Graduate Alumni

Rima Cao (2026-27)

Advisor: Haijun Xia

Dissertation Title: Generative and Composable User Interfaces via Task Structures

Position after Graduation: Research Scientist at Adobe. 

Alex Jinich (2026-27)

Advisors: Dr. Douglas Nitz & Dr. Hemal Patel

Dissertation Title: From Pain Relief to Mystical Experience: Predictive Brain-Body Mechanisms of Transformative States

Position after Graduation:

Sana Ali Saad (2025-26)

Advisor: Dr. Deanna Greene

Dissertation Title: Functional Brain Networks in Human Clinical Neuroscience: A Population-to-Precision Approach

Position after Graduation: Translational Medicine Scientist at Neurocrine Biosciences

Ana Chkhaidze (2025-26)

Advisors: Lera Boroditsky & Anastasia Kiyonaga

Dissertation Title: Individual Differences in the Format of Mental Representations and Their Cognitive Consequences

Position after Graduation: Visiting Lecturer at the Free University of Tbilisi in Georgia

Yueying (Holly) Dong (2025-26)

Advisor: Anastasia Kiyonaga

Dissertation Title: Windows to the Goal: The Flexible Engagement of the Ocular System in Visual Working Memory

Position after Graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College (with Dr. Viola Stoermer)

Chaolan Lin (2025-26)

Advisors: Dr. Douglas Nitz & Dr. Adena Schachner

Dissertation Title: Beyond the Seen: Representation-Reality Alignment in Technology-Mediated Environments

Position after Graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Psychology (SciMinds) at UC San Diego

Hui Xin Ng (2025-26)

Advisors: James Hollan & Lisa Eyler

Dissertation Title: Examining Applications of Brain Age Models

Position after Graduation: Director, Inside Global Life Sciences Initiative at Nucleate

Emily Robles (2025-26)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Dissertation Title: Always Adding Additional Alliteration: an ERP Exploration of Word Form Prediction

Position after Graduation: Lecturer, Department of Psychology at UC San Diego

Lu Sun (2025-26)

Advisors: Steven Dow & Kristen Vaccaro

Dissertation Title: From Guidelines to Interactive Guidance: AI Systems to Scaffold the Academic Peer Review Ecosystem

Position after Graduation: Research Scientist in the HCAI Division at Toyota Research Institute

Yueyan Tang (2025-26)

Advisor: Gedeon Deák

Dissertation Title: Infant Joint Attention in the Wild: From Development to Naturalistic Pipelines

Position after Graduation: Postdoc in the Linguistics Department at Stanford University (with Dr. Meg Cychosz)

Alyssa Truman (2025-26)

Advisors: Seana Coulson & Marta Kutas

Dissertation Title: Not the Same River: Flexibility in the Conceptual System

Position after Graduation: Scientific Advisor in Industry

Janet Tung (2025-26)

Advisor: Douglas Nitz

Dissertation Title: Navigation With a Purpose: Environment and Goal-Mediated Representations of Space in the Rat Brain During Complex Task Paradigms

Position after Graduation:

Quirine van Engen (2025-26)

Advisor: Brad Voytek

Dissertation Title: The Significance of Aperiodic Activity in Relation to Brain States and Working Memory

Position after Graduation: Postdoctoral Associate at Baylor College of Medicine (Neuroscience department) in Houston, Texas.

Felix Jedidja Binder (2024-25)

Advisor: David Kirsh

Dissertation Title: Thinking Through Action: Prediction, Planning, and Metacognition in Problem-Solving

Position after Graduation: AI Safety Research Scientist at Meta

Mia Borzello (2024-25)

Advisor: Andrea Chiba

Dissertation Title: Navigating the Translational Divide: A Cross-Species, Neurally-Inspired Approach to Spatial Memory

Position after Graduation: Working with Dr. Andrea Chiba at UC San Diego

Tyler Akira Chang (2024-25)

Advisors: Benjamin Bergen & Zhuowen Tu

Dissertation Title: N-Gram Learning and Pretraining Dynamics in Transformer Language Models

Position after Graduation: Research Scientist at Google DeepMind

Matthew Ian Feigelis (2024-25)

Advisor: Deanna Greene

Dissertation Title: Precision Functional Mapping in Child Development and Tourette Syndrome

Position after Graduation: Postoctoral Fellow at Washington University, St. Louis, Department of Radiology

Stephan Kaufhold (2024-25)

Advisor: Federico Rossano

Dissertation Title: The Socioecology of Resource Conflict in Primates

Position after Graduation: Continuing in Dr. Federico Rossano's lab at UC San Diego

Robert Kaufman (2024-25)

Advisor: David Kirsh

Dissertation Title: Improving Human-Autonomous Vehicle Interaction in Complex Systems

Position after Graduation: Senior UX Researcher, Technology and Society for Google

James Michaelov (2024-25)

Advisor: Ben Bergen

Dissertation Title: Investigating the Role of Statistics in the Predictive Processing of Language

Position after Graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher at MIT

Tone Xu (2024-25)

Advisor: Steven Dow

Dissertation Title: Contextually Adapting Informational Resources Using AI to Support Creativity

Position after Graduation: Researcher for UC San Diego's Design Lab

Corey Zhou (2024-25)

Advisor: Anastasia Kiyonaga

Dissertation Title: Adaptive Control with Episodic Mechanisms

Position after Graduation: Applied Scientist at Amazon

Dalin Guo (2023-24)

Michael Robert Haupt (2023-24)

Advisors: Seana Coulson & Timothy Mackey

Dissertation Title: Infectious Ideas: Investigating Information Contagion Effects Associated with Dispositional Traits of Social Media Users and Textual Features of Posts

Position after Graduation: President of Haupt Data Insights

Cameron Robert Jones (2023-24)

Advisor: Ben Bergen

Dissertation Title: Reading Minds: Social Intelligence and Large Language Models

Position after Graduation: Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cognitive Science at UC San Diego

William Patrick McCarthy (2023-24)

Advisors: David Kirsh & Judith Fan

Dissertation Title: Cognitive Consequences of Physical Assembly

Position after Graduation:

Srishti Palani (2023-24)

Advisor: Steven Dow

Dissertation Title: Beyond the Search Bar: Augmenting Discovery, Synthesis, and Creativity with User-Generated Context

Position after Graduation: Senior Research Scientist for Salesforce

Pamela Riviere (2023-24)

Vijay Veerabadran (2023-24)

Emily Winokur (2023-24)

Tzu-Han Cheng (2022-23)

Amy Rae Fox (2022-23)

Alexander Brian Johnson (2022-23)

Teryn Dakota Johnson (2022-23)

Samuel Ethan Lau (2022-23)

Carson Grant Miller (2022-23)

Laura Elizabeth Shelley (2022-23)

Sean Thomas Trott (2022-23)

Yifan Xu (2022-23)

Weiqi Zhao (2022-23)

Julia Anna Adrian (2021-2022)

Ian Zachariah Drosos (2021-2022)

Sean Michael Kross (2021-2022)

Eric Jeffrey Leonardis (2021-2022)

Robert John Loughnan (2021-2022)

Josephine Relaford-Doyle (2021-2022)

Rachel Elizabeth Bristol (2020-21)

Thomas Donoghue (2020-21)

Advisor: Brad Voytek

Dissertation Title: Measuring and Investigating Periodic and Aperiodic Neural Activity

Richard Gao (2020-21)

Advisor: Brad Voytek

Dissertation Title: Bridging Cognition and Neurobiology with Large-Scale Cortical Dynamics and Multimodal Brain Data

Position after Graduation: Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Tübingen

Robert Joseph Gougelet (2020-21)

Tricia Ngoon (2020-21)

Advisor: Scott Klemmer

Dissertation Title: Interactive Strategies & Tools for Supporting Exploratory Thinking in Creative Work

Position after Graduation: Postdoctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University

Shuai Tang (2020-21)

Advisor: Ginny de Sa

Dissertation Title: Linear Kernel Alignment for Domain Generalisation

Position after Graduation: Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services LLC in NYC

Steven Barrera (2019-20)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Dissertation Title: Effects of Endogenous and Exogenous Attention of Multisensory Integration

Position after Graduation: Lecturer at UCSD CogSci department

Lucas Moraes Chang (2019-20)

Lauren Curley (2019-20)

Advisor: Terry Jernigan

Dissertation Title: Relationships Between Domain-Specific Cognition and Regional Brain Structure in a Typically Developing Cohort

Position after Graduation: Principal Data Scientist in People Analytics at Northrop Grumman

Amanda Song (2019-20)

Advisors: Ginny de Sa, Gary Cottrell

Dissertation Title: Social Impressions of Faces: Computational Modeling and Cultural Comparisons

Position after Graduation: AI & Data Analytic Advisory Associate at Digital Lighthouse

Megan Dalene Bardolph (2018-19)

Joshua Daniel Davis (2018-19)

Adrienne R. Moore (2018-19)

Melissa Troyer (2018-19)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Dissertation Title: Muggle or Magical?: Electrophysiological Investigations of Variation in Language-Knowledge Interface During Reading

Chun Chieh Fan (2017-18)

Conor Iain Frye (2017-18)

Rose Katherine Hendricks (2017-18)

Christopher Lee Keown (2017-18)

Adam Carl Rule (2017-18)

Andrew Spencer Alexander (2016-17)

Whitney Friedman (2016-17)

Marybel Gonzalez (2016-17)

Elkin Dario Gutierrez (2016-17)

Advisor: Ben Bergen

Dissertation Title: Computational and Cognitive Semantics: The Statistics and Structure of Meaning

Position after Graduation: Postdoc, IBM Research

Jacob Michael Olson (2016-17)

Rachel Carla Ostrand (2016-17)

Advisor: Ben Bergen

Dissertation Title: Repeat After Us: Syntactic Alignment is Not Partner-Specific

Position after Graduation: Postdoc Fellow in Computational Linguistics
IBM Research

Andrew Schork (2016-17)

Advisor: Terry Jernigan

Dissertation Title:

Position after Graduation: Visitin Academic at the UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience

Richard Tibbles (2016-17)

Esther Jane Walker (2016-17)

Advisor: Rafael Nunez

Dissertation Title: Place, Movement, Perspective: How space shapes and constrains our thoughts about time.

Position after Graduation:

Wen-Hsuan Chan (2015-16)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Dissertation Title: Location, Location, Fixation: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Explorations of Viewing Position Asymmetry in Visual Word Recognition

Position after Graduation: Staff Research Associate, Dept. of Cognitive Science
UC San Diego

Michael Datko (2015-16)

Advisor: Jaime Pineda

Dissertation Title: Functional and structural connectivity, and the effects of neurofeedback training, in imitation-related brain networks in autism.

Position after Graduation: Postdoc, Neuroscience Program
UC San Diego

Ross Metusalem (2015-16)

Advisor: Jeff Elman

Dissertation Title: Beyond the (Linguistically) Expected: Activating Event Knowledge During Real-Time Language Comprehension.

Position after Graduation: Learning & Development Facilitator, Academy for Teaching & Learning Excellence, Un. of So. Florida, Tampa

Luke Miller (2015-16)

Advisor: Ayse Saygin

Dissertation Title: The Body in Flux: Tool Use Modulates Multisensory Body Representations.

Position after Graduation: Postdoc, INSERM, France

Burcu Urgen (2015-16)

Advisor: Ayse Saygin

Dissertation Title: Spatio-temporal Neuroimaging of Visual Processing of Human and Robot Actions in Humans.

Position after Graduation: Postdoc, Dept. of Neuroscience, University of Parma Italy

Patrick Gallagher (2014-15)

Advisor: Virginia de Sa

Dissertation Title: Operator Theory for Analysis of Convex Optimization Methods in Machine Learning.

Position after Graduation: Postdoc, Dept. of Cognitive Science
UC San Diego

He Huang (2014-15)

Advisor: Doug Nitz

Dissertation Title: Decision-Making and Motor Control: Computational Models of Human Sensorimotor Processing.

Position after Graduation: Postdoc, Laureate Institute for Brain Research

Tyler Marghetis (2014-15)

Advisor: Rafael Nunez

Dissertation Title: Every Number In Its Place: The Spatial Foundations of Calculation and Conceptualization.

Position after Graduation: Postdoc, Indiana University, The Percepts and Concepts Laboratory

Tim Mullen (2014-15)

Advisor: Virginia de Sa

Dissertation Title: The Dynamic Brain: Modeling Neural Dynamics and Interactions from Human Electrophysiological Recordings.

Position after Graduation: CSO & CEO, Syntrogi

Matthew Schalles (2014-15)

Advisor: Jaime Pineda

Dissertation Title: Cortical Motor Rhythms: Auditory Processing and Plasticity.

Position after Graduation: Postdoc, Northern California VA Health System

Walter Talbott (2014-15)

Advisor: Virginia de Sa

Dissertation Title: Learning to Perceive: A Developmental Robotics Approach to Vision and Object Interaction.

Position after Graduation: Research Engineer, Emotient

Jamie Alexandre (2013-14)

Advisor: Jeff Elman

Dissertation Title: Computer Assisted Learning in a (Dis-) Connected Age: Challenges and Approaches to Digital Education and Equal Access.

Position after Graduation: Software Architecture Lead, Foundation of Learning Equality, Inc.

Benjamin Cipollini (2013-14)

Advisor: Gary Cottrell

Dissertation Title: A unified explanation of visual asymmetries, interhemispheric communication, and their typical development in humans.

Position after Graduation: Postdoc, UC San Diego, Dept. of Computer Science

Tristan Davenport (2013-14)

Advisor: Seana Coulson

Dissertation Title: Causal Inference and Language Comprehension: Event-Related Potential Investigations.

Position after Graduation: Staff Research Associate, UC San Diego, Dept. of Linguistics

Nancy Owens Renner (2013-14)

Advisor: Ed Hutchins/Jim Hollan

Dissertation Title: Free to Explore a Museum: Embodied Inquiry and Multimodal Expression of Meaning.

Position after Graduation: Director, San Diego Incubator for Innovation

Micah Bregman (2012-13)

Advisor: Sarah Creel

Dissertation Title: The Role of Pitch in the Recognition of Vocalizations in Songbirds and Humans.

Position after Graduation: Associate, McKinsey & Co.

Deborah Forster (2012-13)

Advisor: Shirley C. Strum

Dissertation Title: A State-Space Approach to Social Complexity and Distributed Cognition in Olive Baboons (Papio anubis): Re-Thinking the Role of Behavioral Analysis in Socio-Cognitive Research.

Position after Graduation: Assistant Project Scientist, California Inst. for Telecommunications and Information, UCSD

Adam Fouse (2012-13)

Advisor: Jim Hollan

Dissertation Title: Navigation of Time-Coded Data.

Position after Graduation: Research Scientist, Aptima

Kensy Cooperrider (2011-12)

Advisor: Rafael Nunez

Dissertation Title: Reference in Action: Links Between Pointing and Language.

Position after Graduation: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago, IL, Dept. of Psychology

Anna Holt (2011-12)

Advisor: Gedeon Deak

Dissertation Title: A Comparison of Cue Processing and Executive Functioning in Child Task-Switching.

Position after Graduation: Director of Research and Evaluation, Tulsa Public Schools

Nathaniel Smith (2011-12)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Dissertation Title: Scaling up Psycholinguistics.

Position after Graduation: Computational Fellow, Institute for Data Science
UC Berkeley

Kaya de Barbaro (2011-12)

Advisor: Gedeon Deak

Dissertation Title: More Than Meets the Eye: From Stress to Scaffolding, A Microgenesis of Infant Attention.

Position after Graduation: Research Scientist, Georgia Inst. Tech.

Nicholas Butko (2010-11)

Advisor: Virginia de Sa

Dissertation Title: Active Perception.

Position after Graduation: Staff Software Engineer, Google

Gaston Cangiano (2010-11)

Advisor: Jim Hollan

Dissertation Title: Studying Episodic Access to Personal Digital Activity: Activity Trails Prototype.

Position after Graduation:

Jennifer Collins (2010-11)

Advisor: Seana Coulson

Dissertation Title: The Integration of Language with Perceptual Systems.

Position after Graduation: Researcher, Hypothesis Group

Matthew Leonard (2010-11)

Advisor: Jeff Elman

Dissertation Title: Neural Stages of Word Encoding Across Languages, Proficiency Levels, and Modalities.

Position after Graduation: Postdoc, UC San Francisco School of Medicine, Neurological Surgery

Joshua Lewis (2010-11)

Advisor: Virginia de Sa

Dissertation Title: Anthropocentric Data Analysis.

Position after Graduation: Vice President, Alpine Data Labs

Anne Marie Piper (2010-11)

Advisor: Jim Hollan

Dissertation Title: Augmenting Collocated Interaction: The Design of Assistive Technology to Support Face-to-Face Communication.

Position after Graduation: Asst. Professor, Northwestern University, Dept. of Communication

Katherine DeLong (2009-10)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Dissertation Title: Electrophysiological Explorations of Linguistic Pre-Activation and its Consequences During Online Sentence Processing

Position after Graduation: Assistant Project Scientist, UC San Diego, Cognitive Science

Laura Kemmer (2009-10)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Dissertation Title: Event-related brain potential investigations of left and right hemisphere contributions to syntactic processing.

Position after Graduation: Assistant Professor, Pacific Lutheran University, Psychology

Stephen McCullough (2009-10)

Advisor: Jamie Pineda/Ursula Bellugi

Dissertation Title: Functional and Neural Organization Underlying Face and Facial Expression Perception.

Position after Graduation: Research Scientist, San Diego State University, Laboratory for Language & Cognitive Neuroscience

Alan Robinson (2009-10)

Advisor: Virginia de Sa

Dissertation Title: Mechanisms of Brightness Perception

Position after Graduation: Postdoc, UC San Diego, Psychology

Adam Tierney (2009-10)

Advisor: Sarah Creel

Dissertation Title: The Structure and Perception of Human Vocalizations

Position after Graduation: Lecturer, Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, UK

Nathan White (2009-10)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Dissertation Title: Quantitative Diffusion Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain: Validation, Acquisition, and Analysis

Position after Graduation: Asst. Project Scientist, UC San Diego, Radiology

Flavia Filimon (2008-09)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

Dissertation Title: Multisensory and sensorimotor representations for action in human posterior parietal cortex investigated with functional fMRI.

Position after Graduation: Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute, Human Development, Berlin
Germany

John Lewis (2008-09)

Advisor: Jeff Elman

Dissertation Title: Size Always Matters: An Investigation of the Influence of Connection Length on the Organization of White-Matter in Typical Development and in Autism .

Position after Graduation: Research Scientist, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University

Dan Liu (2008-09)

Advisor: Emo Todorov

Dissertation Title: Computational and Psychophysical Studies of Goal-Directed Arm Movements.

Position after Graduation: Decision Support Engineering Analyst, Google

Danke Xie (2008-09)

Advisor: Jeff Elman

Dissertation Title: A Biologically-Plausible Working memory Model for Serial Order.

Position after Graduation: Software Engineer, Samsung Telecommunications

Amaya Becvar (2007-08)

Advisors: James D. Hollan/Edwin L. Hutchins

Dissertation Title: An Ethnographic Investigation of the Evolving Dynamics of a Learning Ecology.

Position after Graduation: UX Research Manager, Immersion Corporation

Arielle Borovsky (2007-08)

Advisors: Jeffrey L. Elman/Marta Kutas

Dissertation Title: Word learning in context: The role of lifetime language experience and sentential context.

Position after Graduation: Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Florida State University

David Groppe (2007-08)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Dissertation Title: Common Independent Components of the P3b, N400, and P600 ERP Components to Deviant Linguistic Events.

Position after Graduation: Researcher, Health Systems

Michael Kiang (2007-08)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Dissertation Title: Event-related Brain Potential Studies of Semantic Processing in Schizophrenia and Schizotypy Personality.

Position after Graduation: Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Toronto

Silvia Paparello (2007-08)

Advisor: Joan Stiles

Dissertation Title: The Many Faces of Neurocognitive Development: Behavior and Neurocorrelates of Holistic Face processing.

Position after Graduation: Project Manager, UC San Diego, Neuroscience

Hsin-Hao Yu (2007-08)

Advisor: Virginia De Sa/Martin I. Sereno

Dissertation Title: Integration of visual information and the organization of receptive fields in V1 of the California ground squirrel.

Position after Graduation: Research Fellow, Monash University, Dept. of Physiology

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Morana Alac (2006-07)

Advisor: Edwin L. Hutchins

Dissertation Title: How Brain Images Reveal Cognition: An Ethnographic Study of Meaning-Making in Brain Mapping Practice.

Position after Graduation: Associate Professor, UC San Diego, Dept. of Communication

Daniel Bauer (2006-07)

Advisors: James D. Hollan/David J. Kirsh

Dissertation Title: The Cognitive Ecology of Dynapad, A Multiscale Workspace for Managing Personal Digital Collections.

Position after Graduation:

Ian Fasel (2006-07)

Advisor: Jochen Triesch

Dissertation Title: Learning Real-Time Object Detectors: Probabilistic Generative Approaches.

Position after Graduation: Founder, Lead Developer, Emotient

Ruey-song Huang (2006-07)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

Dissertation Title: Multisensory Representations of Space: Multimodal Brain Imaging Aproaches.

Position after Graduation: Asst. Project Scientist, UC San Diego, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience

Ying Wu (2006-07)

Advisor: Seana Coulson

Dissertation Title: Coordinated Minds: How Iconic Gestures Mediate Communication.

Position after Graduation: Asst. Project Scientist, UC San Diego, Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience

Wendy Ark (2005-06)

Advisor: Joan Stiles

Dissertation Title: Comparing Mental Rotation and Feature Matching Strategies in Adults and Children with Behavioral and Neuroimaging Techniques.

Position after Graduation: Researcher, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

Christopher Cordova (2005-06)

Advisor: Andrea A. Chiba

Dissertation Title: Attention, Prediction and Sequence Learning: Roles of the Cholinergic basal Forebrain and the Retrosplenial Cortex.

Position after Graduation: Postdoc Researcher, McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute

John Hershey (2005-06)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

Dissertation Title: Perceptual Inference in Generative Models.

Position after Graduation: Researcher, IBM Watson Research

Robert Liebscher (2005-06)

Advisor: Richard K. Belew

Dissertation Title: Temporal, Categorical, and Bibliographic Context of Scientific Tests: Interactions and Applications.

Position after Graduation: Senior. Business Intelligence Analyst, Adobe

Tim Marks (2005-06)

Advisor: James D. Hollan

Dissertation Title: Facing Uncertainty: 3D Face Tracking and Learning with Generative Models.

Position after Graduation: Researcher, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Irina Merzlyak (2005-06)

Advisor: Andrea A. Chiba

Dissertation Title: The Role of the Basolateral Amygdala in Affective Associative Learning, Arousal, and Adaptation.

Position after Graduation: Research Analyst, Stanford University School of Medicine

Jonathan Nelson (2005-06)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

Dissertation Title: Optimal Experimental Design as a Theory of Perceptual and Cognitive Information Acquisition.

Position after Graduation: Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute Human Development, Berlin

Ayse Saygin (2005-06)

Advisor: Marty I. Sereno

Dissertation Title: Embodied Perception: Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Studies of Language, Vision, and Attention.

Position after Graduation: Associate Professor, UC San Diego, Dept. of Cognitive Science

Robert Williams (2004-05)

Advisor: Gilles R. Fauconnier/Edwin L. Hutchins

Dissertation Title: Making Meaning from a Clock: Material Artifacts and Conceptual Blending in Time-Telling Instruction.

Position after Graduation: Associate Professor of Education, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI

Michael Hayward (2003-04)

Advisor: Edwin L. Hutchins

Dissertation Title: Reverse-Engineering Emergent Collective Behaviors in an Evolved Swarm System.

Position after Graduation:

David Leland (2003-04)

Advisor: Jaime A. Pineda

Dissertation Title: Effects of Motivationally Salient Stimuli on Visual Spatial Attention: Behavior and Electrophysiology.

Position after Graduation: Assistant Professor, Univ. Wisconsin - Eau Claire, Dept. of Psychology

Brendan Allison (2002-03)

Advisor: Jaime A. Pineda

Dissertation Title: P3 or not P3: Toward a Better P300BCI.

Position after Graduation:

Frederic Dick (2002-03)

Advisor: Elizabeth Bates

Dissertation Title: Language in a Sensorimotor Brain.

Position after Graduation: Associate Professor (equivalent), University College London, Birbeck College

Alexandra Horowitz (2001-02)

Advisor: Jeffrey Elman

Dissertation Title: The Behaviors of Theories of Mind, and A Case Study of Dogs at Play.

Position after Graduation: Associate Professor, Adjunct, Barnard College, Dept. of Psychology

Jude Mitchell (2001-02)

Advisor: David Zipser

Dissertation Title: Unity of Action: Coordination of Movement Plans Between Oculomotor Areas.

Position after Graduation: Asst. Professor, University of Rochester, Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Nitya Sethuraman (2001-02)

Elizabeth Torres (2001-02)

Advisor: David Zipser

Dissertation Title: Theoretical Framework for the Study of Sensory-Motor Integration.

Position after Graduation: Postdoctoral Scholar, Rutgers Dept. of Psychology

Nicole Wicha (2001-02)

Advisor: Elizabeth Bates

Dissertation Title: Grammatical Gender on Real-Time Language Comprehension in Spanish: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Investigations.

Position after Graduation: Assistant Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio, Dept. of Biology

Ilya B. Farber (2000-01)

Carrie Joyce (2000-01)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Dissertation Title: Saving Faces: using Eye Movement, ERP, and SCR Measures of Face Processing and Recognition to Investigate Eyewitness Identification.

Position after Graduation:

Mark David Collier (1999-00)

Kara Federmeier (1999-00)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Dissertation Title: Electrophysiological Investigations of Semantic Memory Organization and Use.

Position after Graduation: Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Psychology

Barbara Holder (1999-00)

Advisor: Edwin L. Hutchins

Dissertation Title: Cognition in Flight: Understanding Cockpits as Cognitive Systems.

Position after Graduation: Lead Scientist, The Boeing Company, Commercial Airlines Group Flight Deck Concept Center

Jeanne Claire Milostan (1999-00)

Pamela Ann Moses (1999-00)

Adrian Robert (1999-00)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

Dissertation Title: Lamination and Within-Area Integration in the Neocortex.

Position after Graduation: Software Developer, Natural Designs Software, Finland

Marissa Westerfield (1999-00)

Advisor: Jaime A Pineda

Dissertation Title: The Role of the Cerebellum in Visual Spatial Attention: An Event-Related Potential Study

Position after Graduation: Assistant Project Scientist, UC San Diego, Inst. for Neural Computation

Daniel Stanley Clouse (1998-99)

Scott Farrar (1998-99)

Advisor: David Zipser

Dissertation Title: Neural Network Models of the Brain Mechanisms of Bilateral Coordination.

Position after Graduation:

Christopher Fry (1998-99)

Advisor: John Batali

Dissertation Title: A Source-Filter Model of Birdsong Production

Position after Graduation: Senior VP, Engineering, Twitter

Aarre Laakso (1998-99)

Jay Moody (1998-99)

Advisor: Jeffrey Elman

Dissertation Title: Visualizing Speech with a Recurrent Neural Network Trained on Human Acoustic-Articulatory Data.

Position after Graduation: Independent Innovator & Entrepreneur, Design Thinking, Boston

Thomas Rebotier (1998-99)

Advisor: David Kirsh

Dissertation Title: Vision and Imagery: The Role of Cortical Attractor Dynamics.

Position after Graduation: Consultant

Paul Rodriguez (1998-99)

Advisor: Jeffrey Elman

Dissertation Title: Mathematical Foundations of Recurrent Neural Networks in Language Processing.

Position after Graduation: Research Programmer/Analyst, UC San Diego, San Diego Super Computer

Marian Stewart Bartlett (1997-98)

Giorgio Ganis (1997-98)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno/Marta kutas

Dissertation Title: An Electrophysiological Analysis of Semantic Context Effects on Object Identification.

Position after Graduation: Assistant Professor Plymouth University, Harvard Medical School MA General Hospital

Randy Gobbel (1997-98)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

Dissertation Title: The Role of the Neostriatum in the Execution of Action Sequences.

Position after Graduation: Project Scientist, Department of Cognitive Science, UC Merced

Michael Gray (1997-98)

Advisor: Javier Movellan & Terrence Sejnowski

Dissertation Title: Unsupervised Statistical Methods for Processing of Image Sequences.

Position after Graduation:

William Noble Grundy (1997-98)

Lucy Hadden (1997-98)

Advisor: John Batali

Dissertation Title: How to Tell your Mother from a Bush: A Model of Predispositions and Filial Imprinting in Domestic Chicks.

Position after Graduation:

Stefan Peter Heck (1997-98)

Daniel Herron (1997-98)

Advisor: Elizabeth Bates

Dissertation Title: Context, Word-class, and Prosody in the Recognition of Open and Closed-class words.

Position after Graduation: Principle Lead Software Engineer, Operating Systems Group, Microsoft

Brian Lee Keeley (1997-98)

Nili Mandelblit (1997-98)

Advisor: Gilles Fauconnier

Dissertation Title: Grammatical Blending: Creative and Schematic Aspects in Sentence Processing and Translation.

Position after Graduation: Programs Director, Israel Europe R&D Directorate

Tracy Cameron Mansfield (1997-98)

Filippo Menczer (1997-98)

William Charles Morris (1997-98)

David Charles Noelle (1997-98)

Michael Oliphant (1997-98)

Advisor: Jeffrey Elman

Dissertation Title: Formal Approaches to Innate and Learned Communication: Laying the Foundation for Language.

Position after Graduation: Chief Technology Officer
DefenseWeb Technologies
4150 Mission Blvd., Suite 220
San Diego, CA 92109

Monica Paolini (1997-98)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

Dissertation Title: Motion Processing in the California Ground Squirrel Extrastriate Cortex . A Temporal and Spatial Analysis Using Reverse Correlation Methods.

Position after Graduation: President
Senza Fili Consultants
Seattle, WA

Haline Schendan (1997-98)

Seana Coulson (1996-97)

Advisor: Gilles Fauconnier

Dissertation Title: Semantic Leaps: The Role of Conceptual Blending in Meaning Construction.

Position after Graduation: Professor
UC San Diego
Dept. of Cognitive Science

Kevin Haynes (1996-97)

Advisor: David Zipser

Dissertation Title: A Model of Motion Detection in Primate Primary Visual Cortex.

Position after Graduation: Senior Information Security Engineer
Premera Blue Cross

Sohie Lee (1996-97)

Advisor: David Zipser

Dissertation Title: The Representation, Storage and Retrieval of Reaching Movement Information in Motor Cortex.

Position after Graduation: Senior Instructor
Wellesley College
Computer Science

Hua Liu (1996-97)

Advisor: Elizabeth Bates

Dissertation Title: Lexical Access and Differential Processing in Nouns and Verbs in a second language.

Position after Graduation:

Michael John Sussna (1996-97)

William Alfred Wright (1996-97)

Arshavir William Blackwell (1995-96)

Dan Gruen (1995-96)

Advisor: Donald A. Norman & Aaron Cicourel

Dissertation Title: The Role of External Resources in the Management of Multiple Activities.

Position after Graduation: Research Scientist
IBM Watson Research Center

Christine Halverson (1995-96)

Advisor: Edwin L. Hutchins

Dissertation Title: Inside the Cognitive Workplace; New Technology and Air Traffic Control.

Position after Graduation: Research Staff
IBM Watson Research Center

Arturo E. Hernandez (1995-96)

Paul Maglio (1995-96)

Advisor: David Kirsh

Dissertation Title: The Computational Basis of Interactive Skill.

Position after Graduation: Professor
UC Merced
School of Engineering

Nicol Nobert Schraudolph (1995-96)

Georg Philipp Schwarz (1995-96)

Jill Elizabeth Weckerly (1995-96)

Kechen Zhang (1995-96)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

Dissertation Title: Neural Dynamics of World - Centered Spatial Representations.

Position after Graduation: Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Biomedical Engineering & Neuroscience

Nick Flor (1994-95)

Advisor: Edwin L. Hutchins

Dissertation Title: Dynamic Organization in Multi-Agent Distributed Cognitive Systems.

Position after Graduation: Faculty Chair
University of New Mexico
Anderson School of Management

Rick Scott Grush (1994-95)

A. Christine Fennema Notestine (1994-95)

Adina L. Roskies (1994-95)

Oron Shagrir (1994-95)

Ken Baldwin (1993-94)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Dissertation Title: An Event-Related Brain Potential Analysis of Implicit, Structured Sequence Learning.

Position after Graduation: Senior Scientist
Center Space Software/Music Strands

L. Michelle Cutrer (1993-94)

Anders Dale (1993-94)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

Dissertation Title: Source Localization and Spatial Discriminant Analysis of Event-Related Potentials; Linear Approaches.

Position after Graduation: Professor
UC San Diego
Dept. of Neuroscience

Valerie Gray Hardcastle (1993-94)

Brian Leighton Hazlehurst (1993-94)

Mike Kalish (1993-94)

Advisor: Jeffrey Elman

Dissertation Title: Information Integration: An Ecological and Connectionist Approach.

Position after Graduation: Professor
Syracuse University
Department of Psychology

Yasusuke Minami (1993-94)

Steven Richard Quartz (1993-94)

Peter Allan Bensch (1992-93)

Dorothy Ann Kleffner (1992-93)

Henry Bruce Strub (1992-93)

Ann E Thyme (1992-93)

Catherine L. Harris (1991-92)

Robert Kleunder (1991-92)

Jiajie Zhang (1991-92)

Advisor: Donald A. Norman

Dissertation Title: Distributed Representation: The Interaction Between Internal and External Information.

Position after Graduation: Dr. Doris L. Ross Professor & Dean
University of Texas, Houston
School of Biomedical Informatics