neurdylab

Catie Chang

Principal Investigator

Catie is the Sally and Dave Hopkins Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering at Vanderbilt University. She received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in the Radiological Sciences Lab, following undergraduate studies at MIT. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Advanced MRI Section of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH Intramural Research.

Roza Bayrak

Research Assistant Professor and Senior Research Engineer

I received my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University. My current research centers around one of the key gaps in our understanding of the mechanisms of brain function: inter-individual variability. The overarching goal of my thesis is to find generalizable mappings between observed data and biomarkers of human cognition and behavior, by leveraging state-of-the-art deep learning methods.

Haatef Pourmotabbed

Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering

My research interests include the application of functional neuroimaging data to the investigation of brain connectivity networks and neural dynamics in neurological disorders such as epilepsy. I received my MS in Biomedical Engineering from the Joint Graduate Program of the University of Memphis and University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

Yamin Li

Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science

I received my B.E. in Biomedical Engineering from Xi’an Jiaotong University and my M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. My research interests focus on translations between EEG and fMRI as well as brain decoding through deep learning. In my free time, I enjoy playing the guitar and watching anime!

Anna Machado

Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering

Joint with Wallace Multisensory Lab

I received my M.A. in Cognitive Science from Edinburgh University and my MRes in Neuroscience from Newcastle University. My research interests include multisensory development and functional neuroimaging. I like to dance and weightlift in my free time!

Chang Li

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

I received my B.Sc. in Computer Science and Technology from Peking University. My research interests focus on deep learning methods on EEG-fMRI data. I have a dog.

Runxuan Yu

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

I received a B.Sc. in Financial Engineering and an M.Sc. in Quantitative Economics. My research focuses on medical image processing, with a special emphasis on applying deep learning techniques to functional neuroimaging. In my free time, I enjoy hiking and exploring various crafts, particularly wood whittling.

Juan Gomez Lagandara

Collaborating PhD Student, Electrical & Computer Engineering

I received my B.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering and my B.A in Economics from the University of Rochester. My research interests include machine learning development for cyber physical systems and neuroimaging analysis (including EEG signal analysis).

Mingyang Jiang

Undergraduate RA, Computer Science

Mingyang Jiang is an undergraduate senior at Vanderbilt University studying Computer Science. His research spans EEG foundation models, clinical natural language processing, and AI for healthcare. He has worked on topics including representation learning for EEG, efficient model adaptation, privacy-preserving synthetic clinical note generation, and medication normalization from clinical text.

Mirire Okitikpi

Summer Research Fellow

Mirire Okitikpi is a First Class Honours Electrical and Electronic Engineering graduate from the University of Warwick in England. As a Summer Fellow of the Vanderbilt University Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE), he is using similar signal processing and machine learning methodologies to investigate brain–heart interactions using magnetoencephalography data.

Hassan Mustafa

Undergraduate RA, Computer Science & Mathematics

I’m an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University studying Computer Science and Mathematics. My research uses machine learning to reconstruct physiological signals from fMRI data. Outside of research, I enjoy playing soccer and watching movies !

Current Vanderbilt Collaborators

Neurological Surgery:

Dario Englot

VUIIS: Victoria Morgan, Baxter Rogers, Zhaohua Ding, Kurt Schilling

CS: Yuankai Huo, Soheil Kolouri, Tyler Derr, Daniel Moyer, Yu Huang, Xenofon Koutsoukos

ECE: Bennett Landman, Mitch Wilkes, Benoit Dawant, Sharon Weiss

Psychiatry: Heather Ward, Julia Sheffield

BME: Mikail Rubinov

Biostatistics: Hakmook Kang, Panpan Zhang

VMAC: Sarah Goodale, Angela Jefferson

Psychology: Antonia Kaczkurkin, Alex Maier, Sohee Park

Neurology: Shawniqua Williams Roberson, Paula Trujillo

Peabody College: Jorge A. Salas, Katherine Aboud, Sasha Key, Laurie Cutting

Alumni

Shiyu Wang (Ph.D. student) - next: Postdoctoral Fellow, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital

Kim Kundert-Obando (Ph.D. student) - next: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Georgia

Richard Song (undergraduate research) - next: M.D./Ph.D. Program, Vanderbilt University

Terra Lee (undergraduate research) - next: MPH Program, Emory University

Shansita Sharma (undergraduate research) - next: Ph.D. Program in Computer Science, USC

Mason Harding (Staff Research Technician) - next: Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship Center, VU Medical Center and UT Houston M.D./Ph.D. program

Alex Douma (Staff Research Technician) - next: M.D. student, Michigan State University College of Human Medicine

Ziyuan (Roger) Xu (undergraduate research) - next: M.S. program in Computation Science and Engineering, Harvard University

Rithwik Guntaka (undergraduate research & Staff RA) - next: M.D. student, Medical College of Georgia

Kate Wang (undergraduate research) - next: Post-baccalaureate research assistant, Englot Lab and UCLA-Caltech M.D./Ph.D. program

Shengchao Zhang (Ph.D. student) - next: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Computational Neuromodulation Lab, Rhode Island Hospital and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Sarah E. Goodale (Ph.D. student, NIH F99/K00 and NSF Graduate Research Fellow) - next: Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer's Center

Benjamin P. Gold (Postdoctoral Scholar, NIBIB T32 Fellow) - next: Research Analyst, AnLar Education & Policy Firm

Caroline G. Martin (Staff Research Assistant) - next: Research Coordinator, Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship Center, VU Medical Center

Laurent Lochard (undergraduate research) - next: Clinical Research Technician, Cortical Physiology Laboratory, Massachussetts General Hospital

Achyuth Vivek (high school intern) - next: undergraduate student, UC Berkeley

Ruoqi (Rachel) Yang (undergraduate research) - next: M.S. program in Computer Science, UC San Diego

Jesse Ann Cai (high school intern, 2021-2022) - next: undergraduate student, Princeton University

Marco Esteban (high school intern, 2021-2022) - next: undergraduate student, UC Irvine

Bohan Jiang (undergraduate research, 2020-2022) - next: Ph.D. program in Electrical Engineering, Vanderbilt University

Jorge A. Salas (Postdoctoral Scholar, 2019-2022) - next: Research Analyst, Peabody College

Sean Tuttle (undergraduate research, 2022) - next: Software Development Engineer, Amazon

Stanley Vinet (summer undergraduate research, 2022) - next: M.D. Student, Loma Linda University

Madhavi L. Mani (undergraduate research, F2022)

Jiawei Zhu (undergraduate research, S2022)

Leo Lambert (undergraduate research, S2022)

Jackson Rusch (undergraduate research, F2021)

Difan Yang (undergraduate research, summer 2021)

Jason P. Mitrovich (undergraduate research, 2021) - next: Ph.D. program in Mathematics, University of Notre Dame

Elijah Sheridan (undergraduate research, 2022) - next: Ph.D. program in Physics, Cornell University

Nafis Ahmed (undergraduate research, 2019-2022) - next: Program Manager, Microsoft

Emilia Lew (undergraduate research, 2020-2021) - next: M.S. program in Psychology, Concordia University

Eric Feng (summer undergraduate research, 2020)

Hangling Liu (summer undergraduate research, 2020)

Karuna Gujar (MS thesis research project) - next: Data Scientist, Deloitte

Garrett Scott (High school intern, School for Science & Math at Vanderbilt, 2020)

Liam Spoletini (undergraduate research, 2020-21) - next: M.S. program in Data Science, American University

Gabriel Ting (undergraduate research, 2020) - next: Software Engineer, Apple

Chong Zhao (undergraduate research, 2019-2020) - next: Ph.D. program in Neuroscience, University of Chicago

Connor Capitolo (undergraduate research, 2019-2020) - next: M.S. program in Data Science, Harvard University

Catherine Nayeon Kim (undergraduate research, 2020) - next: Software Development Engineer, Amazon Robotics

Karel Lopez (visiting Ph.D. student, Pablo de Olavide University, 2019)

Derek Doss (rotation student, 2019) - next: MSTP student, Englot Lab

Ray Zhou (undergraduate research, 2019) - next: Research Engineer, Radiance Technologies

Stefany Rodrigues (summer undergraduate research, 2019)

Deepthi Varikuti (M.S. thesis co-mentor, Otto Von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany) - next: PhD Student, Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Jülich

Jingyuan E. Chen (undergraduate research, Stanford University) - next: Ph.D. student, Stanford University - current: Assistant Professor, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and Massachusetts General Hospital

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