Principal Investigator
Ideator, Creator, and Supreme Ruler of the MontiLab.
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Postdoctoral Scholar
Lord of Chaos
Working on: Using graph theory, information theory, and nonlinear dynamics to characterize what’s happening in the brain whenever it’s unconscious – be it from seizures, anesthesia, or traumatic brain injury.
Alessandra Dallavecchia, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow at UCLA
Graduate Students
Zoe Lee, 5th year PhD Student
Graduate Student in the Cognitive Neuroscience program
Norman Spivak, 4th year MD-PhD Student
Emperor of Echoencephalography
Working on: Developing novel MR sequences to visualize ultrasound waves; Exploring the safety and efficacy of focused ultrasound as a neuropsychiatric intervention
Amber Hopkins, M.A., 4th year PhD Student
Countess of Consciousness
Working on: Combining non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, including TUS and TMS, with neuroimgaing methods, including MRI and EEG, to investigate how subcortical and cortical structures interact to support consciousness.
Sonya Ashikyan, M.A., 3rd year PhD Student
Queen of Cognition
Working on: Specializing in traumatic brain injury research using neuroimaging, neuromodulation, and computational methods to investigate all levels of severity.
Thomas McGee, M.A., 3rd year PhD Student
Prince of Language Processing
Working on: Investigating the representation of syntax in biological and artificial minds. Current/recent projects investigate the penetrability of syntactic representations to world knowledge in LLMs; pragmatic inferences in vision-language transformers; and stimulation of brain regions to study how they support syntax and word meaning.
Former Lab Members
Giacomo Bertazzoli, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow at Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Post-Doctoral Fellow at Johns Hopkins University
Senior Scientist at Magnus Medical
PhD Student at the University of Sussex’s School of Engineering and Informatics
Assistant Professor at UCLA in Department of Neurosurgery
Veteran Affairs Polytrauma Post-Doctoral Resident at Stanford University
Principle Investigator at the University of Vienna
Research Scientist at the Casa Colina Research Institute
John Dell’Italia, Ph.D.
Josh Cain, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Tübingen
Research Scientist in the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Human and Machine Intelligence Section
Former Research Assistant