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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Zainab Ahmad
Undergraduate student
Zainab is an NYIT undergraduate student and has contributed to key behavioral experiments.
zahmad06 [at] nyit [dot] edu
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Laurie Maleganos
Senior Scientific Administrator
Laurie is keeping our lab running smoothly and also managing the Fellows Program @ CSHL.
maleganos [at] cshl [dot] edu
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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
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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
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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
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Liu Zhang
NeuroAI Summer Intern
Liu was our first summer student and is currently a PhD student @ Princeton Applied and Computational Mathematics.
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Armen Enikolopov
Consulting Engineer
Armen obtained his PhD @ Columbia Biology & Neuroscience with expertise in electrophysiology, sensory processing, and instrumentation design.
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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.