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Fall 2025
Principal Investigator
Principal Investigator
Anna (Anya) Ivanova
Anya is an Assistant Professor at the School of Psychology at Georgia Tech. She got her PhD and postdoctoral training from MIT.
Anya is excited to understand the nature of human thought by leveraging tools from neuroimaging, computational modeling (AI), and behavioral analysis.
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Current Full-Time Members
Current Full-Time Members
Jin Li
PostdocJin received her PhD from Ohio State University (supervised by Dr. Zeynep Sagyin). Working as a postdoc with Anya, Jin is interested in using neuroimaging to tease apart the relationship between different cognitive processes and language and combining computational approaches to further explore the mechanisms of their interaction. For example, how does the human brain process meanings (i.e., semantic information) from various types and formats? Whether and how different languages might shape our mental spaces differently.[email]Julien Dirani
PostdocJulien combines neuroimaging and computational methods to study how the brain represents meaning. He is particularly interested in how conceptual representations remain invariant across stimulus modalities and contexts while staying flexible enough to support different task demands. He is also interested in how semantic representations interact with lexical processes such as lexical selection. Julien received his PhD from New York University.[website] [email]Will Decker
Ph.D. StudentWill is a 2nd year Psychology PhD student in the LIT Lab. He is interested in how human and minds learn, organize and use their knowledge of the world! Will enjoys reading, eating and watching TV. His favorite TV shows are The Simpsons and Avatar: The Last Airbender.[website] [email]Taha Binhuraib
Ph.D. StudentTaha Binhuraib, a Georgia Tech PhD student in Psychology, explores the intersection of cognitive science and artificial intelligence. With a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bahcesehir University, Turkey, his research delves into topographic language modeling, cognitively plausible modeling, and LLMs. Taha's work aims to bridge the gap between human cognition and advanced AI systems.[website] [email]Eyas Ayesh
Ph.D. StudentEyas is a first year Psychology PhD student supported by the Center of Excellence in Computational Cognition as a CoCo Fellow . He is interested in the representations that brains and AI models learn to model the world around them, and the mechanisms by which these representations emerge. He also cares deeply about AI safety and helps run the AI safety Initiative at Georgia Tech. In his free time Eyas likes to practice Brazilian Jiu Jitsu and paint.[website] [email]Ruifeng Yu
Ph.D. StudentRuifeng Yu is a second-year graduate student in the Psychology Department at Georgia Tech. He is fascinated by cognitive neuroscience, particularly how people use language in thinking and how forms of thought may differ across individuals. Outside of research, he enjoys soccer, hip-hop music, fishing, and snowboarding.
[website] [email]Seungmin(Min) Cho
Research TechnicianMin is the research technician in the LIT Lab. She is interested in representation and computation of linguistic features and concepts in human brain. For better understanding of human brain, she wants to employ different methodologies, such as fMRI, iEEG, and computational model.[website] [email]Current Part-Time Members
Current Part-Time Members
Past Mentees
Past Mentees
Full-time
Full-time
Ruimin Gao - Research Technician, 2024-2026
Rotation
Rotation
Caleb McKinney - 2025
Michael Zhou - 2025
Master's students
Master's students
Om Bhatt - 2024-2025
Areeb Khalfay - 2025
Kamya Hari - 2024-2026
Undergraduate students
Undergraduate students
Lillian Mertig - 2024
Kian Kermani - 2024
Unnathi Kumar - 2024-2025
Sanjana Ramakrishnan - 2024-2025
George Flint (UC Berkeley) - 2023-2025
Audrey Kuo - 2025
Sidarth Krishna - 2025-2026
Cyra Alesha - 2025-2026
Karthik Singaravadivelan - 2025-2026
Chloe Chen - 2024-2026
Mentors
Mentors
Evelina Fedorenko
Associate Professor,MIT
Jacob Andreas
Associate Professor,MIT
Nancy Kanwisher
Professor,MIT
Collaborators
Collaborators
Ratan Murty
Assistant Professor,Georgia Tech
Aalok Sathe
Research Assistant,MIT
Eric Martinez
PhD Candidate,MIT
Raquel Krempel
Professor,Federal University of ABC
Zeke Gleichgerrcht
Assistant Professor,Emory University
Nealen Laxpati
Assistant Professor,Emory University
Sankaraleengam Alagapan
Research Scientist,Georgia Tech
Past Collaborators
Past Collaborators
Ekin Akyürek (MIT)
Stefano Anzellotti (Boston College)
Yael Benn (Manchester Metropolitan)
Marina Bers (Tufts)
Idan Blank (MIT/UCLA)
Emmanuele Chersoni (Hong Kong Polytechnic)
Oliver Clark (Manchester Metropolitan)
Thomas Clark (MIT)
Stella de Bode (UCLA)
Riva Dhamala (Tufts)
Jon Gauthier (MIT/UCSF)
Gabe Grand (MIT)
John Hewitt (Stanford)
Matthias Hofer (MIT)
Jenn Hu (MIT/Harvard)
Leyla Isik (Johns Hopkins)
Carina Kauf (MIT)
Hope Kean (MIT)
Alessandro Lenci (Università di Pisa)
Roger Levy (MIT)
Ben Lipkin (MIT)
Kyle Mahowald (UT Austin)
Zach Mineroff (MIT)
Una-May O’Reilly (MIT)
Vivian Paulun (MIT)
Alex Paunov (MIT/NeuroSpin)
Alvincé Pongos (MIT/Berkeley-UCSF)
RT Pramod (MIT)
Setayesh Radkani (MIT)
Giulia Rambelli (Università di Bologna)
Maria Ryskina (MIT)
Martin Schrimpf (MIT/EPFL)
Shashank Srikant (MIT)
Josh Tenenbaum (MIT)
Lucina Uddin (UCLA)
Rosemary Varley (UCL)
Noga Zaslavsky (MIT/UC Davis)
Ced Zhang (MIT)
Yihan Zhou
Vitor Zimmerer (UCL)
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