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    The Team

     

    Kristofer Bouchard (Principal Investigator)

    Computational Biology Staff Scientist

    PI, Neural Systems and Data Science Lab, Biological Systems & Engineering Division, LBNL

    Group Lead, Computational Biosciences Group, Computational Research Divisions, LBNL

    Assistant Adjunct Professor, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute & Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley

     

    Matthew Wright (Mechanical Engineering Post-Doc, LBNL)

    Research Focus: Multimodal deep learning foundation models for protein enhancement, computer vision for electron microscopy

     

    Ankit Kumar (Physics Post-Doc; UCB)

    Research Focus: Applications of statistical mechanics, control theory, and information theory to neural data analysis

     

    Shafeeq Ibrahem (EECS Graduate Student; UCB)

    Research Focus: Multimodal deep learning foundation models for protein enhancement

     

    Kailin Zhuang (Neuroscience Graduate Student, UCB)

       

    Research Focus: Unsupervised mapping of brain->behavior dynamics, complexity of vocalizations in birds, bats, and humans

     

    Chad Harper (Physics Graduate Student, UCB)

       

    Research Focus: Information theoretic methods for modeling biological neuron I/O transformation complexity

     

    Marcus Hogan (Neuroscience Graduate Student, UCB)
    Research Focus: Cross-area interaction subspaces identification in neurophysiology data

     

     

    Jerry Jin (Statistics Graduate Student, UCB)

     

    Research Focus: Neural network models of feedback control

     

    Hrvoje Kukina (Mathematics Graduate Student, TUW)

    Research Focus: Novel statistical methods for non-linear systems identification

     

    McKenzie Hagen: (Psychology Graduate Student, University of Washington)
    Research Focus: sparse functional networks from fMRI

     

     

    Deyang Zheng (Applied Mathematics Graduate Student, University of Washington)
    Research Focus: Application of control theory to neural dynamics and spiking neural network modeling

     

    Ayse Sila Okcu (Engineering Graduate Student, Cambridge University)

    Research Focus: AI models with feedback controllability objective functions for brain decoding

     

    Yao Xu (Research Associate, LBNL)

     

    Research Focus: Graph-theoretic methods for network function and structure, data-driven machine learning methods for TBI prognosis

     

    Nicholas Chin (Research Associate, LBNL)

     

    Research Focus: Distributed cortical representation of natural sounds

    Ketan Anand (Research Associate, LBNL)
    Research Focus: modeling the input-output complexity of a biological neurons
    Hanfei Guo (Research Associate, Nankai University):
    Research Focus: modeling the input-output complexity of biological neurons

    Current Undergraduates/Interns:

    Joel Ye (CMU)

    AYSE SILA OKCU (EECS and Math @Koç University, Turkey)

    Edourad Koehn (EPFL)

    Sam Reiter  (Carleton)
    Selim-Antoine Lali (App. Math @ ENSTA, Paris)
    Prathran Ghosh (App. Math @ UCB)
    Jay Yoo (UCB)

     

     

    Key Collaborators:

    Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya (OSU): Statistical data analysis

    Oliver Rubel and Andrew Tritt (LBNL): Data standardization (NWB:N)

    Jan Balewski (NERSC) & Roy-Ben Shalom: Deep learning for neuronal conductance inference

    Dan Feldman (UCB): Laminar origin of cortical surface electrical potentials

     

     

    Former Lab Members, Interns, and Undergraduates:

    Mahesh Balasubramanian (GSRA, CE@Arizona State)
    Anh-Nguyen (GSRA, U. Iowa App. Math)

    Charles Frye (GSRA, UCB Neuroscience)

    Max Dougherty (RA UCB CS)

    Brian Gereke (neurophysiology post-doc)

    Rui Meng (statistics post-doc)

    Vyassa Baratham (UCB Physics GSRA)

    Pratik Sachdeva (UCB Physics GSRA)

    Jesse Livezey (UCB Physics GSRA, physics post-doc)

    Ji Hyun Bak (physics post-doc)

    John Hermiz (neural engineering post-doc)

    Brett Nelson (UCB Neuroscience GRSA)

    Jacob Yeung (UCB CS)

    Sylvia Meadow (UCB Neuroscience GRSA)

    Sugeerth Murugesan (UC  Davis CS)

    James Arnemann (UCB Physics)

    Eric Dodds (UCB Phsyics)

    Shashanka Ubaru (UMinn CS)

    Chris Ki (UCB CS)

    Anurag Rao (Applied Math @ UCB)

    Sonika Vuyyuru (Computer Science and Cognitive Science @ UCB)

    Aljawharah Alrasheed (Data Science and Cognitive Science @ UCB)

    Vitto Resnick (UCB)

    Aisha Khandelwal (UCB)

    Benjamin Asch (UCB)
    Ahyeon Wang (Applied Math @ UCB)
    Alex Fung (UCB)
    Alex Kell (MIT)
    Amrut Nadgir (UCB)
    Asad Hazariwala (BIDS, Pilani)
    Dev Churiwala (BIDS, Pilani)
    Guang Zeng (UCB)
    Hari Rangarajan (BIDS, Pilani)
    Harnoor Dhingra (BIDS, Pilani)
    Hortense Leignel (ENSTA, Paris)
    Léa Cottin (ENSTA, Paris)
    Michael Lamb (UCB)
    Pranav Guruprasad (BIDS, Pilani)
    Tiancheng Xu (Physics @ UCB)
    Megan Lin (Cognitive Science & Data Science, UCB)