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
Dayo Adetu
Graduate student
Orthopedics, biomechanics
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
Xiaosong He
Postdoc
Neuroimaging in epilepsy
Syung Hun Han
Graduate student
Microfluidics, single cell studies, immunology
Divya Jain
Graduate student
Injury prevention
Benjamin Lansdell
Postdoc
Causal learning, reinforcement learning, deep learning
Tsz Yan Lo
Graduate student
Neuroscience, Microfluidics, CRISPR
David Lydon-Staley
Postdoc
Network neuroscience, symptom networks, adolescence, substance use, curiosity
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
Robert Pierson
Graduate student
Epilepsy, Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease
Amara Prato
Graduate student
Neuroimaging, neurostimulation, neuropsychiatric disease, mental illness therapies
David Rolnick
Postdoc
Theory of deep learning, computational neuroscience, discrete mathematics
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
Yunqi Xu
Graduate student
Biomaterials
Zijing Zhang
Graduate student
Cellular engineering
Biology
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
Pooja Consul
Graduate student
Computer vision, computational linguistics
Jie Gao
Graduate student
Natural language processing
Alex Hirsch
Graduate student
Machine learning, NLP
Rebecca Iglesias-Flores
Graduate student
Persuasive content messaging, AI in Mental Health
Aditya Kashyap
Graduate student
Machine learning, natural language processing
Gaurav Kumar
Graduate student
Machine learning, NLP, machine translation, data mining, problem solving, software development
Simmi Mourya
Graduate student
Computer vision, deep learning, machine perception
Liangcheng Yu
Graduate student
Computer systems and networking
Zemin Zhao
Graduate student
Software engineering, web development, fintech, data science
Computer and Information Technology
Logan Ayliffe
Graduate student
AI, machine learning, intersection of same and climate change, ethics in AI
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
Jennifer Arlin
Graduate student
Historical linguistics
Spencer Caplan
Graduate student
Computational linguistics, language acquisition, language processing, cognitive modeling, psycholinguistics, NLP
June Choe
Graduate student
Psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, language acquisition
Ava Creemers
Graduate student
Psycholinguistics, lexical processing, morphological processing
Jordan Kodner
Graduate student
Computational linguistics, child language acquisition, historical linguistics, NLP
Wei Lai
Graduate student
Phonetics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics
Aini Li
Graduate student
Sociolinguistics
Nari Rhee
Graduate student
Phonetics
Jia Tian
Graduate student
Phonetics
Yosiane White
Graduate student
Processing of linguistic variation, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics
Marketing
Feng Sheng
Postdoc
Neuroeconomics
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
Franziska Hartung
Postdoc
Language, social cognition, semantics, context, appearance
Stacey Humphries
Postdoc – Department of Neurology and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuroaesthetics, concepts, actions, language, gesture
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
Nicola Spotorno
Postdoc
Neuroimaging, genetics, neurodegenerative diseases
Rachel White
Postdoc
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
Vanessa Flietes
Graduate student
Behavior neuroscience; neuroinflammation; addiction; pain
Evan Gallagher
Graduate student
Neuroimaging
Elizabeth Holly
Postdoc
Goal-directed behavior, learning, motivation, dopamine, stress (mouse models)
Megan Healey
Graduate student
Language comprehension, language impairment in neurodegenerative disease
Ari Kahn
Graduate student
Cognitive neuroscience, network neuroscience, statistical learning
Rosa Leon
Graduate student
Feeding behavior
Ian McLaughlin
Graduate student
Anxiety and addiction
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
Graduate student
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
Nursing
Darina Petrovsky
Postdoc
Dementia, music and health, sleep disorders
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 Schipiani
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
Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz
Postdoc
Empathy, social decision making
Stephanie Bugden
Postdoc
Mathematical cognition, learning disability, number word learning, cognitive neuroscience
Monica Do
Postdoc
Language Production, Language Processing, Event Cognition
Ariana Familiar
Graduate student
Learning, memory, machine learning approaches for studying the brain and memory
Victor Gomes
Graduate student
Language acquisition, language processing, propositional thought
Kyla Haimoviz
Postdoc
Motivation, self-regulation, child development
Lisheng He
Postdoc
Decision making, Learning
Min Kang
Graduate student
Decision making, anhedonia, neuroimaging
Yoed Kenett
Postdoc
Creativity, semantic networks, memory, high-level cognition
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
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
Lingqi Zhang
Graduate student
Computational Neuroscience, Computational Cognitive Science
Wenjia Joyce Zhao
Graduate student
Decision making, mathematical modeling
Wanling Zou
Graduate student
Moral psychology, moral neuroscience, moral learning, neuroaesthetics, neuropsychiatry
Psychiatry
Samy Belfer
Graduate student
Behavioral therapy to treat insomnia, neurodegenerative disease
Brenna Maddox
Postdoc
Autism services, implementation science
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
Public Health
Georgia Reilly
Graduate student
Memory, bioethics, behavioral health
Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics
Natalia Quijijano 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
Alumni