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Team

Principal Investigator

 

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Eran Dayan, Ph.D.

Eran is an Associate Professor in the Department of Radiology, and a faculty member at the Biomedical Research Imaging Center. He completed his Ph.D. in Neuroscience, working in the departments of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and Brain Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and was then a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. He joined UNC-Chapel Hill in 2016.

Email: eran_dayan(at)med.unc.edu

   

Postdoctoral Fellows and Guest Scholars


Belfin RV, Ph.D.

Belfin obtained his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from Karunya Deemed University. His research interests include network science, network neuroscience and machine learning.

 

 

Graduate Students and Research Assistants

 


William Stanford, B.S.

William has undergraduate degrees in Neuroscience and Math from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is a second year graduate student in the Neuroscience Curriculum of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences Ph.D. Program. William is studying mechanisms by which the brains of individuals are differentially impacted in aging and neurodegenerative disease. He’s also interested in the application of deep learning to build generative models of the brain to further characterize these mechanisms. In collaboration with Dr. Peter Mucha (Darmouth).


Evert Garcia-Guzman, B.S.

Evert obtained his undergraduate degree in Applied Physics from UNC-Pembroke and is a current graduate student in the Department of Physics & Astronomy. He is working on delineating the property of redundancy in functional brain networks.

 


Deontae Pharr, B.S., M.S.

Deontae is completing a rotation in the lab. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science, with specializations in Deep Learning and Big Data. He hopes to use these computational techniques to accelerate the investigation of the effects of brain disorders on cognitive functions to create translational solutions.

Undergraduate Students


Oscar Fawcett

Oscar is a senior at UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in statistics and analytics. Oscar’s research interests include the inferential statistics and analysis that can be done on network data. Currently, he is researching the different methods of comparing brain connectivity networks. This work is in collaboration with Dr. Nicolas Fraiman (Statistics).

 


Chloe Du

Chloe is a junior at UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in Neuroscience and minoring in Chemistry and Medical Anthropology.

Lab Alumni

 

Sandra Alvarez, B.S. Rotation PhD Student (BCB/BBSP) 2018
Nil Aygun, B.S., M.Sc. Rotation PhD Student (BCB/BBSP) 2019
Arianna Casconne, B.S.
 Rotation PhD Student (Neuro/BBSP) 2019
Kevin Chen, B.S.
 Undergraduate Student
 2017-2019
Joseph Flesch
 Undergraduate Student 2021
Shivam Gandhi
 Undergraduate Student 2020-2022
Keerti Kalluru
 Undergraduate Student 2019-2021
Kichang Kwak, Ph.D.
 Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-2022
Stephanie Langella, Ph.D.
 Graduate Student 2019-2021
Monica Lyons, B.S.
 Rotation MD/PhD Student (MD/PhD Program) 2020
Paige Leonhardt, B.S. Undergraduate Student 2017-2018
Haley Prakke, B.S
 Undergraduate Student 2019-2021
Celia Rousseau, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-2018
Marc Rudolph, B.S.
 Graduate Research Assistant
 2020
Usman Sadiq, Ph.D.
 Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-2021
Chia-Hao Shih, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-2019
Na-Young Shin, M.D., Ph.D.
 Visiting Scholar
 2021-2022
Amber Tang, B.S. Undergraduate Student
 2017-2019
Josh Thomas, B.S Undergraduate Student 2018-2019
Alice Woolard, B.S
 Rotation PhD Student (Neuro/BBSP) 2020-2021