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We develop and apply scalable, ground truth-oriented technologies to analyze, repair, and simulate the brain at a mechanistic level. Through creative, systematic, and collaborative work, we invent and discover, and help people grow as thinkers and leaders.
About the GroupPeople
We bring together students and practitioners of many different disciplines and backgrounds to confront some of the intractable challenges of our time.
Meet the peopleAnnouncements
- Congratulations to Shiwei Wang, Jordan Harrod, Catherine Della Santina, Cipriano Romero, Nick Barry, and Kettner Griswold for passing their PhD defenses!
- Congrats to Zeguan Wang for accepting a fellowship at the Rowland Institute at Harvard, and to Jinyoung Kang for accepting a tenure-track faculty job at UF Scripps!
- Congrats to Daisong Pan for accepting a Helen Hay Whitney Fellowship!
- Congrats to Sapna Sinha for being named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia!
- Congrats to Clarence Zheng for winning the 2026 Department of Chemistry Research Award and the 2026 Department of Biological Engineering Znaty Prize, for his undergrad work!
What we work on
We invent technologies for imaging, and controlling, the structure and dynamics of the brain. We apply these tools, often in interdisciplinary collaborations, towards the understanding, repairing, and simulating of brain computations. Our scientific goals include creating biologically accurate computer simulations of entire brains, and solving brain aging.
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