Leadership
Vijay Balasubramanian, CNI Director (Physics)
Theoretical and computational neuroscience
Joshua Gold, CNI Co-director (Neuroscience)
Neural basis of perceptual decision making and perceptual learning in non-human primates
Maria Geffen, CNI Co-director (Otorhinolaryngology, Neuroscience, Neurology)
Neuronal circuits for auditory perception and learning: how our brain makes sense of sounds.
Faculty
Our faculty span many Departments, across the School of Arts and Sciences, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Perelman School of Medicine. Although our focus is highly interdisciplinary, we have divided the list into Computational/Theoretical, Systems, and Cognitive sections for ease of browsing.
Computational/Theoretical
From understanding the limits of perception and cognition to machine learning:
Vijay Balasubramanian, CNI Director (Physics)
Theoretical and computational neuroscience
Victor Barranca (Mathematics and Statistics, Swarthmore)
Mathematical neuroscience and neuronal dynamics
Danielle Bassett (Bioengineering, CIS, Neurology)
Complex Systems, Network Science, Computational Neuroscience, Systems Biology, Dynamical Systems, Soft Materials, Behavioral Network Science
David Brainard (Psychology)
Human vision, machine vision, and computational modeling of visual processing
Joshua Goldwyn (Mathematics & Statistics, Swarthmore)
Auditory neuroscience and the perception of sound
Konrad Kording (Bioengineering, Neuroscience)
Data that matters
Eleni Katifori (Physics)
Topology, function and development of biological distribution networks, elasticity and mechanics of thin cells, pattern formation
Hualou Liang (Biomedical Engineering, Drexel)
Analysis of complex, high-dimensional neuroscience data
Yoichiro Mori (Mathematics, Biology)
Mathematical Biology, Physiology and Biophysics, Applied and Numerical Analysis
Philip Nelson (Physics)
stochastic modeling; computational neuroscience; multielectrode recording
Alan Stocker (Psychology)
Computational perception and cognition
Systems
From perception to behavior:
Michael Arcaro (Psychology)
Mammalian vision, development of sensory systems
Vikas Bhandawat (Biomedical Engineering, Drexel)
How animal behavior emerges from the complex interaction amongst the animal's nervous systems, their muscle-body dynamics and their environment
Marc Fuccillo (Neuroscience)
The synaptic and circuit mechanisms of behavioral control
Maria Geffen, CNI Co-director (Otorhinolaryngology, Neuroscience, Neurology)
Neuronal circuits for auditory perception and learning: how our brain makes sense of sounds
Ethan Goldberg (Neurology, CHOP)
Ion channel, cellular, and synaptic neurophysiology; Neurogenetics; Neurodevelopmental disorders; Neurobiology of disease
Minghong Ma (Neuroscience)
Neurobiology of the sense of smell
Tim Machado (Neuroscience)
How do motor command pathways interact to generate specific movements?
Alexander Proekt (Anesthesiology)
Neuronal dynamics and neuronal mechanisms of anesthesia
Marc Schmidt (Biology)
Avian brain dynamics in complex naturalistic social environments; computational neuroethology of courtship interactions in groups of songbirds; social context as a computationally constructed variable
Flavia Vitale (Neurology, Bioengineering, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)
To study, monitor and treat neurological and neuromuscular disorders such as epilepsy, Parkinson's, nerve injury, and chronic pain
Franz Weber (Neuroscience)
The neural and homeostatic mechanisms controlling REM sleep, and the functional role of this brain state in emotional memories and behaviors
Cognition
From higher level vision to decision-making:
Geoffrey Aguirre (Neurology)
Cortical organization for visual perception and recovery of visual function
Michael Beauchamp (Neurosurgery)
Neural mechanisms for multisensory integration and visual perception in human subjects
Johannes Burge (Psychology)
Computational modeling, perceptual systems, vision
Yale Cohen (Otorhinolaryngology, Bioengineering, Neuroscience)
Understanding the representation of auditory information in the cortex, how auditory information is integrated with cognitive processes, and how auditory and visual information is combined to form unified sensory percepts
Long Ding (Neuroscience)
Electrophysiology; psychophysics; basal ganglia; frontal cortex; perceptual decisions
Russell Epstein (Psychology)
Visual recognition and spatial cognition in humans
Joshua Gold, CNI Co-director (Neuroscience)
Neural basis of perceptual decision making and perceptual learning in non-human primates
Jay Gottfried (Neurology, Psychology)
Using multidisciplinary techniques to elucidate perception, learning, and memory through the lens of the olfactory system
Casey Halpern (Neuroscience)
Preclinical studies and developing clinical trials to expand indications for deep brain stimulation and other novel brain surgical therapies
Joseph Kable (Psychology)
Psychological and neural mechanisms of human decision-making
Michael Kahana (Psychology)
Human episodic memory for verbal, visual and spatial information
Joel Mainland (Monell Center)
Developing a predictive model relating molecular structure and olfactory perception
Bijan Pesaran (Neurosurgery, bioengineering)
Understanding large-scale circuits in the brain and how to engineer novel brain-based therapies
Nicole Rust (Psychology)
The neural correlates of visual memory
Anna Schapiro (Psychology)
Memory, learning, neural network modeling, sleep, consolidation, hippocampal-cortical interactions
Postdocs
Juvenal Bosulu
Emily Cowan
Ronald diTullio
Agrita Dubey
Matilda Gibbons
Daniel Herrera
Fangfang Hong
Richard Lange
Alexandria Lesicko
Dan Luo
Solymar Rolon Martinez
Semin Oh
Melanie Segado
Brynn Sherman
Cybelle Smith
Sarah Solomon
Nachi Stern
Lowell Thompson
Nathan Vogler
Affiliated Graduate Students
Daniel Adler
Simon Bohn
Jared Collina
Alice Dallstream
Xiamao Ding
Mengting Fang
Alex Gordienko
Catrina Hacker
Benjamin Kandel
Victoria Subritzky Katz
Anthony LoPrete
David Lozano
Jordan Matelsky
Jiang Mao
Kara McGaughey
Jiang Mao
Emily Meyer
Andrew Moberly
Ryan Natan
Long Ni
Daniel Pak
Jacob Parker
Felipe Parodi
Spencer Rooke
Elizabeth Siefert
Dhairyya Singh
Srihari Srithara
Chenjie (Lucy) Song
Marlie Tandoc
Nathan Tardiff
Morgan Taylor
Joey Velez-Ginorio
Cedric (Huchuan) Xia
David White
Laura Wiles
Jared Wilson
Omer Zeliger
Zhenglong Zhou