People
The team
The researchers, engineers, students, and alumni who make this work happen. Click a tile to expand details.
Members
Current members

Satrajit S Ghosh
Satrajit S Ghosh
Director of Open Data in Neuroscience Initiative and Senior Research Scientist at MIT; Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology at Harvard Medical School
- • PhD Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University
- • BS(Honors) Information Systems and Computer Science, National University of Singapore
- • Full CV

Olga Vieira
Olga Vieira

Dorota Jarecka
Dorota Jarecka
Research Scientist, started 2016, working on Nipype, ReproNim
- • PhD Atmospheric Physics, University of Warsaw

Rahul Brito
Rahul Brito

Meral Hacikamiloglu
Meral Hacikamiloglu

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

Kaley Jenney
Kaley Jenney

Puja Trivedi
Puja Trivedi
Software Engineer
- • 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
Yibei Chen

Jong-Hwan Lee
Jong-Hwan Lee
Visiting Scientist
- • Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, KAIST, Korea

Kabilar Gunalan
Kabilar Gunalan
Research Scientist
- • PhD Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University
- • MD, Case Western Reserve University

Tek Raj Chhetri
Tek Raj Chhetri
Postdoctoral Associate
- • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Innsbruck
- • M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Tartu

Jordan Wilke
Jordan Wilke
MEng Student, MIT
- • MEng in Computer Science and Engineering, MIT
- • B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering and Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT

Suliman Sharif
Suliman Sharif
Research Scientist
- • 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
Nader Nikbakht
Past members
Alumni
Past members of the group and their roles while with us.

Manaal Mohammed
2025 - 2026
Manaal Mohammed
2025 - 2026

Aparna BG
2025 - 2026
Aparna BG
2025 - 2026
MSc Student, IISER, India

Debbie Burdinski
2020 - 2026
Debbie Burdinski
2020 - 2026

Lucie Bierent
2025 - 2026
Lucie Bierent
2025 - 2026

Jeff Mentch
2020 - 2025
Jeff Mentch
2020 - 2025

Fabio Catania
2022 - 2025
Fabio Catania
2022 - 2025

Bruke Wossenseged
2024 - 2025
Bruke Wossenseged
2024 - 2025

Isaac Bevers
2024 - 2025
Isaac Bevers
2024 - 2025

Miles Silva
2024 - 2025
Miles Silva
2024 - 2025

Maedbh King
2022 - 2025
Maedbh King
2022 - 2025

Aaron Kanzer
2023 - 2025
Aaron Kanzer
2023 - 2025

Yassine Jamaa
2024 - 2025
Yassine Jamaa
2024 - 2025

Veronika Moroz
2025
Veronika Moroz
2025

Harsha Gazula
2023 - 2025
Harsha Gazula
2023 - 2025

Alina Weinberger
2024
Alina Weinberger
2024

Chaitanya Kapoor
2024
Chaitanya Kapoor
2024

Daniel M. Low
2019 - 2024
Daniel M. Low
2019 - 2024

Gasser Elbanna
2022 - 2024
Gasser Elbanna
2022 - 2024

Sabeen Lohawala
2023 - 2024
Sabeen Lohawala
2023 - 2024

Ahmed Zain
2023 - 2024
Ahmed Zain
2023 - 2024
Undergraduate Researcher

Agathe Tournant
2023 - 2024
Agathe Tournant
2023 - 2024

Christopher J Markiewicz
2018 - 2023
Christopher J Markiewicz
2018 - 2023

Alicia Zhang
2023 - 2023
Alicia Zhang
2023 - 2023

Olivia Han
2023 - 2023
Olivia Han
2023 - 2023
Undergraduate Researcher

Jai Amin
2023 - 2023
Jai Amin
2023 - 2023

Amber Lien
2023 - 2023
Amber Lien
2023 - 2023
Undergraduate Researcher

Edward Gaibor
2023 - 2023
Edward Gaibor
2023 - 2023
Technical Intern

Kapish Potula
2023 - 2023
Kapish Potula
2023 - 2023
Undergraduate Researcher

Sooyoung Ahn
2022 - 2023
Sooyoung Ahn
2022 - 2023
Technical Associate I

Matthias Steiner
2023 - 2023
Matthias Steiner
2023 - 2023
Visiting MSc. Student from ETH Zurich

Anurag Gade
2023 - 2023
Anurag Gade
2023 - 2023

Alisha Kodibagkar
2022 - 2023
Alisha Kodibagkar
2022 - 2023

Zihao Wang
2023 - 2023
Zihao Wang
2023 - 2023
Undergraduate Researcher

Kai McClennen
2023 - 2023
Kai McClennen
2023 - 2023
Undergraduate Researcher

Claudia Liauw
2022 - 2023
Claudia Liauw
2022 - 2023
Visiting Student

Kenny Nguyen
2020 - 2022
Kenny Nguyen
2020 - 2022
Technical Associate I, started 2020, working on Vocallect; MD student, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont

Hoda Rajaei
2019 - 2022
Hoda Rajaei
2019 - 2022

Megha Vemuri
2021 - 2022
Megha Vemuri
2021 - 2022

Rebecca Kleinberger
2020 - 2022
Rebecca Kleinberger
2020 - 2022
Research Affiliate and Postdoc at MIT; working on Mumble Melody; Faculty at Northeastern University

Dhritiman Das
2020 - 2022
Dhritiman Das
2020 - 2022

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

Aakanksha Rana
2020 - 2022
Aakanksha Rana
2020 - 2022

Mathias Goncalves
2015 - 2021
Mathias Goncalves
2015 - 2021

Sanu Ann Abraham
2018 - 2021
Sanu Ann Abraham
2018 - 2021

Frances Mulligan (They/Them)
2021
Frances Mulligan (They/Them)
2021
Technical Assistant, worked on mumble melody and reproschema

Alice Bizeul
Spring - Summer 2020
Alice Bizeul
Spring - Summer 2020
Visiting MS student from EPFL; Worked on evaluating BRAIN GANs

Kate Bentley
2019 - 2020
Kate Bentley
2019 - 2020
Visiting scientist

Aishah Ismail
Fall 2019
Aishah Ismail
Fall 2019
Visiting student working on processing retinal images

Bhavya Kandimalla
Fall 2019
Bhavya Kandimalla
Fall 2019
Intern, working on the DANDI project at MIT

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

Debanjan Ghosh
2018 - 2019, now at Educational Testing Service
Debanjan Ghosh
2018 - 2019, now at Educational Testing Service
Worked on language models in Neuroscout

Wazeer Zulfikar
Visiting student, 2019
Wazeer Zulfikar
Visiting student, 2019

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

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

Gregory Ciccarelli
PhD student 2015 - 2018, now Technical Staff at MITLL
Gregory Ciccarelli
PhD student 2015 - 2018, now Technical Staff at MITLL
Imaging, processing, and modeling, speech from individuals with self-assessed depression

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

Shilpa Chakravartula
Contractor 2017
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
Du (Derry) Chen
Intern 2017, Undergraduate at Cornell University
As a member of the group, he helped improve BrainVerse implementation in its early days.