Murray Lab

People

Principal Investigator

John D. Murray, PhD

Gregg L. Engles Associate Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
Associate Professor Adjunct of Psychiatry, Yale University
PhD, Physics, Yale University (2013)
BS, Physics and Mathematics, Yale University (2006)
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Postdoctoral Researchers

Katerina Capouskova, PhD

PhD, Computational Neuroscience, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2023; Advisor: Gustavo Deco)
MSc, Neuroscience, King’s College London (2014)
MSc, Philosophy of Science, London School of Economics and Political Science (2013)
BA, Journalism, Media Studies and Gender Studies, Masaryk University in Brno (2012)
https://www.katerinac.com/

Heeseung Lee, PhD

PhD, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Seoul National University (2023; Advisor: Sang-Hun Lee)
BA, Physics, Yonsei University (2015)
https://sites.google.com/view/heeseunglee

Jiacheng Xu, PhD

PhD, Physics, University of California, Davis (2024; Advisors: Daniel Cox, Mark Goldman, Steve Luck)
BS, Physics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (2016)

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Graduate Students

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Frederick Berl

PhD Student in Applied Physics, Yale
BS, Physics, California Institute of Technology (2018)
Thesis topic: Dynamical mechanisms of context-dependent neural computation

Eun Tack Cho

PhD Student in Neuroscience, Dartmouth
MS Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University (2023)
BS Computer Science and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University (2022)

Harper Cho

PhD Student in Physics, Yale
BS, Physics, NYU Abu Dhabi (2021)
Thesis topic: Biophysical circuit mechanisms supporting flexible cognition

Cove Geary

PhD Student in Neuroscience, Dartmouth
BS Cognitive Science, BA Statistics & Data Science, Yale University (2021)

Yugantar Prakash

PhD Student in Neuroscience, Dartmouth
MS, Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (2023)
BS, Computational Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles (2020)

Post-Baccalaureate Researchers

[None currently]

Undergraduate Students

[None currently]

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PhD Dissertations

  • Heraclitos (Max) Lefcochilos-Fogelquist, PhD in Physics, 2025: Characterizing and Modelling Spectral State Dynamics of Human Cortex
  • Rachel A. Cooper, PhD in Physics, 2025: Individual-Level Large-Scale Circuit Modelling of Human Cortex
  • Hui Liang Peng, PhD in Physics, 2025: Adaptation of Learning Dynamics and Feature Representations via the Neural Kernel
  • Amber Howell, PhD in Neuroscience, 2024: Characterizing the Anatomical Architecture of Information Flow Within Cortico-Thalamic Circuits in Human and Non-Human Primates.
  • Daming Li, PhD in Physics, 2022: Bistable Neural Dynamics Underlying Cognition and Spontaneous Activity: Computational Modeling and Empirical Analysis.
  • Daniel B. Ehrlich, PhD in Neuroscience, 2021: Computational Principles of Multiple-Task Learning in Humans and Artificial Neural Networks.
  • Maxwell Shinn, PhD in Neuroscience, 2021 (Awarded Neuroscience Doctoral Thesis Prize): Time as a Bridge from Brain to Behavior.
  • Joshua B. Burt, PhD in Physics, 2020: Large-Scale Organization of Microcircuit Specialization in Human Cortex.
  • Norman H. Lam, PhD in Physics, 2020: Inhibitory Regulation of Cognitive Functions in Cortical and Thalamic Circuits: Computational Mechanisms and Experimental Predictions.

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Alumni

Postdoctoral Researchers
  • Jacob A. Miller, 2022-2024. Assistant Professor at University of Miami.
  • Warren W. Pettine, 2020-2023. Assistant Professor at University of Utah.
  • Takuya Ito, 2021-2022. Researcher at IBM.
  • Daniel B. Ehrlich, 2021-2022. Postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Berkeley (Anne Collins Lab).
  • Markus Helmer, 2016-2021. Chief Technology Officer at Manifest Technologies.
  • Murat Demirtas, 2016-2019. Researcher at Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS).
  • Julie Goulet, 2016-2017. Researcher at CITEC Universität Bielefeld.
Graduate Students
  • Heraclitos (Max) Lefcochilos-Fogelquist, 2020-2025.
  • Rachel A. Cooper, 2019-2025. Postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers Univeristy (Avram Holmes lab).
  • Hui Liang Peng, 2020-2025. Machine Learning Engineer at Meta.
  • Amber Howell, 2018-2024. Postdoctoral researcher at Rutgers University (Avram Holmes and Linden Parkes labs.)
  • Daming Li, 2016-2022. Applied scientist at Uber.
  • Daniel B. Ehrlich, 2015-2021. Postdoctoral researcher at University of California, Berkeley (Anne Collins lab).
  • Maxwell Shinn, 2016-2021. Postdoctoral researcher at University College London (Harris/Carandini Lab).
  • Joshua B. Burt, 2015-2020. Data scientist at Neumora Therapeutics.
  • Norman H. Lam, 2016-2020. Postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Halassa lab).
Post-Baccalaurate Researchers
  • Cove Geary, 2021-2023. PhD student in Neuroscience at Dartmouth College.
  • Sam Zheng, 2019-2020. PhD student in Neuroscience at New York University.
Undergraduate Students
  • Nina Bernick, 2022.
  • Cove Geary, 2021.
  • Laurel Turner, 2019-2021.
  • Hendrick Townsend, 2019.
  • Amber Hu, 2018-2021. PhD student in Statistics at Stanford.
  • Jasmine Stone, 2018-2020. PhD student in Neuroscience at Columbia University.
  • Sungrok Trevor Shim, 2018-2020.
  • Adela DePavia, 2018-2019. PhD student in in Computational & Applied Mathematics at University of Chicago.
  • Hendrick Townsend, 2019.
  • Lasya Sreepada, 2018-2019. PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania.
  • Gonzalo Aguilar, 2018.
  • Natasha Navejar, 2016. MD candidate at Baylor.
  • Alex Atanasov, 2016-2018. PhD student in Physics at Harvard University.
  • Dave Brandfonbrener, 2016-2018. PhD student in Computer Science at New York University.
  • Will Eckner, 2016-2017. PhD student in Physics at University of Colorado, Boulder.

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