People

Principal Investigator

Portrait of Rachel Ryskin

Rachel Ryskin

Rachel Ryskin is the lab PI & an Associate Professor in Cognitive & Information Sciences.

Research Staff

Portrait of Saloni Naik

Saloni Naik

Saloni Naik is the LInC lab manager.

Graduate Students

Portrait of Judy Chen

Judy Chen

Judy Chen is a 1st year PhD student in Cognitive & Information Sciences.

Portrait of Olivia Gawel

Olivia Gawel

Olivia Gawel is a 3rd year PhD student in Cognitive & Information Sciences.

Portrait of Yasemin Gokcen

Yasemin Gokcen

Yasemin Gokcen is a 5th year PhD student in Cognitive & Information Sciences.

Portrait of Amy Kennedy

Amy Kennedy

Amy Kennedy is a 1st year PhD student in Cognitive & Information Sciences.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

Joe Shem

Devlan Smith

Former Lab Members

Graduate

Ellis Cain, Ph.D. 2026 (➝ Postdoctoral Fellow at Kenyon College)

Tevin Williams, Ph.D. 2026 (➝ Assistant Professor at Anderson University)

Joyce Liu, M.S. 2023 (➝ PhD student at UC Merced)

Richard Ellks, M.S. 2022 (➝ research coordinator at Stanford)

Post-bacc

Alyssa Ortega (➝ PhD Student at UW Madison)

Dulce Karina Pimentel-Hurlburt (➝ Clinical Research Coordinator Associate at Stanford)

Undergraduate

Alton Chao (➝ PhD student at Purdue University)

Nora Chen

Isaac Corona

Isabella Dohnke

Tina Fathollahi

Ellis Hampton

Mereal Jarjour

Jacob Lawson

Jet Mejia-Bohol

Aryaan Mishra

Ma Angela Montiel (➝ PhD student at UC Santa Cruz)

Vera Nicolette-Sanchez (➝ UC Merced)

Jonathan Rivera Lopez

Eduardo Santiago

Renisha Singh

Sukanya Sriram

Rich Truong

Levi Williams

Lab Photos