People

Name	Job title	Department	Role	Research interests
Dor Abrahamson	Professor	Graduate School of Education	ICBS Members	Mathematics learning and teaching.
Hillel Adesnik	Associate Professor	Neuroscience	Faculty	Plasticity, connectivity, and dynamics of neural networks
Scott Baraban	Adjunct Professor	HWNI	Faculty	Translational epilepsy research with a focus on interneurons, genetic forms of epilepsy, zebrafish and drug discovery.
Helen Bateup	Associate Professor	Neuroscience, Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Molecular basis of synapse and circuit changes associated with epilepsy and autism.
Diana Bautista	Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Molecular mechanisms underlying the sensations of itch, touch and pain.
Annaliese Beery	Associate Professor	Neuroscience, Integrative Biology	Faculty	Mechanisms supporting affiliative social behavior between peers; neuroendocrinology of complex behavior.
Eric Betzig	Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology, Physics	Faculty	Development of new tools for imaging and image analysis to enable biological discovery
Sonia Bishop	Adjunct Associate Professor	HWNI	Faculty, ICBS Members	Neural basis of attention, emotion and anxiety. Individual differences in cognitive control and emotional responsivity.
Kristofer Bouchard	Adjunct Assistant Professor	HWNI	Faculty	Functional organization and dynamic coordination of sensorimotor networks underlying learned, skilled behaviors.
Stephen Brohawn	Associate Professor	Neuroscience, Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Molecular basis of sensory transduction and electrical signaling, especially mechanosensation.
Silvia Bunge	Professor	HWNI, Psychology	Faculty, ICBS Members	Neural mechanisms, development and plasticity of higher cognitive functions in humans.
Anne Collins	Associate Professor	Psychology	Faculty, ICBS Members	Computational modeling of human learning, decision-making and executive functions.
Emily Cooper	Assistant Professor	Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science	Faculty, ICBS Members	Computational modeling of visual perception.
Mark D’Esposito	Distinguished Professor	HWNI, Psychology	Faculty	Neural basis of high-level cognitive processes such as working memory and executive control.
Yang Dan	Professor, Pivotal Life Sciences Chancellor's Chair in Neuroscience	Neuroscience	Faculty	Neural circuits controlling sleep and mechanisms of executive control.
Michael DeWeese	Professor	Neuroscience, Physics	Faculty	Neural mechanisms underlying auditory processing and selective attention in the cerebral cortex and artificial neural networks.
Terrence Deacon	Professor	Anthropology	ICBS Members	Determining the nature of the human divergence from typical primate brain anatomy, the cellular-molecular mechanisms producing this difference, and the correlations between these anatomical differences and special human cognitive abilities, particularly language.
Andrew Dillin	Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Genetic and molecular mechanisms regulating aging and aging-related disease.
Gül Dölen	Professor	Neuroscience, Psychology	Faculty	Psychedelics; Critical Periods; Octopus; Social Behaviors; Evolution; Synaptic Plasticity; Extracellular Matrix; Oxytocin, Stroke; Fragile X; Autism; PTSD; Addiction
Anca Dragan	Associate Professor	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	ICBS Members	Algorithms for human-AI and human-robot interaction.
Alyosha Efros	Professor	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	ICBS Members	Data-driven computer vision, as well as its projection onto computer graphics and computational photography.
David Feinberg	Acting Professor	Neuroscience	Faculty	MRI technology development, mapping columnar and visual circuitry, modeling neurovascular coupling.
Daniel Feldman	Professor, Coates Family Endowed Chair in Neuroscience	Neuroscience	Faculty	Sensory processing and plasticity in the somatosensory cortex.
Jerry Feldman	Professor	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	ICBS Members	Artificial Intelligence (AI), Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO), Security (SEC), and Cognitive Science.
Marla Feller	Professor	Neuroscience	Faculty	Functional development and organization of neural circuits in the retina.
Yvette Fisher	Assistant Professor	Neuroscience	Faculty	Flexibility of neural circuits for spatial navigation.
John Flannery	Professor	Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science	Faculty	Gene therapies for inherited retinal degenerations.
David Foster	Professor	Neuroscience	Faculty	Encoding of spatial memory and navigation toward rewards by neural ensembles in the hippocampus.
Meng-meng Fu	Assistant Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Our lab goal is to understand glial function at the animal, cell, and molecular level in order to elucidate mechanisms of normal development and disease progression.
Robert Full	Professor	Integrative Biology	ICBS Members	Comparative biomechanics and physiology.
Susanne Gahl	Professor	Linguistics and the Cognitive Science	ICBS Members	Basic to applied research, connecting computational models of lexical access and retrieval with behavioral observations, such as subtle variation in pronunciation, symptoms of aphasia, and spelling errors.
Jack Gallant	Professor, Co-director of the Brain Imaging Center (BIC)	Neuroscience	Faculty, ICBS Members, Resilience	Identifying cortical maps to discover how the brain represents information about the world and its own mental states.
Robert Glushko	Adjunct Full Professor	Cognitive Science	ICBS Members
Andrea Gomez	Assistant Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Instructive cues for neural form and function.
Corey Goodman	Adjunct Professor	HWNI	Faculty	Translation of biomedical discoveries into therapeutics for human health.
Alison Gopnik	Professor	Psychology	ICBS Members	Cognitive science and the study of children’s learning and development.
Patrick Gutteridge	Senior Director of Development Berkeley Brain Initiative		Staff
William Hanks	Professor	Anthropology	ICBS Members	The organization and dynamics of routine language use (semantics, pragmatics, interactional sociolinguistics and the social foundations of speech practices).
Lin He	Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Cilia biology, choroid plexus function in cerebrospinal fluid production.
Ming Hsu	Professor	Haas School of Business	Faculty	Neural basis of economic and consumer decision-making.
James Hurley	Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Structural and biophysical basis of endomembrane mechanisms that contribute to neurodegenerative diseases.
Ehud Isacoff	Professor, Evan Rauch Chair in Neuroscience, Director of HWNI, Co-Director of The Weill Neurohub	Neuroscience, Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty, Resilience	Mechanisms of ion channel function, synapse development, plasticity and neural circuit function.
Richard Ivry	Distinguished Professor	Neuroscience, Psychology	Faculty, ICBS Members	Cognition and action, with an emphasis on how people select actions, learn skills, and produce coordinated movements.
Lucia Jacobs	Professor	Psychology	ICBS Members	Cognition and development.
William Jagust	Professor	Neuroscience	Faculty	Anatomic, biochemical, and neurochemical bases of brain aging and dementia.
Na Ji	Professor	Neuroscience, Physics	Faculty	Novel imaging methods to understand the brain.
Keith Johnson	Professor	Linguistics	ICBS Members	The nature of phonetic knowledge and the idea that phonetic knowledge is best thought of as inclusive of all of one's experiences as a speaker or hearer.
Daniela Kaufer	Professor, Co-director of the Berkeley Neuro AI Center for the Study of Resilience	Neuroscience, Integrative Biology	Faculty, ICBS Members, Resilience	Molecular mechanisms of brain plasticity in response to stress and neurological insults.
Preeya Khanna	Assistant Professor	Neuroscience, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences	Faculty	Neural basis of dexterous motor skills, neurotechnology for restoring and rehabilitating movement.
Celeste Kidd	Associate Professor	Psychology	ICBS Members	Processes involved in knowledge acquisition, especially in young children, using a combination of computational and behavioral methods.
Stanley Klein	Professor	Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science	Faculty, ICBS Members	Psychophysical investigation of of visual processing and the role of perceptual learning, attention and binocular interactions.
Bob Knight	Professor of the Graduate School	Psychology	Faculty, ICBS Members	Neural coding underlying goal-directed behavior and development of brain-machine interfaces for motor and language prostheses.
Hedy Kober	Professor	Psychology	Faculty	Craving, regulation of craving, substance use disorders, treatments for substance use and eating disorders, neural and psychological mechanisms of treatment, emotion regulation, mindfulness, meditation.
Richard Kramer	Professor	Neuroscience	Faculty	Novel chemical reagents for non-invasive optical sensing and manipulation of ion channels and synapses.
Lance Kriegsfeld	Professor	Neuroscience, Psychology	Faculty, Resilience	Brain and endocrine regulation of circadian rhythms
George Lakoff	Professor Emeritus	Linguistics	ICBS Members	Cognitive linguistics, especially the neural theory of thought and language; conceptual systems, conceptual metaphor, grammar and meaning; the application of cognitive and neural linguistics to politics, literature, psychology, philosophy and mathematics.
Stephan Lammel	Associate Professor	Neuroscience	Faculty	Midbrain dopamine circuits in reward-based behaviors and pathological changes in addiction, depression and schizophrenia.
Markita Landry	Associate Professor	Neuroscience, Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	Faculty	Exploiting nanomaterials to probe and characterize complex biological systems at the nano-scale; nanosensors for brain chemistry.
Geoffrey Lee	Associate Professor	Philosophy	ICBS Members	Metaphysics, philosophy of mind, foundations of cognitive science.
Samantha Lewis	Assistant Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Mitochondrial biogenesis, mitochondrial genome inheritance, organelle assembly, DNA replication, cell metabolism, interactions between membrane-bound organelles.
Lexin Li	Professor	School of Public Health	Faculty	Statistical neuroimaging analysis, brain connectivity analysis, imaging causal inference, multimodal and longitudinal imaging analysis, and imaging tensor regression.
Zoë Lieberman	Administrative Assistant		Staff
Chunlei Liu	Associate Professor, Co-director of the Brain Imaging Center (BIC)	HWNI, Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences	Faculty	MRI technology development for the study of neural circuits and modulation.
Ellen Lumpkin	Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Understanding force transduction mechanisms that initiate the senses of touch and pain.
Michael Martin	Mills Adjunct Professor	Philosophy	ICBS Members
Evan Miller	Associate Professor	Chemistry, Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Development and application of molecular tools for studying neuroscience.
Ken Nakayama	Adjunct Professor	Psychology	ICBS Members	Cognitive neuroscience.
Alva Noë	Professor	Philosophy	ICBS Members	Cognitive science, phenomenology, consciousness, philosophy, theory of perception, theory of art, Wittgenstein, analytic philosophy origins.
Bruno Olshausen	Professor, Director of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience (RCTN)	Neuroscience, Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science	Faculty, ICBS Members	Computational models of sensory coding and visual perception.
James Olzmann	Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology, Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology	Faculty	Cellular lipid homeostasis, oxidative lipid damage and cell death, neurodegeneration.
Zachary Pardos	Associate Professor	School of Education	ICBS Members	Knowledge representation, Adaptive Learning, artificial intelligence, Learning Analytics, Recommender Systems, higher education, data science, Digital Learning Environments, Cognitive Modeling, Big Data in Education, Knowledge Tracing, Formative Assessment, intelligent tutoring systems,...
Barbara Peterson	Executive Director		Staff
Steven Piantadosi	Professor, Co-director of the Institute of Cognitive and Brain Science (ICBS)	Psychology	Faculty, ICBS Members	Understanding what computational processes support language acquisition, math learning, and general cognition.
David Presti	Professor	Neuroscience	ICBS Members	Neuroscience of consciousness, mind-matter relation, psychopharmacology, psychedelic science, clinical treatment of addiction.
William Prinzmetal	Adjunct Professor Emeritus	Psychology	ICBS Members	Cognition.
Teresa Puthussery	Associate Professor	Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science	Faculty	Processing of visual signals in the healthy and diseased retina.
Michael Ranney	Professor	Psychology and School of Education	ICBS Members	Problem solving, knowledge representation & reorganization, explanatory coherence & inference, conceptual change, societal implications, science instruction, global climate change psychology, numeracy in journalism, naïve/informal physics, computational models of cognition,...
Michael Rapé	Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Molecular mechanisms of cell fate decisions in development and disease.
Terry Regier	Professor	Linguistics	ICBS Members	The relation of language and cognition, through computational principles, cross-language semantic data, and behavioral experiments.
Austin Roorda	Professor	Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science	Faculty	Development of adaptive optics to track, measure, and correct the eye's imperfections.
Stuart Russell	Distinguished Professor	Electrical Engineering and Computer Science	ICBS Members	Artificial intelligence, with a current emphasis on the long-term future of artificial intelligence and its relation to humanity.
Geoff Saxe	Professor	School of Education	ICBS Members	The relations between culture and cognitive development with a focus on mathematical cognition.
David Schaffer	Professor	Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	Faculty	Engineering stem cell and gene therapeutics.
Randy Schekman	Professor	Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	Membrane assembly, vesicular transport, and membrane fusion among organelles of the secretory pathway.
David Schonenberg	HWNI Manager		Staff
Karthik Shekhar	Assistant Professor	Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	Faculty	Single-cell genomics and statistical inference.
Amitai Shenhav	Associate Professor	Psychology	Faculty	Neuroscience of motivation, decision-making, and cognitive control.
Michael Silver	Professor, Director of the Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP)	Neuroscience, Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science	Faculty, ICBS Members	Neurophysiological and neurochemical substrates of human visual perception, attention, and learning.
Friedrich Sommer	Adjunct	HWNI	Faculty	Theoretical principles of learning and perception
Mahesh Srinivasan	Associate Professor	Psychology	ICBS Members	Linguistic and cognitive development, and social cognitive development across different cultural contexts.
Mark Tanouye	Professor	Environmental Science, Policy & Management	Faculty	Novel genetic approaches to study the causes of epilepsy and other nervous system disorders.
Rowland Taylor	Professor	Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science	Faculty	Structure and function of neural circuits in the retina
Frédéric Theunissen	Professor, Director of the Neuroscience PhD Program	Neuroscience	Faculty	Perception of complex sounds.
Doris Tsao	Professor, Nan Fung Life Sciences Faculty Scholar	Neuroscience	Faculty	Understanding how the brain builds a model of the visual world
Matthew Walker	Professor	Psychology	Faculty	The impact of sleep on human health and disease
Joni Wallis	Professor, Equity Advisor	Neuroscience	Faculty	Neuronal mechanisms underlying high-level cognitive and behavioral processes
Kevin Weiner	Associate Professor	Neuroscience, Psychology	Faculty	Models to explain how brain structure and function contribute to measurable behaviors (e.g. face perception)
Noah Whiteman	Professor	Integrative Biology, Molecular & Cell Biology	Faculty	The role of dietary toxins in shaping the evolution of the nervous system and implications for treatment of neurodegenerative disorders
David Whitney	Professor	Psychology	Faculty	Visual perception and attention.
Linda Wilbrecht	Professor	Neuroscience, Psychology	Faculty	Experience dependent plasticity and the development of circuits involved in value based decision making.
Ke Xu	Associate Professor	Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering	Faculty	Super-resolution fluorescence microscopy to interrogate cellular processes at the nanoscale.
Michael Yartsev	Associate Professor	Neuroscience, Bioengineering	Faculty	Neural basis of complex spatial and acoustic behaviors.
Jacob Yates	Assistant Professor	Wertheim School of Optometry & Vision Science	Faculty	How populations of neurons in cortex encode the visual world, using statistical and machine learning models to understand neural activity and human perception, how information generated by eye movements is utilized by cortical circuits.
Andy diSessa	Professor	Education	ICBS Members	Conceptual and experiential knowledge in physics, and principles for designing flexible and comprehensible computer systems.