

Lab Members
Leadership

PhD Students

Undergraduate Research Assistants

High School Interns

Kei Kawata
Principal Investigator
Staff

Dae-Jin Kim
Research Associate
Grace Recht
PhD Candidate
Claire Buddenbaum
Evan Cheng

Research Coordinator


Zach Bellini
Gage Ellis
PhD Student
Michael Pham


Catalina Elwonger
PhD Student
Yash Gajjar

Research Coordinator
Harper Day

Lauren Beauregard
PhD Student

Eva Guzman
Staff/Postdoctoral researchers/Graduate Students:
Zachary Bevilacqua, PhD (2017 – 2020)
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at SUNY Brockport
Megan Huibregtse, PhD (2017 – 2022)
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Madeleine Nowak, PhD (2017 – 2022)
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Postdoctoral Fellow at Boston University School of Medicine Dept of Psychiatry
Kyle Kercher, PhD (2019 – 2022)
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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at Indiana University School of Public Health
Taylor Zuidema, PhD (2021 – 2024)
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Clinical Manger at Eli Lilly and Company
Sage Sweeney (2021 – 2025) – Research Assistant. B.S. in Human Biology
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Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) program at Indiana University School of Medicine
Jiancheng Hou, PhD (2021 – 2024)
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Professor at Fujian University
Travis Beckwith, PhD (2023 – 2024)
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AI Model Trainer at Outlier inc.
Daniel Levitas, PhD (2023 – 2024)
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Research Analyst at University of North Carolina.
Undergraduate Research Assistants:
Mikayla Stevens (2021 – 2023) B.S. in Neuroscience
Lillian Klemz (2021 – 2023) B.S. in Neuroscience
Isabella Alexander (2019 – 2023) B.S. in Neuroscience
Rachel Kalbfell (2018 – 2022) B.S. in Biochemistry
Adriana Rodriguez (2022 – 2025) B.S. in Clinical Psychology
Trinity Wright (2022 – 2024) B.S. in Neuroscience
Sufiyan Ahmed (2021 – 2024) B.S. in Neuroscience
Osas Ogbeide (2020 – 2024) B.S. in Biology/Exercise Science
Alumni
Alekhya Koppineni (2018 – 2020) B.S. in Neuroscience.
Joseph Kim (2018 – 2019) B.S. in Biochemistry
Nishant Chenchaiah (2021 – 2023) B.S. in Neuroscience
Rida Bonday (2021 – 2023) B.S. in Neuroscience