Research Mentors


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 P. Anikeeva Polina Anikeeva, AMAX Assistant Professor in Materials Science and EngineeringResearch Keywords: Biophysics, Medical, Nanotechnology

email: anikeeva@mit.edu

mbear Mark Bear, Picower Professor of NeuroscienceResearch Keywords: brain plasticity, experience-dependent plasticity, neurological disease

email: mbear@mit.edu

Boyden Ed Boyden, Benesse Career Development Associate Professor of Biomedical EngineeringResearch Keywords: neuroengineering, psychiatry, neural circuits

email: esb@media.mit.edu

Emery Brown, Associate Department Head IMES/Professoremail: enb@neurostat.mit.edu
Kwanghun Chung, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineeringemail: khchung@mit.edu
Constantine-Paton Martha Constantine-Paton, Professor of BiologyResearch Keywords: synaptogenesis, development, disease

email: mcopaton@mit.edu

Feng Guoping Feng, Investigator, McGovern Institute and Poitras Professor of NeuroscienceResearch Keywords: synapse, circuit, optogenetics, OCD, autism, bipolar disorder

email: fengg@mit.edu

Gabrieli John Gabrieli, Grover Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology and Cognitive NeuroscienceResearch Keywords: memory, brain imaging, cognition

email: gabrieli@mit.edu

Edward Gibson, Professor of Cognitive SciencesResearch Keywords: informational constraints, language learning, working memory, longterm memory

email: egibson@mit.edu

Graybiel Ann Graybiel, Institute ProfessorResearch Keywords: basal ganglia, habit learning, multielectrode recording

email: graybiel@mit.edu

Myriam Heiman, Assistant Professor of NeuroscienceResearch Keywords: neurodegenerative disease, basal ganglia, Huntington’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease

email: mheiman@broadinstitute.org

Rudolf Jaenisch, Professor of BiologyResearch Keywords: transgenics, model organisms

email: jaenisch@wi.mit.edu

Jasanoff Alan Jasanoff, Associate Professor of Biological EngineeringResearch Keywords: functional MRI, neural systems, reward learning

email: jasanoff@mit.edu

Kanwisher Nancy Kanwisher, Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive NeuroscienceResearch Keywords: human cognitive neuroscience, fMRI, vision and perception

email: ngk@mit.edu

Kjelgaard Margaret Kjelgaard, Clinical Assistant Professor, Comm. Sci. & DisordersResearch Keywords: prosody, spoken language, specific language impairment

email: mkjelgaard@mghihp.edu

Lieberman Henry Lieberman, Principal Research Scientist, MIT Media LaboratoryResearch Keywords: artificial intelligence, Programming by Example, user interface, visual programming

email: lieber@media.mit.edu

Lin Yingxi Lin, Fred & Carole Middleton Career Development Assistant Professor of NeuroscienceResearch Keywords: GABAergic synapses, neuronal activity, circuit homeostasis

email: yingxi@mit.edu

Littleton J. Troy Littleton, Professor of Biology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Department of Biology, MITResearch Keywords: molecular neuroscience, neurotransmitter release, synaptic plasticity

email: troy@mit.edu

Elly Nedivi, Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Department of BiologyResearch Keywords: synaptic plasticity, candidate plasticity genes

email: nedivi@mit.edu

Picard Rosalind Picard, Professor of Media Arts and SciencesResearch Keywords: multidimensional signal modeling, computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, human-computer interaction, affective computing

email: picard@media.mit.edu

Poggio Tomaso Poggio, Eugene McDermott Professor in the Brain Sciences and Human BehaviorResearch Keywords: computational neuroscience, vision, learning theory

email: tp@ai.mit.edu

Saxe Rebecca Saxe, Associate Professor of Cognitive ScienceResearch Keywords: development, social cognition, neuroimaging

email: saxe@mit.edu

Schulz Laura Schulz, Class of 1943 Career Dev Associate ProfessorResearch Keywords: early childhood, learning, cognition

email: lschulz@mit.edu

Scolnick Ed Scolnick, Chief Scientist, Stanley Center for Psychiatric ResearchResearch Keywords: genetic analysis, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder

email: scolnick@broad.mit.edu

Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research ScientistResearch Keywords: phonological modelling, auditory modelling, computer speech recognition, statistical language modelling, natural language understanding and generation, discourse and dialogue modelling, prosodic analysis

email: seneff@csail.mit.edu

Silbey Susan Silbey, Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities and Professor of Sociology and AnthropologyResearch Keywords: ethnography, social organizations, expert communities

email: ssilbey@mit.edu

Sinha Pawan Sinha, Professor of Vision and Computational NeuroscienceResearch Keywords: computational vision, object recognition

email: psinha@mit.edu

Hazel Sive, Professor of BiologyResearch Keywords: vertebrate development, frog, zebrafish, genetic analysis

email: sive@wi.mit.edu

Elizabeth Spelke, Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard Universityemail: spelke@wjh.harvard.edu
Sur Mriganka Sur, Paul E. Newton Professor of NeuroscienceResearch Keywords: cerebral cortex, development, plasticity and dynamics, brain disorders

email: msur@mit.edu

Tenenbaum Joshua Tenenbaum, Professor of Cognitive Science and ComputationResearch Keywords: bayesian models of cognition, learning and inference, computational cognitive science

email: jbt@dmit.edu

Ting Alice Ting, Ellen Swallow Richards Associate Professor of ChemistryResearch Keywords: quantum dots, molecular signaling, protein imaging, proteomic analysis

email: ating@mit.edu

Tsai Li-Huei Tsai, Picower Professor of NeuroscienceResearch Keywords: epigenetic regulation of learning and memory, alzheimer’s disease, neurogenesis

email: lhtsai@mit.edu

Kay Tye, Assistant Professor of NeuroscienceResearch Keywords: motivated behaviors, affective valence, optogenetics

email: kaytye@mit.edu

Xu Weifeng Xu, Assistant Professor of NeuroscienceResearch Keywords: calcium channels, plasticity mechanisms, learning and memory, synaptic molecules

email: weifeng@mit.edu

Yanik Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Associate ProfessorResearch Keywords: high-throughput technologies, ultrafast optics, microfluidics, neuronal regeneration, coherent photonics

email: yanik@mit.edu

Zhang Feng Zhang, Assistant Professor of NeuroscienceResearch Keywords: neuropsychiatric diseases, synthetic biology, neuroengineering

email: zhang_f@mit.edu

Xiaowei Zhuang, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, David B. Arnold Jr. Professor of Science, Harvard Universityemail: zhuang@chemistry.harvard.edu