Current Members
PI
Linlin Fan
Samuel A. Goldblith Career Development Professor of Applied Biology
Assistant Professor
The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
Postdoc, Stanford University
PhD, Harvard University
BS, Peking University
Email: lzfan@mit.edu
Office: 46-5235
Phone: (650) 422-9837
Postdoctoral Associates
Qing Xie
Simons Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, Physical Chemistry, Lehigh University
Email: qingx518@mit.edu
Kevin Chen
PhD, Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology, Johns Hopkins University
Email: kevin909@mit.edu
Kailong Wen
PhD, Neurobiology, University of Chicago
Email: klwen@mit.edu
Graduate Students
Mitchell Daneker
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
BS, University of Delaware
Email: mdaneker@mit.edu
Adrienne Kashay
Brain and Cognitive Sciences
BS, University of California, Los Angeles
Email: aqkashay@mit.edu
Kohleman Swift
Neuroimaging Training Program Fellow
Health Sciences and Technology,
MD/PhD Student
BS, Yale University
Email: knswift@mit.edu
Young Joon Kim
MD Student, Harvard Medical School
MS, University of Oxford
MP, University of Cambridge
BA, Columbia University
Email: yjkim007@mit.edu
Xiuzhi Dai
Rotation Student
Brain and Cognitive Sciences
BS, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Email: daix02@mit.edu
Valerie Tan
Rotation Student
Health Sciences and Technology
BS, Duke University
Email: vt64@mit.edu
Technical Associates
Xingyu Chen
BS, Johns Hopkins University
Email: xingyuc@mit.edu
Undergrads
Roshni Parulekar-Martins
HEALS SuperUROP
BS in progress, MIT
Email: roshnipm@mit.edu
Sehoon Kang
UROP
BS in progress, MIT
Email: sehoonk@mit.edu
Erin Wong
BS in progress, MIT
Email: eswong@mit.edu
Tei Kim
UROP
BS in progress, MIT
Email: teidkim@mit.edu
Alumni
Doo Kyung (Ellie) Kim
Research Professional, 2023
PhD Student, Brown University
Celestine Wenardy
Undergrad, 2023
Undergrad, Stanford University
Susan Hong
UROP, 2024
Undergrad, MIT
Noah Kabbaj
MSRP, 2025
Undergrad, Washington University in St. Louis
Navid Ghazi
Technical Associate, 2024-2025