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

Jiwook (Joseph) Shin

Research Assistant

B.S. in Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University

jiwooks { at } andrew.cmu.edu

Grace Tang

Undergraduate Research Fellow

Carnegie Mellon University

gtang2 { at } andrew.cmu.edu


Baihe (Lily) Zhang

Undergraduate Research Fellow
Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN)

University of Pittsburgh, neuroscience major



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