Our Team

Max
PI

mr287@georgetown.edu

Lillian Chang
Postdoctoral Fellow

Research interests: Learning and memory, systems and connectivity in the brain, language and speech processing, neuroimaging methods. Fun fact: I learned how to make kimchi at home during the COVID lockdown.

 lc1152@georgetown.edu

Vlad Dobrin
MD/PhD Student at Georgetown

Vlad, a Romanian MD-PhD student at Georgetown with a background in computer science and prior AI research experience, is currently working in MaxLab to understand speech production learning. When he is not in class or the lab you can find Vlad training for his next fitness event.

Alexander Farahbod
Lab Manager and Undergraduate Research Assistant

Senior in the College of Arts and Sciences studying Neurobiology.

awf44@georgetown.edu

Andrew Kim
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Junior undergraduate in the Walsh School of Foreign Service, majoring in STIA.

ack144@georgetown.edu

Yuri Jung 
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Sophomore undergraduate majoring in biochemistry.

yhj3@georgetown.edu

Aliza Amir
Master’s Student Intern

M.S. candidate inIntegrative Neuroscience

maa608@georgetown.edu

Mateos Anteneh
Master’s Student Intern

Mateos is an M.S. candidate in Integrative Neuroscience, with research interests in perception, learning & decision-making, and neuromorphic engineering. Excited to join the MaxLab, he aims to leverage his background in Film and Business to expand science communication and applications of research.

ma2863@georgetown.edu

Nathaniel Chun
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, majoring in Neurobiology

nc975@georgetown.edu

Austen Gray
High School Intern

Plamen “Bulgaria” Nikolov
Postdoctoral Affiliate

Research interests: computational modelling, motor control systems, internal models, brain and language, random Kaggle challenges

vd246@georgetown.edu

Flo Martinez Addiego
Postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech

Research interests: computational modeling, sensorimotor integration (especially visuomotor), generalization, and abstraction.

fam53@georgetown.edu

Neel Banerjee
MD/PhD Candidate at UC San Diego

sb1884@georgetown.edu

Bernard Kripkee
Sponsored University Associate

My research interest is how descending connections in the cortex and thalamus acquire and use their specificity. In 2019 I became the United States Powerlifting Association New York State record holder for contestants age 75-79 in the 163 pound class.

kripkee@post.harvard.edu

Noah Steinberg
MD/PhD Student

Research interests: I really just want to figure out how the brain works.

njs90@georgetown.edu