Helen Hou

Assistant Professor, CSHL

Previous affiliations:

B.Sc. Physics and Biology, MIT (PNAS 2012)

Ph.D. Neuroscience, Harvard University (Cell 2016)

Helen Hay Whitney Postdoc Fellow, Columbia University (Cosyne 2021)

Visiting Research Scientist, Reality Labs CTRL-Labs Neuromotor Interfaces (biorxiv 2024)

 

Our Team

  • Diana

    Diana Naglič

    Research Technician

    Diana plays a key role in building our lab from the ground up and enabling our very first experiments, all the while being a competitive swimmer.

    naglic [at] cshl [dot] edu

  • Irene

    Irene Nozal Martin

    Graduate Student (Stony Brook)

    Irene joined our lab as a Fulbright master’s student and is continuing her PhD thesis in the lab. Irene has a strong interest at the intersection of Bioengineering and Neuroscience.

    nozalma [at] cshl [dot] edu

    irene.nozalmartin [at] stonybrook [dot] edu

  • Kyle Daruwalla

    Kyle Daruwalla

    NeuroAI Scholar

    Kyle obtained his PhD @ University of Wisconsin-Madison studying non-von Neumman computing. Kyle is generally interested in neuromorphic computing and digging deep into neural and behavior data.

    daruwal [at] cshl [dot] edu

  • Brian Song

    Brian Song

    PFF Student

    Brian joins our lab through the CSHL Partners for the Future program and is building anatomical models.

    bsong23 [at] roslynschools [dot] org

  • Andrew Frankel

    NeuroAI Intern

    Andrew is an MS student in Cognitive Neuroscience at CUNY, after a Computer Science MS at Georgia Tech and working in industry as a machine learning engineer. Andrew is interested in the intersection of artificial and biological intelligence.

    Frankel [at] cshl [dot] edu

  • Julia

    Julia Rodriguez

    PFF Student

    Julia is a Partners for the Future student from Farmingdale High School and is pioneering comparative rodent anatomical studies in our lab.

  • Samantha

    Samantha Bowen

    Scientific Administrator

    Samantha is keeping our lab running smoothly and also managing the Fellows Program @ CSHL.

    bowen [at] cshl [dot] edu

Alumni

  • Liu Zhang

    NeuroAI Summer Intern

    Liu was our first summer student and is currently a PhD student @ Princeton Applied and Computational Mathematics.

  • Armen Enikolopov

    Consulting Engineer

    Armen obtained his PhD @ Columbia Biology & Neuroscience with expertise in electrophysiology, sensory processing, and instrumentation design.

  • Emily Davis

    Emily Davis

    Undergraduate Research Program (URP)

    Emily was an URP summer student and is currently finishing her B.Sc. neuroscience degree at High Point University.

  • We are actively recruiting at all levels, including but not limited to Students, Postdocs, and Research Technicians. Please get in touch via hou [at] cshl.edu and include your CV/resume and contact information of three references.