KCNhub Research Personnel

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

Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates

Nooshin Bahador

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

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

Alan Diaz, PhD

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Data Science and machine-learning for neural recordings

Homeira Moradi, Ph.D.

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Translating neural properties to oscillatory activity

Aref Pariz, Ph.D.

Lab(s):

Lefebvre

Research:

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

Marjan Rafiee, Ph.D.

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Music in epilepsy

Scott Rich, Ph.D.

Lab(s):

Skinner/Valiante/Lefebvre

Research:

Understanding seizure onset using computational techniques

Maximilian Scherer, Ph.D.

Lab(s):

Milosevic

Research:

Deep brain stimulation mechanisms & basal ganglia physiology

Leon Amadeus Steiner MD/PhD

Lab(s):

Milosevic

Research:

Investigating synaptic plasticity and deep brain stimulation mechanisms

Afroditi Talidou, Ph.D.

Lab(s):

Lefebvre/Skinner

Research:

Activity dependent myelination, Hippocampal circuit analyses

Graduate Students and Research Analysts

Miguel Barreto

Lab(s):

Skinner/Lankarany

Research:

Data analysis to capture changing features in vivo & in vitro

Giulio Bonifazi

Lab(s):

De Pittà

Research:

Biophysical modeling of neuron-glial interactions

Yijinmide Buren

Lab(s):

Milosevic

Research:

Deep brain stimulation mechanisms and basal ganglia physiology

Wenjing Chen

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Neuronal heterogeneity in epilepsy

Andrew Clappison

Lab(s):

Lefebvre

Research:

Multimodal Whole Brain Modelling

David Crompton

Lab(s):

Lankarany/Skinner

Research:

Neuron, network and neuromorphic modeling and analyses

Ilir Dema

Lab(s):

Lefebvre

Research:

Fitting patient data into computational neuroscience models

Paul Anthony Foley

Lab(s):

Lefebvre

Research:

Computational Modeling of Neurons investigating Neural Plasticity

Tony Franco

Lab(s):

Milosevic

Research:

Biofeedback for closed-loop deep brain stimulation

Dallas Leavitt

Lab(s):

Milosevic

Research:

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

Anais Lupu

Lab(s):

De Pittà

Research:

Visualizing calcium signaling in astrocytes

Mohammad R. Rezaei

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Neural computation, statistical modeling and deep learning for neural coding

Spandan Sengupta

Lab(s):

Skinner

Research:

Network modeling and analyses

Kiah Spencer

Lab(s):

Milosevic

Research:

Understanding Synaptic Plasticity in Parkinson's Disease using Deep-brain Stimulation; Basal Ganglia physiology

Srdjan Sumarac

Lab(s):

Milosevic

Research:

Novel biomarker discoveries for closed-loop deep brain stimulation

Zhenyang Sun

Lab(s):

De Pittà

Research:

Biophysical astrocyte modeling

Yupeng Tian

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Firing rate network models and DBS control systems

Daniel Trotter

Lab(s):

Lefebvre

Research:

Oscillatory dynamics and brain stimulation

Michelangelo Volpi

Lab(s):

De Pittà

Research:

Biophysical modeling of neuron-glial-vascular interactions

Undergraduates

Arthur Akbulatov

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

Biophysical heterogeneity and epilepsy

Daniel O'Sullivan

Lab(s):

Lefebvre

Research:

Myelination as an agent of signal decorrelation

Sohun Patel

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Neuron and Network FPGA implementations

Ines (Yuxi) Qian

Lab(s):

Valiante

Research:

The role of the h-current in human cortical theta

Nushaab Syed

Lab(s):

Lankarany

Research:

Visual preference, electrode signal quality on BCI