People & Projects

Meet our team of researchers and learn about their projects

Principal Investigator

Core Research Staff

  • Hongying Wang, MD, PhD — Neurophysiology Lab Manager
  • Xiaogang Yan, PhD — Scientific Engineer
  • Saihong Sun — Software Engineer
  • Veronica Nacher-Carda, PhD — Research Associate
  • Hadiza Saidu — Administrative Assistant

Post-Docs

  • Amirhossein Ghaderi, PhD — Neuroimaging and Graph Theory Analysis
  • Kathrin Pabst, PhD — Integration of allocentric and egocentric visual information for reach - A deep neural network model
  • Cristina Rubino, PhD — Neural mechanisms of eye-hand coordination

Graduate Students

  • Lina Musa (PhD Candidate) — Cortical mechanisms for allocentric vs. egocentric
  • Gaelle Nsamba Luabeya (PhD Candidate) — Mechanisms for hand placement vs. orientation
  • Jennifer Lin (PhD Candidate) — Head unrestrained reaches in monkeys
  • Shaochen Huang (PhD Candidate) — Cortical mechanisms for reaching vs. placement
  • Niousha Por Davoody (MA Candidate) — EEG placement vs. reach
  • Kiana Masoudi (MSc Candidate) — Separating Human Saccade and Reach Cortex using a cue-separation fMRI task
  • Petros Georgiadis (PhD Candidate) — Decoding Brain Activity: EEG-Based Neural Representations of reaching and placement movements
  • Brando Sheldrick (MA1 Candidate)

Undergraduate Students

  • Ali Rezaei

Technical Support

  • Julie Panakos & Crew — Surgery and Veterinary Care
  • Irit Printz — CVR Coordinator

Visitors / Collaborators

  • Vishal Bharmauria (Tampa, Florida) — Motor control and decoding the movement kinematics
  • Lauren Sergio (York University - Kinesiology) — Cortical Mechanisms of Eye-Hand Coordination
  • Tutis Vilis (University of Western Ontario) — fMRI on Parietal Cortex
  • Doug Cheyne (Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto) — MEG Imaging
  • Jody Culham (University of Western Ontario) — fMRI on Parietal Cortex