Byron Yu

Postdocs

Evren Gokcen

Co-advised with Profs. Adam Kohn (Einstein), Christian Machens (Champalimaud)

Noga Larry

Co-advised with Profs. Matthew Smith, Steven Chase, Aaron Batista (Pitt)

Asma Motiwala

Co-advised with Prof. Aaron Batista (Pitt)

Joana Soldado Magraner

Co-advised with Prof. Matthew Smith

PhD Students

Noah Freedman

Department: Program in Neural Computation / MSTP
Co-advised with Profs. Steven Chase, Aaron Batista (Pitt)

Chris Ki

Department: Joint Program in Neural Computation & Machine Learning
Co-advised with Prof. Matthew Smith

Megan McDonnell

Department: Program in Neural Computation
Co-advised with Prof. Matthew Smith

Yuki Minai

Department: Joint Program in Neural Computation & Machine Learning
Co-advised with Prof. Matthew Smith

Will Noll

Department: Program in Neural Computation
Co-advised with Profs. Steven Chase, Aaron Batista (Pitt)

Collaborators

• Prof. Misha Ahrens (Janelia)
• Prof. Aaron Batista (Pitt)
•      Juliana Couras (PhD student)
•      Emily Oby (postdoc)
•      Patrick Marino (postdoc)
•      Adithya Narayan (PhD student)
•      Sam Snyder (PhD student)
• Prof. Steven Chase (CMU)
•      Adam Smoulder (PhD student)
• Prof. Jen Collinger (Pitt)
• Prof. Brent Doiron (Chicago)
• Prof. Chengcheng Huang (Pitt)
• Prof. Adam Kohn (Einstein)
• Prof. Christian Machens (Champalimaud)
• Prof. Matthew Smith (CMU)

Alumni

Postdocs

• Elizabeth Spencer (2021-2023; co-advised with Adam Kohn and Christian Machens)
• Emilio Salazar-Gatzimas (2019-2022; co-advised with Matthew Smith and Aaron Batista; next position: Senior Data Scientist, Software Engineer at THINKalpha)
• Joao Semedo (2018-2020; co-advised with Adam Kohn and Christian Machens; next position: Bosch Center for Artificial Intelligence)
• Alan Degenhart (2014-2020; co-advised with Aaron Batista; next position: Scientist, Allen Institute for Brain Science)
• William Bishop (2015-2018; next position: Theory Fellow, Janelia Research)
• Adam Snyder (2015-2018, co-advised with Matthew Smith; next position: Assistant Professor, University of Rochester)
• Matthew Golub (2015-2017, co-advised with Steven Chase; next position: postdoc at Stanford; now Assistant Professor at University of Washington)

PhD

• Shenghao Wu (CMU PNC & ML, 2018-2023, co-advised with Matthew Smith and Brent Doiron; next position: ByteDance)
• Tze Hui Koh (CMU BME, 2017-2023, co-advised with Steve Chase and Misha Ahrens; next position: postdoc)
• Hillary Wehry (CMU PNC, 2017-2023, co-advised with Rob Turner; next position: Pitt medical school / MSTP)
• Darby Losey (CMU PNC & ML, 2017-2023, co-advised with Steve Chase and Aaron Batista)
• Evren Gokcen (CMU ECE, 2017-2023, co-advised with Adam Kohn and Christian Machens; next position: postdoc)
• Akash Umakantha (CMU PNC & ML, 2015-2021, co-advised with Matthew Smith; now Data Scientist, Fidelity)
• Jay Hennig (CMU PNC & ML, 2015-2021, co-advised with Steven Chase and Aaron Batista; next position: postdoc at Harvard; now Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine)
• Ryan Williamson (CMU PNC & ML, 2015-2020, co-advised with Matthew Smith; next position: Pitt medical school / MSTP; now Ophthalmology Resident, UPMC)
• Joao Semedo (CMU ECE, 2012-2018, co-advised with Christian Machens and Adam Kohn; next position: postdoc)
• Benjamin Cowley (CMU ML, 2012-2018, co-advised with Matthew Smith; next position: postdoc at Princeton; now Assistant Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
• William Bishop (CMU ML, 2011-2015, co-advised with Robert Kass; next position: postdoc)
• Matthew Golub (CMU ECE, 2010-2015, co-advised with Steven Chase; next position: postdoc)
• Patrick Sadtler (Pitt BioE, 2010-2014, co-advised with Aaron Batista; next position: Data Management Specialist, SIHO Insurance Services)

Masters

• Suhas Ganesh (CMU ECE, 2018-2019; next position: Verily Life Sciences)
• Rudina Morina (CMU ECE, 2016-2017; next position: Fulbright scholar at ETHZ)
• Ranjani Srinivasan (CMU BME, 2015-2017; next position: PhD student at Johns Hopkins)
• Karthik Lakshmanan (CMU Robotics, 2012-2014; current position: Zipline)
• Peter Lund (CMU BME / ML, 2012-2014, co-advised with Steven Chase; next position: Software Engineer R&D Machine Learning, Bloomberg)
• Yuanning Li (CMU ECE, 2012; next position: PhD student at CMU)

Undergraduates

• Jonathan Gould (uPNC summer student, 2021)
• Alix MacKlin (uPNC summer student, 2016)
• Sean Bittner (ECE undergraduate, uPNC year-long fellowship, 2015-2016, next position: PhD student at Columbia)
• Alex Kuefler (uPNC summer student, 2014, next position: MS student at Stanford)
• Hillary Wehry (uPNC summer student, 2013, next position: MD/PhD student at Pitt)
• Zachary Butler (uPNC summer student, 2012; next position: PhD student at UC Irvine)
• Benjamin Cowley (ECE undergraduate, uPNC year-long fellowship, 2010-2012; next position: PhD student at CMU, see above)
• Kendall Lowrey (ECE undergraduate, 2010; next position: PhD student at U Washington)