Our Team
Matt Kaufman, PhD
I am an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, in the department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, the Neuroscience Institute, and the NITMB. I joined the faculty at UChicago in 2018. I performed my PhD work in Krishna Shenoy's lab at Stanford, in close collaboration with Mark Churchland (now at Columbia), and did a postdoc in Anne Churchland's lab at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (now at UCLA).
Marie Greaney
PhD student joint with Heckscher lab, working on Drosophila larva locomotion
Poojya Ravishankar
PhD student working on how higher-order visual cortex informs movement in mouse
Zulfar Ghulam-Jelani
PhD student working on the neural dynamics of grasp in monkey
Harrison “Hank” Grier
PhD student working on how mouse sensorimotor cortex drives movement
Sohrab Salimian
PhD student working on the distribution of function across mouse motor cortex
Ankit Vishnubhotla
PhD student joint with Nogueira Manas lab, working on nonlinear models of cortical activity
Alumni
David Sabatini
Undergrad alum, worked on neural dynamics in monkey reaching and neural networks
Caitlin Ellithorpe
Undergrad alum, worked on visual properties in mouse PPC