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Fall 2024
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]
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 first-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 patterns of thought may differ across individuals. Outside of research, he enjoys soccer, hip-hop music, fishing, and snowboarding.[email]
Ruimin Gao
Research TechnicianRuimin is the research technician in the LIT Lab. She is interested in understanding how the human brain processes and represents contextual information during language processing, and how LLM and AI techniques can help answer questions about human cognitive processes. In her spare time, Ruimin loves coding and traveling.[website] [email]Current Part-Time Members
Current Part-Time Members
Kamya Hari
Master's StudentKamya is a first year master's student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her broad research interest lies in the overlap between Neuroscience and AI (NeuroAI). At LIT lab, she's working on data-driven approaches to localise the language network in the brain.[email]
George Flint
Undergraduate StudentGeorge Flint is a student and researcher of cognitive science and machine learning in the Class of 2026 at UC Berkeley.He is primarily interested in theoretical cognitive science, focusing on the neuronal mechanisms underpinning cognition and computation, at all scales, and their emergence, investigated computationally. He endeavors to create artificial models inspired by nature to describe and harness parsimonies and abilities of natural cognition.[website] [email]
Sydney Idleburg
Undergraduate StudentSydney is a second-year student at Georgia Tech, majoring in neuroscience. She is interested in investigating the relationship between inner speech and brain activity utilizing techniques such as fMRI.[email]
Sidarth Krishna
Undergraduate StudentSidarth Krishna is a third year undergrad student studying Computer Science at Georgia Tech. His research interests focus on the intersection of artificial intelligence and the brain. At the LIT Lab, his work focuses on studying open source LLMs and finetuned models, LLM interpretability and its correlation to the human brain. [email]
Weichen Huang
Undergraduate StudentWeichen is a student at Georgia Tech, majoring in computer science (Class of 2029). He is interested in understanding language and thought through explainable AI and deep learning.[email]
Karthik Singaravadivelan
Undergraduate StudentKarthik is a first-year undergraduate student studying Computer Science and Psychology. He is specifically interested in the intersection between modern artificial intelligence and theories of cognition, and is currently involved in developing Encoding Models with the LIT Lab. In the long term, Karthik hopes to work on neurosymbolic forms of AI that are inherently based on the brain's architecture.[website] [email]
Malavika Niverthi
Undergraduate StudentMala is a second year Neuroscience student with a prospective minor in Computer Science. She is interested in using fMRI to explore how functional regions of the brain relate to—and sometimes diverge from—the anatomical structures that they are often associated with. [email]
Saanvi Sundaram
Undergraduate StudentSaanvi Sundaram is a second-year student at Georgia Tech, studying Neuroscience with a hopeful minor in Computing & Intelligence. She is interested in researching inner speech and understanding how it can be modelled better in artificial systems. Outside of college, she enjoys watching film & playing the violin.[email]
Ruthu Raghunath
Undergraduate StudentRuthu is a second-year undergraduate student at Georgia Tech, studying neuroscience on the pre-med track. She is interested in learning how our brain’s language areas differ in those with and without speech and language disorders in hopes to find better treatment options for such conditions. [email]Mentors & Collaborators
Mentors & Collaborators
Evelina Fedorenko
Associate Professor,MIT
Jacob Andreas
Associate Professor,MIT
Nancy Kanwisher
Professor,MIT
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 Mentees
Past Mentees
Audrey Kuo (GT) - RA, 2025-2025
Caleb McKinney (GT) - Part-time PhD, 2025-2025
Michael Zhou (GT) - Part-time PhD, 2025-2025
Chloe Chen (GT) - RA, 2024-2025
Om Bhatt (GT) - RA, 2024-2025
Unnathi Kumar (GT) - RA, 2024-2025
Sanjana Ramakrishnan (GT) - RA, 2024-2025
Josleen St Luce (MIT) - Undergrad, 2023-2024
Selena She (MIT) - Undergrad+RA, 2022-2024
Alyx Tanner (MIT) - Volunteer, 2022-2024
David Oluigbo (MIT) - Undergrad, 2021-2024
Yotaro Sueoka (MIT) - Undergrad+volunteer, 2018-2023
Chandler Cheung (MIT) - Volunteer, 2020-2021
Zawad Chowdhury (MIT) - Undergrad, 2020-2021
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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