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| Photo | Name | Title | Department | Research Interests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Bethlehem Abebe | Graduate Student | UConn Health | |
 | Sanjucta Adak | Graduate Student | UConn Health | |
 | Sarah Ahmadi | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Stress and trauma, coping, and mind-body interventions |
 | Sheila Alessi | Graduate Student | UConn Health | behavioral science, mHealth and digital therapeutics technologies, biosensors |
 | Shabnam Alizadeh Incheh | Graduate Student | UConn, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences | Bilingualism, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics, Sentence processing, Speech perception, Speech production |
 | Laila Almotwaly | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | My research centers on auditory attention, neural oscillations, and the mechanisms by which neurodivergent learners engage with dynamic learning environments |
 | Gerry Altmann | Faculty | UConn, Cognitive Science | Psycholinguistics and event representation |
 | Robert Astur | Faculty | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Addiction, anxiety disorders, memory |
| Bob Bayo | Graduate Student | Ohio University, Experimental Social Psychology | Judgement and decision-making | |
 | Jaime Blackmon | Mental Health Worker | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Anxiety, trauma, psychometric validation, stress |
 | Ana Bobrycki | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Reading and language development | |
 | Cynthia Boo | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Role of language on children's social development, social cognition, and concept development. |
 | Franklin Bray | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Embodied Cognition, Event Cognition, Language Comprehension, Representation |
 | Alaina Brenick | Faculty | UConn, Human Development and Family Sciences | Discrimination, intergroup relations, social justice, marginalized populations |
 | Jackie Caemmerer | Faculty | Educational Psychology, NEAG | Psychological Assessment Validity Issues, Relations between Social Variables and Academic Achievement and Application of Structural Equation Modeling & Longitudinal Analysis |
 | Rebecca Canale | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Autism spectrum disorder, Developmental mechanisms of attention and learning, Neural mechanisms of statistical learning and language learning |
| Jordan Cervantes | Graduate Student | UConn, Educational Psychology | Academic self-efficacy, self-discrepancy theory, self-determination theory, underrepresented students in higher education | |
| Hiral Choksi | Graduate Student | UConn, Computer Science | I am particularly interested in speech recognition, language processing, and spoken word interpretation, especially when approached through modern deep learning and machine learning techniques. I’m also curious about how generative AI can enhance human-computer interaction in language tasks. In addition, I’m drawn to the use of remote sensing and predictive modeling for data-driven decision-making, especially in interdisciplinary contexts where language and environmental signals intersect. | |
 | Silvia Clement-Lam | Faculty | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Reading development and disorders |
 | Abigael Click | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Perceptions of Gender and Sexual Minorities. LGBTQ+ Identity Denial, Essentialism, and Social Constructionism. Homophobia/Heteronormality. Intersectional Prejudice. Ableism and Disability Justice. |
 | Nicole Cruse | Faculty | Sacred Heart University, Communication Disorders | TBI, aphasia, cognition, serious gaming, executive dysfunction |
 | Kimberly Cuevas | Faculty | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Infancy, memory, learning, executive functions, EEG |
 | Mandip Dahal | Graduate Student | UConn, Engineering | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
 | Luiza de Melo Carvalho | Graduate Student | Department of Psychological Sciences | Psycholinguistics, Second and additional language acquisition, Reading, Early literacy, Bilingualism |
 | Gayle Edelstein | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Pharmacology, treatment for psychiatric disorders, animal models of disorders, animal behavior, neurochemistry, behavioral pharmacology |
 | Mariel Emrich | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | PTSD, trauma, stress and coping, health psychology (e.g., pain management, sleep) |
 | Adrian Garcia-Sierra | Faculty | UConn, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences | Bilingualism, speech perception, grammar processing, language development |
 | Camille Garnsey | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Trauma, mind-body & lifestyle interventions |
 | Kamal Gautam | Graduate Student | UConn, Allied Health Sciences | I’m interested in mental health and suicide prevention, especially among sexual and gender minorities. A significant portion of my recent work focuses on utilizing mobile-based ecological momentary assessment to track real-time changes in mood, behavior, and suicidal ideation. I’ve been exploring EMA to understand how short-term patterns, such as stress, sleep quality, isolation, or past-day thoughts, might help us predict short-term risk and inform just-in-time adaptive interventions. I’m also interested in how ethnicity, structural stigma, substance use, and healthcare access shape mental health outcomes in low-resource settings. |
 | Meara Geraty | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Interdisciplinary and mixed-methods research, cognitive science of religion, psychology of religion, evolutionary psychology, anthropology, ecological psychology |
 | Aida Ghiaei | Faculty | UConn, Engineering | |
 | Lily Gorman | Graduate Student | UConn, Human Development and Family Sciences | Adulthood, aging and gerontology; Alzheimer’s Disease and related dementias; Familial caregiving; Death, dying and bereavement |
 | Frank Griggs | Faculty | UConn, Political Science | |
 | Danielle Guttman-Lapin | Faculty | Uconn School of Medicine | |
 | Sabrina Hosmer | Faculty | UConn, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences | |
 | Arielle Keller | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Dr. Keller’s research program aims to understand attention as a core element of human cognition by bridging ideas and perspectives across cognitive, clinical, computational, and developmental neuroscience. |
 | Teisha King | Faculty | UConn | Behavioral neuroscience, physiology, ecology and evolutionary biology |
 | Kristen Kling | Faculty | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Gender differences |
| Maria Korzeniowski | Faculty | UConn | Psychology | |
 | Justin Laplante | Faculty | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Meditation, interpersonal relationships, religious culture |
 | Nathan Lautz | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | The conceptual system; semantic memory; embodied cognition; grounded cognition; cognitive neuroscience of semantic memory; philosophy of cognitive science |
 | Martin Lee | Graduate Student | George Washington University, Psychology | Psychotherapy, therapeutic alliance, attachment |
 | Wesley Leong | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | |
 | Ziqin Liu | Graduate Student | UConn, Computer Science | Computational Cognitive Science, Neuroimaging |
 | Avinash Mahajan | Graduate Student | UConn Health | |
 | Etan Markus | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Brain basis of behavior, focusing on rats. Specifically: Memory formation; Aging; Hippocampal system; Navigation; Social Interactions |
 | Hillary Marquis | Faculty | UConn Health | Audiology, cochlear implants |
 | Kerry Marsh | Faculty | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Environmental psychology |
 | Katherine McManus-Shipp | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Eating and weight management, health psychology, adolescent and pediatrics |
 | Jonas Miller | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Empathy and prosocial development, Adversity, Resilience, Developmental psychopathology, Developmental social neuroscience, Environmental health |
 | Amanda Montanari | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Health psychology; weight management; health behavior change |
 | Jamie Morales | Graduate Student | Educational Leadership, NEAG | His research interests are in Latinidades and sports with a particular interest in bicultural Latina/e/o/x sporting identities and critically examining sports-based youth development initiatives within Latina/e/o/x communities. |
| Erica Morgan | Graduate Student | UConn | I’m particularly interested in sociology, political psychology/science, and other elements of macro social work/social science. I am concentrating on policy practice, within the MSW program. | |
| Zoe Nelson | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Mental Illness | |
 | Hannah O'Connor | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Autism spectrum disorder, linguistics, social communication, gesture |
 | Erika Osherow | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Stress and resilience, behavior change, holistic health and performance, trauma-informed mindfulness interventions. |
 | Darlis Pantoja-Benavides | Graduate Student | UConn, Human Development and Family Sciences | Identity development, parental socialization, parental ethnotheories on child/youth development, impacts of culture, and cultural adaptations of interventions. Current areas of interest include multicultural/mixed-race identity development, cultural and social identity development, ethnic-racial socialization and identity, how parental ethnotheories can inform adaptations in parent-child interventions, and impacts of cultural diversity on social identity. |
 | Alexandra Paxton | Faculty | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Interpersonal communication, Social interaction, Data science, Naturally occurring data, Data ethics |
 | Amy Pollock | Graduate Student | UConn, Material Science | Sustainability, Plastics, Chemistry, Materials processing |
 | Neha Praveen | Graduate Student | UConn, Animal Science | |
 | Yanina Prystauka | Postdoc | University of Bergen, Linguistic, Literary and Aesthetic Studies | Psycholinguistics, sentence processing, bilingualism, ageing, EEG. |
 | Qazi Arka Rahman | Faculty | UConn, Social and Critical Inquiry | My research interests encompass South Asian literary studies, and the intersection of technology and humanistic inquiry. My work draws from decolonial and postcolonial studies, digital humanities, refugee studies, and environmental justice. |
 | Manasa Ramaka | Graduate Student | UConn, Business | Consumer behavior/ Human behavior |
 | Nairan Ramirez-Esparza | Faculty | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Natural language processing, bilingualism, cognition, developmental. |
| Juergen Riedelsheimer | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | I'm interested in the interdisciplinary domain of Music Theory, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, Computer Science, Brain Computer Music Interface (BCMI), and Linguistics to understand musical knowledge and processing. | |
 | Martina Rosenberg | Organizational Developer | UConn | I stepped back from active research in fetal alcohol induced learning challenges and applied my training and passion for teaching as educational developer for adragogy |
 | Aleksandra Rusowicz | Graduate Student | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Stigma and health outcomes, social determinants of mental health, political psychology, prejudice |
 | Karen Shalev | Graduate Student | UConn, Communication | I am a first-year PhD student studying health communication with particular interest in patient-provider-caregiver communication, chronic illness, and women's health issues. The work is interdisciplinary and requires frequent applications from psychology and other areas. |
 | Usama Sheikh | Graduate Student | UConn, Chemical Engineering | Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Social Psychology |
 | William Snyder | Faculty | UConn, Linguistics | Language Acquisition, Comparative Syntax, Syntax-Semantics Interface |
 | Umay Suanda | Faculty | UConn, Psychological Sciences | Language development and learning, word learning/vocabulary acquisition, conceptual development. |
 | Louisa Suting | Graduate Student | UConn, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences | |
 | Breeya Tailor-Sagan | Graduate Student | UConn Health | |
 | Julie Van Dyke | Faculty | UConn, Haskins Laboratory | Substance use disorder, mental health disorders, child psychology, adolescents and emerging adults, video game addiction, recovery support services, community-based participatory research, clinical trials |
 | Paola Vera-Licona | Faculty | Center for Quantitative Medicine, UConn Health | Our research group works on a variety of problems within the fields of computational systems medicine, computational systems biology, mathematical biology and bioinformatics. We focus on the design and application of mathematical algorithms for the modeling, simulation and control of biological networks such as gene regulatory networks, intracellular signaling networks and functional brain networks. |
 | Torri Ann Woodruff-Gautherin | Faculty | UConn, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences | The mechanisms of support for families of children who are deaf and hard of hearing. |
 | Qi Wu | Graduate Student | UConn, Linguistics | Theoretical Linguistics; Literature; Classics |
 | Mariah Xu | Graduate Student | Psychological Sciences | Intergenerational transmission of trauma and psychopathology; interpersonal and family violence; aggression perpetration; systemic inequity and mental health disparities |
 | Eiling Yee | Faculty | Psychological Sciences | Semantic memory and the neural representation of concepts. Spoken word recognition and language processing. The neural basis of language. |
 | Holly Zaharchuk | Postdoc | Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences | Currently she is using neural and behavioral methods to study how right and left temporal brain regions contribute to speech perception, with the goal of understanding how therapeutic interventions might recruit these areas in the successful remediation of stroke. Overall, she is interested in learning how the perceptual system adapts to variation and change. |
 | Kristyn Zajac | Faculty | UConn Health | Substance use disorder, mental health disorders, child psychology, adolescents and emerging adults, video game addiction, recovery support services, community-based participatory research, clinical trials |
 | Xinming Zhou | Graduate Student | University of Texas at Austin, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences | Her research interests lie in auditory rehabilitation and the cognitive and neural processes of speech perception, particularly accented speech and speech-in-noise perception among typical and atypical populations. |
 | Amy Zipf | Nursing Professional Development Specialist | UConn Health |