News
2024
2024 April: Congratulations to Jonathan Kao for receiving the Northrup Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award
2023
2023 May: Congratulations to Dr. Jay Gill who successfully defended his PhD Thesis!
2023 May: Congratulations to Jonathan for your tenure!
2023 May: Congratulations to Jay who was selected to receive a 2023 Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture Award!
2023 Feb: Congratulations to Dr. Michael Kleinman who successfully defended his PhD Thesis!
2022
2022 August: Congratulations to Drs. Peter Schuette and Ken-Fu Liang, who both graduated with their PhDs!
2022 March: Congratulations to Peter who was selected to receive a 2022 Samuel Eiduson Student Lecture Award!
2022 March: Congratulations to Jay who received an NIH NRSA. His initial submission was not discussed, but his resubmission was scored 1% (top 1% of applications). Project Abstract
2021
2021 December: Congratulations to Michael Kleinman who was awarded a AWS-UCLA Science Hub fellowship.
2021 May: We published three papers from our collaboration with the Adhikari Lab on studying escape and threat in the dorsal premammillary nucleus and dorsal periaqueductal gray. Congratulations to Peter, Johannes, and Jinhan, who co-led these studies.
2021 April: We received an NIH NINDS R01 to support work in developing simulators for brain-machine interfaces.
2021 June: Congratulations to Peter Schuette, who received the UCLA Life Sciences Excellence in Research Award! He was selected from a pool of applicants from the entire Life Sciences division.
2020
2020 Oct: We received a NIH Director's New Innovator Award. This award supports research into building next generation brain-machine interfaces.
2020 Sep: We received a NSF CAREER Award. This award supports research to model cortical computation with recurrent neural networks.
2020 Aug: We were selected for a Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant. This award supports research to find neural population representations of threat in the brainstem.
2020 Aug: We published a study in Cell Reports on motor cortex's neural population representation during observed and executed movements. UCLA also wrote about this work.
2019
2019 Sep: Michael Kleinman received a Travel Award for the 2019 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. Check out his conference paper here and our recent bioRxiv preprint building on this work.
2019 Aug: Undergraduates Alicia Mercado (Mount Saint Mary's University) and Michelle Lam (UCLA) won the Best Poster Award at UCLA's Summer Undergraduate Research Program.
2019 June: Jonathan was named a Hellman Fellow for his work in building next generation brain-machine interfaces.
2019 April: PhD student Peter Schuette was awarded a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for his work in studying the representation of threat in rodents. Peter was also awarded a UCLA Affiliates Scholarship.
2018
2018 March: PhD student Michael Kleinman was awarded a Canadian NSERC PGS-D Fellowship for his work on using RNNs to model neural computation.