JiangLab Alumni

JiangLab Alumni

Tim is the first to complete his Ph.D. in Jiang Lab. He completed his dissertation on "the spread of perceptual grouping over gaps of space and time" in Spring 2008, after spending four years in Jiang Lab and one year at the Harvard Vision Lab. Tim is a postdoc at Yale working with Dr. Marvin Chun and Dr. Daeyeol Lee.

Won Mok Shim, PhD

Won Mok received her PhD from Harvard University. She is interested in applying cognitive neuroscience tools to studies of visual attention. Won Mok was a postdoc in JiangLab from 2005 to 2007 and has made significant contributions. She is continuing her post-doctoral studies with Dr. Nancy Kanwisher at MIT.

Thomas McKeeff

Thomas McKeeff worked in JiangLab as a postdoc from Sep to Nov 2007. He is interested in temporal processing of the visual system, visual awareness and attention. He is currently at Princeton, finishing up his PhD.

Joo-Hyun Song, PhD

Joo-Hyun received her PhD from Harvard Vision Lab. At Jiang Lab (2003-2006), Joo-Hyun worked on contextual cueing and visual working memory. She is a postdoc at Smith-Kettlewell Eye Institute working with Dr. Robert McPeek.

Rachel Sussman, M.S.

Rachel received her Master's degree from Harvard and left the lab to pursue alternative careers. She taught science in China for two years before returning to pursue a medical degree at Stanford. At JiangLab (2004-2006), Rachel worked on visual implicit learning and working memory.

Rama Chakravarthi, M.D., PhD.

Rama worked some of the time at JiangLab during his graduate career at Harvard vision lab (2002-2007). Rama is a postdoc at NYU working with Dr. Pelli.

Diyu Chen, M.D., M.E.

Diyu was the lab’s graduate research assistant from 2004-2007. She worked on visual working memory as well as cultural differences in visual cognition. She continues her pursuit of a doctor’s degree at Harvard School of Education.

Igor Bascandziev, Ed.M

Igor was the lab’s graduate research assistant in 2007. He worked on contextual cueing. Igor continues his work as a doctoral student at Harvard School of Education.

Valeria Rausei

Valeria worked in JiangLab as a visiting student from the University of Trento for seven months in 2006. She worked on contextual cueing and will continue researching on this topic as part of her dissertation.

Gustavo Vazquez

Gustavo worked in JiangLab as a visiting student from the University of Santiago for three months in fall 2007. He collaborated with Tal Makovski on visual learning in multiple object tracking.

Sidney Burks, M.S.

Sidney was JiangLab’s first full-time research assistant and lab manager (2003-2004), after receiving his B.S. in physics from MIT. He played a key role setting up JiangLab computer system, including Linux servers for fMRI data analysis. Sidney left the lab to attend graduate school in math and engineering in France. He earned a Masters in Engineering, Material Science in 2006 from Ecole des Mines de Paris. He is currently working on a Master’s of Science in Atomc and Molecular Physics at the University of Paris VI, preparing for Doctorat next year.

Livia King, B.S.

Livia inherited Sidney’s post during 2004-2005. Her research focused on the neural substrates of visual context learning. Livia is currently a graduate student at MIT’s BCS department, where he studies reading and the visual word form area at Dr. John Gabrieli’s lab.

Joshua Hartshorne, B.A.

Josh was the lab’s research assistant from 2006-2007. He initiated the web-based experiments. Josh will attend graduate school at Harvard psychology department with Dr. Jesse Snedeker. He will continue to run web-based experiments at Snedeker lab.

Kris Liu, B.S.

Kris worked in JiangLab first in 2004, when she was an undergraduate student at Welleslley College. Kris returned to the lab in 2006-2007 as a research assistant. She has worked on human’s ability to extract visual details from briefly presented scenes. Kris will attend Harvard School of Education’s Master’s program, after which she will enroll at UC-Santa Barbara’s PhD program psychology and language.

Arjun Kumar, B.S.

Arjun graduated from Harvard college in 2004. Before his departure, he spent a year conducting research in JiangLab on visual working memory. After graduation, Arjun worked as a research assistant at Columbia University. He started the MD/PhD programs at State University of New York Downstate in Fall 2008.

Albert W. Leung

Albert spent some time in JiangLab sporadically while he was an MIT student from 2003-2006. His research on implicit learning was published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

Y. Jeremy Shen, B.S.

Jeremy Shen spent two years in JiangLab (2004-2006) as an undergraduate student. He completed two projects, one on interrupted visual search and one on visual memory for motion path. Jeremy is a graduate student at Yale, working with Dr. Marvin Chun.

Hing Yee Eng, B.S.

Hing worked for two years (2004-2006) as an undergraduate student. Her research focused on visual working memory for simple and complex stimuli. Hing is now working as a medical assistant at a gastroenterology clinic. Hing is pursuing a medical degree at the University of Cincinnati.

Catherine Matthews, B.S.

Cat spent a year at JiangLab before graduating from Harvard college. She conducted her honor’s thesis on associative learning. Cat did social work for a year before enrolling in UCLA's master's program on social work.

Amanda Rigas, B.S.

Amanda spent one semester in JiangLab in 2003. She collaborated with Joo-Hyun Song and Yuhong Jiang on visual implicit learning. Amanda is conducting medical research currently in her capacity as a clinical research coordinator for an NCI funded study on cancer. She also volunteers with Americorps Community HealthCorps at Codman Square. Amanda is applying to medical school.

Long Ouyang’10

Long worked in JiangLab during spring 2007 as an undergraduate student. He studied visual statistical learning and its interaction with attention. Currently he is an undergraduate intern at the Developmental lab at Harvard.