Principal Investigators
Dr. Sima Mofakham
Education: Ph.D. in Computational Neuroscience, University of Michigan
Research Interests: Neuromodulation, Computational Neuroscience
Contact: sima.mofakham@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Dr. Charles Mikell
Education: MD, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Residency, Columbia University Medical Center; Subspecialty Training, University of Louisville
Research: Functional Neurosurgery
Contact: charles.mikell@stonybrookmedicine.edu
Paige Elizabeth Keely Fellow
Dr. Morsal Mosallami Aghili
Education: M.D, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Research: Cerebral arteriovenous malformations
Research Scholars
In Memory of Daniel Egnor
Education: M.D. Candidate Class of 2027, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Research Interests: Consciousness, Coma, Schizophrenia, AVM, Computer Vision, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Gait Analysis
PhD Students
Yunsoo Kim
Education: Ph.D. Candidate, Stony Brook University
Jiacheng Qiu
Education: Ph.D. Candidate, Stony Brook University
Current Medical Students
Alexis Aparicio
Education: M.D. Candidate, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Research Interest: Neurodegenerative disorders
Justin Zheng
Education: M.D. Candidate, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Alfonse Mazzarella
Education: M.D. Candidate, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Research: Arteriovenous Malformations, Concussion, Consciousness, Coma
Gabriel Chan
Education: M.D./Ph.D. Candidate, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Research: Computational Modeling
Peter Gerace
Education: M.D. Candidate, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
Research: Arteriovenous Malformations
Graduate Students
Nipun Irabatti
Education: M.S. Candidate, Engineering Artificial Intelligence, Stony Brook University
Research: Gait Analysis, Computer Vision, Coma, Consciousness
Yongeun Cho
Education: Master of Science in Data Science, Stony Brook University
Research interests: Computer vision, medical image segmentation, video understanding
Undergraduate Students
Education: B.S. Candidate, Stony Brook University
Education: Currently pursuing my Bachelors of Science in Health Sciences on the Pre-Med track.
Research Interests: Consciousness, Agitation, Coma.
Education: B.S. Candidate, Biology and Psychology, Stony Brook University
Research Interests: Parkinson's Disease, Gait Analysis
Alumni
Previous Research Fellows and Medical Students
- Sujith Swarna - Neurosurgery, Cooper University Hospital, NJ
- Chiemeka David Uwakwe - Surgery, Stony Brook Hospital
- Justin Passman - Medical Graduate
- Jade Basem - Neurosurgery, University of Pennsylvania
- Emily Bellow - Medical Graduate
- Joyce Campos - Medical Graduate
- Ricardo Cordero - Medical Graduate
- Nicholas Kordic - Medical Student, SUNY Downstate
- Joseph Adachi - Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University
- Leor Alkadaa - General Surgery, Cooper University Hospital
- Anthony Asencio - General Surgery, Lenox Hill Hospital
- Bradley Ashcroft - Ophthalmology, Upstate Medical University
- Nathaniel Cleri - Anesthesiology, SUNY Downstate
- Megan Cosgrove - Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Theresa Gammel - Neurosurgery, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Regina Kuhia - Emergency Medicine
- Robert Kleyner - Neurosurgery, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
- Justine Liang - Anesthesiology, UCLA Health
- Racheed Mani - Neurology, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
- Nicki Naddaf - Internal Medicine, Boston Medical Center
- Anthony Oganov - Ophthalmology, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
- Claire Polizu - Neurology, Yale School of Medicine
- Jermaine Robertson - General Surgery, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
- Sabir Saluja - Research Year
- Jordan Saadon - Neurosurgery, University of Maryland Medical Center
- Himanshu Sharma - Neurosurgery, Baylor College of Medicine
- Nathan Winans - Neurosurgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital
- Cassie Wang - Internal Medicine, Northwell
- Zhe Wang - Neurosurgery, University of Chicago
- Zirun Zhao - Neurosurgery, University of Washington Medicine
- Jason Zhang - Internal Medicine, Cedar-Sinai
- Xuwen Zheng - Internal Medicine, Montefiore
Previous Graduate and Undergraduate Students
- Yindong Hua - Software Engineer, Amazon
- Aniket Singh - Software Engineer, Google
- Anushri Pendyala - M.S. ECE, Stony Brook University
- Gargi Ginia Chakraborti - M.S. Neuroscience, Stony Brook University
- Zain Haider - B.S. Biology/M.B.A, Stony Brook University
- Rithika Jayaraman - B.S. Biomedical Sciences, Stony Brook University
- Fahad Karim - B.S. Mathematics, New York University
- Bavleen Kaur - B.S. Biology, Stony Brook University
- Tryphena Zareif - B.A. Health Policy and Law, University of Pennsylvania
- Noshin Anjum - Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Ryan Bugert - Ph.D Candidate, Stony Brook University
- Xi Cheng - Software Engineer, Google
- Nakisa Dashti - M.A. Candidate, Research Assistant at Stony Brook Medicine
- Adam Fry - Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Gayatri Gayatri - M.A. Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stony Brook University
- Selma Mohammad - Innovation Analyst, Dukal, LLC
- Heshwin Singh - M.D. Candidate, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University
- Fan Yang - Robotics Navigation Engineer, Midea Group