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Current Graduate Students

  • Daniel (Dan) Acosta-Kane

    dacostak@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Virginia de Sa

  • Ahern, Johnathan Ray

    jahern@ucsd.edu

     

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  • Sana Ali

    She/Her/Hers
    s5ali@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: Cognitive neuroscience methods such as functional neuroimaging to explore psychopathology with a focus on neurodevelopment disorders.

    Faculty Advisor: Deanna Greene

  • Matthew T Beaudouin-Lafon

    He/Him/His
    mbeaudouinlafon@ucsd.edu

    Areas of Research Interest: Human Computer Interaction with a focus on design methods for the information architecture of user interfaces

    Faculty Advisor: Haijun Xia

  • Felix Jedidja Binder

    He/Him/His
    fbinder@ucsd.edu

    CSB 226

    Area of Research Interest: Planning, problem solving & physical world models

    Faculty Advisor: David Kirsh

  • Mia Borzello

    mborzell@ucsd.edu

    CSB 123

    Area of Research Interest: Electrophysiology, Hippocampus, cognitive neuroscience, memory, virtual reality

    Faculty Advisor: Andrea Chiba

  • Parla Buyruk

    She/Her/Hers
    pbuyruk@ucsd.edu

    CSB 215/230

    Faculty Advisor: Lera Boroditsky

  • Yining (Rima) Cao

    yic069@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Haijun Xia

  • Dillan Cellier

    dcellier@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: I study temporal dynamics in electrophysiological data, and how they reveal the cognitive processes that underlie human behavior.

    Faculty Advisor: Bradley Voytek

  • Tyler Chang

    He/Him/His
    tachang@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: Language model analysis, including language learning, comprehension, and production.

    Faculty Advisor: Ben Bergen & Zhuowen Tu

  • Zhining Chen

    zhc008@ucsd.edu

     

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  • Ana Chkhaidze

    She/Her/Hers
    achkhaid@ucsd.edu

    CSB 232

    Area of Research Interest: Phenomenology of thought and its cognitive and neural fingerprints

    Faculty Advisor: Lera Boroditsky

  • Alice Chung

    a3chung@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: My main research interest is human-computer interaction, to study how/why we create software and how we talk about software. HCI, computing education, artist-created technology.

    Faculty Advisor: Philip Guo

     

  • Alessandro (Ollie) D'Amico

    adamico@ucsd.edu

    Areas of Research Interest: Non-invasive neuroimaging with a focus on using EEG for brain-computer interfacing and investigating cognitive neuroscience in naturalistic tasks and settings

    Faculty Advisor: Virginia de Sa

  • Tania Delgado

    tadelgad@ucsd.edu

    CSB 230

    Faculty Advisor: Seana Coulson

  • Michelle Ding

    She/Her/Hers
    quding@ucsd.edu 

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  • Yueying (Holly) Dong

    yud070@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Anastasia Kiyonaga

  • Homero Esmeraldo

    hesmeraldo@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: Reinforcement learning, memory, planning, individual differences

    Faculty Advisor: Meenakshi Khosla

  • Alexandria Evans

    She/Her/Hers
    a6evans@ucsd.edu

    Areas of Research Interest: Comparative cognition, cognitive evolution, prosocial behavior, human-animal interaction, animal welfare, metacognition. I study decision making and visitor effects in primates.

    Faculty Advisor: Federico Rossano

  • Matthew Fain

    mfain@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: How we transform our experience of reality into memory.

    Faculty Advisor: David Kirsh

  • Teng (Simon) Fei

    tfei@ucsd.edu

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  • Matthew Ian Feigelis

    mfeigeli@ucsd.edu

    CSB 227

    Faculty Advisor: Deanna Greene

  • EM-J Galang

    emgalang@ucsd.edu

    Areas of Research Interest: Neural mechanisms of spatial cognition and navigation, including path integration and reference frame transformations.

    Faculty Advisor: Douglas Nitz

     

  • Michael Robert Haupt

    mhaupt@ucsd.edu

    CSB 234

    Area of Research Interest: Social network analysis, Semantic network, Cognition of misinformation spread

    Faculty Advisor: Seana Coulson

  • Devamardeep Singh Hayatpur

    dshayatpur@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Haijun Xia

  • Zoe He

    wah016@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Angela Yu

  • Victoria (Tori) Hennessy

    vhennessy@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: Cognitive Development

    Faculty Advisor: Martin Zettersten & Gedeon Deák

  • Irene Hou

    She/Her/Hers

    ihou@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: My research interests span human-centered AI, human-computer interaction, and computing pedagogy.

    Faculty Advisor: Philip Guo

  • Shang-En (Sean) Huang

    shh044@ucsd.edu

    Areas of Research Interest: I'm fascinated by language and the brain, I wish to further explore my interests in Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, and Second and Foreign Language Acquisition.

    Faculty Advisor: Seana Coulson

  • Aiden Iveris

    aiveris@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Sarah Creel & Gedeon Deak

  • Ian Jackson

    ijackson@ucsd.edu 

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  • Peiling Jiang

    p4jiang@ucsd.edu

    Areas of Research Interest: I'm interested in making tools that help us learn, manage information space, and create.

    Faculty Advisor: Jim Hollan

     

  • Alejandro Jinich

    aljinich@ucsd.edu

    CSB 230

    Area of Reserach Interest: Meditation-based analgesia and multi-scale mind-body processes from whole-brain to cellular level (including belief change, kundalini meditation, and nonlocal interactions)

    Faculty Advisor: Douglas Nitz & Seana Coulson

  • Cameron Robert Jones

    He/Him/His
    c8jones@ucsd.edu

    CSB 125

    Area of Research Interest: Large Language Models, World Knowledge, Theory of Mind

    Faculty Advisor: Ben Bergen

  • Yoonwon Jung

    She/Her/Hers
    y5jung@ucsd.edu 

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  • Lumi Kang

    l5kang@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: Cognitive Linguistics, Syntax/Semantics

     Faculty Advisor: Seana Coulson

  • Elizabeth (Liz) Kaplan

    likaplan@ucsd.edu

     

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  • Betina Mario Karshaleva

    bkarshal@ucsd.edu

    CSB 225

    Faculty Advisor: Gedeon Deak

  • Stephan Kaufhold

    spkaufho@ucsd.edu

    CSB 223

    Faculty Advisor: Federico Rossano

  • Robert Kaufman

    rokaufma@ucsd.edu

    CSB 226

    Areas of Research Interest: Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence in complex, safety-critical domains including autonomous vehicles ("self-driving cars"), healthcare, and misinformation prevention

    Faculty Advisor: David Kirsh

  • Stacy Kim

    stk006@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Doug Nitz

  • Emily Koithan

    She/Her/Hers
    emkoithan@ucsd.edu

    Areas of Research Interest: I plan to learn more about neuroimaging and machine learning in graduate school, which I hope to use to gain insight into the functional organization of the brain and the neural bases of psychiatric and neurological disorders.

    Faculty Advisor: Deanna Greene

  • Scott Kooiman

    skooiman@ucsd.edu 

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  • Eena Kosik

    She/Her/Hers
    ekosik@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: Autonomic nervous system activity and the interactions with neural oscillations and cognition.

    Faculty Advisor: Bradley Voytek

  • Davis Lee

    dpl002@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Eran Mukamel

  • Estelita Leija

    esleija@ucsd.edu

    CSB 232

    Areas of Research Interest: I would like to combine the knowledge I obtained from my Master of Science in architecture and Bachelor of Science in cognitive science and emphasis in neuroscience to continue research advancements that gude the design for both indoor and outdoor environments that are inclusive and adaptable to children (K-12) who are both typically developing as well as those with ADHD, Autism, and Anxiety disorders.

    Faculty Advisor: Andrea Chiba

     

  • Rachel Lim

    ral077@ucsd.edu 

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  • Chaolan Lin

    chlin@ucsd.edu

    CSB 226

    Area of Research Interest:  Social cognition, cognitive development, theory of mind, human-robot interaction

    Faculty Advisor: Doug Nitz

  • William McCarthy

    wmccarth@ucsd.edu

    CSB 231

    Area of Research Interest: Visual reasoning, abstraction learning, generative behaviors, and creative collaboration.

    Faculty Advisor: David Kirsh

  • Madeline Grace Meade

    She/Her/Hers

    mmeade@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: Comparative cognition, including Theory of Mind, logic, and social cognition in nonhuman primates

    Faculty Advisor: Federico Rossano

  • James A. Michaelov

    j1michae@ucsd.edu

    CSB 231

    Faculty Advisor: Ben Bergen

  • Bryan Min

    He/Him/His

    bdmin@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: Human-Computer Interaction

     Faculty Advisor: Haijun Xia

  • Reina Mizrahi

    rmizrahi@ucsd.edu

    CSB 237

    Faculty Advisor: Sarah Creel

  • Akshay Nagarajan

    He/Him/His
    anagaraj@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Andrea Chiba

  • Hui Xin Ng

    hxng@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: Brain Aging, Psychiatric Disorders, Bipolar Disorders

    Faculty Advisor: Jim Hollan

  • Srishti Palani

    srpalani@ucsd.edu

    CSB 227

    Faculty Advisor: Steven Dow

  • Jeongeon Park

    She/Her/Hers

    jep034@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: Human-computer interaction and human-AI interaction for supporting information navigation, comprehension, and utilization within people’s unique contexts and preferences.

    Faculty Advisor: Steven Dow

  • Sujin Park

    She/Her/Hers

    sup031@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: Developmental neuroscience, predicting behavioral outcomes using biomarkers, mental health and clinical disorders

    Faculty Advisor: Deanna Greene

  • Max E. Potter

    m2potter@ucsd.edu

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  • Emily Robles

    She/Her/Hers
    eprovenz@ucsd.edu

    CSB 225

    Areas of Research Interest: Orthographic and phonological contribution to silent reading of sentences

    Faculty Advisor: Marta Kutas

  • Srinivas (Srini) Ravishankar

    srravishankar@ucsd.edu

    Areas of Research Interest: Algorithmic advances in Brain-Computer Interfaces for neuroprosthetics

    Faculty Advisor: Virginia de Sa

  • Jude Rayan

    mailto:jrayan@ucsd.edu

    Areas of Research Interest: My research interests lie at the intersection of Social Computing, Creativity and Human-Computer Interaction. I am currently exploring ways to help information sense-making and ideation during collaborative problem solving.

    Faculty Advisor: Steven Dow

  • Pamela Riviere

    pdrivier@ucsd.edu

    CSB 125

    Faculty Advisor: Lara Rangel

  • Emilia Rosselli Del Turco

    She/Her/Hers
    erossellidelturco@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: Personal Information Management (PIM) and professional vision across disciplines, with a focus on designing cognitive artifacts that support interdisciplinary interaction

    Faculty Advisor: Jim Hollan 

  • Yumeng (Monica) Shen

    She/Her/Hers

    yus099@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: Speech perception and production among bilinguals and L2 speakers; word learning by preschool-aged children; eye tracking

    Faculty Advisor(s): Sarah Creel, Anne Beatty-Martínez

  • Fuling Sun

    She/Her/Hers
    fusun@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research Interest: Human-computer interaction and information visualization, currently interested in multilevel representation of information.

    Faculty Advisor: Haijun Xia

  • Lu Sun

    l5sun@ucsd.edu

    CSB 237

    Faculty Advisor: Steven Dow

  • Yueyan Tang

    yyt005@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Gedeon Deak

  • Samuel (Sam) Taylor

    s6taylor@ucsd.edu

    Areas of Research Interest:  Decision making and planning in humans and machines, particularly in large-language models

    Faculty Advisor: Ben Bergen 

  • Jack Terwilliger

    jterwilliger@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Federico Rossano

  • Alyssa Truman

    atruman@ucsd.edu

    CSB 235

    Areas of Research Interest: Language, Brain, Cognition, EEG

    Faculty Advisor: Marta Kutas & Seana Coulson

  • Janet Tung

    j5tung@ucsd.edu

    CSB 228

    Faculty Advisor: Douglas Nitz

  • Annapurna Vadaparty

    avadaparty@ucsd.edu

    Areas of Research Interest: Learning Sciences

    Faculty Advisor: Steven Dow

  • Quirine van Engen

    She/Her/Hers
    quvaneng@ucsd.edu

    Areas of Research Interest: I'm studying the neural correlates of working memory processes, specifically theta oscillations and aperiodic activity in EEG.

    Faculty Advisor: Bradley Voytek

  • Vijay Veerabadran

    vveeraba@ucsd.edu

    CSB 232

    Area of Research Interest: Neural networks, vision, machine learning

    Faculty Advisor: Virginia de Sa

  • Emily Winokur

    ewinokur@ucsd.edu

    CSB 233

    Faculty Advisor: Andrea Chiba

  • Haiyang (Daniel) Xu

    He/Him/His

    hax038@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Zhuowen Tu

  • Haoyin (Winnie) Xu

    hyx002@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Seana Coulson

  • Xiaotong (Tone) Xu

    xix138@ucsd.edu

    CSB 227

    Area of Research: My research focuses on how humans utilize technology to facilitate their learning and creativity processes in the domain of human-computer interaction.

    Faculty Advisor: Steven Dow

  • Zhuojun Ying

    z5ying@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Anastasia Kiyonaga

  • Harshada Yadav

    hyadav@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Seana Coulson

  • Lu Yang

    He/Him/His

    luy013@ucsd.edu

    Area of Research: My main research interest is cybernetics within computational architecture, including human-architecture interaction in computer-mediated environments, the use of generative architectural context to influence spatial cognition (via procedural algorithms & AI generation), and the detection of emotion and behavior through embodied interfaces in Mixed Reality.

    Faculty Advisor: David Kirsh

  • Qisen Yang

    qsyang@ucsd.edu

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  • Sihan Yang

    siy009@ucsd.edu

    Faculty Advisor: Anastasia Kiyonaga

  • Yishan (Corey) Zhou

    They/Them/Theirs
    yiz329@ucsd.edu

    CSB 231

    Area of Research Interest: Decision making, memory, probabilistic inference, reinforcement learning

    Faculty Advisor: Anastasia Kiyonaga