Lab Members
Tomas Aquino received his PhD from the Computation and Neural Systems Program at the California Institute of Technology and previously studied at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, where he received a bachelor of science in molecular sciences.
Emily is an undergraduate at the California Institute of Technology.
Hristos Courellis is an MD/PhD student in the UCLA/Caltech MSTP. He is currently pursuing his PhD in bioengineering at Caltech. He received his BS and MS in bioengineering at UC San Diego.
Jonathan Daume, PhD, received his doctorate in Cognitive Neuroscience from the University Hamburg in Germany. He is currently a Leopoldina Academy of Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
Zhongzheng Fu, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar. He received his doctorate in control and dynamical systems from the California Institute of Technology in 2018 and his bachelor of science in physics from the University of Hong Kong in 2012.
Mahider is an undergraduate student at the California Institute of Technology.
Mar Yebra, PhD, is a postdoctoral scholar who received her doctorate in biomedical engineering at the Centre for Biomedical Technology in Madrid, Spain.
Robert received his MD and PhD from UCSD, where he worked with Terry Sejnowski. He is part of the MSTP program and is conducting research on computational modelling of memory processes.
Natalia Kurilenko is a PhD student in the Cedars-Sinai Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences. Her undergraduate degree is in medical biochemistry from Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University in Moscow.
Michael Kyzar received a bachelor of science degree in computational neuroscience from USC.
Evan received his PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California Santa Barbara and his BS in Psychology and Neurobiology from the University of California Davis. He is currently a joint postdoc between the Rutishauser lab and the Miller Lab at UCSB.
Kevin Mei is a graduate student in the Computation and Neural Systems Program at the California Institute of Technology. He received a bachelor of arts in neuroscience and English from Amherst College.
Nuttida received her PhD from UCSD in 2020, her MS from UCSD in 2016, and her BA in Mathematics and Neuroscience from Middlebury College in 2014. She is currently a postdoctoral scholar with Terry Sejnowski and Ueli Rutishauser.
Varun Wadia is a graduate student in the Neurobiology Program at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 2015, he received a bachelor of science in physics and mathematics from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.
Wenying Zhu is a graduate student in the Computation and Neural Systems Program at the California Institute of Technology. She received her undergraduate degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology at Emory University.
Alumni Lab Members
- Stephen Meisenhelter, PhD, 2021-22, Postdoctoral Fellow
Position: Research Scientist, Apple Inc. - Umais Khan, 2021-2022, Research Associate II
Position: Graduate Student, Mt. Sinai - Natalie Gevoglanian, 2021–2022, Research intern (NIH BUILD PODER fellow)
- Umit Keles, PhD, 2016-2022, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow
Position: Staff Scientist, Caltech - Juri Minxha, PhD, 2015-2022, Graduate Student and Postdoctoral Fellow
Position: AI residency/Research Scientist, Apple Inc. - Clayton Mosher, PhD, 2017-2022. Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Scientist
Position: Lead Scientist, WarnerMedia Inc. - Adishree Ghatare, 2020-21, Research Intern (Caltech SURF)
Position: Continuing Undergraduate at Caltech
- Bernard Gomes, 2020-21, Research Associate II
Position: Scientific Consultant, Brain Vision - Calvin Patel, 2021, Research Intern
Position: Continuing Undergraduate at UCLA
- Cooper Penner, 2019-2021, Research Associate II
Position: MD/PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania - Jordan Feldman, 2017-20, Research Intern (high school student in Minors in Research Program)
Position: Undergraduate Student, Brown University - Matthew Chen, 2020-21, Research Intern
Position: Medical Student, University of Southern California - Danielle Beam, 2019-21, Research Associate II
Position: MD/PhD Student, New York University School of Medicine
- Seung Lee, MD, Research Intern
Position: Neurosurgery Resident, Mayo Clinic - Nand Chandravadia, Research Associate II
Position: Graduate Student, Columbia University - Shuo Wang, PhD, 2012-14, Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow
Position: Assistant Professor, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
- Matthieu Koroma, MS, 2013-14, Graduate Student (master’s program)
Position: Graduate Student, École normale supérieure, Paris, France - Shengzuan Jerry Ye, MS, 2012-14, Graduate Student (master’s program)
Position: Software Engineer, Facebook - Alexander Perez, Summer 2016, Research Intern
Position: Master’s Student, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee - Shannon Sullivan, 2015-16, Summer 2017, Research Associate
Position: Medical Student, Howard University, Washington, D.C. - Kurtis Birch, MD, 2014-16, Neurosurgical Resident
Position: Neurosurgery Attending, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, California - Benjamin Mittman, Summer 2017, Research Intern
Position: Undergraduate Student, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York - April Carlson, 2016-18, Research Associate
Position: Medical student at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Massachusetts - Julien Dubois, PhD, 2016-19, Postdoctoral Fellow
Position: Research Scientist, Kernel, Inc. - Tobias Staudigl, PhD, 2018-19, Postdoctoral Fellow
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany - Mailys Faraut, PhD, 2016-2019, Postdoctoral Fellow
- Joshua Abel, Summer 2019, Research Intern
Position: Student, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (studying data science and mathematics) - Harish Babu, MD, PhD, 2014-2018, Neurosurgery Resident
Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York - Aneta Brzezicka, PhD, 2014-2017, Postdoctoral Fellow; 2017-2020, Research Associate III
Position: Professor, SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland - Jan Kaminski, PhD, 2013-2017, Postdoctoral Fellow; 2017-2020, Project Scientist
Position: Assistant Professor, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Poland
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