Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Our Team
Kiyohito (Kyo) Iigaya
Kyo Iigaya is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is also affiliated with Neurobiology and Behavior Program, Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, and Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute.
Kyo received his Ph.D. from the Physics Department and the Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia (thesis advisor: Stefano Fusi). Kyo was a postdoc at University College London (the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and the Max Planck Centre for Computational Psychiatry and Ageing. advisor: Peter Dayan, Ray Dolan) and Caltech (advisor: John O'Doherty).
Kyo likes to eat, travel, and eat.
Yasmin Farhan
Yasmin is a Master's student in Computer Science Department. She received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD).
Krishan Kumar
Krishan is a Master's student in the Electrical Engineering Department. Krishan received his B.A. from UPenn with a double major in Mathematics and Economics and a minor in Statistics.
He plays guitar in the Brooklyn-based alternative rock band Grand Army Reapers and likes to play tennis.
Anusha Phadnis
Anusha is a Master's student in Computer Science Department at Penn. Anusha received a B.TEch degree from DAIICT in India.
Manuel Paez
Manuel is an undergraduate student majoring in computer science at Columbia University.
In his free time, he likes to read, engage with the arts, travel, and watch Bayern Munich play.
Adithya Gungi
Adithya is a graduate student in the Physics department and has an Integrated M.Sc in Physics from IIT Bombay in Mumbai, India, and an MA in Physics from Stony Brook University.
Adithya loves to read, and is on a quest to find the best dollar pizza place in NYC as a connoisseur of street food.
Shuanghua Wei
Adjunct Research Scientist
Shuanghua is an adjunct research scientist.
Past members
Allen Qu
Kim Dang