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Our Alumni

Learn about what others have chosen to study and do through this innovative program. Be inspired by your alumni that have profoundly influenced both the University and their communities.

Adrian Bartlett

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: Neuronal oscillations, eye movements, attention, time series analysis

Laura Pynn

  • Department: Psychology

Sheng H. Wang

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: MEG, electrophysiology, neuroprosthetics

Benjamin Cassidy

(MA Candidate)

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: Hippocampal electrophysiology, neural network dynamics, oscillations, neurophysiology of learning and memory formation/consolidation

Holly Clayton

(MA Candidate)

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: Proprioception, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, sensorimotor integration and motor control

Kevin DeSimone

(MA Candidate)

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: fMRI brain imaging of visual system

Paula Di Noto

(MA Candidate)

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: Multimodal integration (vision and touch), referred sensation, neural plasticity

Rachel Ganaden

(MA Candidate)

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: Brain plasticity and the effects that brain damage has on human behavior

Timothy Leonard

(MA Candidate)

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: Perception, plasticity, memory, learning, familiarity

Kyle Nash

(MA Candidate)

  • Department: Psychology

Janet Roberts

(MA Candidate)

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: Memory formation, fMRI, ERP, distinctiveness effect

Leiko Tanaka

(MA Candidate)

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: TMS, MRI, Transsaccadic integration

Audrey Wong Kee You

(MA Candidate)

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: Development of selective attention abilities in infants

Khushbu Patel

  • Department: Psychology

George Tomou

  • Department: Psychology

Chad Vachon

  • Department: Psychology

Jen Ruttle

  • Department: Psychology

Weipeng Jih

  • Department: Psychology

Devin Kehoe

  • Department: Psychology

Naail Khan

  • Department: Psychology

Iqra Ashfaq

  • Department: Kinesiology

Gregory Giovannini

  • Department: Psychology

Maria Ayala

  • Department: Psychology

Saam Azargive

  • Department: Kinesiology

Lily Solomon-Harris

  • Department: Psychology


Kira Bucca

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: Neuronal oscillations, eye movements, attention, time series analysis

David Cappadocia

  • Department: Kinesiology
  • Research Interests: Saccade selection, TMS of parietal cortex, interactions between perception and action

Kara-Lynn Hawkins

  • Department: Kinesiology
  • Research Interests: Neurophysiology, reaching, visuomotor transformation, single unit electrophysiology

Sarah Jones

  • Department: Biology

Shannon Lozinsky

  • Department: Kinesiology

Javaneh Tamiji

  • Department: Kinesiology
  • Research Interests: Autism, environment, brain development, misoprostol, neuronal cells, molecular pathways, cell morphology

Jeffrey Brown

(MSc Candidate)

  • Department: Kinesiology
  • Research Interests: cognitive-motor integration, mild cognitive, impairment, concussion, athletics

Jeevaka Kiriella

(MSc Candidate)

  • Department: Kinesiology
  • Research Interests: Mechanoreceptors, balance, recovery, knee replacement

Micheal Lubinsky

(MSc Candidate)

  • Department: Biology
  • Research Interests: Ovarian hormone and plasticity

Pankhuri Malik

(MSc Candidate)

  • Department: Biology
  • Research Interests: Role of visual cortex in transsaccadic integration

Carolyn J Perry

(MSc candidate)

  • Department: Kinesiology
  • Research Interests: Motion processing, attentional modulation

Cora Sin

(MSc Candidate)

  • Department: Kinesiology
  • Research Interests: Autism, brain development, microarray analysis

Chen Shen

(MSc Candidate)

  • Department: Biology

Christine Wong

(MSc Candidate)

  • Department: Kinesiology
  • Research Interests: Autism, brain development, microarray analysis

Dan Gheorghiu

  • Department: Biology

Denis Adigamov

  • Department: Kinesiology

Sharmini Atputharaj

  • Department: Kinesiology

Sohrab Salimian

  • Department: Biology

Isabelle Bestard

  • Department: Biology

Sarah Wheeler

  • Department: Kinesiology

Leah Henderson

  • Department: Kinesiology

Cecelia Power

  • Department: Kinesiology

Andrea Cavaliere

  • Department: Kinesiology

Jena Velji-Ibrahim

  • Department: Biology

Alica Rogojin

  • Department: Kinesiology

Holly Echlinn

  • Department: Kinesiology

Shanaathanan Modchalingam

  • Department: Kinesiology

Alanna Pierias

  • Department: Kinesiology

Vincenzo Di Bacco

  • Department: Kinesiology

Mehran Taherzadeh

  • Department: Kinesiology

Shawn Blizzard

  • Department: Kinesiology

Rona El-Bakri

  • Department: Kinesiology

Eizaaz Ahmad

  • Department: Biology

Benjamina Voloh

  • Department: Biology

Jennilee Davidson

  • Department: Biology

Paige Whyte Fagundes

  • Department: Biology

Anahit Grigorian

  • Department: Biology

Reza Rahimzadeh

  • Department: Kine

Bianca Baltaretu

  • Department: Psychology

Sara Pardisnia

  • Department: Kinesiology

Michelle Dragan

  • Department: Biology

David Albines

  • Department: Kinesiology

Elnaz Moghimi

  • Department: Kinesiology

Josh Granek

  • Department: Kinesiology
  • Research Interests: Optic ataxia, non-standard visually-guided reaching, eye-hand coordination

Krista Kelley

  • Department: Kinesiology
  • Research Interests: Visual deprivation enucleation, motion processing, middle temporal Area (area MT), neuroimaging

Blake Martin

  • Department: Kinesiology

Caitlin Mullin

  • Department: Psychology

Debi Stransky

  • Department: Psychology

Inna Tsirlin

  • Department: Psychology

Noura Al-Omawi

  • Department: Kinesiology
  • Research Interests: Neural mechanisms of action initiation and monitoring; neuropathologies of agency and self-awareness

Matt Balcarras

  • Department: Kinesiology
  • Research Interests: Neural mechanisms of action initiation and monitoring; neuropathologies of agency and self-awareness

Ravneet Bhogal

  • Department: Biology
  • Research Interests: Genetics, Molecular Neuroscience, Neurodevelopment

Ashley Curtis

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: Attention, visuospatial memory, multisensory cueing, aging, cognitive rehabilitation

Mehdi Daemi

  • Department: Biology
  • Research Interests: gaze control, eye-head coordination, visuomotor transformations, computational algorithms, neural network modeling

Stephanie Hornyak

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: Hippocampus, remote, declarative, spatial memory, fMRI, amnesia

Ashley Miles

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: Schizophrenia; Neurocognitive abilities; Functional outcome

Danielle Salomonczyk

  • Department: Psychology
  • Research Interests: Sensorimotor integration, vision, proprioception, motor control

Amirsaman Sajad

  • Department: Biology
  • Research Interests: Role of Frontal Eye Fields in eye-head coordinated gaze control

Patricia Sayegh

  • Department: Kinesiology
  • Research Interests: Eye-hand coordination, neurophysiology, visuomotor transformations, local field potentials

Martin Vergara

  • Department: Kinesiology
  • Research Interests: Postural control & balance, sensory integration, musculoskeletal systems and rehabilitation

Dmitry Verniba

  • Department: Kinesiology
  • Biomechanics, balance recovery, sensory reweighting

Ashley Curtis

  • Department: Psychology

Mariann Oemisch

  • Department: Biology

Sara Rafique

  • Department: Psychology

Stefania Moro

  • Department: Psychology

Johanna Hurtubise

  • Department: Psychology

Nimo Bokore

  • Department: Social Work

Johanna Hurtubise

  • Department: Kinesiology

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