. One project he’s working on is to analyze speech signals of individuals with mental 
+disorders and try to help identify early high risk individuals and aid the diagnosis processing in
+psychiatry. He believes the key of such success could benefit more from novel methods integrated with prior 
+knowledge and correct data, and we could not only rely on the magic of AI. He’s very helpful and helped me 
+with establishing the azure server and applying for credits, which is crucial for my work in the Turing. Bo may 
+come back to China one day and it would be exciting if I can collaborate with him on some project in the future. 
+
+## Alex Campbell
+Alex Campbell is an enrichment student at the Turing and a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge. During his Masters, Alex used deep learning technology in financial data mining and then he switched his main interest to
+brain science and mental disorders. Kirstie introduced Alex to me as he is also worked on projects using neuroimaging 
+data. One of his interests is to apply advanced AI models to data on human brains. Alex shared his recent work with me, 
+where he used a sophisticated machine learning model on a large-sample fMRI dataset to derive pathological brain circuits 
+in autism. Alex is very helpful and really an expert at deep learnig models. He suggested to me that I could use Siamese 
+network to index maturity in my project, which is very useful. 
+
+## Anujan Poologaindran
+
+Anujan Poologaindran was a neurosurgeon in Canada and worked on a magic surgery for treatment-resistant depression 
+patients. His work is very meaningful and helps many depressive patients to start a new life without the risk of 
+suicide. However, some of the patients tend to respond more to this surgery, which motiviated Anujan to further 
+investigate this heterogeneity and thus pursue a PhD degree at the University of Cambridge. His project here is pretty 
+cool and aims to identify the depression patients who would be most likely to respond to this surgery and find the 
+optimal surgery target for each individual, involving neurosurgery, neuroimaging and machine learning. He also 
+believes that the curcuit of this surgery targets is a transdiagnostic biomarker, and thus it could be useful to apply 
+this surgery to all patients who have strong suicidal urges. I really love his ideas and hope he can move this 
+promising field forward and help with more patients.