Members

Current Lab Members

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Suresh Krishna

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Yohai-Eliel Berreby

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Buxin Liao

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Maya Aderka

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Alex Zhao

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Jacky Chen

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Manuel Hanna

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Eva Ozturk

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Sophie Yun

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Wayne Wu

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Xueqing Zhai

Collaborators

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Prof. Chris Pack, McGill

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Dr. Ifedayo-Emmanuel Adeyefa-Olasupo, Janelia Farms

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Prof. Catherine Guastavino, McGill

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Prof. Fabrice Marandola, CIRMMT, McGill

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Prof. Simone Dalla Bella, co-Director, BRAMS, UdeM

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Prof. Audrey Durand, U.Laval

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Prof. Dang Nguyen, Neurology, CHUM

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Prof. Marcelo Wanderley

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Prof. Marie-Hélène Boudrias, McGill

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Joshua Rosner, McGill

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Jonathan Morris, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Deepansh Goel, Maharaja Agrasen Institute of Technology

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Alison Wang, Durham University

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Oren Gurevitch, McGill

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Katarzyna Jurewicz, Jagiellonian University

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Sabrina Du, McGill

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Ron Schondorf, McGill

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Fuat Balci, U.Manitoba

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Serpil Çeçen, Sağlık Bilimleri Üniversitesi

Suresh Krishna

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  • Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, McGill.

  • MBBS (Med School), AIIMS, New Delhi; PhD, NYU, New York.

  • Spent time at Columbia University, CNRS (Lyon), German Primate Center (Goettingen), MPI for Human Development (Berlin), before coming to McGill (Jan 2020).

  • ; Google Scholar


Yohai-Eliel Berreby

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  • Ph.D. student, Department of Physiology, McGill

  • Diplôme d’Ingénieur (combined B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Engineering), Télécom Paris, Palaiseau, France

  • MPSI/MP CPGE (Math/Physics Classes Préparatoires aux Grandes Écoles), Lycée Hoche, Versailles, France

  • ; GitHub; LinkedIn


Buxin Liao

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  • Ph.D. Student, Integrated Program in Neuroscience, McGill.

  • M.Eng. Student, Biomedical Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.

  • B.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.

  • ; GitHub


Maya Aderka

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  • M.Sc. Student, Department of Physiology, McGill.

  • B.Sc. in Psychology and Computer Science with an emphasis on Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

  • During my B.Sc, I worked as a research assistant in Prof. Nitzan Censor lab, which studies memory and learning. I assisted in conducting behavioral studies, as well as studies involving EEG, fMRI and TMS.

  • In the final year of my B.Sc, I joined Prof. Yuval Nir’s sleep lab to help with an initiative to create SleepEEGpy, a platform to pre-process and analyse sleep EEG data.

  • ; GitHub; LinkedIn


Alex Zhao

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  • B. Sc student, Neuroscience program, McGill

  • My research interests lie in computational neuroscience, as I believe that computational models have the power to capture the brain’s inner workings. In my free time I enjoy reading and solo traveling.


Jacky Chen

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  • B.A. in Psychology with double minors in Behavioral Science and Science for Art Students, McGill

  • As someone who enjoys playing the piano, I am curious to explore the ways cognitive processes impact musical expression and attentional shifts. My research interests lie at the intersection of psychology, music, and cognitive science.

  • I was born in Shanghai, China, where I spent the first 18 years of my life. After completing high school, I relocated to Montreal to pursue my studies at McGill University. I really enjoy the lovely summer in Montreal!


Manuel Hanna

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  • B.Eng. Student, Software Engineering (major) and Biomedical Engineering (minor), McGill.

  • As a Software Engineering student I started my minor in Biomedical Engineering last year with the goal of studying neural systems. I’m interested in using computational modeling to help improve understanding of processes such as attention and motor learning.

  • I enjoy playing soccer in my free time.


Eva Ozturk

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  • Graduate research trainee (McGill), Master student, Biomedical Engineering - Neurotechnology, Université Paris Cité / Arts et Métiers.

  • I have a double degree in Biomedical sciences and Psychology from Université Paris Cité, and I did an Erasmus at Imperial College London and internships at ENS (Paris) and EPFL (Geneva).

  • I am interested in developing tools at the interface between engineering and neuroscience, such as BCI or neuroprosthetics. I aim to translate neuroscientific knowledge into clinically relevant technologies


Sophie Yun

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  • B.Sc. Pharmacology, McGill University

  • I am interested in neuroscience, pharmacology, and human physiology, both on their own and how they connect. I love learning about how compounds that we consume and are exposed to in everyday life affect the body and brain, and how different systems like vestibular, visual, olfactory, and auditory all work together mechanistically and how that translates physically/behaviourally. I’m especially drawn to understanding how these areas overlap and influence each other in a medical context.


Wayne Wu

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  • B.Sc. Neuroscience student, McGill University.

  • I’m interested in computational neuroscience, particularly in understanding how processes such as vision, attention, and eye movements arise from underlying structure and mechanisms. More broadly, I’m curious about how mathematical and computational ideas can be used to make sense of brain–behavior relationships.

  • Outside of school, I enjoy singing and songwriting.


Xueqing Zhai

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  • Non-thesis M.Sc. student, Computer Science, McGill.

  • I completed my B.Sc. Honours in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, with a focus in Machine Learning and Game Design. I am interested in applying machine learning techniques to real-world problems, and in exploring practical frameworks such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and model integration approaches.

  • I play video games and do digital painting in my free time.


Where we are from

Current / Past

Alumni

  • Post-doctoral fellow - Katarzyna Jurewicz
  • Masters
    • Amanda Pruss (2025), IPN
    • Xinning Le (2025), IPN
    • Haoxiang Liu (2024), IPN
    • Buxin Liao (2024), IPN
    • Oren Gurevitch (2025), Physiology
    • Noa Kemp (2025), Physiology
  • PHGY 396 - Sean Solomon, Sarah Beydoun, Pegah Aghili, Jacky Chen, Manuel Hanna
  • PHGY 461 - Isidore Victorri
  • COMP 401 - Nevine Nzabonimpa, Evan Jiang
  • COMP 396 - Evan Jiang
  • COMP 693, COMP 694, and COMP 695 - Tanya Kumar
  • COGS 401/444 - Injy Fouda, Romina Niksirat, Anna Rose Hunt-Isaak
  • PSYC 385/395 - Anais Rubsamen, Alex Parent
  • PSYC 494 - Youzhi Huang, Jacky Chen
  • NSCI 410 - Alexandru Tecu, Lilia Fernane, Alex Zhao, Samantha Rogers
  • BIOL 468 - Eliot Mudry Danisch
  • Mackey-Glass Fellowship – Tim Yang
  • CDSI Summer Research Fellow - Yiqing Zhu
  • Volunteer Researcher - Claire Yang, Edward Tong
  • McGill-UAE summer internship - Rashed Alhosani
  • MITACS Globalink Interns - Linjing Wang, Jonathan Morris, Alison Jiaxi Wang
  • NSERC SURA - Sabrina Du
  • Summer interns - Evan Jiang, Yagya Joshi, Kevin (Yuze) Liu
  • Undergraduate observers - Caden Welch, Max Tweedale, Elisa Niunin, Yavuz Shahzad, Divi Maheshwari, Lilie Jeanneaux, Yagya Joshi, Bradley Austin-Keiller, Lian Mouwes
  • Interns (Google Summer of Code) - Dinesh Sathiaraj, Ioannis Valasakis, Prakanshul Saxena, Abhinav Venkatadri, Somnath Sharma, Jyothi Swaroop Reddy Bommareddy, Soham Mulye, Louis Martinez, Armaan Alam, Dinakar Chennupati, Dhruvanshu Joshi, Lihong Chen, Deepansh Goel, Mohd Faisal Ansari, Michael Lewis

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