TNEL - UC San Diego

Principal Investigator

Vikash Gilja, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Health Sciences Neurograduate Program
University of California, San Diego
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Current Lab Members

Lauren Stanwicks, M.S.

Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience
M.S., Neuroscience and Behavior, UMass Amherst, 2016
B.S., Animal Science, UMass Amherst, 2015

Lauren was born, raised, and educated in Massachusetts. Prior to coming to UCSD, she spent several years working at MIT's McGovern Institute and The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She loves her puggle Penelope, roller skating, obscure board games, and a well-made cocktail. More often than not, you can find her watching a sunset on one of San Diego's beautiful beaches.

Research Interests: error processing, dopamine pathways, sensory-motor feedback

Sophia Huang, M.S.

Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering
M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego, 2021
B.S. Mathematics - Computer Science, UC San Diego, 2020
B.S. Cognitive Science, UC San Diego, 2020

Sophia was born and raised in Chengdu, China (hometown of the Panda bear). In her free time she likes to paint and surf.

Research Interests: visual motor integration, neural representation, brain dynamics, dimensionality reduction

Lauren Ostrowski, B.S.

M.D./Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience
B.S., Neuroscience, Brown University, 2018

Lauren grew up in beautiful, rural New Hampshire, where she developed a love for winters, pine trees, and farm-to-table food. She worked in brain-computer interface research at Brown, and later in epilepsy and language research at Massachusetts General Hospital. In San Diego, you can catch her at the dog beach with her mini aussie Luna, thrift shopping, climbing, and mixing up cocktails for friends.

Research Interests: speech production, neural dynamics, brain-computer interfaces, neuroprostheses