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Current Members

Michael Griffin
Post-Graduate Fellow
Carnegie Mellon University
mgriffin@andrew.cmu.edu

Gal Yovel
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of Pittsburgh
gal.yovel@pitt.edu

Laura Yang
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University
lyang425@cmu.edu

Aaryan Kapoor
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University
aaryank@andrew.cmu.edu

Dr. Leslie Blaha
Visiting Scientist
lblaha@andrew.cmu.edu
Leslie is a mathematical psychologist spending time at Carnegie Mellon University to collaborate and learn from leaders in cognitive modeling. She is consulting on lab experiments and exploring connections in memory models to emerging human-machine teaming research.

Recent Alumni

Yuqi (Alice) Zhou
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University
yuqizhou@andrew.cmu.edu
I'm an undergraduate student double majoring in Cognitive Science and Behavioral Economics, Policy and Organizations at CMU. I first joined the lab my freshman year looking for a research opportunity on campus. As someone whose first language is not English, I've always been curious about the second language acquisition process. It was really cool to find out Professor Reder’s project on second language acquisition and memory. I was fascinated as human memory itself is also very intriguing. I do a variety of things in the lab from running subjects to helping with the android app development.

Annie Xu
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University
ajxu@andrew.cmu.edu
I'm an rising junior undergraduate student at CMU, majoring in Computer Science at CMU and getting a double major in Psychology. I was originally just a computer science student, but became interested in Psychology after taking the Cognitive Psychology class my freshman year spring. I've since branched out to do research in Psychology, joining the lab the summer after freshman year. In the lab, I run subjects, help with data collection, work on app development for the iPhone, and update the lab website.

Mercedes Suarez
Undergraduate Research Assistant
University of Pittsburgh
MES380@pitt.edu

Julia Shen
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University
jlshen@andrew.cmu.edu

Hailey Fuchs
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Plymouth State University
hwfuchs@plymouth.edu

Dongxiao Li
Research Assistant
University of Pittsburgh
DOL23@pitt.edu

Mani Jahani
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University
mjahani@andrew.cmu.edu

Hubert Dushime
Graduate student at CMU-Africa in the Master of Science in Information Technology.

I worked on the design, development, testing, and maintenance of the Sleep Learning android app for almost a year based on the system requirements provided.
I am currently working on building my personal software developer portfolio by building various small and medium systems and personal mobile applications.

Zhichu (Brian) Lu
Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University
zhichul@andrew.cmu.edu

Yuanfei (Ginny) Zhao
Research Assistant
Carnegie Mellon University
yuanfeiz@andrew.cmu.edu

Vencislav Popov, Ph.D.
Worked 2015-2020 as a graduate student
Ven's dissertation tested whether the resources used to store information in memory recover gradually over time, rather than becoming immediately available after use. He developed a paradigm to test several key predictions of the recovery assumption, namely, he looked at whether spending more resources on one study trial impairs memory for subsequent study trials. His dissertation demonstrated that memory performance for studied item is better, if the preceding item during study 1) was a high-frequency rather than a low-frequency word, 2) was an item presented more frequently during study, 3) was a to-be-forgotten rather than a to-be-remembered item, 4) was separated by a longer inter-stimulus-interval. Collectively, these "sequential study effects" provided strong evidence for the resource recovery assumption. The outcomes of Ven's doctoral work were published in Psychological Review, Psychological Science and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. His other interests include the intersection between semantic and episodic memory, and specifically, how prior knowledge affects future learning. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher with Klaus Oberauer at the University of Zürich.