Helen Hou

Assistant Professor, CSHL

Previous affiliations:

B.Sc. Physics and Biology, MIT (PNAS 2012)

Ph.D. Neuroscience, Harvard University (Cell 2016)

Helen Hay Whitney Postdoc Fellow, Columbia University (Cosyne 2021)

Visiting Research Scientist, Reality Labs CTRL-Labs Neuromotor Interfaces (biorxiv 2024)

 

Our Team

  • Diana

    Diana Naglič

    Research Technician

    Diana plays a key role in building our lab from the ground up and enabling our very first experiments, all the while being a competitive swimmer.

    naglic [at] cshl [dot] edu

  • Irene

    Irene Nozal Martin

    Graduate Student (Stony Brook)

    Irene joined our lab as a Fulbright master’s student and is continuing her PhD thesis in the lab. Irene has a strong interest at the intersection of Bioengineering and Neuroscience.

    nozalma [at] cshl [dot] edu

    irene.nozalmartin [at] stonybrook [dot] edu

  • Kyle Daruwalla

    Kyle Daruwalla

    NeuroAI Scholar

    Kyle obtained his PhD @ University of Wisconsin-Madison studying non-von Neumman computing. Kyle is generally interested in neuromorphic computing and digging deep into neural and behavior data.

    daruwal [at] cshl [dot] edu

  • Linghua Zhang

    Linghua Zhang

    Postdoctoral Fellow

    Linghua obtained her PhD in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, where she studied tongue touch receptors. She is intrigued by the motor mechanisms underlying innate, ethologically relevant behaviors.

    lingzhan [at] cshl [dot] edu

  • Zainab

    Zainab Ahmad

    Undergraduate student

    Zainab is an NYIT undergraduate student and has contributed to key behavioral experiments.

    zahmad06 [at] nyit [dot] edu

  • Laurie

    Laurie Maleganos

    Senior Scientific Administrator

    Laurie is keeping our lab running smoothly and also managing the Fellows Program @ CSHL.

    maleganos [at] cshl [dot] edu

  • Brian Song

    Brian Song

    PFF Student

    Brian joins our lab through the CSHL Partners for the Future program and is building anatomical models.

    bsong23 [at] roslynschools [dot] org

  • Andrew Frankel

    NeuroAI Intern

    Andrew is an MS student in Cognitive Neuroscience at CUNY, after a Computer Science MS at Georgia Tech and working in industry as a machine learning engineer. Andrew is interested in the intersection of artificial and biological intelligence.

    Frankel [at] cshl [dot] edu

  • Julia

    Julia Rodriguez

    PFF Student

    Julia is a Partners for the Future student from Farmingdale High School and is pioneering comparative rodent anatomical studies in our lab.

Alumni

  • Liu Zhang

    NeuroAI Summer Intern

    Liu was our first summer student and is currently a PhD student @ Princeton Applied and Computational Mathematics.

  • Armen Enikolopov

    Consulting Engineer

    Armen obtained his PhD @ Columbia Biology & Neuroscience with expertise in electrophysiology, sensory processing, and instrumentation design.

  • Emily Davis

    Emily Davis

    Undergraduate Research Program (URP)

    Emily was an URP summer student and is currently finishing her B.Sc. neuroscience degree at High Point University.

  • We are actively recruiting at all levels, including but not limited to Students, Postdocs, and Research Technicians. Please get in touch via hou [at] cshl.edu and include your CV/resume and contact information of three references.