
Current personnel
Post-docs and Research Scientists
- Dr. Brandy Schmidt, PhD
- Dr. Geoffrey Diehl, PhD
- Dr. Olivia Calvin, PhD
- Dr. Paul Cunningham, PhD
- Dr. Ugurcan Mugan, PhD
- Dr. Chelsey Damphousse, PhD
- Dr. Avishek Chatterjee, PhD (co-advised with Dr. Audrey Sederberg)
- Dr. Cathy Chen, PhD (co-advised with Dr. Sophia Vinogradov)
Graduate Students
- Adrina Kocharian (Neuroscience, co-advised with Dr. Patrick Rothwell)
- Dana Mueller (Psychology, in collaboration, advised by Dr. Nicola Grissom)
Technicians
- Chris Boldt
- Ayaka Sheehan
- Killian Macias
Undergraduate students
- Henri Chastain
- Tori Lawrence
- Jen Peterson
- Ashlynn Reid
- Poorvi Singh Ghai
- Akshara Molletti
- Aarya Bommidi
Past personnel (where are they now?)
Former Postdocs
- Rachel Anderson, PhD (Postdoc 2018-2019) : Assistant Professor, Bethel University, Roseville, MN.
- Evan Carter, PhD (Post-doc 2013-2016): Post-doc, Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen MD.
- Nathan Schultheis, PhD (Post-doc 2013-2015): Research Scientist, Florida International University
- Yannick Breton, PhD (Post-doc 2012-2016) : Senior Advisor, Metrics and Reporting for the Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives initiative, Montreal Canada.
- Sei-ichiro Amemiya, PhD (Post-doc 2012-2016) : Researcher, Riken
- Zeb Kurth-Nelson PhD (Post-doc 2009-2011): Senior Research Scientist, DeepMind.
- Matthijs van der Meer PhD (Post-doc, 2007-2010): Associate Professor, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH.
- Pratibha Aia M.D. (Post-doc, 2002): Associate in Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine.
Former Graduate Students
- Cody Walters (Neuroscience, PhD 2021): Associate Editor, Nature Communications.
- Brendan Hasz (Neuroscience, PhD 2020): Data Scientist, C. H. Robinson.
- Brian Sweis (Neuroscience, PhD 2018) : Research-Track Resident, Mount Sinai Hospital, NYC.
- Samantha Abram (Clinical Psychology, PhD, 2017) : Assistant Professor, UCSF, San Francisco CA.
- Paul Regier (Graduate Student, PhD, 2015) : Assistant Professor, UPenn, Philadelphia PA.
- Jeff Stott (Neuroscience, PhD, 2015) : Post-doc, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH.
- Andy Papale (Graduate Student, PhD, 2015) : Post-doc, University of Pittsburgh, PA.
- Nate Powell (Graduate Student, PhD, 2015) : Visiting Assistant Professor, St. Olaf College, Northfield MN.
- Adam Steiner (Graduate Student, PhD, 2014) : Assistant Professor, Minnesota State University, Mankato MN.
- Andrew Wikenheiser (Graduate Student, PhD 2014) : Assistant Professor, UCLA.
- John Ferguson (Graduate Student, PhD 2011): Research Health Scientist, Minneapolis VA Health Care System and Associate Professor, University of Minnesota.
- Anoopum Gupta (Robotics Institute, CMU, PhD 2011, co-advisor with Dr. David Touretzky, CS, CMU): Physician Investigator, Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.
- Adam Johnson (Graduate Student, PhD 2008): Professor, Department of Psychology, Bethel University, Minneapolis MN. [Adam, unfortunately, passed away in 2018. A tribute to his contributions to science can be found here and in PDF form here.]
- Beth Masimore (Graduate Student, Physics, co-advisor, PhD 2008): Investigative Research Scientist, National Science Foundation.
- Jadin Jackson (Graduate Student, PhD 2006): Principal Data Scientist, Boston Scientific, Minneapolis MN.
- Neil Schmitzer-Torbert (Graduate Student, PhD 2005): Professor and Chair, Department of Psychology, Wabash College, Crawfordsville IN.
Former PostBacs
- Samantha Hoffman (2022), Postbac, NIH
- Amber McLaughlin (2019-2022), Graduate Student, Mt Sinai.
- Matthew Erickson (2019-2021: Graduate Student, IUPUI.
- Anneke Duin (2021): Project Manager, Epic Systems.