People

Dr. Murray moved to Dartmouth in summer 2023. Some lab members continue their research at Yale.

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

BS, Physics and Mathematics, Yale University (2006)
PhD, Physics, Yale University (2013)

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Postdoctoral Researchers

Jacob Miller

Jacob A. Miller, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate, Yale (Wu Tsai Fellowship)
Starting Jan 2025: Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Miami

BS, Neuroscience, Duke University (2016)
PhD, Neuroscience, University of California, Berkeley (2021)

https://sites.google.com/view/jacobmillerneuro/home

Kangjoo Lee, PhD

Associate Research Scientist, Yale (joint with Anticevic Lab)

BS, Radiological Science, Yonsei University (2009)
MS, Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (2011)
PhD, Neuroscience, McGill University (2019)

https://kangjoo.github.io/

Katerina Capouskova, PhD

Postdoctoral Associate, Dartmouth

BA, Journalism, Media Studies and Gender Studies, Masaryk University in Brno (2012)
MSc, Philosophy of Science, London School of Economics and Political Science (2013)
MSc, Neuroscience, King’s College London (2014)
PhD, Computational Neuroscience, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2023)

https://www.katerinac.com/

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Graduate Students

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Rachel A. Cooper

PhD Student in Physics, Yale

BS, Physics and Mathematics, PennWest Clarion (2014)

Thesis topic: Individual-level large-scale circuit modeling of human cortex

Amber Howell

Amber Howell

PhD Student in Neuroscience, Yale (joint with Anticevic Lab)

BS, Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2015)

https://medicine.yale.edu/lab/anticevic/profile/amber_howell/

Thesis topic: Mapping cortico-thalamic systems via multimodal neuroimaging

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Hui Liang Peng

PhD Student in Physics, Yale

BS, Physics, University of Hong Kong (2019)

Thesis topic: Dynamics of task learning and neural representation adaptation from the kernel perspective

Heraclitos (Max) Lefcochilos-Fogelquist

PhD Student in Physics, Yale

BS, Physics, Georgetown University (2017)

Thesis topic: Characterizing and modelling spectral state dynamics in the human brain

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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

Harper Cho

PhD Student in Physics, Yale

BS, Physics, New York University Abu Dhabi (2021)

Thesis topic: Biophysical circuit mechanisms supporting flexible cognition

Cove Geary

PhD Student in Neuroscience, Dartmouth

B.S. Cognitive Science, B.A. Statistics & Data Science, Yale University (2021)

Eun Tack Cho

PhD Student in Neuroscience, Dartmouth

B.S. Computer Science and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University (2022)
M.S. Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University (2023)

Post-Baccalaureate Researchers

[None currently]

Undergraduate Students

[None currently]

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PhD Dissertations

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Researcher
  • 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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