Members of the MacLean Lab
Jason MacLean, Ph.D.
Principle Investigator
Research and Scholarly Interests: Neocortex, Graph Theory, Local Circuitry, Machine Learning, Motor Cortex, Somatosensory Cortex, Visual Cortex
e-mail: jmaclean “at” uchicago “dot” edu
Gabriella Wheeler Fox
Graduate Student - Computational Neuroscience
Joined 2021
Applying graph-theoretic tools to understand the role of inhibition in motor learning.
Hal Rockwell
Graduate Student - Computational Neuroscience
Joined 2022
Studying the role of inhibition and network organization of divisive normalization in mouse visual cortex.
Sunnie Hong
Graduate Student - Computational Neuroscience
Joined 2024
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Zach Morrissey
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joined 2024
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Maria Pope
Postdoctoral Fellow
Joined 2025
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Eliza Wiener
Lab Technician
Joined 2024
Maryam Contractor
Undergraduate - Mathematics
Joined 2023
Sara Raghavan
Undergraduate - Statistics and Biological Sciences
Joined 2024
Ashley Kim
Undergraduate - Neuroscience
Joined 2024
Maddy Tavel
Undergraduate - Computer Science and English
Joined 2025
Sophia Shahul
Undergraduate - Neuroscience and Creative Writing
Joined 2025
MacLean Lab Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
Laurie Lambot, PhD
Lab Member 2018-2022
Audrey Sederberg, PhD
Lab Member 2011-2015
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota
Florian Neubauer MD, PhD
Lab Member 2009-2012
Senior Scientist, Universität Bern
Graduate Students
Elizabeth de Laittre, PhD
Lab Member 2018-2024
Post-Doc with Dr. Sadra Sadeh, Kings College London
Neal Tsai, MS
Lab Member 2023-2024
Yuqing Zhu, PhD
Lab Member 2018-2023
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Pamona College
Mufeng Tang, MS
Lab Member 2020-2021
Ph.D. Student, Computational Neuroscience, University of Oxford
Zaina Zayyad, PhD
Lab Member 2017-2021
Neurology Resident, Harvard University
Maayan Levy, PhD
Lab Member 2016-2021
Post-Doc with Prof. Tim Vogels, IST Austria
Peter Malonis, PhD
Lab Member 2016-2021
Vaughn Spurrier, PhD
Lab Member 2015-2019
Senior AI Scientist, Proscia
Joseph Dechery, PhD
Lab Member 2013-2018
Senior Data Scientist, Unity
Brendan Chambers, PhD
Lab Member 2012-2016
Applied Research Scientist, QuillBot
Melissa Rumfeldt, PhD
Lab Member 2009-2014
Senior Data Scientist, Einstein Platform Salesforce
Alex Sadovsky, PhD
Lab Member 2009-2014
Vice President of Artificial Intelligence, SurePrep
Peter Kruskal, PhD
Lab Member 2008-2013
Data Scientist, MORSE Corp.
Undergraduate Students
Ariana Qin
Lab Member 2024-2025
Ph.D. Student, Statistics, Northwestern University
Charlotte Clulow
Lab Member 2023-2025
M.D./Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience, USC/CalTech
Hadley Groom
Lab Member 2023-2025
M.S. Student, Biotechnology, Brown University
Jared Montney
Lab Member 2023-2023
Penelope Toll
Lab Member 2022-2023
Research Assistant, Boston Children’s Hospital
Meghan Xiang
Lab Member 2020-2023
Research Analyist, University of Chicago Center for Health and the Social Sciences
Chadbourne Smith
Lab Member 2020-2023
Lab Manager, Duke University
Tarek Jabri
Lab Member 2019-2022
Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience, Harvard University
Leya Luo
Lab Member 2019-2022
Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience, UCLA
Jingyu Cai
Lab Member 2019-2021
Software Engineer, Uber
Mofei Wu
Lab Member 2018-2020
Carolina Yu
Lab Member 2017-2021
Jeff Guo
Lab Member 2019-2021
Isabel Garon
Lab Member 2017-2021
Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience, NYU
Anne Havlik
Lab Member 2018-2019
Harrison Grier
Lab Member 2017-2018
Ph.D. Student, Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago
Subhodh Kotekal
Lab Member 2015-2019
Norbert Wiener Fellow, Statistics, MIT
Caroline Haimerl
Lab Member 2014-2015
Postdoc Researcher, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Kyle Bojanek
Lab Member 2013-2017
Ph.D. Student, Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago
Suchin Gururangan
Lab Member 2013-2014
Young Investigator, Allen Institue for Artificial Intelligence
Alexandra Carlson
Lab Member 2012-2013
Research Scientist, Ford Motor Company
Charles Frye
Lab Member 2012-2013
Lucy Li
Lab Member 2010-2013
Veronika Hanko
Lab Member 2009-2012
Lane McIntosh
Lab Member 2009-2010
Senior Staff Machine Learning Scientist, Tesla
Eze Okeagu
Lab Member 2009-2010
Sean Weinberg
Lab Member 2007-2011