Lab Members
Ben Hayden
Ben received his Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley and was a post-doctoral fellow at Duke University. In 2009, he was the Outstanding Young Investigator for the Society for Neuroeconomics. Since then, his research has been featured twice in Senator Tom Coburn's Wastebook, a government publication highlighting worthless science.
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Principal Investigator
Habiba Azab
Habiba received her bachelor's degree in Computer Science from New York Institute of Technology. She specializes in computational modeling of choice processes.
Graduate Student
Praneet Bala
Markerless Pose Estimation
Department of Computer Science
Tyler Cash-Padgett
Tyler received his B.A. in neuroscience and philosophy from Johns Hopkins University. He studies the neuronal basis of decision making and cognitive control.
Graduate Student
Roberto Lopez Cervera
Roberto earned a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of California, Santa cruz.
MD/PhD student
Becket Ebitz
Becket has a PhD in Neurobiology from Duke University. He studies how endogenous states shape sensorimotor transformations.
Ben Eisenreich
Ben received his PhD from the University of Montana. He studies the neuronal basis of economic decision making and motivation
Post-doctoral Fellow
Hannah Lee
Hannah graduated in 2019 with a BS in Biochemistry from the University of Minnesota. She works as a Researcher 1 in both the Heilbronner and Hayden Labs.
Lab Technician
Priyanka Mehta
Priyanka received her bachelor's degree in Cognitive Science from UCLA.
Graduate Student
Ben Voloh
Ben received his PhD in Psychology from Vanderbilt University. He studies how neural state transitions drive behavioral transitions during exploration in free movement.
Post-doc
Maya Zhe Wang
Maya received her bachelor's degree in Psychology with a minor in Statistics from Kansas State University. She studies the brain circuits supporting economic decisions and model-based planning.
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Graduate Student
Seng Bum Michael Yoo
Michael received his bachelor's degree in Biomedical Science and Psychology from Handong Global University and a master's degree in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from Seoul National University.
Graduate Student
Our Undergraduates
Kyle Edmonston
Rachel Knoebl
Collin Meyer
Salma Muftah
Preeta Pavagadhi
Emma Rochlin
Elaina Seemann
Afra Suri
Sydney Walsh
They are plucky
Collaborators
Adriana Cushnie
Adriana received her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Brooklyn College -CUNY. She studies the anatomical connectivity of brain circuits supporting salience detection.
Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Alex Herman
Human intracranial electrophysiology
Department of Psychiatry
John Pearson
Data wrangling
Department of Biostatics and Bioinformatics, Duke University
Ruyuan Zhang
fMRI
Department of Neuroscience
