Director

Senior Research Associates

  • Thomas Hazy, MD, 2002 – present
  • Seth Herd, PhD, also CEO at eCortex
  • John Rohrlich, PhD, 2012-present
  • Xiaonan Liu, PhD, 2019 – present (with Charan Ranganath)

Postdocs

Graduate students (full or part-time in the lab)

  • Mary Zolfaghar, Computer Science PhD Student, Fall 2016 – present
  • Jake Russin, Psychology PhD student, Fall 2017 – present
  • Ashley Williams, Neuroscience PhD student, Fall 2019 – present (with Charan Ranganath)
  • Andrew Carlson, Psychology PhD student, Fall 2020 – present
  • Yicong (Alan) Zheng, Psychology PhD student, Fall 2020 – present (with Charan Ranganath)

RAs, Junior Specialists

  • Chaodan Luo, 2/2021 – present
  • Riley DeHaan, 2/2021 – present

eCortex: http://e-cortex.com

  • Dave Jilk, founding CEO
  • Ananta Nair, Cognitive Modeler

Main Collaborators

UC Davis (a few initial collaborations among various other potential ones):

CU Boulder:

  • Dr. Marie Banich
  • Dr. Tim Curran
  • Dr. Akira Miyake
  • Dr. Michael Mozer
  • Dr. Yuko Munakata
  • Dr. Jerry Rudy
  • Dr. Tor Wager

Other:

  • Dr. Jonathan Cohen (Princeton University)
  • Dr. Alex Petrov (Ohio University)
  • Dr. Todd Braver (Washington University, St. Louis)
  • Dr. David Noelle (UC Merced)

Former Lab Members:

Former Grads, Primary Advisor

  • Dr. Seth A. Herd, PhD 1999 – 2005 (now Senior Researcher, CEO of eCortex)
  • Dr. Hisham Atallah, PhD 2000 – 2006 (now Postdoc with Ann Graybiel at MIT)
  • Dr. Amy Santamaria, PhD 2000 – 2006 (now Staff Research Scientist, Micro Analysis and Design)
  • Dr. Michael Frank, PhD 2001 – 2006 (now Associate Professor at Brown University http://ski.cog.brown.edu/)
  • Philip Branning, 2005 – 2006 (now Software Developer at ?)
  • Brad Aisa, 2007 – 2009 (Software Developer in Lab 2004 – 2009; now Software Developer at ?)
  • Wolfgang M. Pauli, PhD 2006-2012, now at Microsoft after a Postdoc in the John P. O’Doherty lab at Caltech
  • Brian Mingus (now at Rosetta Stone)
  • Dean Wyatte, PhD Student, 2008 – 2014 (now Senior Engineer at Qualcomm Neuromorphic Computing R&D)
  • Prescott Mackie, Cog Neuro PhD Student, Fall 2012 – 2014 (now doing his own research and development, and consulting with eCortex)
  • Nick Ketz, Cog Neuro PhD Student, Fall 2010 – 2016 (now researcher at HRL)
  • Jessica Mollick, Cog Neuro PhD Student, Fall 2011 – 2018
  • William Chapman, Cog Neuro PhD Student, Fall 2016 – 2018

Former Grads, Secondary Advisor

  • Richard Busby, Applied Math Masters Student
  • Daniel Cer, CS PhD Student
  • Brian Loughry, CS Masters Student
  • Rodolfo Soto, Psych PhD Student
  • (Nimisha) Srinimisha Morkonda Gnanasekaran, CS Masters Student, 2011 – 2012

Former Postdocs

  • Dr. David Huber, 1999 – 2003 (now Associate Professor at UC San Diego http://psy2.ucsd.edu/~dhuber/)
  • Dr. Kenneth Norman, 1999 – 2002 (now Associate Professor at Princeton University http://compmem.princeton.edu/)
  • Dr. Nicolas Rougier, 2000 – 2003 (now Research Scientist CR1 at INRIA Bordeaux, IMN, France http://www.loria.fr/~rougier/)
  • Dr. Jeremy Reynolds, 2005 – 2008 (now Assistant Professor at University of Denver http://www.du.edu/psychology/people/reynolds.htm)
  • Dr. Alex Petrov, 2005 – 2006 (now Associate Professor at Ohio State University http://alexpetrov.com/)
  • Dr. Tren Huang, 2011 – 2014 (now Assistant Professor at National Taiwan University)
  • Trent Kriete, PhD, 2010-2014 (now Head Data Scientist at RxREVU, Denver, CO)
  • Sergio Verduzco-Flores, PhD, 2011-2015 (now a Postdoctoral Researcher with Dr. Erik De Schutter, Okinawa, Japan)
  • Kai Krueger, PhD, 3/2011 – 8/2021 (now Senior Data Scientist at Wells-Fargo)

Former Business Partners

Former Undergrads, RA’s

  • Kenneth Latimer (now grad student at UT Austin)
  • Elizabeth Chan
  • Alexandra E. Clark
  • Shelby Imes
  • Andrew Szabados, PhD. 2012-2014.
  • Taiqi He, Fall 2019 – 2021 (now grad student at CMU)

Former Visitors

  • Yuichi Ito (Postdoc at Keio University Japan), Fall 2019 – Spring 2020
  • Satoru Nishiyama (Kyoto University Japan, PhD student), Fall 2019 – Spring 2020

Former Interns

  • Nancy Wang, Summer 2012
  • Nishal Shah, Summer 2012
  • Juan Marin, MD, Sept-Nov 2012
  • Sebastian Musslick, Oct, 2012 – April 2013
  • Hailey Egidio-Betancourt, Summer 2015, SMART scholar

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