Lab Members

We are often looking for talented and motivated new lab members, see Open Positions for details. If interested in joining us, please contact the lab Principal Investigators.


Principal Investigators

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Martina Poletti

Principal Investigator

Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston University
Laurea (MS) in Psychological Sciences, University of Padua

Martina Poletti's website
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Michele Rucci

Principal Investigator

Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Scuola Superiore S. Anna
Laurea (MA) in Biomedical Engineering, University of Florence

Michele Rucci's website

Postdoctoral Fellows

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Michele Cox

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ph.D. in Psychology from Vanderbilt University. Thesis work employed multielectrode extracellular neuronal recordings to probe mechanisms of perceptual completion and binocular vision.
B.S. in Biology from University of Maryland, College Park, in 2010.

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Krish Prahalad

Postdoctoral Associate

PhD in Physiological Optics and Vision Science from the University of Houston

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Jie Wang

Postdoctoral Associate

PhD in Psychology from Rutgers University

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Ashley M. Clark

Postdoctoral Associate

PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from University of Rochester
B.S. from Keene State College in Biology

Ashley M. Clark's website

Graduate Students

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Ruei-Jr Wu

Ph.D. Student

Graduate Program for Optics
M.S. from Boston University in Biomedical Engineering

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Bin Yang

Ph.D. Student

Graduate Program in Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Ben Moon

Ph.D. Student

Graduate Program in Optics. B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Montana State University in 2017.

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Zoe Stearns

Ph.D. Student

Graduate Program in Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Ruitao Lin

Ph.D. Student

Graduate Program in Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Sanjana Kapisthalam

Ph.D. Student

Graduate Program in Brain and Cognitive Sciences
M.S. from Rochester Institute of Technology in Imaging Science

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Sam Jenks

Ph.D. Student

Graduate Program in Brain and Cognitive Sciences

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Yuanhao "Howard" Li

Ph.D. Student

B.S. from the University of Rochester in Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

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Yue Guzhang

Ph.D. Student

B.S. from the University of Rochester in Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

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Soma Mizobuchi

Ph.D. Student

B.S. in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the University of Rochester

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Paul Jolly

Ph.D. Student

B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College
M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University

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Krishnaveni Nagarajan

Ph.D. Student

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Rakesh Maldoddi

Ph.D. Student


Research Engineers & Technicians

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Alina Neverodska

Research Technician

B.S. in Psychology with an emphasis on Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Florida


Undergraduate Research Assistants


Affiliated Lab Members

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Fabrizio Santini

Research Fellow

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Florence, Italy.
Biomimetic robotics, vision, real-time control, and machine learning.

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Alessandro Benedetto

Alumni

Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the University of Florence.

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Janis Intoy

Alumni

Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience from Boston University.
B.S. in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.
Janis Intoy's website

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Zhetuo Zhao

Alumni

Ph.D. in Brain & Cognitive Sciences from the University of Rochester

Zhetuo Zhao's website