Meet the Team

 

Professor Marisa Carrasco

Professor Marisa Carrasco

Julius Silver Professor of Psychology and Neural Science
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Marc Himmelberg                                                           

Marc Himmelberg                                                      Katia Steinfeld

Postdoctoral Fellow                                                        Visiting Doctoral Student
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 Shutian Xue                                                    Rania Ezzo   

Shutian Xue                                                                  Rania Ezzo 

Doctoral Student                                                             Doctoral Student       


Hsing-Hao Lee                                                     David Tu

Hsing-Hao Lee                                                            David Tu

Doctoral Student                                                             Doctoral Student       
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                                                     Jiacheng Hao

Rachel Chen                                                                  Jiacheng Hao

Doctoral Student                                                             Doctoral Student       
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Nick Crotty 

Doctoral Student                                                         
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Carrasco Lab Alumni

Doctoral Students

Aysun Duyar (2025) Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Vision Research, York University

Ekin Tünçok  (2025) Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University

Simran Purokayastha (2025) 

Helena Palmieri (2024) Human Factors Scientist at Exponent

Yuna Kwak (2024) Post Doctoral Fellow, Yale University

Antonio Fernández (2022) Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin

Michael Jigo (2022) Neural Engineering Research Scientist, Sharper Sense

Mariel Roberts (2020) Term Assistant Professor, Barnard College

Hsin-Hung Li (2018) Assistant Professor, Ohio State University

Ian Donovan (2018) Research Scientist, Accenture

Elizabeth Cutrone (2016) Senior Data Scientist, Place IQ

Sarit Szpiro (2015) Assistant Professor, Department of Special Education, Haifa Univ

Antoine Barbot (2014) Research Engineer | Neural Interfaces at Snap Inc.

Michael Grubb (2013) Associate Professor, Trinity College-Hartford

Alex White (2013) Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Behavior, Barnard College

Jared Abrams (2012) Research Associate, Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin

Katrin Herrman (2011) Academic Research Program Manager, GE Healthcare, Munich, Germany

Emma Ferneyhough (2011) Software engineer, Stitch Fix

Leila Montaser Kouhsari (2010) Assistant Professor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University

Barbara Montagna (2009)

Stuart Fuller (2008)

Anna Marie Giordano (2008)

Franco Pestilli (2008) Professor, University of Texas Austin

Sam Ling (2007) Associate Professor, Boston University

Karen Frieder (2003) Clinical Psychologist, Columbia University

Cigdem P. Talgar (2001) Vice Provost for Education, Tufts University

Yaffa Yeshurun (1999) Professor, University of Haifa

Post-doctoral Fellows

Nina Hanning (2019-2023) Post doctoral fellow, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Shao-Chin Hung (2018-2022) Post doctoral fellow, National Taiwan University

Antoine Barbot (2018-2019) Research Engineer | Neural Interfaces at Snap Inc.

Yong-Jun Lin (2017-2022) Senior data scientist, The Trade Desk

Rachel Denison (2014-2020) Assistant Professor, Boston University

Amit Yashar (2012-2016) Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa

Laura Dugué (2014 – 2016) Associate Professor, INCC, Paris

Petra Vetter (2015-2016) Research Group Leader, University of Fribourg

Anasuya Das (2013-2015) NLP at Covera Health, NY

Sameer Saproo (2012-2014) Senior AI Product Manager at Intel AI, Founder and CEO at BRAIQ

Martin Rolfs (2010 – 2012) Professor, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Katharina Anton-Erxleben (2009-2013) Independent consultant, USAID

Miriam Spering (2008-2010) Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia

Jennifer Corbett (2007-2008) Lecturer in Psychology, Brunel University London

David Carmel (2007-2009) Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington

Fani Loula (2004-2006) Senior User Experience Researcher at Amazon, People Experience Foundation Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Taosheng Liu (2003-2007) Professor, Michigan State University

Joetta Gobell (2003-2005) Vice President of Research & Insights at Dotdash

Leslie Cameron (2001-2003) Professor of Psychological Science at Carthage University

Research Fellows

Bonnie Lawrence

Shani Offen

Master’s Students

Rachel Chen, PhD student at NYU

David Tu, PhD student at NYU

Shiyang Ren (Harry), PhD student at UC Davis

Hyun-Seo Lee (Hannah)

Bogeng Song, PhD student at Georgia Tech

Zhilin Zhang (2021) PhD Student, City University of New York

Caroline Myers (2020) PhD Student, Johns Hopkins University

Shutian Xue (2020) PhD Student, NYU

Angela Shen (2020) PhD Student, University of California, Irvine

Xiuyun Wu (2017) PhD Student, UBC

Ying (Joey) Zhou (2017) PhD Student, Radboud University Nijmegen

Nick Murray-Smith (2016)

Lu Ye (2016) MA,Therapist at Connections Health Collaborative Counseling

Jiageng Chen (2015) PhD, Ohio State University, 2021

Sirui Liu (2015) PhD Student, Dartmouth

Yupei Chen (2015) PhD Student, Stony Brook University, 2021

Cristina Tortarolo (2014) Research Assistant, Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

Yang Hu (2014)

Brandon Ashinoff Post-doctoral Fellow, Columbia University

Rinku Lalchandani

Laura Wang

Yimeng Hou

Wanghaoming Fang (2015) PhD Student, Michigan State University

Robert Faludi Head of Product, Perceptive Things

Tracy McLean Wesleyan University

Santosh Kookal Wesleyan University

Denise Evert Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Skidmore College

Lab Managers

Lavanya Shulka (2021 – 2022) MD Student, University of Virginia School of Medicine

Caroline Myers (2020) PhD Student, Johns Hopkins University

Angela Shen (2020) PhD Student, University of California, Irvine

Jasmine Pan (2020) Associate Editor, Communications Biology

Mariel Roberts (2020) Term Assistant Professor, Barnard

Francesca Cohen

Dennis Santella

Yun-Xian Ho

Anna Marie Giordano

Joanna Tai

Research Assistants

Nouran Carcora 

Sherry Ye, Bronx High School

Lucy gardiner 

Noah Simoncelli

Jerry Yang, PhD student at University of Notre Dame

Dimitri Stroumbakis – Medical Assistant at PHCQ

Xiaoyi Liu – PhD student at Princeton University

Kristina Denisova- Associate Professor, Psychology, Neuroscience

Jacob Parker – PhD student Neuroscience UPenn

Karen Tian (2020) PhD Student, Boston University

Sara Okun (2020) Master’s Student, NYU

Tair Vizel (2020)

Millie Howard (2020)

Elma Chowdhury (2020)

Zanetta Kovbasyuk (2020)

Julia Payne (2020)

Lavanya Shukla

Sanjana Manjunath

Maria Khoudary PhD Student, University of California, Irvine

Marta Migo Cortés (2018) PhD Student, Emory University

Rodrigo Delatorre MD Student, University of Wisconsin

Luis Ramirez PhD Student, Boston University

Jacob Parker PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

Jasmine Pan (2018) PhD Student, Boston University

Gregory Belizaire

Jiazeng Ge

Elizabeth Eberts

Alice Xue Research Assistant, Columbia University

Ravi Pancholi MD-PhD Student, NYU Neuroscience

Valentina Peña Associate Data Scientist, 360i

Katherine Chen

William Walter Diaz

Selene Fan

Roshni Lulla

Pooja Shah

Christina Sauma

Benedict Wild PhD Student, University of Göttingen

Ariana Familiar PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania

Imaad Siddiqi MD, Houston Methodist

Heather Young Lee

Sarah Cohen

Laura Bustamante PhD Student, Princeton University

Aaron Nizam MD, North Shore University Hospital

Ruby Z. Rodríguez MA, CUNY School of Professional Studies

Abby Rosenbaum DACM, LAC, Knosis Center for Physiotherapy & Wellness

Lauren Baideme Director of Digital Marketing, Greenhouse Software

Christina Looser Research affiliate, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Minerva

Yunsoo Park PhD, Emory University; Senior Education Researcher, SRI Education

Jonathan Gill PhD, NYU Neuroscience, 2021

Yun-Xian Ho

Gerardo Viera Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield

Rishi Kothari DDS, SUNY Buffalo

Katie Mahon PhD, St. Johns University

Sarah Read PhD, MD, Tufts University

Kristina Denisova PhD, Assistant Research Professor, Laboratory of Autism Origins and Mind and Brain Development, Columbia University