People

The team

The researchers, engineers, students, and alumni who make this work happen. Click a tile to expand details.

Members

Current members

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Satrajit S Ghosh

Director of Open Data in Neuroscience Initiative and Senior Research Scientist at MIT; Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School

satra@mit.edu

• PhD Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University
• BS(Honors) Information Systems and Computer Science, National University of Singapore
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Olga Vieira

Administrative Assistant II

ovieira@mit.edu

• AA, Accounting, Krasnodar Polytechnic Institute

Dorota Jarecka

Research Scientist, started 2016, working on Nipype, ReproNim

djarecka@mit.edu

• PhD Atmospheric Physics, University of Warsaw

Rahul Brito

PhD Student

rfbrito@mit.edu

• BS Bioengineering, University of Washington

Meral Hacikamiloglu

Research Affiliate

meral@mit.edu

• B.S. in Molecular & Cellular Biology, Vanderbilt University

Nima Dehghani

Research Scientist

nima.dehghani@mit.edu

• PhD Computational Neuroscience, Complex Systems, Sorbonne Université (Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris VI) & Unité de Neurosciences Information et Complexité (UNIC), CNRS
• MD.

Kaley Jenney

Technical Associate I

jenneyk@mit.edu

• B.S. in Neuroscience, Emmanuel College

Puja Trivedi

Software Engineer

ptrivedi@mit.edu

• M.S. in Computer Science, University of California - Los Angeles
• B.S. in Computer Science with Specialization in Bioinformatics, University of California - San Diego

Yibei Chen

Postdoctoral Associate

yibei@mit.edu

• Ph.D. in Communication, UC Santa Barbara

Jong-Hwan Lee

Visiting Scientist

jonghlee@mit.edu

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KAIST, Korea

Kabilar Gunalan

Research Scientist

kabi@mit.edu

• PhD Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
• MD, Case Western Reserve University

Tek Raj Chhetri

Postdoctoral Associate

tekraj@mit.edu

• Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Innsbruck
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Tartu

Jordan Wilke

MEng Student, MIT

wilke18@mit.edu

• MEng in Computer Science and Engineering, MIT
• B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT

Manaal Mohammed

MEng Student, MIT

manaal@mit.edu

• MEng in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making, MIT
• B.S. in Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making, MIT

Aparna BG

MSc Student, IISER, India

aparna21@iisertvm.ac.in

• BSc/MSc, IISER, India

Suliman Sharif

Research Scientist

sulstice@mit.edu

• Ph.D. Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland, School of Pharmacy
• MSc. Organic Chemistry, University of California, Riversde
• BSc. Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin

Nader Nikbakht

Research Scientist

nikbakht@mit.edu

• Ph.D. in Computational and Systems Neuroscience, SISSA

Past members

Alumni

Past members of the group and their roles while with us.

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Debbie Burdinski

2020 - 2026

MD-PhD Student, Harvard Medical School and MIT

dclb@mit.edu

Lucie Bierent

2025 - 2026

Visiting MSc student

lucie271@mit.edu

Jeff Mentch

2020 - 2025

PhD Student

jsmentch@mit.edu

Fabio Catania

2022 - 2025

Postdoctoral research fellow, MIT

fabiocat@mit.edu

Bruke Wossenseged

2024 - 2025

MEng Student, MIT

brukew@mit.edu

Isaac Bevers

2024 - 2025

Computational Technical Associate I

isaacb@mit.edu

Miles Silva

2024 - 2025

MEng Student, MIT

mbsilva@mit.edu

Maedbh King

2022 - 2025

ICoN Postdoctoral Fellow

maedbh@mit.edu

Aaron Kanzer

2023 - 2025

Software Engineer

akanzer@mit.edu

Yassine Jamaa

2024 - 2025

M.S. Computational Neuroscience

jamaayas@mit.edu

Veronika Moroz

2025

Undergraduate Researcher

vmoroz@mit.edu

Harsha Gazula

2023 - 2025

Research Scientist

hgazula@mit.edu

Alina Weinberger

2024

Visiting M.S. student from Technical University of Munich

alina991@mit.edu

Chaitanya Kapoor

2024

Visiting undergraduate student

ckapoor@mit.edu

Daniel M. Low

2019 - 2024

PhD Student

dlow@mit.edu

Gasser Elbanna

2022 - 2024

PhD Student

gelbanna@mit.edu

Sabeen Lohawala

2023 - 2024

MEng Student, MIT

sabeen@mit.edu

Ahmed Zain

2023 - 2024

Undergraduate Researcher

azain@mit.edu

Agathe Tournant

2023 - 2024

Visiting M.S. student from ETH Zurich

agathe01@mit.edu

Christopher J Markiewicz

2018 - 2023

Research Affiliate, started 2017, working on Nipype, Neuroscout

cjmarkie@mit.edu

Alicia Zhang

2023 - 2023

Undergraduate Researcher

aliciaz@mit.edu

Olivia Han

2023 - 2023

Undergraduate Researcher

olivia02@mit.edu

Jai Amin

2023 - 2023

Technical Intern

jamin30@mit.edu

Amber Lien

2023 - 2023

Undergraduate Researcher

amber03@mit.edu

Edward Gaibor

2023 - 2023

Technical Intern

egaibor@mit.edu

Kapish Potula

2023 - 2023

Undergraduate Researcher

kpotula7@gatech.edu

Sooyoung Ahn

2022 - 2023

Technical Associate I

sooyoung@mit.edu

Matthias Steiner

2023 - 2023

Visiting MSc. Student from ETH Zurich

matth406@mit.edu

Anurag Gade

2023 - 2023

Undergraduate Researcher

f20201337@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in

Alisha Kodibagkar

2022 - 2023

Technical Associate I - working on Mumble Melody

akodiba1@mit.edu

Zihao Wang

2023 - 2023

Undergraduate Researcher

zwang7@mit.edu

Kai McClennen

2023 - 2023

Undergraduate Researcher

kmcclenn@mit.edu

Claudia Liauw

2022 - 2023

Visiting Student

cliauw@mit.edu

Kenny Nguyen

2020 - 2022

Technical Associate I, started 2020, working on Vocallect; MD student, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont

kennyngu@mit.edu

Hoda Rajaei

2019 - 2022

Research Staff, worked on Nobrainer

hodaraja@mit.edu

Megha Vemuri

2021 - 2022

Undergraduate Research Assistant - working on Mumble Melody

mvemuri@mit.edu

Rebecca Kleinberger

2020 - 2022

Research Affiliate and Postdoc at MIT; working on Mumble Melody; Faculty at Northeastern University

rebklein@mit.edu

Dhritiman Das

2020 - 2022

Postdoctoral Researcher, MIT; worked on Nobrainer

dasd@mit.edu

YingXing Feng

PhD Student (Visited Spring 2022) - Using fNIRS and physiological signals to study the interaction of workload stress and affective states.

fengyx@mit.edu

Aakanksha Rana

2020 - 2022

Postdoctoral Associate, MIT

aakrana@mit.edu

Mathias Goncalves

2015 - 2021

Research Affiliate/Technical Assistant, worked on Nipype, BANDA, ReproNim

mathiasg@mit.edu

Sanu Ann Abraham

2018 - 2021

Technical Assistant, worked on Repronim

sanuann@mit.edu

Frances Mulligan (They/Them)

2021

Technical Assistant, worked on mumble melody and reproschema

Alice Bizeul

Spring - Summer 2020

Visiting MS student from EPFL; Worked on evaluating BRAIN GANs

alice.bizeul@mit.edu

Kate Bentley

2019 - 2020

Visiting scientist

kbent@mit.edu

Aishah Ismail

Fall 2019

Visiting student working on processing retinal images

aishah3@mit.edu

Bhavya Kandimalla

Fall 2019

Intern, working on the DANDI project at MIT

bkandimalla.wpi@gmail.com

Kevin Sitek

2012 - 209, now postdoc at Dr. David Ress' lab in Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

Worked on auditory brainstem neurophysiology, speech production in depression and indivudals who stutter. Recipient of an NIH F31 award.

ksitek@mit.edu

Debanjan Ghosh

2018 - 2019, now at Educational Testing Service

Worked on language models in Neuroscout

dg513@mit.edu

Wazeer Zulfikar

Visiting student, 2019

Worked on generative models for brains and tumors.

wazeer@mit.edu

Jakub Kaczmarzyk

Technical Assistant 2017 - 2019, now MD-PhD student at Stony Brook University

He developed Nobrainer and Neurodocker, and contributed to many of the group's projects

jakubk@mit.edu

Smruti Padhy

Research Scientist 2015 - 2017, now Engineering Scientist at Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)

As a member of ReproNim, she developed BrainVerse, a project management platform to make neuroimaging research more reproducible.

spadhy@tacc.utexas.edu

Gregory Ciccarelli

PhD student 2015 - 2018, now Technical Staff at MITLL

Imaging, processing, and modeling, speech from individuals with self-assessed depression

gciccarelli@mit.edu

Yoel Sanchez Araujo

Technical Assistant 2015 - 2017, now Research Specialist at Princeton University.

As a member of the group, he analyzed imaging and genetic data from individuals with schizophrenia using machine learning. The data was from the GENUS consortium and supported by an NIMH supplement to Genetic Determinants of Schizophrenia Intermediate Phenotypes.

ysa@mit.edu

Shilpa Chakravartula

Contractor 2017

As a member of the group, she helped investigate open science grid for running large scale computation.

Du (Derry) Chen

Intern 2017, Undergraduate at Cornell University

As a member of the group, he helped improve BrainVerse implementation in its early days.