Lab Members
Faculty
Staff
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
List of Alumni
Suva Roy (Sponsored guest post-doc from Field lab at UCLA) 2023
Martin O. Bohlen (Pfizer-NCBiotech Fellow; Hartwell Foundation Biomedical Research Award Fellow. Current Research Scientist in Sommer Lab) 2016-2022
Vincent Prevosto, Ph.D. 2010-2020
Zachary Abzug 2018
Hrishikesh Rao 2017
Michael J. Koval, Ph.D. 2012-2014
Matthew A. Smith, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh) 2007-2010
Robin C. Ashmore, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh) 2007-2010
Jefferson Provost, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh) 2007-2008
Charlotte Taylor, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh) 2005-2006
PHD Alumni
Hala El-Nehal (NIH F31 NRSA Fellow; BME, MS 2016-2017. Ph. D candidate. Defended on March 24, 2025. Title: Oculomotor Roles of the Claustrum and its Projection to Frontal Cortex in Primates) 2018-2025
Anthony Alers (NIH F31 NRSA Fellow; BME Ph D. Candidate. Defended April 4, 2024. Title: Neural basis of visuomotor learning in the frontal eye field: an integrated computational and neurophysiological approach) 2016-2024
Raveena Kothare (Duke BME Howard G. Clark III Fellow; BME Ph.D. candidate; finished with an MS in BME) 2016-2023
Divya Subramanian (Neurobiology Ph.D. candidate, defended on March 24, 2022. Title: Contributions of Bayesian and Discriminative Models to Active Visual Perception across Saccades) 2016-2022
Joshua Stivers (Psychology & Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate, co-mentored with Roberto Cabeza) 2018-2021
Zachary Abzug (NSF Graduate Research Fellow; Duke Scholars in Neuroscience Program; BME Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation; BME Ph.D. candidate, defended on November 3, 2017. Title: The Neurocomputational Basis of Serial Decision-Making) 2011-2017
Hrishikesh Rao (NIH F31 NRSA Fellow; NSF Graduate Research Fellow; IGERT WISeNet Fellow; BME Ph.D. candidate, defended on October 14, 2016. Title: Bottom-up and Top-down Mechanisms of Visually-Guided Movements) 2011-2016
Ramanujan Raghavan (Neurobiology Ph.D. candidate; co-mentored with Steve Lisberger; defended dissertation on October 7, 2016. Title: Analysis of Purkinje Cell Responses in the Oculomotor Vermis during the Execution of Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements) 2011-2016
Paul Middlebrooks (University of Pittsburgh; NIH F31 NRSA Fellow; Neuroscience PhD candidate, defended May 18, 2011. Title: Neuronal Correlates of Metacognition in Primate Frontal Cortex) 2006-2011
SooYoon Shin (Neuroscience PhD candidate, defended May 20, 2011. Title: Role of the Primate Basal Ganglia in Saccadic Eye Movements. U. of Pittsburgh) 2005-2011
J. Patrick Mayo (Neuroscience PhD candidate, defended March 15, 2011. Title: Neuronal Encoding of Brief Time Intervals in the Visual System. U. of Pittsburgh) 2005-2011
Trinity Crapse (Neuroscience PhD candidate, defended September 23, 2010. Title: Neuronal Mechanisms for Evaluating the Visual Scene across Saccades. U. of Pittsburgh) 2005-2010
PhD rotation students
Tracey Lee (Rotation GPMED) 2024
Michael Harris (GPMED) 2024
Ergi Spiro (Cognitive Neuroscience program) 2023
Kennedy Coates (Neurobiology program) 2023
Alev Brigande (Neurobiology program) 2022
Joshua Stivers (Cognitive Neuroscience program) 2018
David Murphy (Cognitive Neuroscience program) 2016
Divya Subramanian (Cognitive Neuroscience program) 2015
Sam Brudner (Cognitive Neuroscience program) 2015
Jeffrey Mohl (Neurobiology program) 2014
Charlie Giattino (Cognitive Neuroscience program) 2014
Benjamin Geib (Cognitive Neuroscience program) 2013
Jake Heffley (Neurobiology program) 2013
Hanna Oh (Cognitive Neuroscience program) 2013
Caroline Drucker (Neurobiology program) 2012
Yilei Cai (Neurobiology program) 2012
Cassie Kozyrkov (Cognitive Neuroscience program) 2011
Joseph Barter (Cognitive Neuroscience program) 2011
Masters Students
Michael Hamway (BME M.Eng. Program) 2024
Alex Qian (Spring 2024 BME MS/MEng Research Fellow; BME M.S. Program) 2023-2024
Cassie Hammond (Spring 2023 BME MS/MEng Research Fellow; BME M.S. Program) 2023-2024
Kiran Shehnaz Kaur (BME M.S. Program) 2023
Garima Iyer (BME M.S. Program) 2023
Zhixing (Vincent) Dai (Fall 2022 BME MS/MEng Research Fellow; BME M.S. Program) 2021-2022
Jingwen Deng (2020 Dean’s Research Award; 2020 BME MS/MEng Research Fellowship; BME M.S. Program) 2020-2021
Adrianna Battle (BME M.S. Program) 2019-2020
Lucy Liang (BME M.S. Program) 2019-2020
Aoxue (Mia) Miao (BME M.S. Program) 2018-2020
Lucas Hoffman (BME M.S. Program) 2018-2019
Xiaoyu Tong (BME M.S. Program) 2018-2019
Zisheng (Jason) Liang (BME M.S. Program) 2018
Richard Chen (BME M.S. Program) 2018
Yi Zhao (BME M.S. Program) 2017-2018
Brandyn Wong (BME M.S. Program) 2017-2018
Josh Wu (BME 4+1 M.S. program) 2016-2018
Hala El-Nahal (BME MS-MEng Research Fellow; BME M.S. Program, continued on as PhD Student in Sommer Lab) 2017
Neerav Goswami (BME M.S. program, Currently a PhD student in Sommer Lab) 2015-2017
Erinn Grigsby (BME M.S. program, successful oral defense of dissertation on March 24, 2015. Title: The Effects of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) on the Neural Activity of Awake Non-Human Primates) 2013-2015
Dennis Wong (BME M.S. program) 2015-2017
Matthew Frank (BME M.S. program) 2015
Melina Smith (BME 4+1 M.S. program) 2014-2015
Zachary Abzug (NSF Graduate Research Fellow; received MS on way to PhD) 2014
Kimi Rafie (BME 4+1 M.S. program) 2013-2014
Undergraduate Alumni
Ruyi Yao 2025
Lauren Strauch 2025
Dilnaz Dyussengaliyeva 2025
Srinjoyi Lahiri 2025
Sera Balkir 2025
Dillion Heffernan 2024
Carter Levine 2024
Darienne Rogers 2024
Neyla Kirby 2023
Miles Bradley 2022-2023
Apoorva Das 2020-2023
Angie Xie 2021-2022
Amber Brooks 2020-2023
Rahul Mukherji 2020-2021
Philip Cho 2018-2021
Olivia Leggio 2021
Gabriel Goldhagen 2020
Veronica Yuziuk 2019-2020
Jason Chou (Pratt Fellow; Grand Challenges Scholar) 2018-2020
Brianna McCollum (REU Fellow from Tennessee State University) 2019
Vincent Peng 2018-2019
Luiza Wolf 2018-2019
Mackenzie Marques 2018-2019
Karen Ou 2018-2019
Mary Zhang 2016-2019
Sarah Proctor (BioCoRE Undergraduate Scholar) 2016-2019
Jin Soo (Andrew) Byun (Computer Science) 2017-2018
Zongyu (Zoey) Li 2018
McKenzie Middlebrooks (Neuroscience Honors thesis project) 2016-2017
Amy Xiong (Grand Challenges Scholar) 2016-2017
Pum Wiboonsaksakul (Pratt Fellow) 2016-2017
Jinsu “Jason” Kim (Pratt Fellow; Grand Challenges Scholar; Walter J. Seeley Scholastic Award; Leonardo da Vinci Award; $25k in VentureWell grants for startup (co-founder/lead engineer, Physao; Graduated with Distinction) 2015-2016
Andrew Toader (Pratt Fellow; Graduated with Distinction) 2015-2016
Minyoung Ryoo (Pratt Fellow; Grand Challenges Scholar; Accenture Scholar; Graduated with Distinction) 2015-2016
Andrew Freyberger (Pratt Fellow) 2015-2016
Kimberly Eddleman 2015-2016
Gehua Tong (BME/Neuroscience dual major) 2015
Melina Smith (Pratt Fellow; Grand Challenges Scholar; featured speaker at White House BRAIN Initiative Conference in 2014) 2014-2015
Juwan Hong (Pratt Fellow) 2014-2015
Brie Jackson (BioCoRE Undergraduate Scholar) 2014
Jessica Cao (Pratt Fellow; Graduated with Distinction) 2013-2014
Amit Vora (Pratt Fellow; Graduated with Distinction) 2013-2014
Fred Shen (Pratt Fellow; Graduated with Distinction) 2013-2014
Radu Darie (Pratt Fellow; Grand Challenges Scholar; Graduated with Distinction) 2012- 2014
Frank Lee (Pratt Fellow) 2012-2014
Cole Arora (Pratt Fellow) 2012-2014
Kenneth Padilla (REU Fellow from Puerto Rico) 2013
Erinn Grigsby (Pratt Fellow) 2011-2013
Kimi Rafie (Pratt Fellow; Master’s student, graduated 2014) 2011-2013
Jennifer Villa (Pratt Fellow; Walter J. Seeley Scholastic Award; Leonardo da Vinci Award) 2012-2013
Juan San Juan (Pratt Fellow) 2011-2013
Brian Kohen 2011-2013
Nicholas Jordan (summer student from Case Western University) 2012
Qifang (Yvonne) Bi 2011-2012
Sean Sketch (REU Fellow from Princeton University) 2011
YiShin Chang 2011
Catherine Hartman (went on to be a graduate student at Harvard University) 2010
Amie DiTamasso 2009-2010
High School Students
Riya Sinha 2024
Janie Qing 2024
Grishma Patel 2018-2019
Amy Cheng 2018
Surasya Guduru 2017
Anna Hattle 2015-2016
Bailey Blankenship 2014-2015
Associates in Research
Tierney Daw 2019-2021
Mackenzie Marques 2019-2020
Neerav Goswami (Currently a PhD student in Sommer Lab) 2019-2020
Brandyn Wong 2019
Hala El-Nahal (continued on to graduate as a PhD student in Sommer Lab) 2018
Melina Smith 2015-2017
Jerry Dahlke 2013-2014
Frank W. Petraglia III 2010-2012
Kedar Prabhudesai 2011-2012
Tom Heil 2011
Volunteers
Ashley Ontiri 2024-2025