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GAO Xiaorong

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  • Professor Xiaorong Gao - Personal Profile

    With over 20 years of research experience in brain-computer interface (BCI), Professor Gao proposed and implemented the BCI technology based on steady-state evoked potential (SSVEP), which has garnered widespread attention domestically and internationally.

    Educational Background

    1986: Earned a bachelor's degree from Zhejiang University

    1989: Obtained a Master of Medicine degree from Peking Union Medical College

    1992: Received a doctoral degree from Tsinghua University

    Professional Experience & Honors

    Has been teaching at Tsinghua University since 1992, serving successively as lecturer, associate professor, professor, and tenured professor

    2004: Awarded the "Academic Newcomer Award" by Tsinghua University

    2019: Won the Outstanding Contribution Award of Chinese Cardiac Rhythmology

    Vice Chair-elect of the Medical Neural Engineering Branch of the Chinese Society of Biomedical Engineering

    Ranked No. 3 in the China BCI 50 Forum


  • The SSVEP-based BCI technology proposed by Professor Gao features high transmission rate and a large number of recognizable targets, becoming one of the main paradigms in the BCI field

    Has published more than 200 academic papers, with over 20,000 citations on Google Scholar

    Listed in Elsevier's China Highly Cited Researchers for more than a decade consecutively

    Engaged in the research on brain computer interface and cognitive function increase, the core technologyofbrain computer interface based on steady-state visual evoked potential,and cognitive enhancement technology based on EEG neural feedback

    Professor Gao Xiaorong's key research fields and main research achievements include:

    ·Development of high speed brain computer interface system

    He has maintained the world leading level in the field of high-speed brain computer interface for a long time, and has developed a series of visual brain computer interface systems with the world's highest communication rate.The researchof"brain computer interface high-speed text spelling" published in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015 has achieved the world's highest communication rate of 267 bits / min.

    ·Development of high performance EEG signal acquisition equipment

    Relying on the research strength of the laboratory, the 64 channel high-performance EEG signal acquisition equipment was successfully developed and successfully applied in the first China brain computer interface competition in 2010.At present, many laboratories in China use this equipment to carry out the research of EEG and brain computer interface.

    ·Algorithm of EEG signal analysis and processing

    The developed method based on EEG time-space-frequency domain feature joint analysis has won the global brain computer interface data competition for many times, showing its excellent performance.It has won the first place in five individual events in several global "brain computer interface data competitions", and the results have obvious advantages compared with other research institutions.This paper studies the changes of EEG activities related to alertness and sleepiness, and puts forward the application of EEG in alertness monitoring, EEG pattern classification based on motor consciousness, and EEG activity classification related to emotion.


  • 1. Xiaogang Chen, Yijun Wang, Masaki Nakanishi, * Xiaorong Gao, TZYY Ping Jung, SHANGKAI Gao, high speed spelling with a noninvasive brain computer interface, procedures of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122 (44), 2015 / 10 / 1, SCI, Journal Papers (CAS classification zone I, if = 9.661)

    2. A study on reducing training time of BCI system based on an SSVEP dynamic model,Han, Xu; Zhang, Shangen; Gao, Xiaorong, 7th International Winter Conference on brain computer interface, BCI, 2019

    3. An online brain-computer interface in mobile virtual reality environments,Yao, Zhaolin; Wang, Yijun; Yang, Chen; Pei, Weihua; Gao, Xiaorong; Chen, Hongda, integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (impact factor 4.904), 2019, Volume 26, issue 4, page 345-360, wos accession No.: 000486683200003

    4. A novel system of SSVEP-based human-robot coordination,Han, Xu; Lin, Ke; Gao, Shangkai; Gao, Xiaorong, Journal of National Engineering (impact factor 4.551), 2019, Volume 16, issue 1, wos accession No.: 000450311900006

    5. Combination of high-frequency SSVEP-based BCI and computer vision for controlling a robotic arm,Chen, Xiaogang; Zhao, Bing; Wang, Yijun; Gao, Xiaorong, Journal of National Engineering (impact factor 4.551), 2019, Volume 16, issue 2, wos accession No.: 000457188300004

    6. The effect of visual stimuli noise and fatigue on steady-state visual evoked potentials,Zhang, Shangen; Gao, Xiaorong, Journal of National Engineering (impact factor 4.551), 2019, Volume 16, issue 5, wos accession No.: 000485727600001

    7. Xu Chaoli, Lin Ke, Yang Chen, Wu Chaohua, Gao Xiaorong. Intelligent robot cooperative control method based on calf surface electromyography [J]. Chinese Journal of Biomedical Engineering, 2016, 35 (4), 385-393. Chinese article


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