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Faculty Sara A Solla solla@northwestern.edu Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University Research Interest: theoretical neuroscience, information theory, dynamical systems, neural manifolds, systems neuroscience, sensory processing, neural control of movement Other Interests: cooking, reading, theater, classical music, traveling, hiking
Bard Ermentrout phase@pitt.edu Professor of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh Research Interests: Math biology, Math Neuroscience, applications of dynamical systems to biology, coupled oscillators, waves, ENS Other Interests: Japanese maki-e fountain pens, gardening
Uri Eden tzvi@bu.edu Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University Research Interests: Neural data analysis, spike trains, latent process models, GLMs, hippocampus, sleep Free time: Family activities, beach time, hiking, finding good food, sleep
Steve Baccus baccus@stanford.edu Professor and Chair, Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University Research interests: Visual processing in the retina and visual cortex, biophysical models of computation, deep learning approaches to understand neural circuits, mechanisms and theories of neural coding, optical and electrophysiological experimental methods, ultrasonic neurostimulation, foundation models of DNA. Free Time: Family, pets (dog, cats, chickens), outdoors, hiking, the natural world
Greg Gage gagegreg@backyardbrains.com CEO, Backyard Brains; Adjunct Prof at University of Michigan Research interests: invertebrate physiology, K12 neuroscience, Modeling , Quahogs. I am currently writing a book about the Attention Schema and Body Schema Theories that could play a role in how neuroscientist interpret data. I am developing labs that allow people to participate in more cognitive experiments. I am looking for feedback, especially as it relates to describing memories and computation in terms of physical laws. Free time: piano, biking, listening to audio books.
James Fitzgerald james.fitzgerald@northwestern.edu Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University Research interests: learning and memory, whole-brain sensorimotor processing, neural networks, visual computation, theory-experiment feedback loops, neural basis of behavior Free time: hiking, cycling, camping, cooking, parenting
SueYeon Chung sueyeon@nyu.edu; schung@flatironinstitute.org Assistant Professor, Center for Neural Science, New York University; Principal Investigator, Center for Computational Neuroscience, Flatiron Institute, Simons Foundation Research interests: neural manifolds / representation geometry, population coding, neuro-inspired AI (deep learning), neural data analysis, machine learning, statistical physics approaches to neural networks, high-dimensional statistics and geometry Free time: wellness and mindfulness activities (meditation, yoga, etc), watching soccer
Teaching Assistants
Jeff Johnston wjeffreyjohnston@gmail.com Postdoc, advised by Stefano Fusi Research interests: representational geometry in artificial and biological neural networks, error trials, representations of multiple stimuli Other interests: (especially at MBL) swimming, camping and backpacking, reading and drawing
Erfan Zabeh erfan.zabeh@columbia.edu PhD Candidate, Columbia University. Research interest: Neural Dynamics, Cross-regional Communication, Signal Processing, Traveling Waves, Mutliregion-RNN, Causal Inference. Data Modalities: Human single unit (Jacobs lab), Monkey Electrophysiology (Gottlieb lab), Rodent Imaging (Losonczy lab). Other Interests(free times in MBL): Soccer, Stargazing,* Werewolf (Social game), Swimming.*
Chiara Mastrogiuseppe chiara.mastrogiuseppe@upf.edu PhD Student Moreno-Bote Lab, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain Research interests: Reinforcement learning; Decision Making and Behavior; Neural Variability; Statistical Physics Free time: Hiking, listening to music, learning about countries and cultures.
Shuqi Wang sw3894@columbia.edu PhD student, co-supervised by Dr. Wulfram Gerstner and Dr. Liam Paninski Interested topics: neural encoding models, latent variable models, neural representation, neural dynamics, spiking neural network, connectivity inference Free time: strolling 🚶‍♀️, reading 📖, board games ♟️
Yue Kris Wu yw4297@columbia.edu Postdoc at Columbia working with Ken Miller Research interests: neural dynamics, interneuron cell types, cortico-cortical feedback, biologically plausible learning.
Alan Lai (IT Assistant) al5798@nyu.edu PhD Student, NYU (Wang Lab) Research Interests: Multi-Regional Large-Scale Brain Modeling, Computational Biology Free Time: Card Games, Tennis, Music
Students
Tyler Singer-Clark tsingerclark@ucdavis.edu PhD student, UC Davis Neuroprosthetics Lab (NPL), co-advised by Drs. David Brandman and Sergey Stavisky Research interests: brain-computer interfaces (human, intracortical), speech, tongue movements Free time: soccer, chess, video games, music
Gengshuo John Tian gtian@uchicago.edu PhD student, UChicago, advised by Dr. Brent Doiron Research interests: neural representation, circuit dynamics, neural variability
Lorenzo Tiberi ltiberi@fas.harvard.edu Swartz postdoctoral fellow in theoretical neuroscience @ Center for Brain Science, Harvard. Advisor: Haim Sompolinsky Research interests: Deep learning theory, neural representations, recurrent network dynamics, statistical physics Methods: Theoretical physics, statistical mechanics, machine learning, numerical simulations Free time: play music (guitar mainly), cooking
Garrett James Blair garrett.blair@nyu.edu \| garrettjblair.com Postdoctoral researcher at NYU Center for Neural Science in Dr. André Fenton's lab Research interests: Neural dynamics and coordination of information across brain regions Methods: calcium imaging, electrophysiology, open source tool development Free time: video games, hiking, cooking, & taking picture of my dog
Maxime Beau m.beau@ucl.ac.uk PhD student at University College London in Michael Häusser's lab. Research interests: Cell type classification, temporal/rate neural coding, reinforcement learning, cerebellar physiology Methods: Electrophysiology (Neuropixels), Mouse behaviour, Deep Learning, software engineering Free time: cooking, karate, guitare, cooking, eating, cooking
Dimitra Maoutsa dimitra.maoutsa@gmail.com Postdoc at the Technical University of Munich in Gjorgjieva lab. Research interests: neural representations, plasticity, recurrent network dynamics Methods: applied math, theoretical physics, machine learning Free time: No
Shouvik Majumder shouvik.majumder@mpfi.org PhD. candidate at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience in Hidehiko Inagaki's lab Research interests: Synaptic plasticity, neural dynamics, learning, timing, geometry, topology, cortical cell types Free time: Music (guitar, jazz drums), art, anime, hiking, festivals, languages
Kevin S Chen kschen@princeton.edu PhD student at Princeton University. Co-advised by Andrew Leifer and Jonathan Pillow Research interests: animal behavior (worms~), biophysics, neural coding, network dynamics Methods: behavior tracking, calcium imaging, statistical modeling, nonlinear dynamics Free time: jogging, origami, violin, bubble tea
Friederike Buck fbuck@rockefeller.edu MD-PhD student at Weill Cornell; Current PhD candidate at Rockefeller University in Dr. Cori Bargmann's Lab Research interests: Motor sequencing, Circuit/Neural/Behavior dynamics, Nested Timescales Free time: running, dance, music, drawing
Erin Bigus erin.bigus@utah.edu PhD student at University of Utah, in the lab of Jim Heys Research interests: learning & memory, interval timing, circuit dynamics Free time: swimming, hiking
Mac Thurston (they/them) thurston@caltech.edu MD/PhD student at KPSOM-Caltech working in Richard Andersen's Neuroprosthetics Lab Research interests: brain-machine interfaces, motor system, sensory system Free time: reading, hiking, climbing, thrifting, kayaking
Bennet Sakelaris bennetsakelaris@u.northwestern.edu PhD student at Northwestern University, advised by Hermann Riecke Research Interests: Learning and memory, neural representations Free Time: Rock climbing, cooking/baking
JeongJun Park jeongjun@wustl.edu PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis, working with Larry Snyder Research interests: cognition, neural coding, multi-scale brain function Methods: electrophysiology, statistical analysis, machine learning Free time: watching soccer, video game, music, gardening
Yuelin Shi ysshi@berkeley.edu PhD student at UC Berkeley in Doris Tsao’s lab Research interests: Object recognition, visual representation, generative modeling, neural dynamics, cross-regional communication Free time: badminton, violin, movies, board games, bubble tea
Zidan Yang zidan.yang@mpfi.org PhD student at Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience (MPFI) in Jupiter, Hidehiko Inagaki’s lab Research interests: multi-regional communication, learning and memory for flexible behavior Free time: Diving/snorkeling, anything sporty and outdoorsy, muscial instruments, paint dreams
Maanasa Natrajan maanasa.natrajan@northwestern.edu PhD student at Johns Hopkins, Northwestern University, in James Fitzgerald’s lab Research interests: synaptic and representational dynamics, continual learning, generalization, and memory consolidation Free time: art, music, hiking
Zeyu Jing zjing@caltech.edu; 917-330-7399 PhD student at Caltech. Working with Dr. Markus Meister. Former undergrad at NYU. Research interests: goal-directed navigation, the geodesic problem on graphs, biologically-plausible representation learning, state space models Free time: hip-hop music (listening), snowboarding, weight-lifting, tennis
Chechang Nie NCClxrf2010@gmail.com Postdoc at the Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) ,Institute of Neuroscience(CAS), in Tianming Yang lab. Research interests: dynamic of neural representations, mechanisms of decision making, attention, structure/sequence representation, inference, etcetera Methods: neurophysiology, psychophysics, machine learning Free time: badminton, instruments, figure skating

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