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
Bradley Mattan
Postdoc
Social status, inequality, health outcomes, prejudice
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
Jonathan Beagan
Graduate student
Synaptogenesis, neural deveopment, neuropsychiatric disease, epigenetics
Ari Benjamin
Graduate student
Computational neuroscience; theories of learning; visual perception
John Bernabei
Graduate student
Network neuroscience, epilepsy, brain-machine interfaces, neurosurgery, neuroengineering
Kevin Bui
Graduate student
Rehabilitation robotics, HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders, stroke rehabilitation, cognitive-motor interference
Philip Burnham
Postdoc
Intercellular communication, transcriptional regulation, extracellular matrix, infectious disease
Liang Chen
Graduate student
Drug delivery, imaging, neural networks
Bonirath Chhay
Graduate student
Medical imaging
Syung Hun Han
Graduate student
Microfluidics, single cell studies, immunology
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
Patrick Mulcahey
Graduate student
Epilepsy, neuroimaging, electrophysiology, high frequency oscillations, technology, therapeutics
Belinda Nguyen
Graduate student
Neuroengineering (computational/experimental), neuro-related tissue engineering, traumatic brain injury
Christopher Olm
Graduate student
Neuroimaging, MRI, brain structure-function relationships, data processing and analysis
Shubhankar Patankar
Graduate student
Semantic networks
Amara Prato
Graduate student
Neuroimaging, neurostimulation, neuropsychiatric disease, mental illness therapies
Samantha Schumm
Graduate student
Traumatic brain injury; injury-induced changes in neuronal networks and circuitry
Nidhi Seethapathi
Postdoc
Data-driven and normative models of human and animal movement
Zoltan Simandi
Postdoc
Neurodegeneration, Alzheimer’s Disease, epigenome, 3D genome, transcriptome
Lasya Sreepada
Graduate student
Neuroimaging, machine learning, magnetic resonance, clinical medicine
Erin Teich
Postdoc
Entropy and information, self-organization, brain microstructure
Andrzej Wasilczuk
Graduate student
Sleep, anesthesia, neuroscience
Zijing Zhang
Graduate student
Cellular engineering
Biology
Ana Alonso
Graduate student
Birdsong and language change
Justin Burdge
Graduate student
Neuroscience and genetics
Aloysius Low
Postdoc
Neuroscience
Marco Smolla
Postdoc
Cultural evolution, creative innovation, and the emergence of social norms
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
Ben Boehme
Graduate student
Network science, multi-omics data science, bioinformatics, causality
Jie Gao
Graduate student
Natural language processing
Rebecca Iglesias-Flores
Graduate student
Persuasive content messaging, AI in Mental Health
Helen Jin
Graduate student
Natural language processing, machine learning, psycholinguistics, cognition, learning
Aditya Kashyap
Graduate student
Machine learning, natural language processing
Simmi Mourya
Graduate student
Computer vision, deep learning, machine perception
Liangcheng Yu
Graduate student
Computer systems and networking
Computer and Information Technology
Ruijie Cao
Graduate student
Computer science
Yuling Lu
Graduate student
Natural Language Processing
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Mengdi Huang
Graduate student
Natural language processing, neuroscience
Genetics
Katherine Palozola
Postdoc
Learning and memory
Higher Education
Marcus T. Wright
Graduate student
Systemic inequality in higher education
Linguistics
May Pik Yu Chan
Graduate student
Phonetics
June Choe
Graduate student
Psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, language acquisition
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
Yosiane White
Graduate student
Processing of linguistic variation, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics
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?
Sarah Burke
Postdoc
MRI, neuroscience, neurodegeneration
Naz Dikecligil
Postdoc
Sensory systems, olfaction, systems neuroscience
Giulia Fadda
Postdoc
Neuroimmunology, neuroimaging
Joanna Mattis
Postdoc
Epilepsy, circuit neuroscience, optogenetics
Naomi Nevler
Postdoc
Speech biomarkers in Neurodegeneration
Claire Peterson
Postdoc
Cognitive neuroscience, Brain connectivity, applying bioinformatics to neuroscience fields and neurodegenerative diseases
Raj Putatunda
Postdoc
HIV-1 induced neurodegeneration, white matter injury, developmental neuroscience
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
Elizabeth Holly
Postdoc
Goal-directed behavior, learning, motivation, dopamine, stress (mouse models)
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
Jennifer Stiso
Research Engineer
Computational neuroscience, statistical learning
Stephanie Temme
Postdoc
Learning and Memory
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
Ben Baker
Graduate student
Philosophy of mind, cognitive science, AI, neuroscience
Marie Barnett
Graduate student
Philosophy of social science, behavioral decision science, behavioral ethics
Shereen Chang
Graduate student
Philosophy of science, nonhuman animal cognition (especially avian), implications of animal cognition research
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
Austin Boroshok
Graduate student
Neurodevelopment, puberty, psychopathology
Stephanie Bugden
Postdoc
Mathematical cognition, learning disability, number word learning, cognitive neuroscience
Monica Do
Postdoc
Language Production, Language Processing, Event Cognition
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
Lisheng He
Postdoc
Decision making, Learning
Min Kang
Graduate student
Decision making, anhedonia, neuroimaging
Tom Kim
Graduate student
Moderators of treatments for depression
Olivia Larson
Graduate student
Sleep and its contributions to neuropsychiatric illnesses
Zhengang Lu
Postdoc
Cognitive neuroscience
Vahid Mehrpour
Postdoc
Visual memory, visual motion processing, motion processing and perception, adaptation
Anne Park
Graduate student
Early life adversity, brain development, self-control, reward processing, emotion regulation
Michael Peer
Postdoc
Spatial cognition, memory
Lourdes Delgado Reyes
Postdoc
Brain development, cognitive development, early adversity, neuroimaging
Keana Richards
Graduate student
Decision-making
Russell Richie
Postdoc
Psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, semantic 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
Wenting Mu
Postdoc
Anxiety disorders
Carleigh O’Brien
Postdoc
Glia, immune response in the CNS, neurodevelopment, behavior, aging, neuroimmunology
Brittany Rudd
Postdoc
Implementation science, community-based participatory research, implementation of EBPs in community settings, family court, juvenile justice, parenting interventions, divorce, behavioral sleep medicine
Jessica Shaw
Postdoc
Addiction, motivated behavior, abused substances, dopamine, catecholamines
Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics
Natalia Quijano Cardé
Graduate student
Addiction
Sonia Lombroso
Graduate student
Drug addiction, learning & memory, microglial cell identity, epigenetic regulation
Katherine Webb
Graduate student
Circuit level neuroadaptations involved in drug addiction