Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
Ryunosuke Amo
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech
Benedicte Babayan
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Editor at Neuron
Jeremiah Cohen
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Principal Scientist, Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics
- Affiliate Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics, University of Washington
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Cristina Domnisoru
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Postdoc, Champalimaud Institute of Unknown, Portugal
Rafi Haddad
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Assistant Professor at Bar-Ilan University, Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center
Sebastian Haesler
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Director Neuroelectronics Research Flanders, Associate Professor Department of Neuroscience, KU Leuven
HyungGoo Kim
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Assistant Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea
Ding Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Assistant Professor, Westlake University
Athar Malik
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Assistant Professor, Brown University
Paul Masset
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Assistant Professor, McGill University
Hideyuki Matsumoto
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Assistant Professor at Osaka City University
Keiji Miura
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Professor at Kwansei Gakuin University
Sachie Ogawa Kitamura
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Assistant Professor, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Vinod Rao
Psychiatrist at MGH McLean Hospital (Alumni)
- Medical Director, Adult Ambulatory Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
Nacho Sanguinetti-Scheck
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania
Yasuyo Tanaka
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Syneos Health - Consultant
Iku Tsutsui-Kimura
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Associate Professor, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences Division of Biopharmceutical Sciences and Pharmacy, Hokkaido University
Takahiro Yamaguchi
Visiting Scientist from TOYOTA (Alumni)
- TOYOTA
Mengxi Yun
Postdoctoral Fellow (Alumni)
- Senior Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis
Graduate student (Alumni)
Korleki Akiti
Graduate Student (Alumni)
- Philadelphia Outward Bound School
Michael Bukwich
Graduate Student (Alumni)
- Postdoc at University College London
Kevin Cury
Graduate Student (Alumni)
- Postdoc at Columbia University
Yurika Doi
Graduate Student (Alumni)
Neir Eshel
MD/PhD student (Alumni)
- Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Isobel Green
MD/PhD Student (Alumni)
Vivian Hemmelder
Graduate Student (Alumni)
Adam Lowet
Graduate Student (Alumni)
- Postdoc at UC Berkeley
Mackenzie W. Mathis
Graduate Student (Alumni)
- Rowland Jr. Fellow 2017-2022
- Assistant Professor, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Will Menegas
Graduate Student (Alumni)
- Postdoc at MIT
Selina Lechen Qian
Graduate Student (Alumni)
- Data Scientst at Meta
Sandra Romero Pinto
Graduate Student (Alumni)
- Postdoc, Columbia University
Clara K. Starkweather
MD/PhD Student (Alumni)
- Resident in Neurological Surgery at University of California San Francisco
Ju Tian
Graduate Student (Alumni)
- Facebook
- Senior Data Scientist at Airbnb
Momchil Tomov
Graduate Student (Alumni)
Alice Y. Wang
Graduate Student (Alumni)
- Postdoc at Harvard Medical School
- Spotify
Undergraduate Student (Alumni)
Taiga Abe
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: A computational study of adaptive behaviors in a mouse model of motor control (2017)
- Grad student at Columbia University
Daina Anhalt
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: The neurobiology of economic decision making: The influence of risk on delay discounting in rats (2010)
Lena Awwad
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: Investigating the role of the lateral habenula in reinforcement learning (2013)
Jennifer Bi
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: The role of the anterior dorsal striatum, dorsolateral striatum, and posterior tail of the striatum in the execution and memory of learned motor skills (2018)
Kristen Fang
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Senior Product Manager, Attentive
Emmanuel Garrison-Hooks
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: Mouse foraging behavior in a dynamic virtual environment (2021)
- Candidate for Dual MSc in Brain & Mind Sciences University College London & Sorbonne University (2024–2026)
Ryan Huang
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: The role of the pedunculopontine tegmentum in signaling reward prediction error to dopamine neurons of the ventral tegmental area (2016)
- Medical student at Duke University Medical Center
Dabin Hwang
Undergraduate (Alumni)
Audrey Kang
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: Of mice and monsters: Projection-specific roles for mesostriatal dopamine neurons in reward approach and threat avoidance (2023)
- Master's student, Oxford University
Nataša Kovačević
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: Uncertainty and impatience: The effect of reward certainty on delay discounting in rats (2010)
Adam Kundishora
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania
Melissa Meng
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: A deep dive into distributional reinforcement learning in the mammalian brain (2023)
- Graduate student, Yale University
Vanessa Roser
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: Toward a neural mechanism of associative learning: Phasic dopamine activity shifts from rewards to cues during conditioning (2021)
- Graduate student, Princeton University
Aleeza Shakeel
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: The role of the hippocampus in dopamine ramping during spatial navigation (2020)
- Lead Teacher at Success Academy Charter Schools
Lynn Shi
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: Mapping the brain’s connections to midbrain dopamine neurons using modified rabies virus in transgenic mice (2013)
- Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Weill Cornell Medicine
Marissa Shoji
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: Neuron type specific tracing from dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area in transgenic mice (2014)
- Medical Student at Harvard Medical School
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology, University of Miami
Joshua Stern
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: Simplicity within complexity: Rich but generalizable representations in the prefrontal cortex during foraging behavior (2021)
- Graduate student, Harvard Medical School
Mark Terrelonge
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: Characterization of dopamine neuron activity in category learning based on ambiguity (2010)
- Associate Professor in Neurology, UCSF
Melody Tong
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: A skilled manipulandum-based task for motor learning in mice (2018)
- Medical Student at New York University School of Medicine
Archana Vamanrao
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Strategy & Ops, Reforge
Jeffrey Wang
Undergraduate (Alumni)
Meredith Winter
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Keck School of Medicine of USC
Melissa Yamada
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: Dissociation of speed and reward maximization in motor skill learning (2021)
- Medical Student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Adjoa Yeboah
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: Of Mice and Menstruation: An Investigation of Estradiol’s Influence on Dopaminergic Reward Pathways Through Mouse Models of Hormonal Contraceptives (2025)
- Medical student at University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Lingjin Zheng
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: Neuron type specific tracing from dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area in transgenic mice (2014)
- Medical student at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine
Lisa Zhu
Undergraduate (Alumni)
- Thesis: Comprehensive identification of direct inputs into midbrain dopamine neurons using modified rabies virus (2011)
- Medical Student at UCLA
Visting Schorlar / Research Assistant (Alumni)
Pol Bech
Master's Student (Alumni)
- M.Sc. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Célia Benquet
Master's student (Alumni)
- M.Sc. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Hugo May
Master's student (Alumni)
- M.Sc. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Daigo Okada
Visiting Student (Alumni)
- Graduate student, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
Melissa Zhiyu Tian
Research Assistant (Alumni)
- Graduate Student at Princeton University
Shudi Xu
Research Assistant (Alumni)
- Graduate student at Northwestern University
