Elizabeth Jiwon Im, Lab Manager
Elizabeth graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BA in Cognitive Science and BA in Medicine, Science and Humanities. While she was an undergrad, she worked with Leyla on an on-going social perception research, and with Dr. Michael McCloskey on developmental dysgraphia and motor plans for handwriting. She is broadly interested in social cognition and is currently investigating social perception and theory of mind neural networks.
Elizabeth is currently a PhD student at Stanford.
Haemy Lee Masson, Postdoc
Haemy obtained a Ph.D. in Brain Imaging Engineering (2016) at Korea University. Before joining JHU, she worked with Hans Op de Beeck at KU Leuven in Belgium. Her research focuses on the neural basis of social (touch) scene processing in healthy adults and how these processes go astray in autism. To address these questions, she employs multimodal neuroimaging techniques and computational modeling. She is also a guest scientist at the Max Planck Institute for intelligent systems in Germany.
Haemy is currently an assistant professor of psychology at Durham University.
Diana Dima, Postdoc
Before joining the lab, Diana worked with Krish Singh at Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre in Wales. She also completed her PhD in Cardiff, where she investigated face and scene perception using MEG.
Diana is currently a postdoc at Western University.
Angira Shirahatti, MA student
Angira completed her MA degree in the Department of Cognitive Science in 2022. Prior to joining JHU, she was a Product Designer at Etsy, working on tools for Etsy sellers. She received her BA in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, where she focused primarily on human-computer interaction. Angira is now a Senior Product Designer at Gusto.
Gemma Nicholson, MA Student
Gemma completed her MA in the Department of Cognitive Science in 2020 (the lab's first graduate!) Before coming to JHU, she completed her undergraduate studies at Quinnipiac University while working as a research assistant in both the Schizophrenia Neuropharmacology Research Group and the Computation and Cognitive Development Lab at Yale University. Gemma is now a Senior Research Analyst at Allegient Defense where she is directly supporting the Office of Naval Research. Gemma is closely supporting Dr. Rebecca Goolsby who heads the Social Networks and Computational Social Science research, and Dr. Ray Perez in Cognitive Science for Naval Adaptive Training.
Alyssandra Valenzuela, Lab Manager
Alyssandra was the Research Coordinator for both the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab as well as the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience & Machine Learning Labs from 2019-2020. Before joining the lab, Alyssandra received her Bachelor’s degree from Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Cognitive Science, with a focus on Neuroscience and Cognitive Neuropsychology.
Lucy Chang, Undergraduate RA
Lucy is from San Jose, California and currently a sophomore undergrad majoring in Neuroscience and minoring in CS. In the lab, she is investigating social cognition through a computational analysis of the neural data. In her free time, she likes playing with her dog, reading, and drawing.
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Cora Roy, Undergraduate RA
Cora is a senior Systems Neuroscience undergrad at JHU. Prior to joining the lab, she worked in Connectome research at the JHU Applied Physics Lab. She is now interested in human social interactions and is working with Diana.
Susan Liu, Undergraduate RA
Susan is a Computer Science and Cognitive Science undergraduate student at JHU. She is interested in visual cognition and computer vision.
Bethany Kemp, Undergraduate RA
Bethany is a sophomore undergraduate majoring in Computer Engineering and Cognitive Science. She is working with Diana and is interested in brain-computer interfaces and the neural computations underlying human vision.
Josh Kim, Undergraduate RA
Josh is a Computational Neuroscience and Computer Science undergraduate student at JHU. Before joining the lab, he worked at the Delineo Disease Modeling to develop a COVID-19 community-level simulator. He is now interested in social cognition and computer vision.
Emmanuel Ochieng, Undergraduate RA
Jiewan Hong, Undergraduate RA
Jiewan is an undergraduate junior majoring in Computer Science and Cognitive Science. He is
currently assisting Emalie with an ongoing research on human perception and response to
external stimuli in the lab. He is interested in learning about the development of AI and the embedded science of human cognition!
Veric Tan, Undergraduate RA
Veric is from Singapore and currently a Junior undergrad majoring in Material Science & Engineering and Cognitive Science with a minor in Applied Math. In the lab, he is computationally investigating fMRI imaging data and social cognition. In his free time, he like learning about exciting new startups and freedives.