People

Marvin M. Chun, Ph.D. [vita]
Marvin M. Chun is the Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology with joint faculty appointments in the Yale School of Medicine Department of Neuroscience, and the Yale College Cognitive Science Program. His cognitive neuroscience laboratory employs brain imaging and machine learning to study how people see, attend, remember, and perform optimally.  One line of work uses brain imaging to decode percepts, thoughts, and memories.  Another major lab focus uses brain imaging to understand and predict what makes people different.

Chun received his B.A. from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea, after having spent a junior year abroad at the University of California, Berkeley. He earned his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, followed by a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship in the Vision Sciences Lab at Harvard University.  His research has been honored with the 2019 Samsung Ho-Am Prize in Science, a 2006 Troland Research Award from the US National Academy of Sciences, a 2002 American Psychological Association Early Career Award, the 2000 Chase Memorial Award from the Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, and a 1998 APA Division 3 New Investigator Award. His laboratory is grateful for funding from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. In Yale College he teaches Introduction to Psychology, for which he received the Phi Beta Kappa William DeVane Award for Teaching and Scholarship and the Lex Hixon Prize for Teaching Excellence.

From 2017 – 2022, Professor Chun served as Dean of Yale College.  Prior to that, Professor Chun served as the master and head of Berkeley College at Yale from 2007-2016.  His tenure has been generously recognized with a portrait, which hangs in the Berkeley Dining Hall.  The portrait artist is Alastair Adams, commissioned by the fellows, alumni, and families of Berkeley College, with David Swensen, and Dean Takahashi/Wendy Sharp as leading benefactors.  Professor Chun sat for the portrait in the Swensen House living room, where a portrait of David Swensen by Alastair Adams is on display.  The stained glass artwork of the Berkeley College shield in Chun’s portrait was crafted by his mother, Sang Chun.

Yaoda Xu, Ph.D. [homepage]
Yaoda studies visual information representation in the human brain using both behavioral measures and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques. She is particularly interested in the involvement of the human posterior parietal cortex in supporting the adaptive and online aspect of visual information processing critical to visual working memory, decision making and behavior.

Yaoda received her Ph.D. from the Department of Brain and Cognitive Neurosciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She did her postdoctoral training at the Harvard University Department of Psychology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Brain and Cognitive Neurosciences. Prior to her current appointment at Yale, she held a research scientist position at the Yale University Department of Psychology and an Associate Professor position at the Harvard University Department of Psychology.

Shijie Qu

Shijie is keen on understanding how our brains facilitate different types of cognitive control processes. His long-term goal is to explore how cognitive control interacts with social cognition, helping people adapt to our highly socialized world successfully. To achieve this goal, Shijie is enthusiastic about employing a diverse array of methodologies, including behavioral analysis, neuroimaging, and machine learning techniques.

Originally hailing from Beijing, China, Shijie received his B.S. degree at the Ohio State University where he double-majored in Computer Science and Data Analytics. He then went up to University of Michigan for his M.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering. It was during this period that he discovered his passion for unraveling the mysteries of human cognition, prompting him to transition into the realm of cognitive neuroscience.

Yuhong Jiang, Ph.D. (Yale) [homepage]
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University
APA Division 3 Young Investigator Award
Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers
Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award
Full Professor, Dept. of Psychology, University of Minnesota

Ingrid Olson, Ph.D. (Yale) [homepage]
Research Assistant Professor, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
Professor, Temple University

Do-Joon Yi, Ph.D. (Yale) [homepage]
Associate Professor of Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

Steven Most, Ph.D. (Harvard) [homepage]
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Delaware
Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Geoff Woodman, Ph.D. (U of Iowa) [homepage]
Assistant then Associate Professor of Psychology, Vanderbilt University
Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences

Andrew Leber, Ph.D.  (Yale) [homepage]
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of New Hampshire
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Ohio State University

Soojin Park, Ph.D. (Yale) [homepage]
Postdoctoral fellow, MIT (with Aude Oliva) at MIT
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Yonsei University

Justin Junge, Ph.D. (Yale)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Tufts University (with Dan Dennett).
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (with George Alvarez)
Lecturer, Princeton University

Yaoda Xu, Ph.D. (MIT) [homepage]
Assistant then Associate Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
Senior Research Scientist, Yale University

Nicholas Turk-Browne, Ph.D. (Yale) [homepage]
NSERC Doctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor to Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Princeton University
APA Early Career Award
Vision Sciences Society Young Investigator Award
Cognitive Neuroscience Society Young Investigator Award
Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Yale University

Julie Golomb, Ph.D. (Yale) [homepage]
NSF Graduate Fellow
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT
Assistant to Associate Professor, Ohio State University
Sloan Fellow
APF Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award
FABBS Early Career Impact Award
APA Early Career Award

Jeremy Shen, Ph.D. (Yale) [resume]
Senior Research Scientist, Unilever

Tim Vickery, Ph.D. (Harvard) [homepage]
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Delaware

Brice Kuhl, Ph.D. (Stanford) [homepage]
Assistant Professor of Psychology, New York University
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Oregon

Katherine Sledge Moore, Ph.D. (U of Michigan)
Assistant Professor, Elmhurst College
Assistant Professor, Arcadia University

Scott Guerin, Ph.D. (UCSB) [homepage]
Research Scientist, Stanford University
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Marc Coutanche, Ph.D.  (U Penn) [homepage]
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh

Emily Ward, Ph.D.  (Yale) [homepage]
NSF Graduate Fellow
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Monica Rosenberg, Ph.D.  (Yale)  [homepage]
NSF Graduate Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University
Forbes 2017 30 under 30 Scientists
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Chicago

Thomas O’Connell, Ph.D.  (Yale)
NSF Graduate Fellow
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT

YoungHye Judy Kwon, Ph.D.  (KAIST)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Northwestern

Qi Lin, Ph.D.  (Yale)
Postdoctoral Fellow, RIKEN

Viola Mocz, Ph.D. (Yale)
Stanford Graduate School of Education

Ray Kwangsun Yoo, Ph.D. (KAIST) [homepage]
Assistant Professor of Digital Health, Samsung Advanced Institute for Health Sciences and Technology (SAIHST)
Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)
Assistant Professor of Data Science Research Institute, Research Institute for Future Medicine
Samsung Medical Center (SMC)

Kao-ping Chua, B.S., Vanderbilt University
M.D., Washington University Medical School.

Todd Kelley, B.S., Vanderbilt University
Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University (with Steve Yantis)
Postdoctoral Researcher, University College London (with Nilli Lavie)

Tim Brady, B.A., Yale University
Graduate student, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT (with Aude Oliva)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Vision Sciences Lab, Harvard University
Assistant Professor, UC San Diego

Rachel Denison, B.A., Yale University
Marshall Scholar
Graduate Student, UC Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU

Jenika Beck, B.A., Yale University
Graduate Student, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Samuel Norman-Haignere, B.A., Yale University
Graduate Student, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,MIT

Harrison Korn, B.A., Yale University
Yale Law School ’14

Sam Cartmell, B.A., Yale University
Stanford Medical School

Alan Cowan, B.S., Yale University
Graduate Student, UC Berkeley

Wei-ting Tiffany Hsu, B.S., Yale University
Graduate Student, Department of Psychology, Stanford University

Emily Avery, B.S., Princeton University
Yale School of Medicine

Sreejan Kumar, B.S., Yale University
Graduate Student, Princeton University

Angus Ho Ching Fong, B.S., Yale University
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Gigi Stark, B.S., Yale University
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