MindCORE Postdocs and Graduate students are trainee affiliates at the University of Pennsylvania with emerging or established records of research on topics connected to mind and brain, and who are mentored by MindCORE faculty. To become a MindCORE Postdoc or Graduate Student affiliate, please click here.

 

Annenberg School for Communication

 

Xi Shen
Postdoc
Person perception, implicit social cognition, self-regulation

 

Riana Brown
Postdoc
Social inequality, discrimination, privilege, intergroup relations

 

 

Behavioral and Decision Sciences

 

Elaina Lin
Graduate student
Prosocial behavior, decision-making, behavior and cognition, empathy

 

Bioengineering

 

Victor Acero
Graduate student
Neural networks, tissue engineering, memory, and psychedelic neuroscience

 

John Bernabei
Graduate student
Network neuroscience, epilepsy, brain-machine interfaces, neurosurgery, neuroengineering

 

Liang Chen
Graduate student
Drug delivery, imaging, neural networks

 

Bonirath Chhay
Graduate student
Medical imaging

 

Divya Jain
Graduate student
Injury prevention

 

Pulkit Khandelwal
Graduate student
Biomedical image analysis, deep learning, computer vision, shape analysis

 

Tsz Yan Lo
Graduate student
Neuroscience, Microfluidics, CRISPR

 

Yasaman Moharrer
Graduate student
Tissue engineering, mechanobiology, biofabrication

 

Christopher Olm
Graduate student
Neuroimaging, MRI, brain structure-function relationships, data processing and analysis

 

Shubhankar Patankar
Graduate student
Semantic networks

 

Lasya Sreepada
Graduate student
Neuroimaging, machine learning, magnetic resonance, clinical medicine

 

Andrzej Wasilczuk
Graduate student
Sleep, anesthesia, neuroscience

 

 

Biology

 

Ana Alonso
Graduate student
Birdsong and language change

 

Dajia Ye
Graduate student
Social insects

 

 

Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing

 

Jordan Taylor
Postdoc
Philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind

 

 

Computer and Information Science

 

Helen Jin

Graduate student
Natural language processing, machine learning, psycholinguistics, cognition, learning

 

Aditya Kashyap
Graduate student
Machine learning, natural language processing

 

Liangcheng Yu
Graduate student
Computer systems and networking

 

 

Higher Education

 

Marcus T. Wright
Graduate student
Systemic inequality in higher education

 

 

Linguistics

 

 

 

Caroline Beech
Graduate student
Psycholinguistics, language acquisition, computational modeling, development

 

May Pik Yu Chan
Graduate student
Phonetics

 

June Choe
Graduate student
Psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, language acquisition

 

Jonathan Him Nok Lee
Graduate student
Prosody, language acquisition, bilingualism, clinical applications of linguistic analysis

 

Sarah Hye-yeon Lee
Postdoc
Event cognition, psycholinguistics, language processing

 

Aini Li
Graduate student
Sociolinguistics

 

Nari Rhee
Graduate student
Phonetics

 

Jia Tian
Graduate student
Phonetics

 

Ugurcan Vurgun
Graduate student
Event cognition, aspects, language and cognition interface

 

Héctor Javier Vázquez Martínez
Graduate student
Language variation and change, computational linguistics, experimental syntax, natural language processing

 

 

Marketing

 

Siyuan Yin
Graduate student
Behavioral economics, judgment and decision making

 

 

Neurology

 

Danielle Barber
Postdoc
Sex differences after perinatal brain injury – do microglia play a role?

 

Naz Dikecligil
Postdoc
Sensory systems, olfaction, systems neuroscience

 

Naomi Nevler
Postdoc
Speech biomarkers in Neurodegeneration

 

Rachel White
Senior Research Investigator
Electrophysiology

 

Clifford Workman
Postdoc
Neurophilosophy, morality, aesthetics

 

 

Neuroscience

 

Ethan Blackwood
Graduate student
Network dynamics and control, information coding between neural systems, structure learning

 

Alice Catherine Dallstream
Graduate student
Decision making, depression, transcranial magnetic stimulation, electrophysiology

 

Ana Defendini
Graduate student
Neuroscience, cognition, decision-making, mPFC, fMRI

 

Brianna DiSanza
Graduate student
Neurodegeneration, genetics, stem cell modeling, multi-omics

 

Vanessa Fleites
Graduate student
Behavior neuroscience; neuroinflammation; addiction; pain

 

Evan Gallagher
Graduate student
Neuroimaging

 

Adam Pines
Graduate student
Affect, Microstructure, Functional Networks

 

Greer Prettyman
Graduate student
Psychiatric disorders, social decision-making, effort-based decision-making, fMRI, pharmacology

 

Vanessa Sanchez
Graduate student
Neuroepigenetics, glia, development and degeneration

 

Ursula Tooley
Graduate student
Early environmental impacts on functional brain network development, plasticity & learning, curiosity

 

Dave White
Graduate student
Vision, inference, statistics

 

Dale Zhou
Graduate student
Computational neuroscience, network science, computational psychiatry

 

Jared Zimmerman
Graduate student
Brain stimulation, fMRI, cognitive control

 

Perelman School of Medicine

 

Michael Duong
Graduate student
Biophysics and imaging of memory in neurodegeneration and health

 

Danielle Kellier
Graduate student
Cognition, neuroscience, behavior, development, learning

 

 

Philosophy

 

Marie Barnett
Graduate student
Philosophy of social science, behavioral decision science, behavioral ethics

 

Kate Nicole Hoffman
Graduate student
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Mind, Environmental Ethics

 

Tiina Rosenqvist
Graduate student
Philosophy of Perception, Philosophy of Mind

 

Vanessa Schipani
Graduate student
Philosophy of science, philosophy of mind, cognitive science, public understanding of science

 

 

Psychology

 

Ada Aka
Graduate student – Departments of Psychology and Marketing
Human memory, judgments and decision making

 

Ariana Familiar
Imaging Data Scientist & Technical Lead
Learning, memory, machine learning approaches for studying the brain and memory

 

Victor Gomes
Graduate student
Language acquisition, language processing, propositional thought

 

Min Kang
Graduate student
Decision making, anhedonia, neuroimaging

 

Olivia Larson
Graduate student
Sleep and its contributions to neuropsychiatric illnesses

 

Zhengang Lu
Postdoc
Cognitive neuroscience

 

Anne Park
Graduate student
Early life adversity, brain development, self-control, reward processing, emotion regulation

 

Michael Peer
Postdoc
Spatial cognition, memory

 

Vaida Rimeikyte
Postdoc
Neural mechanisms of motivated behaviors

 

Simone Schriger
Graduate student
Implementation science, global mental health

 

Cybelle Smith
Postdoc
Semantic memory, Working memory and attention, Contextual facilitation of semantic processing in language and vision

 

Marlie Tandoc
Graduate student
Learning and memory, cognitive neuroscience, computational modeling

 

Leah Wang
Graduate student
Autism spectrum disorder, social communication and motor development, functional brain network development and learning

 

Kaitlyn Werner
Postdoc
Self-control, goal pursuit, emotion regulation

 

Lingqi Zhang
Graduate student
Computational Neuroscience, Computational Cognitive Science

 

Wanling Zou
Graduate student
Moral psychology, moral neuroscience, moral learning, neuroaesthetics, neuropsychiatry

 

 

Psychiatry

 

Samy Belfer
Graduate student
Behavioral therapy to treat insomnia, neurodegenerative disease

 

Carleigh O’Brien
Postdoc
Glia, immune response in the CNS, neurodevelopment, behavior, aging, neuroimmunology

 

Jessica Shaw
Postdoc
Addiction, motivated behavior, abused substances, dopamine, catecholamines

 

Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics

 

Sonia Lombroso
Graduate student
Drug addiction, learning & memory, microglial cell identity, epigenetic regulation

 

Katherine Webb
Graduate student
Circuit level neuroadaptations involved in drug addiction

 

 

 

Wharton Neuroscience Initiative

 

Elizabeth Beard
Postdoc
Decision Neuroscience, Consumer Neuroscience, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience