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Muhammad Asim
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in investigating the cell type-specific and neural circuit mechanisms underlying emotional disorders. In particular, I strive to explore the neural mechanisms associated with psychedelic drugs, focusing on how these substances improve mood and exhibit antidepressant-like effects.
#Psychedelics #5HT2AR #striatum #amygdala #Depression&Anxiety -
Poppy Brown
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioPoppy Brown (she/her) completed both her Ph.D. and training to become a Clinical Psychologist (DClinPsych) at the University of Oxford, UK before joining the INSPIRE Clinic at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences as a postdoctoral scholar. Dr Brown’s research and clinical work focusses on cognitive behavioral interventions for individuals experiencing psychosis, including but not limited to compassion-focused interventions, using causal-interventionist research methods, and working on the implementation of new treatments into services.
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Katie Cederberg
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioDr. Cederberg's primary research interests focus on studying the efficacy and effectiveness of exercise for managing symptoms of restless legs syndrome (RLS) and co-occurring conditions (e.g., periodic limb movements, insomnia). She is currently a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Mignot Lab, where she she devotes her time to conducting research aimed at better understanding the relationship among genetics, proteomics, and the presence of and severity of symptoms related to RLS. Her current research is interested in patient's personal experiences with exercise and RLS as well as the relationship between exercise and proteomic biomarkers of RLS. She received her PhD in Rehabilitation Science from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in December 2020, wherein her dissertation utilized a series of methodological approaches to comprehensively examine the relationship between physical activity and RLS in adults with MS. She plans to utilize her experience and training to develop a line of research for informing exercise prescription parameters specifically for managing symptoms of RLS.
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Lacey Chetcuti
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioDr. Chetcuti, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral academic researcher within Stanford University’s Autism and Developmental Disorders Research Program (https://med.stanford.edu/autism.html) within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She earned her doctoral degree from La Trobe University in Australia, specializing in developmental psychopathology and psychometrics. Dr. Chetcuti's research primarily focuses on advancing the measurement and characterization of individual differences in social-affective functioning in individuals with autism and other psychiatric conditions. Her work takes a lifespan perspective, acknowledging the dynamic nature of behavior across different life stages and its interaction with the environment. Dr. Chetcuti has actively collaborated with leading researchers in the United States, Europe, and Australia, contributing to the development of early developmental interventions to enhance functional social-affective outcomes while also analyzing individual difference factors that predict variable response to such approaches. Dr. Chetcuti possesses expertise in advanced statistical modeling techniques and is a core member of the newly-established Program for Psychometrics and Measurement-Based Care (https://med.stanford.edu/sppmc.html), dedicated to bridging the gap between the science of measurement development and clinical practice.
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Chunyang Dong
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioChunyang Dong completed his Ph.D. studies from University of California, Davis with Dr. Lin Tian, where he specialized in protein engineering to develop genetically encoded biosensors to enable real-time imaging of neuromodulator dynamics. As part of his postdoctoral pursuits with Dr. Sergiu Pasca at Stanford University, he hopes to combine disciplines between biosensors and modeling human neurological disease using brain region-specific organoids. Despite this shift, his unwavering goal is to deepen the understanding of brain development, disease processes, and translate research to potential treatments for neurological disorders.
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Igor D. Bandeira
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioIgor D. Bandeira, M.D., Ph.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. With extensive experience in interventional psychiatry, Dr. Bandeira has led multiple clinical trials focused on noninvasive brain stimulation and rapid-acting antidepressants for psychiatric disorders in children, adolescents, and adults. He received the prestigious Professor Alfredo Thomé de Britto Award in recognition of his exceptional research achievements during his physician-scientist training at the Federal University of Bahia in Salvador, Brazil.
As part of his medical training, Dr. Bandeira also studied at the University of Sydney (Australia) on a Science Without Borders Scholarship, where he enhanced his clinical and research skills at the university’s Brain and Mind Centre. Upon returning to Brazil, he gained valuable clinical experience as an attending physician with the Brazilian Ministry of Health and worked on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
At Stanford, working with Dr. Nolan R. Williams, Dr. Bandeira led the Wellcome LEAP trial on accelerated intermittent theta-burst stimulation (Stanford Neuromodulation Therapy) to treat anhedonic depression. Alongside Dr. Alan F. Schatzberg, he is co-leading a trial supported by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, evaluating the efficacy and safety of buprenorphine in sustaining the antisuicidal and antidepressant effects of ketamine. His work centers on developing personalized therapeutics for treatment-resistant depression, bipolar depression, and suicidal behavior.
Looking ahead, Dr. Bandeira plans to apply for psychiatry residency programs in the United States to advance his career in academic psychiatry and clinical research. -
Cassondra Eng
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioDr. Cassondra (Cassie) Eng is an NIH-funded T32 Postdoctoral Scholar in Sports Neuroscience at Stanford University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research (CIBSR). Her research focuses on optimizing immersive interventions that promote neurological, cognitive, and physical health outcomes. Dr. Eng investigates attentional processes in technologically enhanced contexts, with an emphasis on the brain-behavior mechanisms that drive differential outcomes. She specializes in using mobile functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), a modern neuroimaging technique that is noninvasive, wearable, and allows for full mobility in naturalistic settings—making it ideal for studying human behavior in ecologically relevant settings.
Dr. Eng programs exercise-based interventions using game engines to enhance participant engagement and data automation, supplementing neurocognitive assessments with physiological measures across populations from childhood to adulthood. Her work incorporates task-based and clinical norm-referenced assessments of cognition, quantitative and qualitative assessments of learning in VR/XR contexts, eye tracking, EEG, cardiovascular measures related to performance and stress, and data analysis techniques using mixed-effects modeling, multivariate analysis, and longitudinal data analysis.
Dr. Eng earned her Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University, where she also received a Program for Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER) Certification through the Institute of Education Sciences. Her work specializes in educational neuroscience, an interdisciplinary field bridging cognitive science, psychology, educational technology, human-computer interaction, computer science, and related disciplines to identify optimal learning contexts that support brain development and cognitive skills essential for overall well-being and health. -
Emily Ferguson, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioEmily Ferguson, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral academic researcher and clinician within Stanford University’s Autism and Developmental Disorders Research Program (https://med.stanford.edu/autism.html) within the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She earned her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of California Santa Barbara and completed her clinical internship at the University of California Los Angeles. Dr. Ferguson's research focuses on advancing understanding of mechanisms of challenging behaviors in autistic youth and adults to inform treatment development. Her work takes a comprehensive perspective, integrating methods from implementation science to improve the accessibility and quality of clinical care for underserved autistic populations, especially those with higher support needs (or "profound autism"). She is also interested in developing methods to improve self-regulation in individuals with profound autism to effectively manage self-injurious behaviors and aggression. Dr. Ferguson is currently supporting research in the Preschool Autism Lab (https://med.stanford.edu/autismcenter/pre-school-autism-lab-program.html), and exploring profiles of challenging behaviors with the Program for Psychometrics and Measurement-Based Care (https://med.stanford.edu/sppmc.html) in a diverse range of autistic and non-autistic youth to inform treatment approaches.
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Juan Sebastián Gómez-Cañón
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioJuan S. Gómez-Cañón is a researcher, engineer and musician from Colombia. He holds a Ph.D. in Information and Communication Technologies from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). During his Ph.D., Juan researched human-centered and trustworthy machine learning methods to predict the emotions in music. He has authored several conference and journal papers on deep learning, human-centered design, personalization, dataset curation, and digital signal processing. Juan also holds a M.Sc. in Media Technology (Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany), a B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering and a B.A. in Music (Universidad de los Andes, Colombia).
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Anne Claire Grammer
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioFellowship: Stanford University Child Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship
PhD Training: Washington University in St. Louis
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Elisabeth Heremans
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioI am a postdoctoral researcher at the Mignot Lab in Stanford University. My background is in biomedical engineering, signal processing and machine learning. I obtained a BSc and MSc degree from KU Leuven in 2017 and 2019, respectively. After this, I performed a research internship at École Polytechnique Fédérale De Lausanne in the Neuroengineering Lab. I did my PhD (2020-2024) under the supervision of Prof. Maarten De Vos, focusing on automated sleep staging using electroencephalography and polysomnography signals. During my PhD, I also performed a research stay at the University of Cambridge (van der Schaar lab) and an internship at Microsoft Research (in the Brain-Computer Interfaces project).
During my postdoc at the Mignot Lab, I aim to use large sleep datasets to find early markers of depression or other disorders related to sleep. My main research interest lies in the intersection between AI and neuroscience, and using AI for neuroscientific applications. -
Hamed Honari
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMachine Learning, Neuroimaging, Computer Vision,Deep Learning, Signal Processing
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Maira Karan
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioMaira Karan is a postdoctoral fellow in the department of psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and a Pathyways to Neuroscience trainee through the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute. Her doctoral research focused on how positive human behaviors, such as empathy and prosociality, develop during the period of adolescence and how the adolescent brain and body mature in concert to support these other-oriented behaviors. Her research has utilized behavioral experiments, validated questionnaires, ecological momentary assessments, longitudinal assessments, and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Another line of her work examines how sleep affects adolescent health and well-being with a special focus on circadian rhythms. At Stanford, she is working on merging her two lines of research to assess how sleep and circadian timing influence adolescent behaviors and health. In addition to conducting research, she has a deep passion for uplifting underrepresented individuals in(to) the fields of psychology and neuroscience, and she has a Certificate in Critical Consciousness & Anti-Oppressive Practices.
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Wayne Kepner
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioWayne Kepner, PhD, MPH is a public health researcher whose scholarship focuses on health disparities and substance use among vulnerable populations. Dr. Kepner is currently a T-32 Post-doctoral Fellowship in Pain and Substance Use at Stanford University's School of Medicine, where he will continue his research under the mentorship of Dr. Keith Humphreys and Dr. Mark McGovern.
Dr. Kepner received his doctoral degree from the Joint Doctoral Program in Interdisciplinary Research on Substance Use at San Diego State University and the University of California, San Diego. His research focused on substance use disorders, health services utilization, and geospatial analysis of health data, with a particular emphasis on older adult populations. Dr. Kepner has extensive experience in both qualitative and quantitative research methods, having conducted interviews with older adults on cannabis use and analyzed large-scale electronic health records. He has co-authored several peer-reviewed publications on topics ranging from cannabis use trends to emergency department utilization for substance-related diagnoses. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Kepner is committed to community engagement, co-founding Aztecs For Recovery, a collegiate recovery program at SDSU. -
O.H.M. Lasnick
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsPrimary research interests include utilizing neuroimaging techniques to study reading and language ability (particularly developmental dyslexia and language disorders), as well as associated comorbidities, such as ADHD. Methodological specialties include analysis of large-scale neuroimaging data, especially MRI/fMRI and EEG.
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Byeongwook Lee
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioMy research focus spans over systems neuroscience, machine learning, and data science with a substantial experience in developing and applying novel computational frameworks to understand dynamical aspects of complex brain function in human and non-human models.
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Lei Li
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioPh.D., University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Biomedical engineering 2024
B.E., University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Biomedical engineering2019 -
Qin Liu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioPostdoctoral scholar working on human-centered AI.
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Ruizhe Liu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
Bio2014 - 2020Graduate student, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.
2009 - 2012 M.S. in Psychology. School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University (BNU), Beijing, China
2005 - 2009 B.S. in Psychology. Department of Psychology, East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China -
Yang Liu
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioDr. Yang Liu is currently a senior postdoctoral scholar with the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, since Dec. 2024. He was a PI of the North Ostrobothnia Regional Fund of the Finnish Cultural Foundation and the Instrumentarium Science Foundation, carrying out research on digital pain detection with affective intelligence. Dr. Liu coordinated and managed "AI Forum" and "ICT 2023 TrustFace" projects during his postdoctoral research in University of Oulu since Jan. 2022, led by Professor Guoying Zhao, member of Academia Europaea, member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters, IEEE/IAPR/ELLIS Fellow. He was also a former researcher with the Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences, in 2023, and was a visiting scholar with Hong Kong Baptist University (Prof. Pong Chi Yuen) and University of Cambridge (Prof. Hatice Gunes), in 2023 and 2024, respectively. Dr. Liu has published more than 30 papers in reputable journals and proceedings. He was the Guest Associate Editor of Frontiers in Psychology and Frontiers in Human Neurosciences, and organized tutorials in and workshops in international conferences, i.e., HHAI2024 and IEEE FG2025. Dr. Liu was an Assistant Lecturer of the "Affective Computing" course in University of Oulu, in 2023. He mentored junior doctoral researchers and co-supervised four master students. His research interests include affective computing, cognitive computation for cross-species behavioral, and AI for aging medicine.
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Renske Lok
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI'm interested in questions regarding perceived experiences and measured markers of those experiences, for example how do perceived sleep quality relate to sleep quality measured, or how does daytime sleepiness relate to sleep quality at night.
Other interests include effects of daytime light exposure on nighttime sleep, circadian clock phase changes by flashes of light, and how stability and variability in daily rhythms can predict health and disease -
Charlotte Luff
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioCharlotte is a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of Professor Luis de Lecea. Her research interests include the brain phenomena underpinning non-invasive neuromodulation such as focused ultrasound and electrical brain stimulation, and in the de Lecea lab she studies this with relation to sleep and addiction. Charlotte completed her PhD in the Interventional Systems Neuroscience lab of Dr Nir Grossman at Imperial College London. Her PhD research focused on uncovering the biophysical mechanism of temporal interference (TI) brain stimulation, primarily using electrophysiology and computational modelling. During her PhD, Charlotte spent a year as a visiting PhD student in Professor Ed Boyden’s lab at MIT, where she was trained in automated in-vivo patch clamp. Previously, Charlotte completed a BSc in Biomedical Science at King’s College London, and an MRes in Experimental Neuroscience at Imperial College London.
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Qianheng Ma
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioQianheng (Jessica) Ma obtained her PhD degree of biostatistics at University of Chicago under the supervision of Prof. Donald Hedeker and is the 2021 recipient of the dissertation grant from Society of Multivariate Experimental Psychology (SMEP). Her current research focus are modern statistical methods and deep learning techniques for mining (multivariate) intensive longitudinal data especially psychological/behavioral measures collected by mobile/wearable devices. Besides research, she loves playing the piano and is good at Jazz improvisation and she can speak fluent Cantonese.
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Yihe Ma
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsSystems & Circuits Neuroscience, Addiction, Stress, Sleep, Plasticity, Imaging
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Shaghayegh Navabpour
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy research interests lie at the intersection of genetics and epigenetics, with a current focus on cancer and drug development. I am particularly interested in bifunctional small molecules, such as Transcriptional/Epigenetic Chemical Inducers of Proximity (TCIPs). My work now concentrates on designing, synthesizing, and testing new TCIPs that utilize various transcription factors or histone modifiers to target genes implicated in different types of cancer. Through this approach, I aim to develop innovative therapies that can more precisely and effectively combat cancer, especially to ease the treatment process for vulnerable patients, such as children and adolescents.
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Trang-Anh Nghiem
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsI am interested in how brain dynamics and cognitive functions in health and disease emerge from interactions within biological neural networks. To this purpose, I combine theoretical and computational models of brain dynamics and function inspired by statistical physics and information theory with analysis of neural recordings at different scales using machine learning methods.
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Sara Pardej
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioSara Pardej earned her BA in Psychology and BS in Cognitive Science at Marquette University. Afterwards, she attended the Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee under the mentorship of Dr. Bonita P. Klein-Tasman, where she earned both her MS and PhD in Clinical Psychology. There, she worked on several studies focusing on youth with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), including behavioral phenotyping work, psychometric studies, and a social skills intervention study. Her dissertation study, which was funded by a Young Investigator Award from the Children's Tumor Foundation, focused on examining event related potentials using EEG by comparing children with NF1 to children with idiopathic ADHD and unaffected children. She completed her Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology at Penn State Health in Hershey, Pennsylvania. While at Penn State, she also worked on research examining safety and psychopathology in youth with ADHD and/or autism. Her clinical interest is neuropsychology, and her research interests include issues of psychometrics, behavioral phenotyping, and the neuropsychological development (and subsequent areas of intervention) of individuals with NF1 across the lifespan.
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Adam Pines
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
Research Data Specialist, Psych/Major Laboratories and Clinical & Translational Neurosciences IncubatorBioAdam Pines, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the Stanford PanLab for Precision Psychiatry and Translational Neuroscience with Director Leanne M. Williams, PhD. Adam completed his Ph.D. in Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Adam’s work centers on hierarchical cortical development and its overlap with hierarchical cognition (i.e., bottom-up and top-down processing). In the PanLab, Adam is investigating the role of deficits in cortical function in cognitive psychopathology. His other research interests include developmental neuroscience, brain-environment interactions, and adaptive plasticity in the brain.
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Julia Rachel Plank
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioI am a postdoctoral researcher in the BRain Imaging, Development, and GEnetics (BRIDGE) Laboratory in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. Currently my work focuses on the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for improving understanding of the neuropathophysiology underlying neuropsychiatric disorders with a genetic basis.
My PhD investigated the use of neuroimaging techniques (diffusion MRI, quantitative magnetization transfer, magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging, electroencephalography) for detection of neuroinflammation in human participants.
My research interests are centered on the clinical applications of MRI for elucidation of pathology and improving diagnosis and treatment. -
Shaun Quah
Postdoctoral Scholar, Psychiatry
BioThe current literature of neuroscience is lacking a unifying model of brain function. My goal is to use novel computational methods to improve our understanding of how different cognitive and emotional functions are hierarchically organized in the brain.
