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Santiago Acosta
Graduate Student
Using in vivo calcium imaging and computational models to investigate how spatial cognition arises from sensory inputs.
F. Gregory Ashby
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Dynamical Neuroscience
3847 Psychology East
Cognitive & neural mechanisms of human learning; Cognitive neuroscience; Mathematical psychology.
Brain-computer Interface
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience
Network & Complexity Analysis
Michael Beyeler
Assistant Professor
Computer Science
Psychological & Brain Sciences
3201B BioEngineering
Computational Vision, Computational Neuroscience, Neuroengineering, Human-Computer Interaction.
Brain-computer Interface
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience
Computational Vision
Joe Canzano
Graduate Student
Uncovering the higher visual areas, connectivity, and encoding principles supporting visual object recognition.
Computational Neuroscience
Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior
Signal Processing & Machine Learning
Jean Carlson
Professor
Physics
6123 Broida Hall
Cognitive neuroscience, learning, memory, categorization, decision processes in perception and cognition.
Network & Complexity Analysis
Ryan D'Onofrio
Graduate Student
Discovering the role of dendrites in synaptic integration.
Miguel P. Eckstein
Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
3806 Psychology East
How biological organisms and artificial intelligent agents visually sense the world and make decisions.
Brain-computer Interface
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience
Computational Vision
Signal Processing & Machine Learning
Sarah Eger
Graduate Student
Examining molecular pathways in neurodegenerative diseases using functional genomics approaches.
Michael S. Gazzaniga
Distinguished Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
3818 Psychology East
Dr. Gazzaniga is currently engaged in examining how codes play a role in understanding how neurons become mind.
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Network & Complexity Analysis
Barry Giesbrecht
Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
3805 Psychology East
Visual attention; Cognitive neuroscience; Brain Imaging; Exercise physiology.
Brain-computer Interface
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Signal Processing & Machine Learning
Michael Goard
Assistant Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
5131 Biology II
The Goard lab focuses on how the mammalian neocortex processes and stores incoming sensory information.
Brain-computer Interface
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience
Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior
Scott Grafton
Distinguished Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
2823 Psychology East
Professor Grafton is interested in how people organize movement into goal-oriented action.
Brain-computer Interface
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Network & Complexity Analysis
Signal Processing & Machine Learning
Emily G. Jacobs
Associate Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
3818 Psychology East
Uses brain imaging and endocrinology to determine the impact of sex steroid hormones on brain morphology and function.
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience
Skirmantas Janusonis
Associate Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
2827 Psychology East
Spatial and temporal organization of stochastic axon systems in the brain.
Computational Neuroscience
Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior
Sanghun Jee
Graduate Student
Investigating how the Drosophila fly's central brain integrates different types of sensory information to direct navigation.
Justin Kasowski
Graduate Student
Justin utilizes virtual reality and computer vision to model the perceptual experience of retinal prosthesis patients.
Ron Keiflin
Assistant Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Neural circuits of associative learning, motivation, and decision-making.
Computational Neuroscience
Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior
Sung Soo Kim
Assistant Professor
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
2141 Biology II
Neural circuit dynamics and behavior; navigation; neural mechanisms of stimulus selection and decision-making.
Computational Neuroscience
Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior
Tod Kippin
Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
2821 Psychology East
Our lab focuses on the factors that lead to drug addiction and the impact of substance abuse on the brain.
Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior
Kenneth S. Kosik
Distinguished Professor
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
6139A Biology II
Molecular and genetic perspectives on neuro-development, evolution, plasticity and degeneration
Computational Neuroscience
Network & Complexity Analysis
Matthieu Louis
Associate Professor
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
3141 Biology II
Combining theory and experimentation to understand how navigational decisions arise from neural-circuit computation.
Computational Neuroscience
Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior
Signal Processing & Machine Learning
Jon Luntzel
Graduate Student
Investigating how the invertebrate brain converts visual information into a usable form for direction and orientation.
Upamanyu Madhow
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Next-generation wireless communication, sensing and inference; Robust, neuro-inspired machine learning.
Brain-computer Interface
Network & Complexity Analysis
Signal Processing & Machine Learning
B.S. Manjunath
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research in Reproducible Computer Vision, Image Forensics and Deep Learning
Brain-computer Interface
Computational Vision
Network & Complexity Analysis
Wendy Meiring
Professor
Statistics and Applied Probability
5510 South Hall
Statistical Methods and Data Analyses, Including For Brain Imaging and Other Neuroscience Data.
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Computational Neuroscience
Mike Miller
Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
1823 Psychology
Dr. Miller is interested in the psychological and neural processes underlying human memory and decision-making.
Brain-computer Interface
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Network & Complexity Analysis
Jeff Moehlis
Professor
Mechanical Engineering
Modeling, dynamics, & control of neural populations; application to neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease.
Computational Neuroscience
Network & Complexity Analysis
Signal Processing & Machine Learning
Craig Montell
Distinguished Professor
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
4130-F Biology II
Molecular and cellular basis of animal behavior in flies and mosquitoes.
Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior
Angela Morales
Graduate Student
Understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying insect sensation and behavior in Drosophila and Aedes.
Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior
Kevin W. Plaxco
Professor
Biomolecular Science and Engineering
Chemistry and Biochemistry
BioE 3002
My lab studies protein folding and biomolecular engineering.
Will Redman
Graduate Student
Will studies the effects of in vivo dendritic spine turnover in the hippocampus.
Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior
Signal Processing & Machine Learning
Ben Reese
Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Understanding the organizing principles and developmental mechanisms governing the formation of retinal architecture.
Elizabeth Rizor
Graduate Student
Utilizes advanced MRI methods to investigate alterations in structural integrity after brain injury.
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Network & Complexity Analysis
Julie H. Simpson
Assistant Professor
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
3129 Biology II
Systems neuroscience, neuroethology, genetics. Dissecting neural circuits that control a motor sequence in fruit flies.
Computational Neuroscience
Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior
Network & Complexity Analysis
Signal Processing & Machine Learning
Ambuj K. Singh
Professor
Computer Science
Data-centric modeling of systems and focusing on development of new methods to be applied to real-world applications.
Ikuko Smith
Assistant Professor
Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Psychological & Brain Sciences
5126 Biology II
The role of active dendrites in nonlinear modes of synaptic integration.
Computational Neuroscience
Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior
Spencer LaVere Smith
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
3101 BioE
Exploring neural circuitry and illuminating its function, using new neurotechnology.
Brain-computer Interface
Computational Neuroscience
Computational Vision
Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior
Network & Complexity Analysis
Signal Processing & Machine Learning
William Smith
Professor
Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology
2123 Biology II
Primary areas: The mechanisms of neural tube closure in Xenopus and Ciona; Behavior and neural circuity in Ciona.
Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior
Anna Spickard
DYNS Program Coordinator,
Graduate Advisor
1807 Psych East
Supports and advises graduate students, assists faculty and coordinates with other units and departments on campus.
Graduate Program
Thomas Sprague
Assistant Professor
Psychological & Brain Sciences
Testing how the brain encodes and transforms neural representations of sensory information to guide behavioral goals.
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Sudhanshu Srivastava
Graduate Student
Using Bayesian models and neural networks for visual networks for visual tasks.
Luke Theogarajan
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
My lab focuses on understanding in vivo neural computation and translating these models to synthetic substrates.
Thuc To
Graduate Student
System and Computational Neuroscience; elucidating the mechanisms of neural circuit underlying navigation in Drosophila
Computational Neuroscience
Molecular, Cellular & Circuit Mechanisms Controlling Behavior
Network & Complexity Analysis
Filip Tomaska
Graduate Student
Developing tools to enable further advancements in the global effort towards neuronal code deciphering.
Tjitse Van der Molen
Graduate Student
Exploring intrinsic neural circuit activity in human stem cell derived brain organoids using dense multi electrode arrays.
Rene Weber
Professor
Department of Communication
The Media Neuroscience Lab investigates complex cognitive responses to mass communication and mediated narratives with an emphasis on the neural mechanisms of moral conflict, persuasion, media violence, cognitive control, and flow experiences.
Computational Cognitive Neuroscience
Signal Processing & Machine Learning
Computational Neuroscience
Michael Zimet
Graduate Student
Using data and math to model and understand feedback between the Heart and Brain in humans.