Current Crew

Graduate Students

Daniel Pollak

_{dpollak (at) caltech (dot) edu}

Dan is a Ph.D. candidate in Neurobiology studying visually-driven natural behaviors in mouse superior colliculus. Dan enjoys making tinkering, cooking, and gardening.

Jiang Wu

_{jiangwu (at) caltech (dot) edu}

Jiang is a Ph.D. candidate in Bioengineering. He is interested in naturalistic learning behaviors. Currently, Jiang is studying learning and memory formation in mice and birds using calcium imaging.

Jieyu Zheng

_{jzzheng (at) caltech (dot) edu}

Jieyu is a Ph.D. candidate in Neurobiology studying the behavioral and neural mechanisms of cognitive flexibility. Her main project is titled "Mice in Manhattan," focusing on rapid learning and flexible routing in a novel reconfigurable maze. Find out more here.

Zeyu Jing

_{zjing (at) caltech (dot) edu}

Zeyu is a Ph.D. student in Computation & Neural Systems. He obtained his B.A. in Mathematics from New York University. His current focus is developing a coherent theory of navigation.

Yingxi Jin

_{yingxi (dot) jin (at) caltech (dot) edu}

Yingxi is a Ph.D. student in Computation and Neural Systems. She is interested in combining theoretical and experimental approaches to study the mechanisms of neural coding, network dynamics, and how brain circuits give birth to cognition.

Undergraduate Students

Jennifer Hu
jyhu (at) caltech (dot) edu

Jasmine Wang
jswang (at) caltech (dot) edu

Meg Wilkinson
mwilkins (at) caltech (dot) edu

Lab Alumni

Graduate Students, years in the lab (last known position)

Dan Crevier, 1993-1997 (Microsoft)
Stelios Smirnakis, 1993-1997 (Baylor College of Medicine)
Elwin Wu, 1992-1998 (Columbia University)
Edward Soucy, 1993-1998 (Harvard University)
Iman Brivanlou, 1994-1999 (TCW Equity)
Justin Keat, 1995-2000 (HBK Capital Management)
Bence Ölveczky, 1998-2003 (Harvard University)
Xaq Pitkow, 2000-2006 (Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University)
Antoniu Fantana, 2001-2006 (Eli Lilly)
Saskia DeVries, 2001-2006 (Allen Institute for Brain Science)
Maria Neimark Geffen, 2002-2006 (University of Pennsylvania)
Kaveri Rajaraman, 2005-2009 (University of Hyderabad)
Tobi Szuts, 2004-2010 (Meyer Sounds Laboratories)
Esteban Real, 2007-2011 (Google)
Melis Yilmaz, 2010-2015 (Stanford University)
Brenna Teigler (née Krieger) 2009-2015 (Activate.org)
Margarida Agrochao, 2008-2016 (Yale University)
Yazan Billeh, 2012-2014 (Allen Institute for Brain Science)
Alvita Tran, 2016-2019 (Caltech)
Yang Liu, 2014-2020 (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Kyu Hyun Lee, 2013-2020 (UCSF)
Zeynep Turan, 2014-2021 (Chameleon Communications)
Dawna Bagherian, 2015-2021 (Quantum-Si)
Sarah Sam, 2016-2021
Matt Rosenberg, 2017-2022 (Princeton)
Yu-Li Ni, 2016-2022 (Raymond James)

Postdocs, years in the lab (last known position)

David Warland, 1991-1996 (UC Davis)
Sheila Nirenberg, 1993-1998 (Cornell Medical School)
Michael Berry, 1995-1999 (Princeton University)
Tim Holy, 1997-2001 (Washington University St Louis)
Stephen Baccus, 1998-2004 (Stanford University)
Toshihiko Hosoya, 2001-2004 (RIKEN Institute Tokyo)
Erik Cook, 2002-2004 (McGill University)
Botond Roska, 2002-2005 (Friedrich Miescher Institute Basel)
Tim Gollisch, 2004-2007 (Universität Göttingen)
Anthony Leonardo, 2003-2007 (HHMI Janelia Research Campus)
Yifeng Zhang, 2004-2011 (Shanghai Institute of Neuroscience)
Ofer Mazor, 2005-2012 (Harvard Medical School)
Andy Liu, 2008-2012 (Harvard Medical School)
Julijana Gjorgjieva, 2011-2014 (MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt)
Evan Feinberg, 2010-2015 (UC San Francisco)
Hiroki Asari, 2008-2016 (EMBL Monterotondo)
Maximilian Joesch, 2009-2016 (IST Austria)
Mu Qiao, 2015-2019 (Apple Research)
Ya-tang Li, 2014-2021 (Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing)

Lab Members