Alumni

Lab alumni

Eleven graduate students and twenty postdocs have moved on from the lab. Of these, seventeen are currently independent investigators running their own labs at academic institutions. Most of the rest have active scientific research careers.


Directors/Chairs

James J. DiCarlo, MD/Ph.D

Postdoc 1998-2002
MD/PhD Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University.
Currently Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (former Chair), MIT
Director MIT Quest for Intelligence

Stefan Treue, Ph.D.

Postdoc1993-1995
PhD Brain & Cognitive Sciences MIT
Currently Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience & Biological Psychology, University of Göttingen
Director of the German Primate Center, Göttingen Germany


Professors

John A. Assad, Ph.D.

Postdoc 1991-1996
PhD Neurobiology Harvard University
Currently Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School

Marlene R. Cohen, Ph.D.

Postdoc 2007-2011
PhD Neuroscience, Stanford University.
Currently Professor of Neuroscience, University of Chicago

Vincent P. Ferrera, Ph.D.

Postdoc1989-1992
PhD Neurobiology, University of Chicago.
Currently Professor of Neuroscience in Psychiatry, Columbia University

Geoff M. Ghose, Ph.D.

Postdoc1996-2003
PhD Biophysics, University of California at Berkeley
Currently Professor of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota

Jay R. Gibson, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, Neuroscience PhD awarded1996
Currently Professor of Neuroscience
University of Texas Southwestern Medical School

Supratim Ray, Ph.D.

Postdoc 2008-2011
PhD Biomedical Engineering Johns Hopkins University
Currently Professor, India Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Anne B. Sereno, Ph.D.

Postdoc 1992-1995
PhD Psychology Harvard University
Currently Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior, Mathematical & Computational Cognitive Science, Cognitive Psychology and Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University

Tianming Yang, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, Neuroscience PhD awarded 2003
Senior Investigator, Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai, China


Associate Professors

Christen E. Boudreau, DVM/Ph.D.

Graduate Student, Neuroscience PhD awarded 2001
Currently Clinical Assistant Professor of Neurology, Texas A&M University

Erik P. Cook, Ph.D.

Postdoc 1997-2002
PhD Neuroscience Baylor College of Medicine
Currently Associate Professor of Physiology, McGill University

Lindsey L. Glickfeld, Ph.D.

Postdoc 2012-2013
PhD Neuroscience, UCSD
Currently Associate Professor of Neurobiology, Duke University

Joonyeol Lee, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, Neuroscience PhD awarded 2008
Currently Associate Professor, Sungkyunkwan University, Daejeon, Korea

Carrie J. McAdams, MD/Ph.D.

Graduate Student, Neuroscience PhD awarded 1998
Currently Associate Professor of Psychiatry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Gary Sclar, MD/Ph.D.

Postdoc 1986-1988
PhD University of California at Berkeley
MD State University of New York Health Science Center Syracuse School of Medicine
Associate Physician, Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital (deceased)


Assistant Professors

William H. Bosking, Ph.D.

Postdoc 2001-2006
PhD Neurobiology Duke University
Currently Research Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania

Jackson J. Cone, Ph.D.

Postdoc 2014-2022
PhD Neuroscience, 2014, University of Illinois, Chicago
Currently Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Calgary

Mark H. Histed, Ph.D.

Postdoc 2009-2015
PhD Systems Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Currently Unit Chief NIMH, NIH

J. Patrick Mayo, Ph.D.

Postdoc 2011-2015
PhD Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
Currently Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of Pittsburgh


Research Scientists/Postdocs

Julian R. Day-Cooney, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, Neurobiology PhD awarded 2020
Currently Postdoctoral Fellow, Oregon State Health University 

Incheol Kang, Ph.D.

Postdoc 2006-2013
PhD Seoul National University
Currently Postdoctoral Fellow, National Eye Institute

Thomas Z. Luo, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, Neuroscience PhD award 2016
Currently Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University

Amy M. Ni, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, Neuroscience PhD awarded 2011
Currently Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Chicago


Industry/Other

Kaushik Ghose, Ph.D.

Postdoc 2008-2011
PhD Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland
Currently Senior Research and Development Engineer, Seven Bridges Genomics

Sidney R. Lehky, Ph.D.

Postdoc 1991-1994,
PhD Neurobiology, University of Chicago
(deceased)

Tara A. Nealey, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, Physiology PhD awarded 1992
Currently Biotechnology & Life Sciences Patent Prosecution Chair, Polsinelli, PC

Xinmiao Peng, Ph.D.

Postdoc 2004-2006,
PhD Neurobiology & Anatomy, Washington University

Paul Scatena, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, Cognitive Science PhD awarded 1990
(deceased)

Bram-Ernst Verhoef, Ph.D.

Postdoc 2012-2017
PhD Biomedical sciences, University of Leuven, Belgium
Currently Head of Machine Learning, Axelera AI

Zaina A. Zayyad, Ph.D.

Graduate Student, Neurobiology PhD awarded 2022
Currently Resident Physician, University of Chicago