Graduate Students
| Saman Abbaspoor | Faculty Advisor: Kari Hoffman Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience | ||
 | Allegra Skye Anderson | Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science Risk and resiliency factors influencing the development of internalizing disorders. | |
 | Kianoush Banaie Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Thilo Womelsdorf Neuroscience | |
 | Brian Bernstein Graduate Student | Email Lab Website (615)-343-4564 |
Faculty Advisor: David Lubinski Quantitative Methods talent development, STEM innovation, profound giftedness, eminence |
 | Pietra Bruni Graduate Student | Email Website 309 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Jo-Anne Bachorowski Clinical Science |
 | Michael Budianto | Faculty Advisor: Rene Marois Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience | |
 | Francisco Calvache Meyer Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: David Zald Clinical Science | |
| Emilia Cardenas | Faculty Advisor: Autumn Kujawa Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Humphreys Clinical Science I am broadly interested in the neurobiological and behavioral effects of family-level and environmental stressors, and its relationship on child outcomes. | ||
 | Ting-Yun Chang Graduate Student | Email 517 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Isabel Gauthier Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Jason Chow Graduate Student | Email 6153225596 Wilson Hall 517 |
Faculty Advisor: Isabel Gauthier Faculty Advisor: Thomas Palmeri Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Individual differences in tactile and visual object recognition, neural networks, computational modeling |
 | Emily Conder Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 201 |
Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Lane Developmental Science Social Cognitive Development |
 | Benjamin Conrad Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Website |
Faculty Advisor: Gavin Price Neuroscience |
 | Rebecca Cox Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-322-5522 |
Faculty Advisor: Bunmi Olatunji Clinical Science The role of sleep in the etiology, maintenance, and treatment of anxiety disorders |
 | Rebecca Cutler Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Sean Polyn Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Christopher Daniell Graduate Student | Email Hobbs 301 |
Faculty Advisor: Elisabeth Dykens Clinical Science Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and comorbid psychopathology |
 | Loïc Daumail PhD Student | Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong Faculty Advisor: Alexander Maier Neuroscience Research on visual perception in both macaques and humans, especially in lateral geniculate nucleus. | |
 | Evgeniia Diachek Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Sarah Brown-Schmidt Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Representation of linguistic knowledge in mind, neural architecture of the language system, language and other cognitive functions | |
 | Ashli-Ann Douglas Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 201 |
Faculty Advisor: Bethany Rittle-Johnson Developmental Science |
 | Leighton Durham | Email Wilson Hall 226 |
Faculty Advisor: Antonia Kaczkurkin Clinical Science |
 | Steven Errington Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Website |
Faculty Advisor: Jeffrey Schall Neuroscience |
 | Israel Flores Ph.D. Candidate | Email Jesup 204 |
Faculty Advisor: Georgene Troseth Developmental Science |
| Bethany Gardner | Email Website |
Faculty Advisor: Sarah Brown-Schmidt Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience psycholinguistics, pragmatics | |
 | Nicolette Granata Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Jonathan Lane Developmental Science disability concepts; moral development; theory of mind; social cognition |
 | Meredith Gruhn Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-322-6613 |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science My research focuses on understanding stress and coping in at-risk children as well as the development and implementation of preventative interventions for these populations. |
| Jordan Gunn | Faculty Advisor: Sean Polyn Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
 | Gloria Han Graduate Student | Email 615-343-6970 309 WH |
Faculty Advisor: Andrew Tomarken Clinical Science |
| Caoimhe Harrington Stack Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Duane Watson Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
 | Lauren Hartsough Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Rene Marois Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
| Eeshan Hasan | Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Trueblood Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience I am interested in understanding cognitive mechanisms for decision making by modeling learning, inference, and generalization. I am also particularly interested in Bayesian models of the mind. | ||
 | Ali Hassani | Email 2-5527 |
Faculty Advisor: Thilo Womelsdorf Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience |
 | Lauren Henry Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 311 |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science Understanding stress and its impact on children and families; developing, implementing, and evaluating preventive interventions that serve this population. |
 | Kendra Hinton Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-343-1486 205 WH |
Faculty Advisor: David Zald Clinical Science I am broadly interested in neural correlates of latent factors of psychopathology, with a focus on brain network topology |
 | Min Kyung "Clair" Hong Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Sean Polyn Faculty Advisor: Lisa Fazio Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Megan Ichinose Graduate Student | Email 615-322-5527 313 WH |
Faculty Advisor: Sohee Park Clinical Science |
 | Christopher Brett Jaeger Graduate Student | Email 207 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Levin Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Laura Janakiefski | Faculty Advisor: Megan Saylor Developmental Science language development, cognitive development, word learning, memory | |
 | Hojin Jang Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Hee Jung Jeong | Faculty Advisor: Antonia Kaczkurkin Clinical Science | |
 | Sarah Jessup | Email Lab Website 615-343-5476 Wilson 312 |
Faculty Advisor: Bunmi Olatunji Clinical Science Exposure, anxiety, OCD, emotions |
| Jake Kaufman | Email Lab Website Hobbs 425 |
Faculty Advisor: James Booth Developmental Science How language influences math development. | |
 | Kelly Knowles Graduate Student | Email 615-322-5522 312 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Bunmi Olatunji Clinical Science Intolerance of uncertainty, exposure therapy, anxiety, emotion |
| HyeonSeung Lee | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Sohee Park Clinical Science Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Schizophrenia, Self concept, Cognition, Social cognition, Interoception, Peripersonal space | |
 | Kaleb Lowe Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Jeffrey Schall Neuroscience | |
 | Sophia Lubarsky Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: David Cole Clinical Science | |
 | Lauren Malachowski | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Amy Needham Developmental Science |
| Anna Marshall | Email Jesup 002 |
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Levin Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
 | Huiyuan Miao | Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience | |
| Blake Mitchell | Faculty Advisor: Alexander Maier Neuroscience | ||
| Matthew Naveiras | Faculty Advisor: Sun-Joo Cho Quantitative Methods | ||
 | Bridget Nestor Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Judy Garber Clinical Science familial factors influencing adolescent depression; treatment and prevention | |
 | Phillip Newman | Email 309 WH |
Faculty Advisor: Timothy McNamara Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
 | Elizabeth A. Nick Graduate Student | Email 615-322-7207 204 Jesup |
Faculty Advisor: David Cole Clinical Science Adolescent depression, peer victimization, online social support |
 | Patrick OKeefe Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Joe Rodgers Quantitative Methods Quantitative methods, flynn effect, child behavior problems | |
 | Jon Parillo | Email 615-322-8517 Wilson 631 |
Faculty Advisor: Gordon Logan Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Samantha Pegg | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Autumn Kujawa Clinical Science Mood disorders, emotion and reward processing | |
 | Raunak Pillai Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Lisa Fazio Developmental Science | |
 | Kemar V Prussien Doctoral Candidate | Email Lab Website 615-343-8720 Hobbs 310 |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science Cognitive Function, Coping, & Communication in Pediatric Populations |
| Weiqiang (Tom) Qian Ph.D Candidate | Email Lab Website Website (615)775-7628 Hobbs 207 |
Faculty Advisor: Craig Smith Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Quantitative Methods I study the finer details of the appraisal processes in emotion experiences. | |
| Nasim Rajabi Graduate Student | Email Lab Website (615) 322-6019 |
Faculty Advisor: Kari Hoffman Neuroscience | |
| Adam Ramsey | Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Trueblood Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
 | Noah Robinson Graduate Student | Email Website |
Faculty Advisor: Steven Hollon Clinical Science |
| Marissa Roth | Faculty Advisor: Kathryn Humphreys Clinical Science | ||
 | Margaret Shavlik Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Jesup 308 |
Faculty Advisor: Amy Booth Developmental Science Early literacy, achievement gaps, parent-child interaction |
| Katherine Shepard Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey Developmental Science | ||
 | Rachel Siciliano Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-322-6613 311 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science Neurocognitive function, risk for psychopathology, and the development and implementation of interventions in at-risk pediatric populations |
 | Jennifer Stewart Graduate Student | Email Hobbs 301 |
Faculty Advisor: Judy Garber Clinical Science Etiology & Prevention of Depression |
 | Zachary Stuckelman Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Georgene Troseth Developmental Science Research surrounding how children interact with and learn from symbolic media. |
| Jisoo Sun | Faculty Advisor: Isabel Gauthier Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
 | Susanna Sutherland Graduate Student | Email Website Hobbs 301 |
Faculty Advisor: Judy Garber Clinical Science Prevention of depression and other psychopathology in offspring of depressed parents, intergenerational transmission of depression |
| Matthew Tillis Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 411B Wilson |
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Palmeri Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience Visual perception and attention; computational modeling; cognitive neuroscience | |
 | Nicholas Tippenhauer Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 201 |
Faculty Advisor: Megan Saylor Faculty Advisor: Duane Watson Developmental Science language development; word learning; language production; cognitive development |
 | Lénie Torregrossa Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 310-694-6450 311 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Sohee Park Clinical Science My research focuses on socio-emotional deficits and bodily self disturbances in the schizophrenia spectrum. |
| Allison Vreeland Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 207a |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science Understanding the mechanisms of actions in interventions for youth with anxiety and depression; specifically, the role of stress, coping, and executive functioning in these populations | |
 | Madison Wagener | Faculty Advisor: Andrew Tomarken Clinical Science Quantitative Methods | |
 | Jin Wang Graduate Student | Email Lab Website HOBBS 425 |
Faculty Advisor: James Booth Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Developmental Science language brain specialization with development |
 | Qimeng Wang Graduate Student | Email 313 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Jon Kaas Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Neuroscience |
 | Jacob Westerberg Doctoral Candidate | Email 612 655 9336 605 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Jeffrey Schall Faculty Advisor: Alexander Maier Neuroscience Microcircuitry of Visual Attention and Adaptation |
 | Marcus Wild Graduate Student | Email 615-322-5593 Wilson Hall 429 |
Faculty Advisor: Jo-Anne Bachorowski Clinical Science Social cognition and emotion, social ability, individual differences, and patient-provider interactions |
| Linhe Xu | Faculty Advisor: Suzana Herculano Neuroscience Interdisciplinary | ||
 | Haley Yaremych Graduate Student | Email Website Hobbs 214 |
Faculty Advisor: Kristopher Preacher Quantitative Methods multilevel modeling; multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM); family systems psychology |
| Darren Yeo Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Website Hobbs 302 |
Faculty Advisor: Gavin Price Interdisciplinary Educational neuroscience; Numerical and mathematical cognition; Learning and memory |