Muhanmmed Abdul-Shakoor ’10, is majoring in Engineering Sciences; he is regularly in the robotics lab managing the communication between our remote engineers and those at the Thayer School; he is using CAD to develop his own modifications to robot parts designs.

Maria Barsky ’11, is working on a categorization project that will use multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data. Currently, she is helping run pilot studies as we fine-tune our experimental design.

Ashok Chandrashakar, will be receiving his Masters in Computer Science in June ’08 and is expecting a PhD in Computer Science in ’13; his research is focused on a biological approach to computer vision. 

Matt Elkherj ’11, plans to major in physics; he is currently creating a simulation for BrainBot that will significantly reduce the bot’s learning curve. 

Jen Gaudette ’10, is a government major specializing in international relations; as an administrative intern, she designs the Neukom Notes newsletter, transcribes lectures and helps maintain our databases and operations structure. 

Travis Greene ’08, is the first student to create his own major in Natural and Artificial Intelligence. He will pursue a PhD in neuroscience at University College, Dublin. At Neukom, he has constructed parts of algorithms that mimic human brain function and created robot-control software that behaves like motor neurons.

Rebecca Hellerman ’11, is involved in an audio-visual research project involving pattern based fMRI on the McGurk effect, a perceptual phenomenon which demonstrates an interaction between hearing and vision in speech perception.

James Hughes, PhD in Computer Science ’12; his research focus is natural language representation and processing in the brain.

Yune Lee, PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience ‘10, employs fMRI and psychophysics in his research on music cognition and sound recognition. 

Margaret McCue ’11, is involved in research on the expertise effect in the auditory domain and the neural representation of harmonic and inharmonic frequencies.

CaseyMurray, PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience ’12; is focusing his research on the neural underpinnings of our sense of time and how this relates to a unifying sense of consciousness; a tangential focus is on perception and categorization using visual illusions and ambiguous stimuli.

Amy Palmer, PhD in Cognitive neuroscience ’12, is studying visual category learning using a multi-voxel pattern analysis of fMRI data.

Andrew Parker, PhD in Computer Science, ’10, is focusing his research on biologically inspired algorithms for recognition and categorization of visual and auditory stimuli. 

Melanie Pastuck ’11, is interested in majoring in Biological Sciences with a concentration in either Biochemistry or Genetics; she is working on an investigation into the brain differences between native speakers of different languages in response to the auditory stimuli of phonemes.

Melissa Rundle, PhD in Experimental & Molecular Medicine, ’12, is currently a first year graduate student in the Program in Experimental and Molecular Medicine, PEMM, at Dartmouth Medical School.

Kathryn West ’08, is a neuroscience major/studio art minor who is currently researching levels of categorization and the expertise effect.