Graduate Alumni

Tricia Ngoon (2020-21)

Advisor: Scott Klemmer

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

Postdoctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University

Shuai Tang (2020-21)

Advisor: Ginny de Sa

Title: Linear Kernel Alignment for Domain Generalisation

Applied Scientist at Amazon Web Services LLC in NYC

Richard Gao (2019-20)

Advisor: Brad Voytek

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

Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Tübingen

Tom Donoghue (2019-20)

Advisor: Brad Voytek

Title: Measuring and Investigating Periodic and Aperiodic Neural Activity

Amanda Song (2019-20)

Advisors: Ginny de Sa, Gary Cottrell

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

Steve Barrera (2018-19)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Title: Effects of Endogenous and Exogenous Attention of Multisensory Integration

Lecturer at UCSD CogSci department

Melissa Troyer (2018-19)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

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

Lauren Curley (2018-19)

Advisor: Terry Jernigan

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

Principal Data Scientist in People Analytics at Northrop Grumman

Josh Davis (2018-19)

Andrew Schork (2016-17)

Wen-Hsuan Chan (2015-16)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

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

Staff Research Associate
Dept. of Cognitive Science
UC San Diego

Michael Datko (2015-16)

Advisor: Jaime Pineda

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

Postdoc
Neuroscience Program
UC San Diego

Elkin Gutierrez (2015-16)

Advisor: Ben Bergen

Computational and Cognitive Semantics: The Statistics and Structure of Meaning

Postdoc
IBM Research

Ross Metusalem (2015-16)

Advisor: Jeff Elman

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

Learning & Development Facilitator
Academy for Teaching & Learning Excellence
Un. of So. Florida, Tampa

Luke Miller (2015-16)

Advisor: Ayse Saygin

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

Postdoc
INSERM
France

Rachel Ostrand (2015-16)

Advisor: Ben Bergen

Repeat After Us: Syntactic Alignment is Not Partner-Specific

Postdoc Fellow in Computational Linguistics
IBM Research

Burcu Urgen (2015-16)

Advisor: Ayse Saygin

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

Postdoc
Dept. of Neuroscience
University of Parma
Italy

Esther Walker (2015-16)

Advisor: Rafael Nunez

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

Patrick Gallagher (2014-15)

Advisor: Virginia de Sa

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

Postdoc
Dept. of Cognitive Science
UC San Diego

He Huang (2014-15)

Advisor: Doug Nitz

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

Postdoc
Laureate Institute for Brain Research

Tyler Marghetis (2014-15)

Advisor: Rafael Nunez

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

Postdoc
Indiana University
The Percepts and Concepts Laboratory

Tim Mullen (2014-15)

Advisor: Virginia de Sa

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

CSO & CEO
Syntrogi

Matthew Schalles (2014-15)

Advisor: Jaime Pineda

Cortical Motor Rhythms: Auditory Processing and Plasticity.

Postdoc
Northern California VA Health System

Walter Talbott (2014-15)

Advisor: Virginia de Sa

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

Research Engineer
Emotient

Jamie Alexandre (2013-14)

Advisor: Jeff Elman

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

Software Architecture Lead
Foundation of Learning Equality, Inc.

Benjamin Cipollini (2013-14)

Advisor: Gary Cottrell

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

Postdoc
UC San Diego
Dept. of Computer Science

Tristan Davenport (2013-14)

Advisor: Seana Coulson

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

Staff Research Associate
UC San Diego
Dept. of Linguistics

Nancy Owens Renner (2013-14)

Advisor: Ed Hutchins/Jim Hollan

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

Director
San Diego Incubator for Innovation

Micah Bregman (2012-13)

Advisor: Sarah Creel

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

Associate
McKinsey & Co.

Deborah Forster (2012-13)

Advisor: Shirley C. Strum

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.

Assistant Project Scientist
California Inst. for Telecommunications and Information
UCSD

Adam Fouse (2012-13)

Advisor: Jim Hollan

Navigation of Time-Coded Data.

Research Scientist
Aptima

Kensy Cooperrider (2011-12)

Advisor: Rafael Nunez

Reference in Action: Links Between Pointing and Language.

Postdoctoral Scholar
University of Chicago, IL
Dept. of Psychology

Kaya de Barbaro (2011-12)

Advisor: Gedeon Deak

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

Research Scientist
Georgia Inst. Tech.

Anna Holt (2011-12)

Advisor: Gedeon Deak

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

Director of Research and Evaluation
Tulsa Public Schools

Nathaniel Smith (2011-12)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Scaling up Psycholinguistics.

Computational Fellow
Institute for Data Science
UC Berkeley

Nicholas Butko (2010-11)

Advisor: Virginia de Sa

Active Perception.

Staff Software Engineer
Google

Gaston Cangiano (2010-11)

Advisor: Jim Hollan

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

Jennifer Collins (2010-11)

Advisor: Seana Coulson

The Integration of Language with Perceptual Systems.

Researcher
Hypothesis Group

Matthew Leonard (2010-11)

Advisor: Jeff Elman

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

Postdoc
UC San Francisco School of Medicine
Neurological Surgery

Joshua Lewis (2010-11)

Advisor: Virginia de Sa

Anthropocentric Data Analysis.

Vice President
Alpine Data Labs

Anne Marie Piper (2010-11)

Advisor: Jim Hollan

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

Asst. Professor
Northwestern University
Dept. of Communication

Katherine DeLong (2009-10)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

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

Assistant Project Scientist
UC San Diego
Cognitive Science

Laura Kemmer (2009-10)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

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

Assistant Professor
Pacific Lutheran University
Psychology

Stephen McCullough (2009-10)

Advisor: Jamie Pineda/Ursula Bellugi

Functional and Neural Organization Underlying Face and Facial Expression Perception.

Research Scientist
San Diego State University
Laboratory for Language & Cognitive Neuroscience

Alan Robinson (2009-10)

Advisor: Virginia de Sa

Mechanisms of Brightness Perception

Postdoc
UC San Diego
Psychology

Adam Tierney (2009-10)

Advisor: Sarah Creel

The Structure and Perception of Human Vocalizations

Lecturer
Psychological Sciences
Birkbeck, UK

Nathan White (2009-10)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

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

Asst. Project Scientist
UC San Diego
Radiology

Flavia Filimon (2008-09)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

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

Research Scientist
Max Planck Institute
Human Development
Berlin
Germany

John Lewis (2008-09)

Advisor: Jeff Elman

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

Research Scientist
Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University

Dan Liu (2008-09)

Advisor: Emo Todorov

Computational and Psychophysical Studies of Goal-Directed Arm Movements.

Decision Support Engineering Analyst
Google

Danke Xie (2008-09)

Advisor: Jeff Elman

A Biologically-Plausible Working memory Model for Serial Order.

Software Engineer
Samsung Telecommunications

Amaya Becvar (2007-08)

Advisor: James D. Hollan/Edwin L. Hutchins

An Ethnographic Investigation of the Evolving Dynamics of a Learning Ecology.

UX Research Manager
Immersion Corporation

Arielle Borovsky (2007-08)

Advisor: Jeffrey L. Elman/Marta Kutas

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

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Florida State University

David Groppe (2007-08)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

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

Researcher
Health Systems

Michael Kiang (2007-08)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

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

Associate Professor
Dept. of Psychiatry
University of Toronto

Silvia Paparello (2007-08)

Advisor: Joan Stiles

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

Project Manager
UC San Diego
Neuroscience

Hsin-Hao Yu (2007-08)

Advisor: Virginia De Sa/Martin I. Sereno

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

Research Fellow
Monash University
Dept. of Physiology

Morana Alac (2006-07)

Advisor: Edwin L. Hutchins

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

Associate Professor
UC San Diego
Dept. of Communication

Daniel Bauer (2006-07)

Advisor: James D. Hollan/David J. Kirsh

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

Ruey-song Huang (2006-07)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

Multisensory Representations of Space: Multimodal Brain Imaging Aproaches.

Asst. Project Scientist
UC San Diego
Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience

Ying Wu (2006-07)

Advisor: Seana Coulson

Coordinated Minds: How Iconic Gestures Mediate Communication.

Asst. Project Scientist
UC San Diego
Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience

Wendy Ark (2005-06)

Advisor: Joan Stiles

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

Researcher
IBM Almaden Research Center
San Jose, CA

Christopher Cordova (2005-06)

Advisor: Andrea A. Chiba

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

Postdoc Researcher
McGill University
Montreal Neurological Institute

Ian Fasel (2005-06)

Advisor: Jochen Triesch

Learning Real-Time Object Detectors: Probabilistic Generative Approaches.

Founder, Lead Developer
Emotient

John Hershey (2005-06)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

Perceptual Inference in Generative Models.

Researcher
IBM Watson Research

Robert Liebscher (2005-06)

Advisor: Richard K. Belew

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

Senior. Business Intelligence Analyst
Adobe

Tim Marks (2005-06)

Advisor: James D. Hollan

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

Researcher
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories

Irina Merzlyak (2005-06)

Advisor: Andrea A. Chiba

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

Research Analyst
Stanford University
School of Medicine

Jonathan Nelson (2005-06)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

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

Research Scientist
Max Planck Institute
Human Development
Berlin

Ayse Saygin (2005-06)

Advisor: Marty I. Sereno

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

Associate Professor
UC San Diego
Dept. of Cognitive Science

Robert Williams (2004-05)

Advisor: Gilles R. Fauconnier/Edwin L. Hutchins

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

Associate Professor of Education
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI

Michael Hayward (2003-04)

Advisor: Edwin L. Hutchins

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

David Leland (2003-04)

Advisor: Jaime A. Pineda

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

Assistant Professor
Univ. Wisconsin - Eau Claire
Dept. of Psychology

Brendan Allison (2002-03)

Advisor: Jaime A. Pineda

P3 or not P3: Toward a Better P300BCI.

Frederic Dick (2002-03)

Advisor: Elizabeth Bates

Language in a Sensorimotor Brain.

Associate Professor (equivalent)
University College London
Birbeck College

Alexandra Horowitz (2001-02)

Advisor: Jeffrey Elman

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

Associate Professor, Adjunct
Barnard College
Dept. of Psychology

Jude Mitchell (2001-02)

Advisor: David Zipser

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

Asst. Professor
University of Rochester
Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Elizabeth Torres (2001-02)

Advisor: David Zipser

Theoretical Framework for the Study of Sensory-Motor Integration.

Postdoctoral Scholar
Rutgers
Dept. of Psychology

Nicole Wicha (2001-02)

Advisor: Elizabeth Bates

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

Assistant Professor
University of Texas, San Antonio
Dept. of Biology

Carrie Joyce (2000-01)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

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

Kara Federmeier (1999-00)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

Electrophysiological Investigations of Semantic Memory Organization and Use.

Professor
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Psychology

Barbara Holder (1999-00)

Advisor: Edwin L. Hutchins

Cognition in Flight: Understanding Cockpits as Cognitive Systems.

Lead Scientist
The Boeing Company
Commercial Airlines Group
Flight Deck Concept Center

Adrian Robert (1999-00)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

Lamination and Within-Area Integration in the Neocortex.

Software Developer
Natural Designs Software
Finland

Marissa Westerfield (1999-00)

Advisor: Jaime A Pineda

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

Assistant Project Scientist
UC San Diego
Inst. for Neural Computation

Scott Farrar (1998-99)

Advisor: David Zipser

Neural Network Models of the Brain Mechanisms of Bilateral Coordination.

Christopher Fry (1998-99)

Advisor: John Batali

A Source-Filter Model of Birdsong Production

Senior VP
Engineering
Twitter

Jay Moody (1998-99)

Advisor: Jeffrey Elman

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

Independent Innovator & Entrepreneur
Design Thinking
Boston

Thomas Rebotier (1998-99)

Advisor: David Kirsh

Vision and Imagery: The Role of Cortical Attractor Dynamics.

Consultant

Paul Rodriguez (1998-99)

Advisor: Jeffrey Elman

Mathematical Foundations of Recurrent Neural Networks in Language Processing.

Research Programmer/Analyst
UC San Diego
San Diego Super Computer

Giorgio Ganis (1997-98)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno/Marta kutas

An Electrophysiological Analysis of Semantic Context Effects on Object Identification.

Assistant Professor
Plymouth University
Harvard Medical School
MA General Hospital

Randy Gobbel (1997-98)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

The Role of the Neostriatum in the Execution of Action Sequences.

Project Scientist, Department of Cognitive Science, UC Merced

Michael Gray (1997-98)

Advisor: Javier Movellan & Terrence Sejnowski

Unsupervised Statistical Methods for Processing of Image Sequences.

Lucy Hadden (1997-98)

Advisor: John Batali

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

Daniel Herron (1997-98)

Advisor: Elizabeth Bates

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

Principle Lead Software Engineer
Operating Systems Group
Microsoft

Nili Mandelblit (1997-98)

Advisor: Gilles Fauconnier

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

Programs Director
Israel Europe R&D Directorate

Michael Oliphant (1997-98)

Advisor: Jeffrey Elman

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

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

Seana Coulson (1996-97)

Advisor: Gilles Fauconnier

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

Professor
UC San Diego
Dept. of Cognitive Science

Kevin Haynes (1996-97)

Advisor: David Zipser

A Model of Motion Detection in Primate Primary Visual Cortex.

Senior Information Security Engineer
Premera Blue Cross

Sohie Lee (1996-97)

Advisor: David Zipser

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

Senior Instructor
Wellesley College
Computer Science

Hua Liu (1996-97)

Advisor: Elizabeth Bates

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

Monica Paolini (1996-97)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

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

President
Senza Fili Consultants
Seattle, WA

Dan Gruen (1995-96)

Advisor: Donald A. Norman & Aaron Cicourel

The Role of External Resources in the Management of Multiple Activities.

Research Scientist
IBM Watson Research Center

Christine Halverson (1995-96)

Advisor: Edwin L. Hutchins

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

Research Staff
IBM Watson Research Center

Paul Maglio (1995-96)

Advisor: David Kirsh

The Computational Basis of Interactive Skill.

Professor
UC Merced
School of Engineering

Kechen Zhang (1995-96)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

Neural Dynamics of World - Centered Spatial Representations.

Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University
Biomedical Engineering & Neuroscience

Nick Flor (1994-95)

Advisor: Edwin L. Hutchins

Dynamic Organization in Multi-Agent Distributed Cognitive Systems.

Faculty Chair
University of New Mexico
Anderson School of Management

Ken Baldwin (1993-94)

Advisor: Marta Kutas

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

Senior Scientist
Center Space Software/Music Strands

Anders Dale (1993-94)

Advisor: Martin I. Sereno

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

Professor
UC San Diego
Dept. of Neuroscience

Mike Kalish (1993-94)

Advisor: Jeffrey Elman

Information Integration: An Ecological and Connectionist Approach.

Professor
Syracuse University
Department of Psychology

Jiajie Zhang (1991-92)

Advisor: Donald A. Norman

Distributed Representation: The Interaction Between Internal and External Information.

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