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2012-2013 TRAINEES -- REU Program

Alric Althoff

Althoff, Alric
Email: aalthoff@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: de Sa

Dina Bseiso

Bseiso, Dina
Email: dbseiso@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell

Sofia Campos

Campos, Sofia
Email: svcampos@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Chiba

Sarah D'Angelo

D'Angelo, Sarah
Email: sdangelo@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Chukoskie / Sejnowski

Karmen Dykstra

Dykstra, Karmen
Email: kldykstra@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Bartlett

Diana Florian-Ospina

Florian-Ospina, Diana
Email: carolina_1893@hotmail.com
Mesa/City; Lab: Clark

Claudia Hernandez

Hernandez, Claudia
Email: linx_mouse@yahoo.com
Miramar/City; Lab: Clark



Kappe, Aaron
Email: akappe@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Sejnowski

Cindy Lam

Lam, Cindy
Email: cklam@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Chiba

Nicolas McQueen

McQueen, Nicolas
Email: nicolas.mcqueen@gmail.com
Mesa/City; Lab: Deak?

Andy Metzler

Metzler, Andy
Email: ametzler@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Sejnowski / Behrens

Nicholas Ray Ray, Nicholas
Email: nisbetterthana@att.net
Mesa; Lab: Cottrell



Schuster, Luisa
Email: luisa.schuster1986@gmail.com
City; Lab: Chukoskie / Chiba



Benjamin Stillerman Stillerman, Benjamin
Email: bstiller@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: de Sa



Alexandra Tonnesen Tonnesen, Alexandra
Email: alitonnesen@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Clark

Former REU Trainees

 



 

2011-2012 TRAINEES -- UNDERGRADUATES

 

Jose Barrios

Barrios, Jose
Email: jlbarrios22@gmail.com
University of Victoria; Lab: Tanaka; Network: PEN
Research Interests: visual cognition



Blount, Aaron
Email: aaronblount4@yahoo.com
Virginia State University; Lab: Serpell; Network: TRN
Research Interests: models of perceptual categorization



Bunce, Billy
Email: hurricane577@gmail.com
Vanderbilt; Lab: Palmeri; Network: PEN
Research Interests: models of perceptual categorization



Choi, Suhwan
Email: suc024@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell; Network: PEN



Collendrino, Celica
Email: CCol3074@students.vsu.edu
Virginia State University; Lab: Serpell; Network: TRN



Floyd, Riaun
Email: jackie.floyd@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt; Lab: Gauthier; Network: PEN

Rentao Li

Li, Rentao
Email: reli@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell



Mitchell, Bradley
Email: bradley.k.mitchell@colorado.edu
University of Colorado; Lab: Mozer; Network: IMS
Research Interests:



Trees, Jason
Email: jason.trees@mail.com
INC; Lab: Poizner; Network: SMN TRN
Research Interests:



Umakantha, Akash
Email: akash.umakantha@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt; Lab: Palmeri; Network: PEN
Research Interests: computational neuroscience



Xiao Luo, Anna
Email: x2luo@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell



Zhu, Alexander
Email: alexzhu94@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell; Network: PEN





2011-2012 TRAINEES -- GRADUATE STUDENTS

Sheeraz Ahmad

Ahmad, Sheeraz
Email: shezzy153@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Angela Yu; Network: PEN
Research Interests: modeling the dynamics of perception/attention mechanisms.

Emily Anderson

Anderson, Emily
Email: ebanders@ucsd.edu
Salk Institute; Lab: Chiba; Network: IMS
Research Interests: awake, behaving electrophysiology; temporal dynamics of visual feature integration; visual attention

Andreas Breuer

Breuer, Andreas
Email: abreuer@uvic.ca
Website: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/andreas-breuer/17/33/907
Univ. of Victoria; Lab: Bub; Network: PEN
Research Interests: awareness associated with familiarity, greater positive affect -- and how memory may function in relation to unconsciously perceived stimuli

Ben Cipollini

Cipollini, Ben
Email: bcipolli@ucsd.edu
Website: http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~bcipolli/
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell; Network: PEN
Research Interests: functional lateralization, white matter connectivity, spike timing over varying distances



Cui, Tingting
Email: ttcui@eng.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell
Research Interests:

Kaya de Barbaro

de Barbaro, Kaya
Email: kaya@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Deak; Network: SIN
Research Interests: Infant parent interactions and development of attention and early language skills

Dave Deriso

Deriso, Dave
Email: dderiso@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Bartlett; Network: SIN
Research Interests: designing brain-computer interfaces for cognitive treatment

Eva Dundas

Dundas, Eva
Email: edundas@andrew.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon; Lab: Behrmann; Network: PEN
Research Interests: the neural mechanisms mediating the development of higher level visual processing. In particular, the development of face processing abilities in individuals with autism

Erica Ellis

Ellis, Erica
Email: emellis@ucsd.edu
SDSU/ UCSD; Lab: Deak; Network: SIN
Research Interests: including early language development and word learning in young children with and without language delay

Hanna Gelfand

Gelfand, Hanna
Email: hgelfand@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Deak; Network: SIN
Research Interests: language development, particularly relating to childhood language disorders



Gibson, Amy
Email: amyntt@gmail.com
University of Queensland; Lab: Wiles; Network: SMN
Research Interests:

Iris Gordon

Gordon, Iris
Email: rakshar42@yahoo.ca
Univ. of Victoria; Lab: Tanaka; Network: PEN
Research Interests: event-related potentials (brain responses that are directly the result of a thought or perception) as well as expert training and face recognition

Andres Grosmark

Grosmark, Andres
Email: grosmark@pegasus.rutgers.edu
Rutgers; Lab: Buzsaki; Network: IMS
Research Interests: understanding how the hippocampal output affects computation in the prefrontal cortex



Hagen, Simen
Email: shagen@uvic.ca
University of Victoria; Lab: Tanaka; Network: PEN
Research Interests: Expertise Face Recogniton EEG



Harrison, Stephenie
Email: stephenie.harrison@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt; Lab: Gauthier; Network: PEN
Research Interests: examining the interaction between expertise and viewpoint invariance

Ben Dongsung Huh

Huh, Ben Dongsung
Email: dongsunghuh@gmail.com
Salk Institute; Lab: Sejnowski; Network: SMN
Research Interests: optimality principle and learning in biological motor control system



Isett, Brian
Email: brian.isett@bekeley.edu
UCSD; Lab: Feldman; Network: SMN
Research Interests:

Jason Jones

Jones, Jason
Email: jasonj@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Pashler; Network: IMS
Research Interests: human learning; computational models of learning and memory

Christopher Kanan

Kanan, Christopher
Email: ckanan@ucsd.edu
Website: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ckanan/
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell; Network: PEN
Research Interests: machine learning, object recognition and primate vision

Jeremy Karnowski

Karnowski, Jeremy
Email: Jeremy.karnowski@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Yu; Network: PEN
Research Interests: active vision in environments with reward uncertainty and spatial distributions of unequal information availability.

Adam Koerner

Koerner, Adam
Email: askoerner@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: de Sa; Network: IMS
Research Interests: brain-computer interfaces and neurolinguistics



Leeds, Daniel
Email: dleeds@andrew.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon; Lab: Tarr; Network: PEN
Research Interests: computational models of brain mechanisms



Li, Qi
Email: qililaimend@gmail.com
Univ. of Pittsburgh; Lab: Munro; Network: SMN
Research Interests: temporal analysis

Yu Liao

Liao, Yu
Email: liaoyumail@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Deak; Network: SIN
Research Interests: focus on how infants and children develop their understanding of intention mental state and intentionality of action



Lin, Yi Ching
Email: linyichen670507@yahoo.com
Virginia State University; Lab: Serpell; Network: SIN
Research Interests: Self-regulated learning; the roles of affect and feedback in learning

Rob Lindsey

Lindsey, Rob
Email: robert.lindsey@colorado.edu
Univ. of Colorado; Lab: Mozer; Network: IMS
Research Interests: machine learning, nonlinear and chaotic dynamics and cognitive modeling

Estella Liu

Liu, Estella
Email: hliu6@buffalo.edu
Univ. of Buffalo; Lab: Mercado; Network: SMN
Research Interests: auditory perceptual learning and audiovisual integration

Vicente Malave

Malave, Vicente
Email: vicente.malave@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Poizner; Network: SMN
Research Interests: Understanding neural representations with fMRI and MVPA

Mohsen Malmir

Malmir, Mohsen
Email: mmalmir@eng.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell; Network: PEN
Research Interests:



Mollison, Matt
Email: matthew.mollison@colorado.edu
University of Colorado; Lab: Curran; Network: PEN
Research Interests: Psychology and Neuroscience



Mullane, Mary D.
Email: md.mullane.ucsd@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Chiba; Network: IMS
Research Interests: sensory integration in the perception and expression of emotion and interactions between neural process underlying emotive states and those associated with learning, memory an decision making

Tim Mullen

Mullen, Tim
Email: tmullen@cogsci.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: de Sa / Makeig; Network: IMS
Research Interests: brain machine interfaces and dynamics of information flow in cortical networks during cognitive information processing

Eunho Noh

Noh, Eunho
Email: eunoh@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: de Sa; Network: SMN
Research Interests: including classification algorithms for EEG analysis

Jagdish Patel

Patel, Jagdish
Email: jagdish@pegasus.rutgers.edu
Rutgers; Lab: Buzsaki; Network: IMS
Research Interests: hippocampus: 3-D topogrpahy of oscillatory activity in the behaving rat

Sue Peters

Peters, Sue
Email: sp@suepeters.com
Rutgers; Lab: Benasich; Network: SMN
Research Interests:

Braden Purcell

Purcell, Braden
Email: purcelba@gmail.com
Vanderbilt; Lab: Palmeri; Network: PEN
Research Interests: computational modeling

Cory Reith

Rieth, Cory
Email: crieth@ucsd.edu
University: UCSD; Lab: Cottrell/Huber; Network: PEN
Research Interests: Encompassing areas of perception, learning and memory – specifically how the mind processes dynamic input to extract useful information, including how perception and memory operate, how these processes are learned and how the relevant information is represented in the brain.



Ross, David
Email: rossd@cardiff.ac.uk
Vanderbilt; Lab: Gauthier; Network: PEN

Linda Salamanca

Salamanca, Linda
Email: lindap.phan@gmail.com
SDSU; Lab: Reilly; Network: SIN
Research Interests: the development of facial expression production and temporal integration with speech and gesture



Saulter, Leah
Email: LSau0381@students.vsu.edu
Virginia State University; Lab: Serpell; Network: SIN
Research Interests: Learning-related stress and anxiety; academic performance among minority students

Heida Sigurdardottir

Sigurdardottir, Heida Maria
Email: heida_sigurdardottir@brown.edu
Brown; Lab: Sheinberg; Network: PEN
Research Interests: vision, objects, actions, plasticity



Stevenson, Cory
Email: cesteven@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Poizner; Network: SMN
Research Interests: hippocampal electrophysiology

David Sullivan

Sullivan, David
Email: davidsul@pegasus.rutgers.edu
Rutgers; Lab: Buzsaki; Network: IMS
Research Interests: hippocampal electrophysiology



Talbott, Walter
Email: wtalbott@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: de Sa / Movellan; Network: IMS
Research Interests: multi-modal sensory interpretation and perception



Till, Bernie
Email: bctill@ece.uvic.ca
University of Victoria; Lab: Bub; Network: PEN
Research Interests: Motion Capture

Matt Tong

Tong, Matt
Email: mhtong@cs.ucsd.edu
Website: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mhtong/
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell; Network: PEN
Research Interests: salience, visual attention andvisual search



Trottier, Leo
Email: leo@cogsci.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: de Sa; Network: SMN
Research Interests: the timing of perisaccadic visual processing using multi-modal temporal order judgments

Ana Van Gulick

Van Gulick, Ana Beth
Email: ana.e.van.gulick@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt; Lab: Gauthier; Network: PEN
Research Interests: visual object recognition including perception, categorization and memory in visual expertise

Priya Velu

Velu, Priya
Email: priyavelu@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: de Sa; Network: IMS
Research Interests: devleopment of a brain-computer interface for walking plus analysis of EEG signal modulation for walking in populations with motor impairments

Panqu Wang

Wang, Panqu
Email: wangpanqumanu@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell; Network: PEN
Research Interests:

Jacob Whitehill

Whitehill, Jacob
Email: jake@mplab.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: MP Lab; Network: SIN
Research Interests: machine learning and its applications to computer vision; face analysis; automated tutoring systems



Wilder, Matt
Email: mattwilder.cu@gmail.com
Univ. of Colorado; Lab: Mozer; Network: IMS
Research Interests: Understanding the temporal components of cognition using probabilisitic models

Rankin Williams

Williams, Rankin
Email: rankin.williams@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt; Lab: Gauthier; Network: PEN
Research Interests: exploring competition and interference between multiple domains of perceptual expertise

Matthew Wisniewski

Wisniewski, Matthew
Email: mgw@buffalo.edu
Univ. of Buffalo; Lab: Mercado; Network: SMN
Research Interests: how training with sound modifies auditory perceptual performance and electrophysiological responses



Wu, Tingfan
Email: t3wu@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: MP Lab; Network: SIN
Research Interests: machine learning and computer vision, with current work on vision-based facial expression acquisition and analysis

Dean Wyatte

Wyatte, Dean
Email: Dean.Wyatte@colorado.edu
Univ. of Colorado; Lab: O-Reilly; Network: IMS
Research Interests: the effect of recurrent dynamics on object recognition



Xu, Buyun
Email: elikaskywalker@gmail.com
Univ. of Victoria; Lab: Tanaka; Network: PEN
Research Interests: how individual life experiences shape and modify the processes of high-level vision, especially face recognition abilities of those with autisim or hearing impairments

Corrine Zavala

Zavala, Corrine
Email: cjzavala@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Deak; Network: SIN
Research Interests: examining infant stress reactivity and its relation to social, intellectual and emotinal development during the first year of life





2011-2012 TRAINEES -- POST-DOCS

Mariano Bellusco

Belluscio, Mariano
Email: mbellu@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Rutgers; Lab: Buzsaki; Network: IMS
Research Interests: how the coordinated activity of neurons supports cognitive processes in the brain



Birardeau, Gabrielle
Email: gabrielle.girardeau@gmail.com
Rutgers; Lab: Buzsaki; Network:  IMS
Research Interests: neural correlates of normal language processing and the dynamic interplay of sensory imput and internalized knowledge in decoding language



Blank, Michelle
Email: m.blank.phd@gmail.com
Rutgers; Lab: Tallal; Network:  SMN
Research Interests: neural correlates of normal language processing and the dynamic interplay of sensory imput and internalized knowledge in decoding language

Shigeyoshi Fujisawa

Fujisawa, Shigeyoshi
Email: fujisawa@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Rutgers; Lab: Buzsaki; Network: IMS
Research Interests: physiological mechanism of memory formation

Scott Heath

Heath, Scott
Email: scott.heath@uqconnect.edu.au
University of Queensland; Lab: Janet Wiles; Network: SMN
Research Interests:

Manuel Hernandez

Hernandez, Manuel
Email: manueleh@gmail.com
UC San Diego; Lab: Poizner; Network: SMN

Grit Herzmann

Herzmann, Grit
Email: grit.herzmann@googlemail.com
Univ. of Colorado; Lab: Curran; Network: PEN
Research Interests: measuring event-related brain potentials to investigate the processes of learning, memory and perceptual expertise, as well as face and object recognition



Ignacio, Matthew
Email: matt.b.ignacio@gmail.com
Lab: Reilly

Alexander Khalil

Khalil, Alexander
Email: akhalil@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Chiba; Network: IMS
Research Interests: stems from doctoral work in ethnomusicology, focusing on musical synchrony and the development of temporal perception in children



Koyama, Maki
Email: makisophiakoyama@gmail.com
Rutgers, CMBN; Lab: Benasich; Network: IMS SMN TRN
Research Interests: MRI & EEG/ERP, Development of Functional Networks in Infants, Dyslexia

Victor Minces

Minces, Victor
Email: victorminces@yahoo.com
UCSD; Lab: Chiba; Network: IMS
Research Interests: interacting memory systems within the temporal dynamics of the world



Miyakoshi, Makoto
Email: mmiyakoshi@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Makeig; Network: IMS SIN
Research Interests: sensory perceptual learning, rodent behavior



Miyashita, Toshio
Email: tmiyashita@berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley; Lab: Feldman; Network: SMN
Research Interests: sensory perceptual learning, rodent behavior



Musacchia, Gabriella
Email: gm377@rutgers.edu
Rutgers; Lab: Benasich; Network: SMN
Research Interests: Auditory neuroscience, cognition, development, language, music

Adrian Nestor

Nestor, Adrian
Email: anestor@andrew.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon; Lab: Behrmann; Network: PEN
Research Interests: structure in face representation, face recognition, image segmentation



Newman, Erik
mail: enewman@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Jernigan; Network: SIN
Research Interests: a better understanding of individual differences that predict differential responses to academic and clinical intervention methods.

Mayu Nishimura

Nishimura, Mayu
Email: mayu@cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon ; Lab: Behrmann; Network: PEN
Research Interests: the mechanisms underlying face and object perception



Nolan, Christopher
Email: cnolan@itee.uq.edu.au
Univ. of Queensland; Lab: Wiles; Network: IMS
Research Interests: Computational modelling; spatial memory, navigation, hippocampus modelling, spiking neural networks, episodic memory

Silvia Ortiz-Mantilla

Ortiz-Mantilla, Silvia
Email: sortizma@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Rutgers; Lab: Benasich; Network: SMN
Research Interests: normal cognitive and language development (structure, EEG/ERP, behavior)



Park, Cheolsoo 
Email: chp033@ucsd.edu
UCSD INC; Lab: Poizner; Network: SMN TRN
Research Interests: Brain Computer Interface (BCI), Neuroscience, Multivariate Signal Processing, Time-Frequency Analysis, Statistical Signal Processing



Popescu, Andrei
Email: andpopes@gmail.com
UC Berkeley; Lab: Poo; Network: SMN
Research Interests: dynamic changes in inner-structure interactions during learning



Pyles, John
Email: jpyles@cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon; Lab: Tarr; Network: PEN
Research Interests: biological motion perception, social cognitive neuroscience, object and motion perception, funcitonal neuroimaging

Jennifer Richler

Richler, Jennifer
Email: jennifer.j.richler@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt; Lab: Palmeri/ Gauthier; Network: PEN
Research Interests: the cognitive mechanisms involved in visual object recognition and categorization, and how these processes are modulated by experience

Alan Robinson

Robinson, Alan
Email: aerobins@cogsci.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: de Sa; Network: IMS
Research Interests: sequence-dependent visual plasticity

Beth Rogowsky

Rogowsky, Beth
Email: brogowsky@gmail.ciom
Rutgers; Lab: Tallal; Network: SMN
Research Interests: educational translational research on the writing skills of entering freshmen who are required to take developmental writing classes

Lisa Roux

Roux, Lisa
Email: lisa.roux.pro@gmail.com
NYUMC; Lab: Buzsaki; Network: IMS
Research Interests: Using optogenetic tools, I am interested in dissecting the role played by different cell types in oscillation patterns such as theta rhythm or ripple events

Alex Simpkins

Simpkins, Alex
Email: alex@casimpkinsjr.radiantdolphinpress.com
Univ. of Washington; Lab: Todorov; Network: SMN
Research Interests: active exploration, coordinated control, learning and control theory

Joe Snider

Snider, Joe
Email: oldstyle_joe@yahoo.com
UCSD; Lab: Poizner; Network: SMN
Research Interests: merging current theoretical and experimental understanding of learrning, especially as it pertains to motion



Stratton, Peter
Email: stratton@itee.uq.edu.au
Univ. of Queensland; Lab: Wiles; Network: IMS
Research Interests: Computational neuroscience, spikes, oscillations, plasticity

Ying Wu

Wu, Ying
Email: ywu@sccn.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Makeig; Network: SIN
Research Interests: social cognition, gesture, language and embodiment

Min Xu

Xu, Min
Email: longinsky@gmail.com
UC Berkeley; Lab: Yang Dan; Network: SMN





2011-2012 RESEARCHERS



Brown, Tim
Email: ttbrown@ucsd.edu
Neuroscience

Leanne Chukoskie

Chukoskie, Leanne
Email: leanne@salk.edu
Salk Institute & UCSD; Network: IMS
Research Interests: the influence of prior experience on saccade (small rapid eye movement) choice. Also Asst. Director for Research, Special Projects, at Autism Speaks



Church, Barbara
Email: bchurch@buffalo.edu
Univ. at Buffalo/ SUNY; Network: SMN
Research Interests: Temporal dynamics of perceptual representation, learning, and memory.

Deborah Forster


Forster, Deborah
Email: forster@cogsci.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Network: SIN
Research Interests: primatology

John Iversen

Iversen, John
Email: jiversen@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Makeig
Research Interests: the use of music perception and production as a tool for the study of complex brain processes



Jew, Carol
Email: caroljew@cmu.edu
Carnegie-Mellon University; Lab: Tarr
Research Interests:

Samat Moldakarimov

Moldakarimov, Samat
Email: Samat@salk.edu 
Salk Institute; Lab: Sejnowski; Network: SMN
Research Interests: the neural bases of learning; in particular, how neuromodulators affect learning
David Peterson

Peterson, David
Email: dp@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Poizner; Network: SMN
Research Interests: rewarded learning and brain oscillations in humans

Laleh Quinn

Quinn, Laleh
Email: lquinn@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Network: IMS
Research Interests: temporal correlative activity of single unit, multi-unit and local field potentials in awake, behaving animals

Marybel Robledo

Robledo, Marybel
Email: marybel.robledo@gmail.com
UCSD; Network: SIN
Research Interests: cognitive development, infant-parent communication

Christine Smith

Smith, Christine
Email: cnsmith@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Network: IMS
Research Interests: behavioral neuroscience

Wu, Ying
Email: yingchoon@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Makeig/ Jung; Network: SIN
Research Interests: social neuroscience, gesture, human interaction, learning, problem solving, and insight