Principal Investigator
Postdoctoral Scholars
Peter Duggins, Ph.D. (2024-present)
Graduate Students
Atlas Shahamati, M.S. (2022-present)
Michael (Chong) Wang, B.Sc. (2021-present)
Jae Hyung Woo, B.Sc. (2020-present)
Aryan Yazdanpanah, M.S. (2022-present)
Undergraduate Students
Shahi Dost ’26
Cara Lewis ’26
Current Collaborators
Bruno Averbeck (NIMH)
Marian Berryhill (University of Nevada)
Jeremiah Cohen (Allen Institute)
Christos Constantinidis (Vanderbilt University)
Vincent Costa (Emory University)
Jean-Claude Derher (CNRS, Lyon, France)
Alicia Izquierdo (UCLA)
Gerhard Jocham (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany)
Daeyeol Lee (Johns Hopkins University)
Sze Chai Kwok (Duke Kunshan University, China)
Tirin Moore (Stanford University)
Tor Wager (Dartmouth College)
Shih-Wei Wu (National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan)
Alumni
Shiva Farashahi, Ph.D. (Graduate student 2014-2019; currently, Associate Principal for Machine Learning at Harbinger Health)
Peyman Khorsand, Ph.D. (Postdoc 2015-2018; currently, Algo trading lead quant at HSBC)
Mia J Lee, M.S. (Master’s student, 2020-2022; currently Data Scientist at Alivia Analytics)
Dmitriy Lisitsyn, Ph.D. (Postdoc 2022-2023; currently Machine Learning Engineer at Small Molecule Drug Discovery Stealth Startup)
Mohsen Rakhshan, Ph.D. (Graduate student 2017-2022; currently, Assistant Professor at University of Central Florida)
Pouya Sabouri, Ph.D. (Postdoc 2014-2015; currently, Postdoc at UT Southwestern Medical)
Mehran Spitmaan, Ph.D. (Graduate student 2016-2021; currently, Senior Data Scientist at Scipher Medicine)
Selected Undergraduate Alumni
Zohra Aslami ’18 (Undergraduate researcher 2015-2017; currently, medical student at Johns Hopkins)
Marissa Benz ’26 (Undergraduate researcher 2023-2024)
Edward Camp ’18 (Undergraduate researcher 2017-2019)
Emily Chu ’17 (Undergraduate researcher 2014-2017; Best Neuroscience Honors Thesis Award; Neuroscience High Honors; currently, medical student at UCLA)
Clara Guo ’17 (Undergraduate researcher 2014-2017; currently, medical student at Yale School of Medicine)
Lauren Harris ’16 (Undergraduate researcher 2014-2015; Nickerson Award; currently, PhD student at Florida State University)
Carl Harris ’21 (Undergraduate researcher 2019-2021)
Elizabeth Hart ’19 (Undergraduate researcher 2016-2017)
Hannah Hoffman ’19 (Undergraduate researcher 2019)
Sophie Hoffman ’16 (Undergraduate researcher 2014-2016)
Oihane Horno, M.S. (visiting Masters student 2015-2016; currently, Ph.D. candidate in Champalimaud Neuroscience Program)
Vivian Lee ’18 (WISP intern, Sophomore/Junior science scholar)
Lillian Laiks (Undergraduate researcher 2014-2015; currently, Ph.D. candidate in Texas A&M)
Janet Liu ’15 (Undergraduate researcher 2013-2014)
Jacqueline Maier ’15 (Undergraduate researcher 2013-2015; currently, medical student at SUNY Upstate)
Venice Nomof ’19 (WISP intern, Sophomore science scholar)
May Nguyen ’18 (Junior science scholar)
Katherine Rowe ’16 (Undergraduate researcher 2014-2016; Best Neuroscience Honors Thesis Award; Best Neuroscience Thesis Presentation Award; Neuroscience High Honors; currently, medical student at Harvard University)
Maia Salholz-Hillel ’15 (Undergraduate researcher 2013-2014; currently, PhD student at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin)
Jack Terwilliger ’15 (Undergraduate researcher 2014-2015)
Ethan Trepka ’22 (Superstar undergraduate researcher; Currently PhD student at Stanford University)
Jane Xu ’20 (WISP intern, Sophomore science scholar)
We are always seeking highly motivated individuals interested in understanding the brain using computational or experimental approaches. If you are interested, please send your CV and a brief statement of research interests to Alireza Soltani.