KCNhub Research Personnel

Our current students, postdocs, and research associates are presented here.

Postdoctoral Scholars and Research Associates

Antoine Fauroux, PhD

Lab(s):

De Pittà

Research:

Multiscale Digital Astrocyte Twins

Aref Pariz, Ph.D.

Lab(s):

Lefebvre

Research:

Information transfer in neuronal networks, Neural oscillations, Brain stimulation.

Frank Mazza, PhD

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

LFP, EEG and rTMS in depression treatment

Hamid Ramezanpour, PhD

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Memory circuits, impulse control

Homeira Moradi, Ph.D.

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Translating neural properties to oscillatory activity

Ivan Skelin, PhD

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Understanding human memory using electrophysiology

Kamyar Tavakoli, PhD

Lab(s):

Lefebvre/Longtin

Research:

Delay-induced synchronization and seizure dynamics

Liang Zhang, PhD

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Human tissue cell reporting

Lyla El-Fayomi, PhD

Lab(s):

Milosevic

Research:

Toward the biomimetic enhancement of neuromodulation parameters across disease indications.

Xiangyu (Samuel) Ma, PhD

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

CANNs, criticality & Parkinson's biomarkers

Graduate Students and Research Analysts

Andre Cornejo Marin

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Neuromodulation for improving cognition

Andrew Yang

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

sEEG and DBS as treatment to refractory addiction

Antonio Franco

Lab(s):

Milosevic

Research:

Closed loop neuromodulatory approaches for Parkinson’s Disease

Arthur Akbulatov

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Computational modelling of ictal transitions and frequency modulation in epilepsy

Boyi Ma

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Developing fair AI models for Video-Based HR Estimation

Dallas Leavitt

Lab(s):

Milosevic

Research:

Basal ganglia correlates of non-motor features in Parkinson's disease

Daniel Trotter

Lab(s):

Lefebvre

Research:

Oscillatory dynamics and brain stimulation

David Crompton

Lab(s):

Lankarany/Milosevic

Research:

Neuron, network and neuromorphic modeling and analyses

David Roszko

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Neural stimulation with photonic probes

Faranak Heidari

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Analyzing and modelling the underlying mechanisms of neurons as part of a neuronal network

Jathushan Kaetheeswaran

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Investigating the use of wearable technology for neural data acquisition

Julianna Pijar

Lab(s):

Milosevic/Germann

Research:

Examining the network effects of DBS for depression in MEG and fMRI

Luka Zivkovic

Lab(s):

Milosevic

Research:

Discovering human neurocircuits with intracranial stimulation

Mayra Santos Da Silva

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Mapping seizure onset via multi-electrode arrays

Michelangelo Volpi

Lab(s):

De Pittà

Research:

Biophysical modeling of neuron-glial-vascular interactions

Muhammad Shan Sohail

Lab(s):

Milosevic

Research:

Developing Globus Pallidus centric Deep Brain Stimulation Paradigm

Nada Shaath

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Electrophysiology and Molecular Neuropathology

Prerana Keerthi

Lab(s):

Milosevic

Research:

Closed-loop DBS for selective modulation of pathological oscillatory activity

Raiyan Ishmam

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Graph representations of EEG for Soz localization

Rena Far

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Effect of music and rhythm on human brain cell and circuit dynamics

Shysta Sehgal

Lab(s):

Milosevic

Research:

Optimizing DBS for Depression using Evoked Potentials

Sophie Veri

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Finding epileptic regions with combined fMRI-EEG

Spandan Sengupta

Lab(s):

Lankarany/Skinner

Research:

Understanding population-level dynamics of neuronal circuits under DBS using computational models

Thomas Biba

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

The role of attention in memory integration and pattern completion at a behavioral, neural and computational level

Thomas Nguyen

Lab(s):

Lefebvre

Research:

Defective inhibitory neurotransmission in epilepsy

Tristan Lawson

Lab(s):

Milosevic

Research:

Optogenetic interrogation of deep brain stimulation for depression

Vijithan Mangaleswaran

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Examination of neural population activity using microelectrode arrays (MEAs)

Xiaoxuan (Noah) Xiao

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Understanding the brain in the wild

Yousif Kashef Al Ghetaa

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Developing AI models for medicine

Yvonne Yang

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Developing models of single neurons to predict behavior under varying pico-ampere-scale ionic currents across the membrane

Zhenyang Sun

Lab(s):

De Pittà

Research:

Computational Neuroanatomy, Topological Data Analysis, Astrocyte Calcium Compartmentalization

Zoe Paraskevopoulos

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Computationally modelling short-term plasticity

Undergraduates

Elena Osipyan

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Diffusion models for DBS parameter optimization

Jana Ali

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Seizure Severity and Neuronal Heterogeneity

Jeffrey Zhu

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

EEG systems for cognitive tasks

Karma Namgyal

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Machine Learning for Real-Time DBS Mapping