Our People

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

Eugene McDermott Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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.

Emily Robinson studies mechanisms for how the lungs and brain communicate in asthma with the goal of developing new therapies.

Adriana Rosas is studying how sex hormones regulate neuroimmune interactions during sickness behavior.

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics

AT&T Career Development Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT

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

Alaa Selim’s research focuses on reducing the energy, water, environmental, and climate impacts of data centers while supporting their computing needs and reliable integration with the electric grid.

Arik Slepyan develops scalable tactile sensing systems and models how touch and proprioception are integrated in human sensorimotor control for more fluid and adaptive robot behavior.

Nikolas Sung is investigating the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying language and semantic processing using neuroimaging and electroencephalogram techniques.

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

Sai Vadhula is leading the expansion of GEAR Center’s impact in improving health-span in low and middle income countries through design and development of affordable medical devices for screening, diagnosis and treatment of non-communicable diseases.

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

Jingyi Wei develops and applies novel gene therapy approaches based on transcriptional regulation to treat autism spectrum disorders caused by haploinsufficiency.

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

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics

Germeshausen Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT

Georgina Woo is investigating the intuitive physics that underlies our perception of structure and support in the visual world.

Guang Xu uses advanced 2D human iPSC-based models and 3D human brain organoids to investigate microglia–oligodendrocyte communication in Alzheimer’s disease, aiming to uncover mechanisms that promote myelin formation and repair to inform therapeutic development.

Rose Yin is focusing on combining her interests and experiences to develop medical devices for global health.

Sho Yoshimatsu works for functional characterization of primate-specific neurons in the thalamus, which is essentially important for psychiatric research that is currently intractable due to the critical evolutional difference between the conventional animal model (mouse) and human patients.

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

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

Faculty, K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center

James and Patricia Poitras Professor of Neuroscience

Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Engineering

Zhuorui Zhang is developing multimodal neuromuscular sensing approaches and advanced models for biomechanical understanding, human intention prediction, and human-robot collaboration including exoskeleton control.

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.