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Director, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics in Neuroscience

Department Head and Matoula S. Salapatas Professor in Materials Science and Engineering

Marlene Berke’s research extends the computational framework for Theory of Mind models (how people attribute hidden mental states to other people, like what someone else wants or knows) to include subjective experience, using pain attribution and communication about pain as a case-study with clinical importance.

Co-Director, K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics in Neuroscience

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center

Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center

Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience

Yubin Cai’s research explores the intricate mechanisms of gut-brain communication and evaluates the effects of gastric electrical stimulation on brain health and behavior.

Leonardo Capeleto de Andrade works on solutions addressing critical challenges emergent from the polycrises of climate change and rapid urban growth in the Amazon, focusing on sustainable, co-designed water and sanitation solutions for vulnerable groups.

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center

Associate Professor of Urban Planning and International Development at MIT

Naomi Chaix-Eichel investigates the neural computations underlying locomotion by developing a unified neuromechanical simulation that generates biologically plausible walking. This collaboration also aims to link neural circuits to behavior in human locomotion, with applications to model-based control of bionic limbs.

Joël Chapuis is focused on developing a design framework for a conformal and modular hydrogen storage architecture aimed at addressing key challenges in hydrogen mobility.

Postdoctoral fellow Danlei Chen’s research investigates how sleep-dependent neural and bodily rhythms regulate cerebrospinal fluid flow and how this process contributes to waste clearance in the human brain, aiming to uncover individual and age-related differences that shape resilience and support long-term brain health.

Sebastián Ciconni is developing next-generation gene therapies for Rett syndrome by engineering hypercompact OMEGA gene editors to construct a deliverable, non-immunogenic base-editing system.

Andrea De Varda will use multilingual neural network language models to investigate the brain correlates of language comprehension across different languages.

Mohammad is studying how the brain regulates and controls breathing and how breathing, in turn, influences decision-making and behavior.

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center

Associate Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center

Glen V. and Phyllis F. Dorflinger Professor of Neuroscience at MIT

Head of Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT

Director of the Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics in Neuroscience

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center

James W. (1963) and Patricia T. Poitras Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Michael is developing a pipeline that surgically creates neural interfaces during below-elbow amputation to preserve proprioceptive and cutaneous afferents, leveraging these circuits in intuitive motor intention decoders to enhance functional prosthesis control.

Faculty, Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center

Grover Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology at MIT

Lakshmi Govindarajan’s research draws from modern statistical tools to provide computational accounts of the interface between perceptual and cognitive processes in biological systems.

Faculty, Hock E. Tan and K. Lisa Yang Center for Autism Research

Institute Professor at MIT

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center

Associate Professor and Graduate Officer, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Co-Director, K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience (ICoN) Center

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT