Meet the team
Y. Kate Hong, PhD
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor, Dept. Biological Sciences & Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
Sc.B. Brown University
Ph.D. Harvard University
katehong { at } andrew.cmu.edu
Alice Nam
Ph.D. candidate
Biological Sciences
B.S. in Biology, Brandeis University
aynam { at } andrew.cmu.edu
Sara Caldas Martinez
Ph.D. candidate
Biological Sciences
B.S. in Biochemistry, Autonomous University of Barcelona
M.S. in Neuroscience, Autonomous University of Barcelona
scaldasm { at } andrew.cmu.edu
Links: Linkedin
Rawan Fakhreddine
Ph.D. student
Systems Neuroscience, co-Advisor: Douglas Weber
B.S. in Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin
ryf [at] andrew.cmu.edu
Links: LinkedIn
Hannah Kim
Postbac
Postbac Research Fellow in Quantitative Biology
B.A. in Neuroscience and English, Wellesley College
hannahk3[at] andrew.cmu.edu
Jiwook (Joseph) Shin
Research Assistant
B.S. in Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
jiwooks { at } andrew.cmu.edu
Grace Tang
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience
Carnegie Mellon University, Class of 2025
gtang2 { at } andrew.cmu.edu
Baihe (Lily) Zhang
Undergraduate Research Fellow
Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh, Class of 2025
Maggie Monahan
Undergraduate Research Fellow
NASA Undergraduate Summer Research Fellow
Carnegie Mellon University, Class of 2028
Lab Alumni
Morgan Tenney
Research Assistant / Lab Manager
B.S. in Biology, Westminster College
Vittoria Tonin
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University, Class of '26
Riya Podder
Master's student
Computational Biology
B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, Vellore Institute of Technology
Benjamin George
Graduate Student
B.S. in Biology, University of Buffalo - SUNY
Sanjana Krishna
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University, Class of '24
Alexander Lammers
Research Assistant
B.S. in Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
Paige Golden
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of Pennsylvania, Class of '23