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Beth (she/her) is a PhD Student in the Neuroscience area of the Department of Psychology working with Kalanit Grill-Spector. She is interested in the relationship between structure, computations, and functional organization that facilitates perceptual processing in the brain. She earned her bachelors in Cognitive Neuroscience and Product Design from Carnegie Mellon University in 2020 and then completed a postbac fellowship in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the NIH before joining Stanford in the fall of 2022.

Originally from Egypt, Youssef (he/him) is a neurosciences PhD student at Stanford. He received both his undergraduate and master’s degree in neuroscience from George Mason University prior to coming to Stanford. During his master’s degree, he conducted biophysics research at Ling-Gang Wu’s lab at NINDS studying vesicle release with simultaneous single-cell electrophysiology and multi-color super-resolution microscopy.

Nick Manfred received his A.B. with departmental honors in Neuroscience and Behavior from Columbia University, where he conducted research on valence encoding in mouse models of anxiety disorders. Before joining the Neurosciences PhD program at Stanford, he was a connectome annotator for a collaboration between the Zuckerman Institute and the FlyEM Project of Janelia-HHMI, and a Fulbright Scholar at the Max Planck Institute of Biological Intelligence.

Balint (he/him) is a Physics PhD and Neurosciences MS student interested in computational neuroscience. Currently, he is working on data analysis and theory related to neural population dynamics in face of uncertainty, co-advised by Shaul Druckmann and Surya Ganguli. Before starting his PhD, Balint studied physics at Eotvos Lorand University in Hungary. Outside of neuroscience, he likes to spend time running, hiking, gardening and reading.

Ryan (she/her) is a PhD student in the Department of Psychology advised by Brian Knutson. She uses a variety of methods (pupillometry, fMRI, EEG, computational modelling) to study reward-based decision-making in the brain, and tries to understand the individual differences in this process in relation to mood disorders. Ryan received a BSc in Psychology from Nanjing University and two Master's degrees in Psychiatry from the University of Oxford.

Marc (B.S. ’14 Cornell) is a Psychology PhD student in the Wagner Lab. He is interested in healthy older adults' ability to encode and retrieve episodic memories. Specifically, he is investigating if individual differences in memory for older adults can be explained through altered encoding and cognitive control neural mechanisms. His work leverages neuroimaging, neuropsychology, and multivariate statistical analysis.

I am a PhD student in the Neuroscience area of the Stanford University Psychology department working with Kalanit Grill-Spector. I study the functional organization of human visual cortex, focusing on both the structural underpinnings and the overarching computational goals. I use a combination of neuroimaging, computational modeling, and deep neural networks to explore these questions. Before Stanford, I earned my BA at Dartmouth College in 2014 and MSc at the University of Oxford in 2015

After transferring from Miami-Dade Community College, Tyler studied chemistry and comparative literature at Columbia University. He went on to research fellowships in the Max-Planck Institute in Leipzig, then in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT before coming to Stanford. In his current work, co-advised by Anthony Wagner and Daniel Yamins, Tyler uses biologically plausible computational models, neural data, and animal behavior in order to formalize the relationship between perception and memory.

Luke is a Philosophy PhD student and is also presently completing his M.S. degree in neuroscience. His work investigates the implications of deep learning models of cognition and brain decoding technologies for our understanding of the mind/brain connection.