Our People

Daoyuan Qian’s research focuses on theoretical aspects of modularity and generalization in the context of artificial neural networks, as well as computational models of birdsong learning and memory.

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

John W. Jarve (1978) Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT; Associate Dean, School of Science, MIT

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

Middleton Career Development Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at MIT

Quilee studies and models brain-wide neural dynamics by using high-speed, whole-brain imaging in small model systems — transparent larval zebrafish and nematodes — to reveal the network mechanisms underlying drug-induced consciousness state transitions.

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

Co-Director, K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics in Neuroscience

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center

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

Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Hao Zheng’s research focuses on computational psychiatry, specifically how a dynamical system balances flexibility and stability in the brain, and factors that cause transition to imbalance in cases of mental disorders.