Lots of people have passed through the AMP Lab over the years, and wouldn’t have been the same without them! Here are the researchers who helped make us who we are.
 | Sahib Kaila graduated in 2024 from the College of Human Ecology majoring in Nutritional Sciences. His research interests include how attention and environment can affect the brain's ability to encode memories. In his free time, Sahib can be found hiking, rock climbing, or watching his favorite movies. |
 | Jackie Kim joined the lab in 2021. She graduated in 2024 with majors in Biological Sciences and Philosophy. Her research interests include EEG correlates of memory formation as well as the social and neurobiological determinants of mental disorders. Her hobbies include oil painting and hamster care. |
 | Siddiq Nanabawa graduated in 2024 from the College of Arts and Sciences majoring in Biology and on the premed path. His interest in neurobiology stems from his curiosity regarding the brain's mechanisms and processes which govern our everyday activities. |
 | Anaisa Cespedes was in the lab 2022-2023. |
 | Lilyanna Gross graduated in 2023 with a psychology major and cogsci minor. She would like to understand how sensation is translated into perception. Specifically, the anatomy and physiology of all sensory systems (taste, touch, smell, sight, sound, proprioception), and how a broad range of cognitive or environmental factors may influence the translation of sensation into perception. Additionally, she wants to understand how certain cognitive processes, i.e., attention and memory, can influence our general cognitive abilities and processing power and efficiency. |
 | John Rosero graduated in 2023 from Cornell University majoring in Biology & Society with a minor in Business. He joined the AMP Lab in the fall of 2022. His research interests pertain to the effect emotional states have on cognitive and perceptual processing. Additionally, he is interested in using neuroimaging to evaluate the encoding, organization, and retrieval of memories. |
 | Anya Ji worked in the lab from 2020-2022. |
 | Sanweda Mahagabin graduated in 2022 with a degree in Biological Sciences with a concentration in Genetics, Genomics, and Development. She worked in the lab from 2021-2022. She currently works in the Grosenick lab at Weill Cornell and hopes to pursue a career in medicine. |
 | Sofia Prieto worked in the lab from 2019-2022. Shemajored in biology with a concentration in neuroscience. Her research interests included studying memory and attentional changes based on external sources. She is also interested in combining her interests in emerging technology to track these behavioral and neural findings. Her hobbies include playing tennis, painting, and taekwondo. |
| Nicole Rabinowitz worked in the lab 2021-2022. |
| Leeah Richardson graduated in 2022. |
 | Yan Zhu worked in the lab from 2020-2022. |
| Ngoc Tran worked in the lab from 2021-2022. |
 | Catherine Coughlin graduated with a degree in Biological Sciences major concentrating in Neurobiology and Behavior in 2021. Her research interests include how culture and other factors influence memory. She is also interested in memory impairments and methods of treatment and rehabilitation. Some of her hobbies include writing, running, and music. |
| Ian Ghasemain worked in the lab in 2021. |
| Anna Lee graduated in 2021. |
| Ashley Park worked in the lab from 2020-2021. |
| Andrew Salib joined the lab in 2019 and graduated in 2021. |
 | Melissa Yap graduated in 2021 majoring in Biology, with a concentration in Biochemistry. Her research interests include the influence of auditory and visual cues on perception and memory. Her hobbies include eating, cooking, and trying out new restaurants. |
 | Siddharth Venkatesh graduated in 2021 with a degree in Biology in Arts and Sciences. His research interests include using neuroimaging and eye-tracking technology to track event perception and the attentional boost effect, and how those images can be used for clinical treatment of neural conditions. Siddharth's hobbies inlcude: reading, watching action movies, and boxing |
| Joel Cruz graduated in 2020. |
 | Deanna Earle graduated with a degree in Animal Science in 2020. Her research interests include how attention is impacted in those with developmental disorders and brain injuries in addition to how the lab's findings of the attentional boost effect relates to these populations. Her hobbies include running, playing tennis, and reading. |
 | Liam Sullivan graduated in 2020 from the College of Arts and Sciences double majoring in psychology and philosophy. His research interests include attention regulation, the relationship between perception and mental illness, and identity theory. In his spare time, he enjoys distance running, reading, and guitar. |
 | Gandalf (Bohan) Li was a graduate student in the lab with research interests in: Time perception; attention; network theory; human-centered design; video game design; everything Tolkien. |
 | Ami Agrawal worked in the lab from 2018-2019. She is a junior Mechanical Engineering major. Her research interests include the attentional boost effect, prosthetics, and neuroimaging. Outside of the lab, she can be found exploring Ithaca, reading, or figuring out how to make concrete float. |
 | Aaron Earle-Richardson graduated in 2019 and subsequently worked in the lab on MRI analyses. He was a Bioengineering major in CALS minoring in biomedical engineering and neurobiology. His research interests include using information theory, data science, and statistics to map systems of learning and memory in the brain. Aaronâs hobbies include tennis, board games, hiking with dogs, and choral singing. |
 | Pallavi Kenkare was in the lab from 2018-2019. She was majoring in Biology & Society, with a minor in Law & Ethics. Her research interests included the effects of multitasking on memory and attention. Her hobbies are reading, painting, and playing tennis. |
| Ariella Ratner graduated in 2019. |
 | Xing Su graduated in 2019 with honors in Psychology and double majored Psychology and Economics. Her research interests include how culture and social factors influence attention and perception. Her hobbies include reading, drawing, and experimenting with makeup. |
 | Victoria Tian worked in the lab in 2019. She was majoring in Global and Public Health Sciences. She is interested in what affects peopleÕs attention and perception of their environment and how these factors can influence their behavior, as well as how we can use this knowledge to design better health interventions. Her hobbies include playing the flute and walking around CornellÕs beautiful campus. |
 | Andrea Wat was an exchange student from Australiain the lab in 2019. Her research interests include how attention and memory can be tied to forensic psychology in potentially explaining the fallibility of eyewitness testimonies. Favourite hobbies include watching movies, listening to music and looking inside fridges for food. |
 | Taylor Beauvais worked in the lab from 2017-2018. He graduated from the University at Buffalo in 2015 with a B.S. in Psychology and Sociology. Before joining the AMP lab he worked with Roswell Medical Center as a research analyst, and in the Adolescent Transitions lab here at Cornell as a lab manager. His research interests include the effect of non-complimentary response on event memory and perception. His hobbies including: cooking, soccer, running, and guitar. |
 | Dina Busaba graduated in 2018 as a Psychology major concentrating in Biopsychology. Her research interests include neuroimaging, visual and perceptual learning, and neural compensation based on attention, perception, and memory. Outside of the lab, Dina enjoys traveling, experimenting with makeup, and looking longingly at cats. |
 | Mariel Emrich graduated in 2018 with a degree in Human Development. Her research interests include studying different ways to increase attention and subsequent memory, and how that is manifested in the brain using EEG and fMRI technology. Additionally, she is interested in how attention and memory are impaired in clinical populations and how these impairments can be minimized or eliminated. |
 | Sosna Gellaw worked in the lab in 2018. Her research interests include the effects of multitasking on attention and memory. Her hobbies include exploring new places around town, volunteering, and watching basketball. |
 | Clara Lee graduated in 2018 with a major in Psychology and a minor in Philosophy. Her interests include neuroimaging research techniques in the field and the integration of technological advancement within patient treatment. Outside the lab, her hobbies mainly involve creative expression, especially through painting, writing, and music. |
 | Haylee Schwartz graduated in 2018 with a major in Human Development and a minor in Health Policy. Her research interests include how our studies on the attentional boost effect are related to various disorders such as Alzheimerâs Disease and Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Some of her hobbies are coloring, painting, and bike riding. |
 | Katrina Bamba graduated in 2017 with a degree in Human Biology, Health and Society. She worked as a research assistant with Dr.Swallow for the last two years of her undergraduate career. Currently, she is pursing a Master degree in Health Administration at the Sloan Program at Cornell University and hopes to later work in a hospital setting. |
 | Judy Chen was in the lab in the Spring and Fall of 2017. Her research interests include attentional effects on information processing and language learning. Her hobbies include jogging, baking, and drawing. |
| Jovan Kemp graduated with honors in psychology in 2017. |
| Allyson LaRosa graduated in 2017. |
 | Kimberly Lee graduated in 2017 with a degree in Psychology and Information Science with minors in French and Business. Since graduating and leaving the AMP Lab, she has begun studying at Cornell Law School as a Juris Doctor candidate. While she finds legal studies fascinating, she hopes to one day return to academia in a research capacity. |
| Logan Lin graduated in 2017. |
 | Sichun Liu graduated from Cornell University in May 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Psychology. She worked as an undergraduate research assistant in the AMP lab during her sophomore year directly under the supervision of Professor Swallow. She is currently working at Cornerstone Research, an economic consulting firm, as an analyst to provide financial and economic analysis for commercial litigation matters. |
 | Alyssa Phelps joined the AMP lab as a research assistant in the summer of 2016 and worked with Dr. Swallow and graduate student Hamid Turker to produce an honors thesis titled âAttentional Boost Effect in the Hippocampus.â She graduated with honors from Cornell in 2017 and is working at the Boston University CTE Center to gain more clinical research experience before applying to graduate school. |
 | Bella Poulos worked in the lab during the spring of 2017. Her research interests include attention, neurophysiology, memory, effects of physiology on brain functioning, and clinical research. Her hobbies include fly fishing, tying flies, swimming, collecting/identifying/drying wildflowers, ceramics, hanging out with her rabbit (Calypso). |
| Hyong Sop Shin graduated in 2017. |
 | Patrick (Tae-Young) Kim graduated in 2016. |
 | Danny Lin graduated in 2016. |
 | Nicolas Ramos received his Bachelorâs degree in Psychology from Cornell in 2015. After graduation, he worked for two years in a cognitive neuroscience laboratory at the University of Miami examining cognitive performance and mindfulness training. Nicolas is currently a first-year MBA student at the University of Florida concentrating in marketing, and will be interning with The Coca-Cola Company in the Summer of 2018. |
 | Daniela Baca Guitierrez is a graduate of the Panamerican University in Mexico City and was a member of the AMP lab in 2014. While apart of the AMP lab Daniela participated on a project involving the interaction of memory and attention during multitasking. She currently works as a kindergarten teacher in Mexico City and is hoping to do her masters degree next year, but not before traveling around the world studying gastronomy. |
| Santiago Roa Sierra worked in the lab as part of the CienciAmerica program during the summer of 2015. |
 | Tu Tu worked in the lab in 2014. |
| Clara Freeman worked in the lab from 2013-2014. |