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.

Chaitra Sarathy, PhD

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Bioinformatics/Data Science Specialist

Frank Mazza, PhD

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

LFP, EEG and rTMS in depression treatment

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.

Nooshin Bahador, PhD

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Development of an explainable AI framework for analyzing brain activities in neurological disorders

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

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

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

Srikar Saradhi

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Computational Modeling for Deep Brain Stimulation Research

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

Devon McCarthy

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Low intensity focused ultrasound for neuromodulation

Erica Han

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Impact of subthalamic DBS via parallel optimization

Markson Chen

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Deep learning, model-based neurostimulation, sensorimotor system

Mike Howard

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

FES and Long-term Plasticity

Nushaab Syed

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Brain disorder analytics using graph neural networks, Brain Computer Interfaces

Richard Zhang

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Seizure localization using graph neural networks

Ryan Ballout

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Mechanizing FES-therapy to help injured spinal cord patients recover the ability to walk