Du Kai, PhD, received his Bachelor's degree in Aircraft Power Engineering from Beihang University (2002), and his PhD (2016) and postdoctoral training (2020) in the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institute, Sweden. He was a key member of the Swedish team in the European Union Brain Project's "Brain Simulation Platform" (2008-2016). In 2020, he joined the Institute for Artificial Intelligence at Peking University as an Assistant Researcher and serves as a scientist at the Life Simulation Center of Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence, leading the Peking University/Zhiyuan team in the development of large-scale brain models. He established the first detailed model of medium-spiny neurons in the field (Du, et al., PNAS, 2017), and further developed a detailed model of the striatum in the basal ganglia based on this work. His research work has been published in top-tier journals such as PNAS, J. neuroscience, and PloS Comput. Bio. His main research directions include detailed brain simulation, dendritic computation, and novel artificial intelligence systems and theories based on detailed brain models.
