Lab Members

Nooshin Abdollahi, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow

Nooshin Abdollahi, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Growing cells in computers via gradient-based methods and high-performance computing.

Zeynep Goktepe - Undergraduate Researcher

Zeynep Goktepe

Undergraduate Researcher

California Institute of Technology

Multimodal cellular data modeling using gradient-based methods.

Katelyn Sadorf - Undergraduate Researcher

Katelyn Sadorf

Undergraduate Researcher

California Institute of Technology

Principles of neural computation in biological and artificial brain circuits.

Vitalie Cervinschi - Research Associate II

Vitalie Cervinschi

Research Associate II

Modeling and analysis of extracellular electrophysiology data.

Dianna Hidalgo - Graduate Student

Dianna Hidalgo

Graduate Student

Harvard Medical School

Computations of the human cortical microcircuits.
(co-supervised with Gabriel Kreiman, Harvard Medical School)

Areg Peltekian - Graduate Student

Areg Peltekian

Graduate Student

Cell type dynamics and spatiotemporal activity patterns in the human cortical circuit.

Pavlos Poulos - Graduate Student

Pavlos Poulos

Graduate Student

Archimedes AI, Athena Research Center

Bio-inspired and spiking neural networks.
(co-supervised with Themos Stafylakis, Archimedes AI)

Cinthia Rangel-Sandoval, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow

Cinthia Rangel-Sandoval, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Intracellular electrophysiology, cell type and connectivity characterization in genetic epilepsies.
(co-supervised with David Rowitch, Guerin Children's)

Shayan Farzad, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow

Shayan Farzad, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Leading bio-realistic circuit simulations and high-performance computing efforts.

Philip Wong, PhD - Postdoctoral Fellow

Philip Wong, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Leading human biophysical and spiking neural network efforts.

Friendly Virtual Scientist - AI Assistant

Friendly Virtual Scientist

AI Assistant

The anonymous AI agent providing all sorts of support for code production, analysis implementations, and general lubrication in what used-to-be impenetrable areas.

Lab Alumni

Past Post-Doctoral Fellows/Clinical Fellows

Konstantinos Kozalakis, PhD (2023-2025)
Yuan-Ting Wu, PhD (2022-2025)
Siwei Qiu, PhD (2022-2023)
Anirban Nandi, PhD (2017-2020)
Yina Wei, PhD (2017-2020)
Soo Yeun Lee, PhD (2017-present)
Anatoly Buchin, PhD (2016-2020)
Sergey Gratiy, PhD (2014-2017)
Jiannis Taxidis, PhD (2011-2014)
Christopher Bell, PhD (2008-2011)

Past Graduate (PhD) Students

Catalin Mitelut, PhD (2014-2016)
Yazan Billeh, PhD (2011-2016)
Adam Shai, PhD (2009-2016)
Erik Schomburg, PhD (2008-2013)

Others

Summer Students Trained
Jayasree Peri (July 2024-October 2024); Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Christine Wang (June 2016-Aug 2016); Allen Institute
Chen Sun (June 2012-Aug 2012); SURF Caltech
Nicholas Swenson (June 2011-Aug 2011); SURF Caltech
Randall Lin (June 2011-Aug 2011, June 2012-Aug 2012); SURF Caltech
Raj Katti (June 2011-Aug 2011); SURF Caltech
Daniel Chen (June 2011-Aug 2011); SURF Caltech
Huang Fan (June 2009-Aug 2009); SURF Caltech
Karthik Sarma (June 2008-Aug 2008); SURF Caltech
Julien Lalande (June 2007-Aug 2007); Imperial College London
Nicolas Ducros (June 2006-Aug 2006); Imperial College London
Rotation Students Trained
Robert Wills (Sept 2011-Jan 2012); Caltech graduate
Adrian Luzi Valär (Sept 2003-Jan 2003); ETH graduate