Principal Investigator: Il Memming Park

• Group Leader at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal
• Co-founder of RyvivyR, a neurotech startup
• Visiting Associate Professor at Stony Brook University, NY, USA
• Google scholar, DBLP, ORCID
• LinkedIn, @memming.bsky.social, memming@twitter/X
• neurotree
• 2015–2023 Associate professor with tenure at Stony Brook University
• 2010–2014 postdoc with Jonathan Pillow (UT Austin)
• 2006–2010 PhD under José C. Príncipe (University of Florida)

Matthew Dowling

• Postdoctoral researcher, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

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Germán Abrevaya

• Postdoctoral researcher, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

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Ábel Ságodi

• PhD student, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

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Hyungju Jeon

• PhD student, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

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Past members

Mahmoud Elmakki

• Research Technician (2024 Apr – 2026 Jul), Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

Ayesha Vermani

• PhD student (2020 Jun – 2025 Oct), Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, and Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University
• Postdoctoral Fellow (2025 Oct – 2025 Dec), Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
• Now Postdoctoral Fellow at Emory University (with Chethan Pandarinath)

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Yves Bernaerts

• Postdoctoral researcher (2023 Jun – 2025 Dec), Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

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Justus Konstantin Kautz

• Visiting Master student (Erasmus), University of Freiburg
• Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown (2025 Aug – Nov)

Piotr Sokol

• Short-term Postdoctoral Fellow (2023 Jun – Sep; 2025 May – Sep), Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
• PhD student (2017 Aug – 2023 May), Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University

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A. Carolina Filipe

• Research Support Technician (2023 Sep – 2025 Jul), Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

André Mendonça

• Postdoctoral researcher (2023 Feb – 2024 Jan), Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown

Ian Jordan

• Postdoc (2022 May – 2023 May), Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University
• PhD (2018 Jun – 2022 Apr), Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University
• Now CEO of RyvivyR

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Tushar Arora

• Master’s student (2021 Sep – 2023 May), Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University
• Now PhD student at Boston University

Josue Nassar

• PhD student (2018 Jan – 2022 Apr), Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University
• Co-advised by Dr. Mónica F. Bugallo

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Yuan Zhao

• Research Scientist, Machine Learning Team, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Facility, National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) as of 2022
• Postdoctoral Associate (2016 Aug – 2021 Aug), Department of Neurobiology and Behavior (NBB), Stony Brook University
• PhD student (2015 Jun – 2016 Aug), Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University

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Amy Feng

• Regeneron STS Scholar (2022)
• Pittsford Sutherland High School
• Simons Summer Research Program (2021 summer)

Diego M Arribas

• Visiting scholar (2020 Jan – 2020 Dec)
• PhD student, Biomedicine Research Institute of Buenos Aires

Logan Becker

• Masters student (2017 Jun – 2019 Dec), Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Stony Brook University
• PhD student, University of Texas at Austin (as of 2020)

Kathleen Esfahany

• Harvard
• MIT
• Ward Melville High School
• Simons Summer Research Program (2017 summer)
• Intern Researcher (2017-2018)

David Hocker

• Postdoctoral researcher (2016 Jun – 2017 Dec), Department of Neurobiology and Behavior (NBB), Stony Brook University

Eben Kadile

• Undergraduate student, Department of Mathematics, Stony Brook University