Supported Researchers
J. Douglas Tan Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
In honor of J. Douglas Tan, these fellowships support postdocs for up to two years of research on autism.
Ying Jiang
Postdoctoral Fellow, Jasanoff Lab
Ying Jiang works on development and application of neural circuit-specific imaging tools for functional MRI to understand the brain circuits for face processing in primates.
Jinyoung Kang
Postdoctoral Fellow, Boyden Lab
Jinyoung is developing and applying expansion microscopy technology for revealing synapse configurations with ~15 nm resolution in health and disease models.
Menglong Zeng
Postdoctoral Fellow, Feng Lab
Menglong Zeng is understanding the molecular language that brain cells use to communicate with each other, and how it goes awry in the context of various brain disorders.
Y. Eva Tan Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
In honor of Y. Eva Tan, these fellowships support graduate students or postdocs for up to two years of research and development in molecular therapeutics.
Valerio Francioni
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harnett Lab
Valerio Francioni combines in vivo subcellular imaging with brain-computer interfaces to study how dendrites shape the activity of cortical circuits during learning.
Miaomiao Jin
Postdoctoral Fellow, Wang Lab
Miaomiao Jin studies pain anticipation and perception and identifies brain circuits that underlie self-stimulatory behaviors that can ease pain.
Yuting Ke
Postdoctoral Fellow, Jasanoff Lab
Yuting Ke works on the optimization of genetically encoded fMRI probes and their applications to cellular and circuit-level neuroimaging in multiple animal models.
Brain-Body Center Fellowship Program
The K. Lisa Yang Brain-Body Center offers two years of support for graduate students or postdoctoral researchers investigating neurobiological mechanisms and therapies that interlink a healthy mind and healthy body, including gut-brain interactions, aging, pain and acupuncture.
Itay Fayer
Graduate Student – Jasanoff Lab
Itay Fayer’s research explores brain-body interactions in vivo using MRI-based methods.
Sreeparna Pradhan
Postdoctoral Fellow – Flavell Lab
Sreeparna Pradhan studies the role of neuropeptides in gut-brain communication, and their effects on animal behavior and physiology.
Center for Bionics Fellowship Program
The K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics provides fellowships for graduate students developing novel neural-mechanical interfaces for control of bionic limbs.
Nick Barry
Graduate Student Fellow, Boyden Lab
Nick Barry is developing a platform for ultra-high-throughput library-on-library screening of designed proteins with potential applications in antibody maturation, immunogenicity prediction, enzyme engineering, viral escape prediction, and proteomics.
ICoN Center Fellowship Program
The K. Lisa Yang Integrative Computational Neuroscience Center offers two year fellowships for graduate students and postdocs to work collaboratively across neuroscience disciplines and develop computational models based on data acquired from molecular, physiological, imaging and behavioral experiments.
Fabio Catania
Postdoctoral Fellow – Ghosh, Gabrieli, & Seethapathi Labs
Fabio Catania focuses on understanding the behaviors and communication patterns of autistic people through the lens of human-robot interaction.
Antoine De Comite
Postdoctoral Fellow – Feng & Seethapathi Labs
Antoine De Comite aims at developing comparative models of naturalistic motor control across species and populations.
Lakshmi Govindarajan
Postdoctoral Fellow – McDermott and Fiete Lab
Lakshmi Govindarajan’s research draws from modern statistical tools to provide computational accounts of the interface between perceptual and cognitive processes in biological systems.
Abhiram Iyer
Postdoctoral Fellow – DiCarlo, Fiete, & Harnett Lab
Abhiram Iyer works on computational models of neocortical microcircuits and dendrites to construct more biologically plausible learning rules as an alternative to traditional deep learning.
Maedbh King
Postdoctoral Fellow – Ghosh and Gabrieli Lab
Maedbh King focuses on building computational models that integrate biological and behavioral information to develop risk predictors of neuropsychiatric disorders.
Michelangelo Naim
Postdoctoral Fellow – Yang and Graybiel Lab
Michelangelo Naim uses machine learning tools to model memory, behavior and learning principles of the brain.
Aran Nayebi
Postdoctoral Fellow – Jazayeri, Halassa, and Yang Labs
Aran Nayebi’s interests lie at the intersection of systems neuroscience and artificial intelligence, where he uses tools from deep learning and large-scale data analysis to reverse engineer neural circuits.
Gal Raz
Graduate Student – Saxe, Frank, and Tenenbaum Labs
Gal Raz is interested in how humans and infants choose to focus their visual attention and how to make computational models to explain this.
Noga Zaslavsky
Postdoctoral Fellow – Levy, Fedorenko, and Yang Labs
Noga Zaslavsky’s research aims to understand language, learning, and reasoning from first principles, building on ideas and methods from machine learning and information theory.
Chengxu Zhuang
Postdoctoral Fellow – Saxe & Fedorenko labs
Chengxu Zhuang is building ecologically plausible AI models and using these models to better understand brain functions.
Yang Post-Baccalaureate Program
This program provides two years of paid laboratory experience, mentorship and education to prepare recent college graduates, from backgrounds underrepresented in neuroscience, for applications to top graduate and medical schools.
Alex Negron
Fiete Lab
Alex Negron is using artificial recurrent neural networks trained on simulated cognitive tasks to answer what architectural and algorithmic principles are fundamental to the way brains and machines learn.
Zoe Pearce
Wang Lab
Zoe Pearce’s research project focuses on defining the inputs and outputs of the primary somatosensory cortex through virus tracing method.