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  • Jonathan Ahern

    He/Him/His
    jahern@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Noninvasive neuroimaging and neurogenetics with a focus on neurodevelopmental disorders.

    Faculty Advisors: Deanna Greene & Terry Jernigan

  • Sana Ali

    She/Her/Hers
    s5ali@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) 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

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Human Computer Interaction with a focus on design methods for the information architecture of user interfaces

    Faculty Advisor: Haijun Xia

  • Kira Benazzouz

    She/Her/Hers
    kbenazzouz@ucsd.edu 

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Seana Coulson

  • Parla Buyruk

    She/Her/Hers
    pbuyruk@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Lera Boroditsky

  • Yining (Rima) Cao

    yic069@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Haijun Xia

  • Dillan Cellier

    dcellier@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) 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

  • April Chen

    apc003@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Language development, language learning, and bilingualism.

    Faculty Advisor: Martin Zettersten

  • Zhining Chen

    zhc008@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Multi-modality alignment, EEG.

    Faculty Advisor: Virginia de Sa

  • Ana Chkhaidze

    She/Her/Hers
    achkhaid@ucsd.edu

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

    Faculty Advisor: Lera Boroditsky

  • Alice Chung

    a3chung@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) 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

  • Aaron Cohen

    He/Him/His
    aac011@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Language modeling, using large language models to uncover individual linguistic variations and cognitive insights.

    Faculty Advisor: Ben Bergen

  • Alessandro (Ollie) D'Amico

    adamico@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) 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

  • Michelle Ding

    She/Her/Hers
    quding@ucsd.edu 

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Douglas Nitz

  • Yueying (Holly) Dong

    yud070@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Applying eye-tracking techniques to read out the information stored in mind, in visual working memory. "I'm fascinated by how our visual cognition can manifest in peripheral signatures, such as our eye movements and pupillary activities."

    Faculty Advisor: Anastasia Kiyonaga

  • Homero Esmeraldo

    hesmeraldo@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Reinforcement learning, memory, planning, individual differences and neural representations. 

    Faculty Advisor: Meenakshi Khosla

  • Teng (Simon) Fei

    tfei@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Brain-Computer Interfaces related to decoding neural representations. Current topics include decoding human visual perceptual representations with EEG and primate visual representations with Multi-Electrode Arrays

    Faculty Advisor: Virginia de Sa

  • Eldrick Galang

    emgalang@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Neural mechanisms of spatial cognition and navigation, including path integration and reference frame transformations.

    Faculty Advisor: Douglas Nitz

  • McKena Geiger

    She/Her/Hers
    mgeiger@ucsd.edu 

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Oscillatory activity in neurodevelopmental disorders, noninvasive neuromodulation.

    Faculty Advisor: Bradley Voytek

  • Devamardeep Singh Hayatpur

    dshayatpur@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Haijun Xia

  • Zoe He

    wah016@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Meenakshi Khosla

  • Victoria (Tori) Hennessy

    vhennessy@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Cognitive Development

    Faculty Advisors: Martin Zettersten & Gedeon Deák

  • Irene Hou

    She/Her/Hers
    ihou@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) 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

    Area(s) 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

  • Zhicheng Huang

    zhh082@ucsd.edu 

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Human-Computer Interaction

    Faculty Advisor: Haijun Xia

  • Aiden Iveris

    aiveris@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Auditory perception, with a focus on music cognition and environmental sound perception.

    Faculty Advisors: Sarah Creel & Gedeon Deak

  • Ian Jackson

    ijackson@ucsd.edu 

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisors: Andrea Chiba & Virginia de Sa

  • Peiling Jiang

    p4jiang@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) 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

    Area(s) 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 Advisors: Douglas Nitz & Seana Coulson

  • Yoonwon Jung

    She/Her/Hers
    y5jung@ucsd.edu 

    Area(s) of Research Interest

    Faculty Advisor: Ben Bergen 

  • Lumi Kang

    l5kang@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Cognitive Linguistics, Syntax/Semantics

    Faculty Advisor: Seana Coulson

  • Elizabeth (Liz) Kaplan

    likaplan@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor:Bradley Voytek

  • Chaitanya Kapoor

    He/Him/His
    c1kapoor@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Building mathematical tools and hypotheses to understand representational convergence betwwen ANNs and brains to better understand how ANNs can serve as models of the biological brain.

    Faculty Advisor: Meenakshi Khosla

  • Betina Mario Karshaleva

    bkarshal@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Infant development, language learning, and the acoustics and statistics of infant directed speech (IDS).

    Faculty Advisor: Gedeon Deak

  • Samantha Kefer

    She/Her/Hers
    skefer@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Comparative animal cognition with a focus on social intelligence in dogs and primates.

    Faculty Advisor: Federico Rossano

  • Stacy Kim

    stk006@ucsd.edu

    Areas of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Doug Nitz

  • Emily Koithan

    She/Her/Hers
    emkoithan@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) 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

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Lara Rangel

  • Eena Kosik-Rose

    She/Her/Hers
    ekosik@ucsd.edu

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

    Faculty Advisor: Bradley Voytek

  • Nicole La Grange

    nlagrang@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Andrea Chiba

  • Davis Lee

    dpl002@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Eran Mukamel

  • Estelita Leija

    esleija@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) 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 Advisors:David Kirsh & Andrea Chiba

  • Jiaze (Zoey) Li

    She/Her/Hers
    jil472@ucsd.edu 

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Psycholinguistic research in bilingualism, code-switch, and second language acquisition.

    Faculty Advisor: Anne Beatty-Martínez

  • Nicole Liddle

    She/Her/Hers
    nliddle@ucsd.edu 

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Bradley Voytek

  • Rachel Lim

    ral077@ucsd.edu 

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Computing education.

    Faculty Advisor: Philip Guo

  • Chaolan Lin

    chlin@ucsd.edu

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

    Faculty Advisor: Doug Nitz

  • Catherine Maximous

    She/Her/Hers
    cmaximous@ucsd.edu 

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Bilingualism and cognition, particularly how varied linguistic environments and demands shape cognitive development and brain plasticity across the lifespan.

    Faculty Advisor: Anne Beatty-Martínez

  • Madeline Meade

    She/Her/Hers

    mmeade@ucsd.edu

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

    Faculty Advisor: Federico Rossano

  • Bryan Min

    He/Him/His

    bdmin@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Human-Computer Interaction

    Faculty Advisor: Haijun Xia

  • Akshay Nagarajan

    He/Him/His
    anagaraj@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Neuro-Acoustic Learning Models, Cognitive and Behavioral Learning Dynamics, Embodied and Socioculturally Situated Learning, Child Speech Development, Human–AI Interaction in Educational Contexts.

    Faculty Advisor: Andrea Chiba

  • Hui Xin Ng

    hxng@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Brain Aging, Psychiatric Disorders, Bipolar Disorders

    Faculty Advisor: Jim Hollan

  • Jeongeon Park

    She/Her/Hers

    jep034@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Human-Computer Interaction, Human-AI Interaction, Intelligent Tools for Critical Thinking and Sensemaking.

    Faculty Advisor: Steven Dow

  • Sujin Park

    She/Her/Hers

    sup031@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) 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

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Federico Rossano

  • Niranjan Rajesh

    He/Him/His
    nirajesh@ucsd.edu 

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Neural Representations in Brains and Deep Networks; Neuro-AI; Mechanisms of visual processing and learning.

    Faculty Advisor: Meenakshi Khosla

  • Srinivas (Srini) Ravishankar

    srravishankar@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Algorithmic advances in Brain-Computer Interfaces for neuroprosthetics

    Faculty Advisor: Virginia de Sa

  • Jude Rayan

    mailto:jrayan@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) 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

  • Emily Robles

    She/Her/Hers
    eprovenz@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Orthographic and phonological contribution to silent reading of sentences

    Faculty Advisor: Marta Kutas

  • Emilia Rosselli Del Turco

    She/Her/Hers
    erossellidelturco@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: The strategies, concerns and cognitive resources that professional knowledge workers express as they use tools to produce material artifacts relevant to their practice.

    Faculty Advisor: Jim Hollan

  • Joshua Seabaugh

    He/Him/His
    jseabaugh@ucsd.edu 

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Comparative cognition, cognitive evolution, animal communication, social behavior and decision-making.

    Faculty Advisor: Federico Rossano

  • Yumeng (Monica) Shen

    She/Her/Hers
    yus099@ucsd.edu

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

    Faculty Advisors: Sarah Creel & Anne Beatty-Martínez

  • Fuling Sun

    She/Her/Hers
    fusun@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) 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

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Steven Dow

  • Urvi Suwal

    She/Her/Hers
    usuwal@ucsd.edu 

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Language development, social cognition, language learning.

    Faculty Advisor: Martin Zettersten

  • Yueyan Tang

    yyt005@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Gedeon Deak

  • Sirui Tao

    He/Him/His
    s1tao@ucsd.edu 

    Area(s) of Research Interest:Human–computer interaction and human-centered AI; developing generative, 3D, and mixed-reality systems that augment designers’ workflows and support collaborative creativity.

    Faculty Advisor: Steven Dow

  • Samuel (Sam) Taylor

    s6taylor@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) 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

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Social interaction, communication, & social cognition of children, adults, and animals.

    Faculty Advisor: Federico Rossano

  • Alyssa Truman

    atruman@ucsd.edu

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

    Faculty Advisors: Marta Kutas & Seana Coulson

  • Janet Tung

    j5tung@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Douglas Nitz

  • Quirine van Engen

    She/Her/Hers
    quvaneng@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) 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

  • Zhiqing Wang

    She/Her/Hers
    zhw131@ucsd.edu 

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Human–computer interaction for enabling collaboration, unlocking creative potential, and driving ideation in diverse, real-world design environments.

    Faculty Advisor: Steven Dow

  • Emily Xu

    yux046@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: How brain networks represent space and guide navigation, integrating insights from systems neuroscience and behavior.

    Faculty Advisor: Douglas Nitz

  • Haiyang (Daniel) Xu

    He/Him/His

    hax038@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Zhuowen Tu

  • Winnie Xu

    hyx002@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Language Comprehension, Bilingualism, Semantic and Concept Processing.

    Faculty Advisor: Seana Coulson

  • Harshada Yadav

    hyadav@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Seana Coulson

  • Lu Yang

    He/Him/His
    luy013@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) 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

    Area(s) of Research Interest:

    Faculty Advisor: Haijun Xia

  • Sihan Yang

    siy009@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Working memory: visual, distributed, embodied, ecological.

    Faculty Advisor: Anastasia Kiyonaga

  • Zhuojun Ying

    z5ying@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: 

    Faculty Advisor: Anastasia Kiyonaga

  • Ian Zane

    He/Him/His
    izane@ucsd.edu

    Area(s) of Research Interest: Underlying neural processes of decision making and social behaviors. Rhythmic structure of circuitry and cell entrainment to local processes.

    Faculty Advisor: Lara Rangel