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    <h1>nerds_lab</h1>
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    <a href="index.html">Home</a>
    <a href="about.html">About</a>
    <a href="people.html">People</a>
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  <h2>People</h2>

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  <h3>Principal Investigator</h3>
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      <h3>Eva Dyer</h3>
      <p>Eva Dyer (she/they) is the Rachleff Family Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Dyer leads the NerDS Lab, which focuses on representation learning, generative modeling, and AI for science. A key area of the lab’s research focuses on AI for neuroscience, where they aim to develop tools to better understand the brain and neural computation, and to uncover abstractions of natural intelligence for creating new brain-inspired AI.</p>
      <p><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Sb_jcHcAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank">Google Scholar</a></p>
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      <h3>Sergey Shuvaev</h3>
      <p>Joint postdoc with the NerDS and Pesaran labs. Sergey’s research focuses on biologically informed models of decision-making, integrating AI with neuroscience. He holds degrees from MIPT and has worked at Cold Spring Harbor Lab.</p>
      <p><a href="https://shuvaev.me/" target="_blank">Personal Site</a></p>
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  <h3>PhD Students</h3>
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          <img src="images/people/alex.jpg" alt="Alexandre Andre">
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            <h3>Alexandre Andre</h3>
            <p>Alexandre Andre is a first-year PhD student in Computer & Information Science at UPenn. He graduated with a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Technology of Compiègne.</p>
            <p><a href="https://alexandreandr.github.io/profile//">Personal Site</a></p>
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          <img src="images/people/vinam.png" alt="Vinam Arora">
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            <h3>Vinam Arora</h3>
            <p>Vinam Arora is a third-year PhD student in Computer & Information Science at UPenn. He completed his undergraduate studies in Electronics at the Indian Institution of Technology (IIT) in Roorkee and worked as a Design Engineer at Texas Instruments.</p>
            <p><a href="https://www.vinam.dev/">Personal Site</a></p>
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          <img src="images/people/zihao.jpg" alt="Zihao Chen">
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            <h3>Zihao Chen</h3>
            <p>Zihao Chen is a third year PhD student in Computer & Information Science at UPenn. He received his bachelor’s degree in Biology from Wuhan University and Master of Engineering in Biomedical Engineering from Fudan University in 2023.</p>
            <p><a href="https://www.zihaoiz.com/">Personal Site</a></p>
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          <img src="images/people/ian.jpg" alt="Ian Knight">
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            <h3>Ian Knight</h3>
            <p>Ian Knight is first-year PhD student in the Computer & Information Science at UPenn. He received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.</p>
            <p><a href="https://www.ianjknight.com/">Personal Site</a></p>
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          <img src="images/people/div.jpeg" alt="Divyansha Lachi">
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            <h3>Divyansha Lachi</h3>
            <p>Divyansha is a third year Ph.D. student in Computer & Information Science at UPenn. She received her B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India.</p>
            <p><a href="https://divyansha1115.github.io/">Personal Site</a></p>
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          <img src="images/people/wenrui.jpg" alt="Wenrui Ma">
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            <h3>Wenrui Ma</h3>
            <p>Wenrui Ma is currently a first-year PhD student in Computer & Information Science at UPenn. She graduated with a Bachelor’s degree majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Math from Hunan University in Changsha.</p>

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          <img src="images/people/shiva1.jpg" alt="Shivashriganesh Mahato">
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            <h3>Shivashriganesh Mahato</h3>
            <p>Shivashriganesh Mahato is a second-year PhD student in Computer & Information Science at UPenn. He received his BS in Applied Mathematics and MS in Computer Science from Texas A&M University.</p>

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          <img src="images/people/jingyun.jpg" alt="Jingyun Xiao">
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            <h3>Jingyun Xiao</h3>
            <p>Jingyun is a PhD student in Computer & Information Science at UPenn. He received his bachelor’s degree in CS from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech in 2023.</p>

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  <h3>Alumni</h3>
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  <li><strong><a href="https://www.mehai.dev/" target="_blank">Mehdi Azabou</a></strong>, Ph.D. (2020–2024) – Outstanding Graduate Student in ECE (2024), Spotlight @ NeurIPS; Thesis: <em>Building a foundation model for neuroscience</em> → Now Postdoc with Liam Paninski, Blake Richards @ Columbia University, Mila</li>
  <li><strong><a href="https://ranliu98.github.io/" target="_blank">Ran Liu</a></strong>, Ph.D. (2019–2024) – Rising Star in EECS (2023), CSIP Research Award (2023), Oral @ NeurIPS; Thesis: <em>Generalizable and Explainable Methods for Learning from Physiological Data and Beyond</em> → Now at Apple</li>
  <li><strong><a href="https://www.chihenglin.com/" target="_blank">Chi-Heng Lin</a></strong>, Ph.D. (2018–2022) – TRIAD Research Fellowship (2020); Thesis: <em>Understanding Data Manipulation and How to Leverage it to Improve Generalization</em> → Now at Samsung Research</li>

  <!-- Masters Students -->
  <li><strong>Venky Ganesh</strong>, M.S. (2022–2024) → Now at NVIDIA</li>
  <li><strong>Keerthan Ramnath</strong>, M.S. (2022–2024) → Now at Apple</li>
  <li><strong>Amrit Khera</strong>, M.S. (2023–2024) → Now at OpenAI</li>
  <li><strong>Michael Mendelson</strong>, Undergrad (2020–2024) – Presidents Undergraduate Research Award at Georgia Tech (2022, 2023) → Now Ph.D. @ Columbia</li>
  <li><strong>Aishwarya Balwani</strong>, Ph.D. (2018–2021) → Now PhD in Hannah Choi’s lab @ Georgia Tech</li>
  <li><strong>Kyle Milligan</strong>, Ph.D. (2018–2020) → Now at Northrup Grumman</li>
  <li><strong>TJ LaGrow</strong>, Ph.D. (2017–2019) – NSF GRFP Honorable Mention → Now in Shella Keilholz’s lab at Emory</li>

  <!-- Undergraduate Students -->
  <li><strong>Matthew Jin</strong>, Undergrad (2022–2023) → Master’s @ Stanford</li>
  <li><strong>Carolina Urzay</strong>, Undergrad (2021–2022) → Master’s @ TU Delft</li>
  <li><strong>Joy M. Jackson</strong>, Undergrad (2021–2022) – NSF GRFP (2023), REU SURE (2021), Best Research in Biomedical Category → Ph.D. @ Georgia Tech with Alex Abramson</li>
  <li><strong>Zijing Wu</strong>, Undergrad (2020–2021) → Anqi Wu’s lab @ Georgia Tech, Now Ph.D. @ McGill</li>
  <li><strong>Amaal Abdi</strong>, High School Intern (2020–2021) → Undergrad @ Wharton, University of Pennsylvania</li>
  <li><strong>Max Dabagia</strong>, Undergrad (2018–2020) – NSF GRFP (2020), PURA (2019) → Ph.D. @ Georgia Tech with Santosh Vempala, Now Postdoc with Christos Papadimitriou @ Columbia</li>
  <li><strong>Alexis Webber</strong>, Undergrad (2019) – Charles Hancock Award for Neuroengineering Research → Now at Alpha Omega</li>

  <!-- Selected Interns -->
  <li><strong>Joseph Miano</strong>, Undergrad (2018–2020) – PURA (2019) → M.S. in CS, now at JPMorgan Chase</li>
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