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Wilma Bainbridge, PhD.

Wilma Bainbridge, PhD.

Principal Investigator

Wilma A. Bainbridge joined the University of Chicago faculty in January 2020 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology. She received her B.A. in Cognitive Science from Yale University, studying both visual neuroscience and human-robot interaction. After a year-long research internship on robotics at the University of Tokyo, she completed her Ph.D in Brain & Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying vision and memory. She then completed postdoctoral training at the National Institute of Mental Health before coming to the University of Chicago.

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Lab Manager

Trent Davis

Trent Davis

Lab Manager

Trent is a recent UChicago graduate with BA’s in Neuroscience and Visual Arts on the Pre-Med track. He is very interested in the overlap between the arts and neuroscience, particularly the impact that visual stimulus can have on our memories and how we interact with out environment. In his free time, Trent loves to paint, draw, and listen to music.

trentdavis(at)uchicago(dot)edu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Brady Roberts

Brady Roberts

Postdoctoral Researcher

Brady is a postdoctoral scholar in the Brain Bridge Lab interested in how we can improve memory in everyday life through encoding techniques and the creation of highly memorable stimuli. He is also interested in how symbols of all kinds (e.g., !@#$%) are stored and retrieved from memory. In his free time, Brady enjoys camping, finding new coffee shops, and taking long trips on his motorcycle.

bradyr(at)uchicago(dot)edu

Graduate Students

Cambria Revsine

Cambria Revsine

3rd Year Psychology PhD Student

Cambria is a third-year doctoral student in the Cognitive Psychology program. Before joining the Brain Bridge Lab, she majored in Biological Basis of Behavior at the University of Pennsylvania, and spent two years as a post-baccalaureate research fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health. She is broadly interested in memorability of real-world images, and is currently investigating the ability of people to predict what they will remember or forget.

crevsine(at)uchicago(dot)edu

Emma Megla

Emma Megla

3rd Year Psychology PhD Student

Emma is a third-year PhD student in the Cognitive Psychology program. She graduated with a B.S. in Neuroscience from The Ohio State University in 2019 before working as a lab manager / research assistant at Vanderbilt University for two years. Emma is interested in taking advantage of multiple methods, such as drawing and EEG, to study how (and what) we forget as well as how our memory representations change over time. In her free time, she likes to read, knit, and try to make the prettiest farm in her favorite video game, Stardew Valley.

emegla(at)uchicago(dot)edu

Xiaohan (Hannah) Guo

Xiaohan (Hannah) Guo

3rd Year Psychology PhD Student

Hannah is broadly interested in how students learn, think, and apply knowledge in novel situations. Currently, she is interested in examining (1) the memorability of gestures in STEM learning; (2) the mechanisms behind gestures that promote STEM learning using brain imaging methods.

hannahguo(at)uchicago(dot)edu

Shikang Peng

Shikang Peng

MA Program in the Social Sciences Student

Shikang is a master student in the MAPSS program. He is a recent UAlberta graduate with honors BSc in psychology. He is interested in the process of episodic memory encoding and retrieval, particularly in the interplay between memorability and attention on subsequent episodic memory retrieval. In his free time, he enjoys painting, cooking and playing video games.

Yichen Dai

Yichen Dai

MA Program in the Social Sciences Student

Yichen joined the lab as a master student in the MAPSS program. He received his B.S. degree in Psychology and a minor in Statistics from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. He is interested in understanding the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive processes such as memory, attention and learning through computational, behavioral, and neuroimaging methods. Currently, he is investigating if ResMem is an effective state-of-the-art machine learning model for predicting the success of social media posts.

Undergraduate Researchers

Sam Rosenthal

Sam Rosenthal

Class of 2025

Sam is a second-year triple majoring in Psychology, Anthropology, and History. He is particularly interested in the role that the five senses have in relation to the strength of memories. In his free time, he enjoys playing adventure games, reading fantasy novels, and cooking.

Esther Goldberg

Esther Goldberg

Class of 2025

Esther is a second-year majoring in Data Science and minoring in Computational Neuroscience. She enjoys exploring how the brain functions and is eager to combine psychology with the application of data science and machine learning to help better understand the human mind. This past year Esther has been interning for a pharmaceutical company based in Boston building Python functions, creating compliance reports, and making presentations to implement data science into the field of medicine. She enjoys playing soccer in her free time and exploring new restaurants and bakeries downtown. 

Previous Members

Yuetong Bai Masters in Computational Social Sciences, 2021-2023

Fiona Lee Masters in Computational Social Sciences, 2021-2023

Asaf Lebovic Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2022

Deepasri Prasad Lab Manager, 2020-2022

Max Kramer Masters in Computational Social Sciences, 2020-2022

Rebecca Greenberg Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2020-2022

Madeline Gedvila Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2021-2022

Leon Zhou Undergraduate Research Assistant, 2020-2021

Paige Hanson Remde Masters in the Social Sciences, 2020-2021

Coen D. Needell Masters of Computational Social Science, 2020-2021

Jennifer Hu High School Summer Intern, 2020