Graduate Students

B.S. Cognitive Studies, Vanderbilt University (2022)

Yining is a first-year Ph.D student in the lab. She is interested in how people perceive fleeting moments in their lives and represent them in the brain, as well as how these processes change with age and experience. In her free time, Yining enjoys singing, reading, watching musicals, creating new recipes, and learning German and Japanese for fun.

B.S. Computer Science, University of Science (2019)

Tan is a first-year graduate student. He is interested in combining computational, behavioral, and neural perspectives as a basis for analyzing and understanding event perception and memory. When he's not in the lab, he likes to read and play sports.

B.A. Economics and Psychology, Cornell University (2019)

Sophie is interested in using a combination of computational modeling, neuroimaging, and behavior experiments to better understand how people extract useful information in this noisy, ambiguous, and dynamic world.

In her free time, she like reading, watching more YouTube than she would like to admit, and engaging in online debates.