Principal Investigator
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Lee M. Miller Professor – Dept . of Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior Professor – Dept. of Otolaryngology | Head and Neck Surgery Technical Director: UC Davis Center for Mind & Brain UC Davis leemiller@ucdavis.edu – (530)-297-4474 Lee Miller received his doctorate in Bioengineering from the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley. His academic training includes quantum physics, single-cell neurophysiology, and cognitive neuroscience. He joined the UC Davis faculty in 2004, in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, & Behavior and the Center for Mind & Brain. His lab investigates the neural bases of auditory perception and speech recognition. |
Graduate Students
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Britt Yazel Neuroscience Graduate Group – bwyazel@ucdavis.edu Britt received a bachelor’s in biology with minors in computer science and biochemistry from Eastern Washington University in 2014. He is currently a 5th year Ph.D. student in the U.C. Davis Neuroscience Graduate Group, and works in the labs of Dr. Lee Miller and Dr. Sanjay Joshi. Britt’s work is focused on auditory selective attention, neuroprosthetic devices, and accessibility technology for persons with disabilities. Britt expects to graduate in the spring of 2021. |
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Tanya Matyushkina (member of Prof. David Corina’s lab). Tanya is a 4th year graduate student in Psychology, broadly interested in speech perception. Her current project is dedicated to investigation of effects of cross-modal plasticity on speech perception in children with cochlear implants. |
Research Assistants
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Akshita Sharma Akshita is an overly passionate Mathematics enthusiast. She’s fascinated by the beauty of Mathematics and its applications in all fields. She aims to direct her focus on learning and implementing her skills especially in machine learning technology and data optimization to further enhance the quality of life for all. |
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Karim Abou Najm Karim is a first year undergraduate double majoring in Computer Science and Cognitive Science with a Neurological Emphasis. He is a passionate student working towards an understanding of the brain and pushing for its augmentation. This interest extends computationally to learning and emulating the mathematical foundation of the mind, and neurologically to the biological interface on multiple levels of magnification. This pursuit is something he is both emotionally and academically invested in. Outside of class, Karim enjoys writing, both creatively in free form and consolidating ideas into narratives of all types. |
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Jessica Cai Jessica is an ASPIRE fellow and Computer Science & Engineering major who loves creating innovative solutions to interesting problems. She is conducting EEG analysis to investigate speech encoding/decoding, and is fascinated by how the brain processes sound. In her free time, Jessica likes to run, bake, and go on long walks. She is also interested in learning first aid, ASL, and home/auto repair. |
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Collaborators
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David Corina Prof. of Linguistics – Center for Mind & Brain, UC Davis |
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Kristina Backer Assistant Professor – UC Merced |
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Sanjay Joshi Professor of Engineering – Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering – UC Davis |
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Antoine (Tony) Shahin Assoc. Research Professor – UC Merced |
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Fernando Espinosa-Iniguez Miller Lab consultant |
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Matthew Stickle Jr. Specialist – UC Davis |
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Luis El Srouji Graduate student, Physics – UC Davis |
| Gregg Recanzone Professor of Neurobiology, Physiology, & Behavior – UC Davis |
Alumni
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| Andrew Kessler | Nathaniel Guteirrez | Christopher Bishop |
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| Kristina Backer | Tom Campbell | Kevin Hill |
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| Jess Kerlin | Sam London | Bartlett Moore |
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| Markham Anderson | Deepak Yadav | Fernando Espinosa-Iniguez |
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| Matthew Stickle | Niranjana Jayakrishnan | Aashir Farooqi |
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| Yinuo Qin | Luis El Srouji | Sonja Swanson |