People
Current Members
Faculty

Scott Makeig
Research Scientist & Director
Research Interests
- Analysis and modeling of human cognitive event-related brain dynamics as captured by high-dimensional EEG, MEG and other imaging modalities now including body motion capture.

Tzyy-Ping Jung
Research Scientist & Associate Director, Adj. Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UCSD
Research Interests
- Analysis and interpretation of neural activity measured by EEG, MEG and fMRI associated with human cognition, awareness and perception.
- Brain-computer interface and interaction
- Development of mobile wireless EEG and BCI systems that feature dry EEG sensor arrays and integrated data and signal processing hardware and software to obtain non-invasive, high spatial and temporal resolution, recording and interpretation of brain activity in unconstrained, freely-moving human subjects within operational environments.

John Iversen
Research Scientist & Associate Director
Research Interests
- Neural basis of auditory perception
- Dynamics of sensory-motor interactions
- Musical rhythm perception and production
- Rehabilitation of movement disorders using music
- The role of music in brain and behavioral development

Mateusz Gola
Research Interests
- Brain mechanisms of motivation, reward, and conditioning
- Neural basis of behavioral addictions (especially compulsive sexual behaviors and problematic pornography use)
- Neural and psychological mechanisms of substance use disorders
- Basic mechanisms of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) effects on brain activity
Use of TMS and EEG for addiction treatment - Development of more effective methods for addiction treatment
2014–present

Ken Kreutz-Delgado
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, UCSD
Research Interests
- The development of sensor-based intelligent learning systems that can function in unstructured, nonstationary environments and has on-going research activities in the areas of statistical signal processing; statistical learning theory and pattern recognition; adaptive sensory-motor control; nonlinear dynamics and multibody systems theory.
Project Scientists

Zeynep Akalin Acar
Research Interests
- Numerical Methods in Bioelectromagnetism
- Development of Neuroelectromagnetic forward head modeling toolbox
- EEG/MEG/ECoG source localization

Arnaud Delorme
Project Scientist
Research Interests
- Continued development of the EEGLAB software for EEG single-trial analysis and independent component analysis.
- EEG data mining using super-computers in large sets of data comprising thousands of subjects.
- Brain dynamics associated with mind wandering and its relationship to the default network.
- Neural correlates of meditation andother transcendental experiences in different traditions.

Jeng-Ren Duann
Research Interests
- fMRI Basics
Most current analysis methods for fMRI data assume a priori knowledge of the time course of the hemodynamic response (HR) to experimental stimuli or events in brain areas of interest. In addition, they typically assume homogeneity of both the HR and the non-HR "noise" signals, both across brain regions and across similar experimental events. When HRs vary unpredictably, from area to area or from trial to trial, an alternative approach is needed. Here, we use infomax Independent Component Analysis (ICA) to detect and visualize variations in single-trial HRs in event-related fMRI data.
SCCN Position(s)
Post-doc: 2003-2004; Assistant Project Scientist: 2004-2010; Associate Project Scientist: 2010 - present
Current position
Director, Biomedical Engineering Research and Development Center, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 404
Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medical Sciecne, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan 404

Ruey-Song Huang
Assistant Project Scientist
Research Interests
- Topographical mapping (retinotopy, tonotopy, somatotopy, multisensory maps) of cortical areas using fMRI
- Multisensory representation of space in multiple reference frames; multisensory attention, interaction, and integration
- Neural basis of metaphorical abstraction of space and time
- Multimodal neuroimaging (EEG/fMRI/NIRS) of sensorimotor functions
- Brain dynamics (EEG/fMRI) during sustained-attention tasks (driving); alertness monitoring
- EEG-based brain computer interface (BCI)
- Development of MR-compatible devices

Makoto Miyakoshi
Research Interests
- EEG data mining
- Statistical methods
- Software development on MATLAB
- Experimental psychology and cognitive science

Jason Palmer
Research Interests
- Understanding and characterizing the alpha and theta rhythms using statistical signal processing, dynamical systems, and computational neuroscience methods.
- General information theoretic properties of independence and mutual information based transformations for large sensor arrays, with application to EEG and speech, image and video coding.
- Development of the AMICA program for large scale adaptive parallel ICA.
- Development of VLSI implentation of convolutive ICA with adaptive linear process mixture model sources.

Ramesh Rajagopalan
Research Interests
- Wearable sensing and IoT enabled systems for mobile and pervasive health care. Applications include diagnosis, monitoring, and management of neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease, sleep disorders, and chronic illnesses
- Wireless communications and networks with specific focus on 5G wireless systems
- Data mining, machine learning, and signal processing for health care.
2019–
2016–2018 Visiting Scholar

Marissa Westerfield
Associate Project Scientist
Research Interests
- EEG and MoBI neuroimaging
- Autism and aging research
Postdoctoral Fellows

Frederic Broccard
Research Interests
- EEG Hyperscanning
- Cognitive Ethology
- Artificial Cognitive Systems
- Neuromorphic Engineering
- Mobile Brain Imaging

Francesco Marini
Research Interests
- Visual cognitive neuroscience
- Attention and distraction-filtering
- Working memory
- Multisensory integration
- EEG brain dynamics
2017–present

Johanna Wagner
Research Interests
- Brain-Computer Interaction
- Neurorehabilitation
- Mobile Brain Imaging
- Neural control of movement timing
- Functional roles of Oscillations in sensorimotor processing
2014–present

Ying Wu
Research Interests
- Semantic processing
- EEG brain dynamics and learning
- Second language acquisition
- Discourse analysis and pragmatics
- Social neuroscience
- Gesture and action comprehension
Graduate Students

Michael Chuang

Robert Gougelet

Sheng-Hsiou (Shawn) Hsu

Junting Ren

Siddharth
2015–present
Technical Staff

Susana Brugues
2018–present

Ramon Martinez Cancino
2016–present

Clement Lee
2017–present

Dung (Young) Truong
2019

Nicole Wells
2015–present
Administrative Staff

Grecia Cedillo
Student
2019

Rhonda McCoy
Sr. Research Administrator
2008–present

Aerin Wang
Student
2018–present
Visiting Scholars

Deniz Duman
2019

Poyuan Jeng
2018

Feng Wan
2019
Staff Volunteers

Daniel John
2019

Amelia Harrison
2019

Jonathan Ho
2019

Sydney Kessler
2019

Christian Lay-Geng
2019

Susan Lee
2019