People
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
Project Scientist
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.
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.
Yijun Wang
Research Interests
- EEG Based Brain-Computer Interfaces
- Multimodal Neuroimaging
- Mobile Brain Imaging
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
Visiting Scholars
Vinicio Changoluisa
2018–present
Shang Feng
2015–present
Jia-Lien Hsu
2016–present
Poyuan Jeng
2018
Li-Wei (Leo) Ko
Research Interests
- Neural Engineering
- Brain Computer Interface
- Neural Rehabilitation
- Wearable Devices.
2017–present
Li-Yu Huang
2015–present
Hayato Maki
2016
Marco Petilli
2016–present
Yurong Qin
2016–present
Ramesh Rajagopalan
2016–present
Andrea Ravignani
2016–present
Yasufumi Sakai
2014–present
Nattapong Thammasan
Research Interests
- Affective Computing (Emotion Recognition)
- Brain-computer Interface in Music Listening
- EEG Signal Processing and Analysis
- Machine Learning
2016–present
YuKai Wang
Research Interests
- Machine Learning
- EEG Based Brain Computer Interface
2013–2016
Clemens Wöllner
2018–
Lin Zhang
2015–present
Yuxi Zhang
2016–present
Yanhong Zhou
Research Interests
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Diagnosis methods based on fMRI/EEG data analysis for cognitive impairment
- Health and medical big data mining based on machine learning methods
2017–present
Graduate Students
Michael Chuang
Robert Gougelet
Sheng-Hsiou (Shawn) Hsu
Chun-Shu Wei
Luca Pion-Tonachini
Siddharth
2015–present
Technical Staff
Susana Brugues
2018–present
Ramon Martinez Cancino
–present
Clement Lee
2017–present
Miryam Palomino
–present
Nicole Wells
–present
Administrative Staff
Rhonda McCoy
Center Administrator
–present
Aerin Wang
Student
2018–present
Staff Volunteers
Avital Birger
Damin Borooah
Chiyuan Chang
2017–present
Tzu-han Cheng
2017–present
Anthony Cheung
2016–present
Kuan-Jung Chiang
2017–present
Hristos Courellis
2016–present
Andrea Hsieh
2017–present
Rishikesh Ingale
2017–present
Shiyong Kang
Chang Liu
2017–present
Miranda Summers
2017–present
Dung Truong
2018–present
Ting Yu
2018–present
Roland Xu
Wesley Zhuang
2017–present