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Eva Dyer

Eva Dyer (she/they) is the Rachleff Family Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Dyer leads the NerDS Lab, which focuses on representation learning, generative modeling, and AI for science. A key area of the lab’s research focuses on AI for neuroscience, where they aim to develop tools to better understand the brain and neural computation, and to uncover abstractions of natural intelligence for creating new brain-inspired AI.

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Sergey Shuvaev

Joint postdoc with the NerDS and Pesaran labs. Sergey’s research focuses on biologically informed models of decision-making, integrating AI with neuroscience. He holds degrees from MIPT and has worked at Cold Spring Harbor Lab.

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Alexandre Andre

Alexandre Andre is a first-year PhD student in Computer & Information Science at UPenn. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Technology of Compiègne.

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Vinam Arora

Vinam Arora is a third-year PhD student in Computer & Information Science at UPenn. He completed his undergraduate studies in Electronics at the Indian Institution of Technology (IIT) in Roorkee and worked as a Design Engineer at Texas Instruments.

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Zihao Chen

Zihao Chen is a third year PhD student in Computer & Information Science at UPenn. He received his bachelor’s degree in Biology from Wuhan University and Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering from Fudan University in 2023.

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Ian Knight

Ian Knight is first-year PhD student in the Computer & Information Science at UPenn. He received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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Divyansha Lachi

Divyansha is a third year Ph.D. student in Computer & Information Science at UPenn. She received her B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India.

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Wenrui Ma

Wenrui Ma is currently a first-year PhD student in Computer & Information Science at UPenn. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Math from Hunan University in Changsha.

Shivashriganesh Mahato

Shivashriganesh Mahato is a second-year PhD student in Computer & Information Science at UPenn. He received his BS in Applied Mathematics and MS in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.

Jingyun Xiao

Jingyun is a PhD student in Computer & Information Science at UPenn. He received his bachelor’s degree in CS from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2023.

Julie Young

Julie is a third-year undergrad studying CS at Georgia Tech, interested in the intersection of machine learning and neuroscience.

Aidan Schneider

PhD student at Washington University in the Hengen Lab, collaborating closely with the NerDS Lab.

Pablo Vempala

Senior at Midtown High School and Research Assistant in the NerDS Lab, working on brain decoding for C. elegans.