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 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.
Pronouns: he/him
I'm a graduate student in the Neurosciences program at Stanford advised by Dan Yamins and Justin Gardner. I'm broadly interested in our ability to efficiently deploy our visual attention given 1) the vast amounts of visual information we perceive and 2) our motivations, goals, and thoughts. My work sits at the intersection of psychology, machine learning, and neuroscience.
When I'm not working, I enjoy playing sports and video games, watching TV, and spending time with friends and family.
Yasmine Kehnemouyi is an incoming fourth year PhD student in the Bioengineering department. She became interested in neuroengineering research as a research engineer in the Stanford Human Motor Control and Neuromodulation Laboratory where she worked to improve motor symptoms in people with Parkinson’s disease (PD). As a PhD student, she is working with Dr. Todd Coleman to use multimodal electrical recordings to develop objective measures of nonmotor symptoms in PD and thus explore the degeneration of the gut-brain axis throughout the disease.