Neuroscience

Director, Penn State Center for Neural Engineering
Brush Chair Professor, Engineering Science and Mechanics
Professor, Neurosurgery
Professor. Physics (Courtesy appointment)

Professor, Department of Cognitive Science, University of California, Irvine
Principal Investigator, Cognitive Anteater Robotics Laboratory (CARL)

Dr. Kritchmar's research interests include neurorobotics, embodied cognition, biologically plausible models of learning and memory, and the effect of neural architecture on neural function. The Cognitive Anteater Robotics Laboratory (CARL) at the University of California, Irvine, we are designing robotic systems whose behaviors are guided by large-scale simulations of the mammalian brain.

Chief Scientific Officer and Program Manager, Personalized Healthcare at Northrop Grumman Corporation Health Division
Formerly Director of Neuro-Oncology, George Mason University

Senior Scientific Advisor, Subject Matter Expert, Bio-Molecular Engineer, and Program Manager for Northrop Grumman's Health Division. Responsible for overseeing all research, product development, and personnel for Northrop Grumman's Personalized Healthcare Program.

Future Technical Leader, Northrop Grumman
Curator, Neuroscience Knowledge Network (NKN)
PhD, Neurscience, George Mason University

PhD C, Neuroscience at George Mason University
Dissertation title: "Machine-readable Knowledge Management of Neuron Properties."

David said "Neuroscience is the most interesting and potentially useful field of study available to me at this stage in my career. I was trained as an electrical engineer, worked most of my life as a software engineer, but desire to learn how the brain works to glean useful architectural aspects for continued advancement in problem solving."

Science writer
Affiliate, Visual Cognition and Attention Lab, George Mason University

Dr. Bobby Azarian is a cognitive neuroscientist, a researcher in the Visual Attention and Cognition Lab at George Mason University, and a science writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, BBC, Scientific American, Slate, The Daily Beast, and The Huffington Post. His research has been published in journals including Cognition & Emotion and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. He also runs the blog Science Is Sexy.

Future Technical Leader (FTL), Northrop Grumman Corporation
Neuroscience PhD, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University

Kerry Brown's dissertation and publications focused on the production and analysis of digitally reconstructed neurons to help uncover what the shape and structure of different neuron classes can tell us about their function within the brain.

Research Faculty & Software Engineer, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, George Mason University

Dr. Polavaram received her Ph.D. in Neuroscience from George Mason University, she has been working for over a decade in the field of Computational Neuroanatomy and Neuroinformatics providing services in software engineering, data management, analytics,  visualization, and applied ontologies. Her current area of research investigates biologically meaningful morphological patterns derived from digitally reconstructed neuronal arbors representing the cellular diversity of the nervous system.

Manager, EM Connectome Annotation Team, Janelia Farm Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Dr. Parekh's professional background is in neuroscience, epilepsy research, and neuroinformatics with a strong publication record.

Her professional aspirations are to facilitate open science collaborative efforts towards the common goal of understanding the brain.

Postdoctoral Scientist, Boston University
PhD in Neuroscience from George Mason University

Michele's research focus is on Whole-cell Electrophysiology, Biotechnology, Optogenetics, Neuropharmacology, and Computational Models. Michele employs Electrophysiology in brain slices - patch clamp and neuropharmacology.
implements biophysically realistic models of neurons.

Bioinformatics Contractor, US Army Center for Environmental Health Research
Research Scientist, Geneva Foundation

Dr. Donohue specializes in designing computational methods to analyze, visualize, and model multidimensional biological data.

Donohue has computational biology research experience in neuroscience, cancer, infectious diseases, diseases of military relevance, PTSD, blast trauma, radiation, and suicide.

Post Doctoral Research Fellow, National Institutes of Health

PhD, Molecular, Physiological, & Behavioral Neuroscience, George Mason University

Dr. Sanders interests include: Molecular science, science funding, science teaching, STEM, biotechnology, startups, biological illustration, ceramics, art, aikido, ocean, time, space, brain.

CEO & Founder, BrainYno Inc.

Dr. Scorcioni was the developer of Good Times, the winning hack of the AT&T 2013 Developer Summit Hackathon.

Research Assistant, Georgetown University Medical Center
Masters, Molecular Biology, George Mason University

Myu's research interests include nvestigating the underlying mechanisms related to Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and dendrite morphogenesis.

B.S., Neuroscience, George Mason University

Sasha Rosser is interested in neurogenetics, informatics, ethology, and the biological bases of language ability.