People

The VPNL is composed of outstanding researchers spanning psychology, neuroscience, computer science, cognitive science, and engineering. Interested in joining? Take a look at our information page for prospective lab members!

Undergraduate Research Assistants 

Talia Dixon, Sydney Faux, Anya Gruener, Hyungjae Kim, Cadence Moua, Yushan Yan, Fiona Zhao

Lab Alumni 

Graduate Students

• Lior Bugatus, Senior Data and Decision Science Manager at Electronic Arts
• Nicolas Davidenko, Professor of Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
• Dawn Finzi, ML Engineer at Zoox
• Jesse Gomez, Assistant Professor, Princeton Neuroscience Institute
• Insub Kim, Starting up
• Emily Kubota, Scientific Project Manager, Refined Science
• Eshed Margalit, Computational Neuroscience and AI Researcher, NOETIK
• David Remus, Staff Quantitative UX Researcher, Google
• Beth Rispoli, PhD Student, Georgetown
• Mona Bear, Data Scientist
• Rory Sayres, Human/Computer Interaction Researcher, Google
• Anthony Stigliani, Staff Quantitative User Experience Researcher, Google
• Hyejean Suh, Actuarial Analyst
• Moqian Tian, Staff UXR, 3D Human Modeling and Vision Science, Google
• Joakim Vinberg, Head of U.S. Trade, Pricing, and Contracting
• Janelle Weaver, Scientific Writer
• Kevin Weiner, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
• Jennifer "Davie" Yoon,  Data Analytics, VNS Health

Postdocs

• David Andersen, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Puget Sound
• Golijeh Golarai, Research Associate, SPARQ
• Mareike Grotheer, Junior Group Leader, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
• Corentin Jacques, Research Scientist, University of Loraine
• Eline Kupers, Assistant Professor, York University
• Marisa Nordt, Junior Group Leader, Uniklinik RWTH Aachen
• Sonia Poltoratski, Senior Data Scientist, Zoox
• Kevin Weiner, Associate Professor, UC Berkeley
• Nathan Witthoft, Research Scientist, Stanford
• Xioaqian Yan, Fudan University, Junior Leader

Lab Managers & Research Coordinators

• Michael Barnett, Color Researcher, Magic Leap
• Bella Fascendini, PhD Student, Princeton
• Brianna Jeska, UX/UI designer, Stanford
• Holly Kular, PhD Student, UC San Diego
• Alina Liberman, Director of Data Product Management, Capital One
• Fran Querdasi, PhD Student, UCLA
• Alex Rezai, MD-PhD Student, Emory University
• Sarah Tung, PhD Student, Stanford

Visiting Scholars

• J. Swaroop Guntupalli, Research Scientist, DeepMind
• Zonglei Zhen, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Beijing Normal University

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Ahmad Allen, Prateek Bansal, Miggy Chuapoco, Siobhan Cox, Jñani Crawford, Alvand Daliri, Sophie Duhameau, Makiko Fujimoto, Manuel Jesus Herra Leon, Sungin Hong, Sookyung Kim, Mai Lin Nguyen, Kathleen Ojeda, Karla Perez,  Charleny Martinez Reyes, Megha Srivastava