People

Principal Investigators

Ed Awh

Professor
Department of Psychology and Institute for Mind and Biology
University of Chicago

Faculty Page
CV

Ed Vogel

Professor
Department of Psychology and Institute for Mind and Biology
University of Chicago

Faculty Page

Research Scientists

Igor Utochkin

Instructional Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Chicago

Google Scholar
Personal Website

Post-docs

Chenyu Li

Google Scholar

PhD Students

Woohyeuk (Leo) Chang

Google Scholar

Huiqin Chen

Google Scholar

Brecken Marome

Google Scholar
Personal Website

Gengshi Hu

ResearchGate

Masters Students

Sandra Park

Dingding Duan

Current Research Assistants

Becky (ShuNing) Guo, 2026-
Lina Park, 2026-
Marie Friend, 2026-
Riley O’Rourke, 2025-

Alumni

Former Research Scientists

Piotr Styrkowiec
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Wroclaw
Google Scholar

Former Post-docs

Matthieu Chidharom
Current position: Junior Group Leader, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)
Lab website

Hyung-Bum Park
Current position: Post-doc, Washington University
Google Scholar

Jae Peiso
Current position: Post-doc, University of Chicago
LinkedIn

William Ngiam
Current position: Lecturer, University of Adelaide
Personal website
Lab website

Megan deBettencourt
Current position: Research Scientist at Ruby Neurotech
Personal website
LinkedIn

Tobias Feldmann-Wüstefeld
Current position: Humboldt Fellow, Technische Universität Berlin
Fomerly a lecturer at the University of Southampton
Personal website

Eren Günseli
Current position: Assistant Professor, Sabancı University
Personal website

Roy Luria
Current position: Professor, Tel Aviv University
Personal website

Hiroyuki Tsubomi
Current position: Associate Professor, University of Toyama
Personal website

Former PhD Students

Henry Jones
Current position: Post-doc, Yale University
Google Scholar
Bluesky

Chong Zhao
Current position: Post-doc, New York University (NYU)
Google Scholar
Bluesky

William Thyer
Current position: Data Scientist at Cohere Health
LinkedIn

Gisella Diaz
Current position: Product Data Analyst at Jellyvision
LinkedIn

Nicole Hakim
Current position: Machine Learning Scientist at Tempus
Formerly a post-doc at Stanford
LinkedIn

Colin Quirk
Current position: Senior Data Scientist at Cohere Health
LinkedIn

Joshua Foster
Current position: Data Scientist at The Warehouse Group
Formerly a post-doc at Boston University
Personal website
LinkedIn

Kirsten Adam
Current position: Assistant Professor at University of California, Davis
Formerly an Assistant Professor at Rice University and a Post-doc at University of California, San Diego
Personal website

David Sutterer
Current position: Assistant Professor at University of Knoxville
Formerly a post-doc at Vanderbilt University
Personal website

Irida Mance
Current position: Health Research at Apple

Brittany Dungan
Current position: Senior UX Researcher at Big Fish Games

Keisuke Fukuda
Current position: Assistant Professor at University of Toronto Mississauga
Lab website

Eddie Ester
Current position: Assistant Professor at University of Nevada Reno
Lab website

Trafton Drew
Current position: Senior User Experience Researcher at Sirona Medical
Formerly Assistant Professor at the University of Utah
LinkedIn

Andrew McCollough
Current position: Data Scientist at EdgeRock Technology Partners, A CDI Company

Former Masters Students

Aidan Healy
Twitter

Akiko Ikkai
Current position: UX Research Scientist at Apple

Akina Umemoto
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Toyama University/University of Toronto
Personal website

Miranda Scolari
Current position: Assistant professor at Texas Tech University
Personal website

Maro Machizawa
Current position: Assistant professor at Hiroshima University
Personal website

Former Research Specialists

Darius Suplica
Current position: MD/PhD Student at Yale University
Google Scholar

Temilade Adekoya
Current position: PhD Student at UC Irvine

Morgan Klutzke

Anisha Karthikeyan

Ariana Gale
Current position: Physician Assistant

Brendan Colson
Current position: Clinical Research Coordinator

Former Undergraduate Research Assistants (incomplete)

Mai Nguyen, 2026
Dane Chung, 2026
Christina Williams, 2025-2026
Leyla Campos, 2025-2026
Audrey Kim, 2025-2026
Sintra Horwitz, 2022-2025
Will Epstein, 2022-2025
Lucas Dong, 2024-2024
Ron Gneezy, 2023-2024
Crystal Huang, 2022-2023
Jessica Guigon, 2020-2022
Paul Keene, 2018–2020
Mei Arditi, 2018–2020
Murrie Affini, 2016–2017
Emma Bsales, 2016–2018
Maryam Bolouri, 2018–2019
Liam Chai, 2017–2020
Albert Chen, 2017–2020
Ricardo Fernandez, 2017–2018
Yasemin Hasimoglu, 2018–2020
Alden Herrera, 2017
Rebecca Kuang, 2017–2018
Krystian Loetscher, 2019-2020
Denelle Mohammed, 2018–2019
Clara Sava-Segal, 2017–2018
Jainaha Srikumar, 2016-2017
Melanie Sykes, 2017–2018
Itzel Velazquez, 2019-2021
Citlalli Vivar Aburto, 2017-2018
Yohyoh Wang, 2017–2018
Marina Weinberger, 2017–2018
Janna Wennberg, 2018
Stephanie Williams, 2017–2018
Jennifer Zhou, 2018