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Joy Geng, Ph.D.
Professor
jgeng@ucdavis.edu


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Joy got started in the business with Michael Spivey at Cornell University. She then moved to Carnegie Mellon for grad school with Marlene Behrmann. After that she went to UCL for a postdoc with Jon Driver and then to UCD with Ron Mangun. She was lucky to have been in the lab of caring mentors and brilliant scientists.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Joe (Zhiheng) Zhou, Ph.D.
​zhzhou44@gmail.com


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Joe's research focuses on understanding the relationship between attention and perception. He got his undergraduate and master’s training at Southeast University in China, during which he developed interests in cognitive and brain science. He moved to the US and received his PhD from the University of Nevada, Reno, where he worked with Dr. Lars Strother.
Jared Stokes, Ph.D.
also in Schweitzer lab
​jdstokes@ucdavis.edu

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Joe Nah, Ph.D.
​josephcnah@gmail.com

​https://josephnah.com
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Joe graduated from Tufts University in 2011 with a BA in Psychology soon followed by a MA in Psychology from Yonsei University in 2014. He joined the lab in 2019 after getting his PhD from George Washington University working with Sarah Shomstein. He is interested in understanding how semantic knowledge influences visual perception and attention. Outside of the lab, Joe spends too much time researching how to brew the perfect cup of coffee and how not to drop cards when shuffling them.

Graduate Students

Xinger Yu
xeyu@ucdavis.edu
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Phillip Witkowski
pwitkowski@ucdavis.edu 


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Shea Duarte
seduarte@ucdavis.edu 
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Shea is a second year graduate student in psychology. Her research interests lie in multisensory processing, attention, and how these processes interact. She is particularly interested in using virtual reality to study these phenomena in increasingly naturalistic, yet controlled environments.
Raisa Rahim
​rarahim@ucdavis.edu 


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​Raisa is a third year graduate student in neuroscience. She is interested in studying how well humans remember viewed multidimensional objects, ranging from artificially created stimuli to those that are socially relevant, such as human faces.
Beth Hall
​ehhall@ucdavis.edu
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Beth is a 3rd year graduate student studying attention and memory in complex environments. She previously worked as a trainee with Chris Baker at the NIH and with Doug Davidson at the Basque Center for Cognition, Brain, and Language.

Undergraduate Researchers

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 Aditi Venkatesh
 avenkatesh@ucdavis.edu 

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Jocelyn Huerta​jochuerta@ucdavis.edu


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Ruilin Cai
Ruilin is a senior student double majoring in applied math and cognitive science. He plans to go to graduate school with a data science emphasis in 2022.


Fayann Han
Arya Ranadive
Tara Sharifi
​Zoe Loh

Lab Alumni
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