Alumni

CNBI UT Austin Alumni

Akhil Surapaneni

Neurology Resident | UT Southwestern Medical School

MD, 2026

Phd, 2025

Deland Liu

Founding Machine Learning & Signal Processing Engineer | Neurosonic

Phd, 2025

Satyam Kumar

ML Systems | Texas Instrument

Phd, 2024

Hussein Alawieh

Senior Clinical Research Scientist | Noctrix Health, Inc

Phd, 2024

Fumiaki Iwani

Postdoctoral Researcher | National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)

Phd, 2021

EPFL & UT Austin CNBI Lab Member

Diego Mac-Auliffe

Researcher, Dept. of Psychology | UT Austin

Postdoc, 2020-2025

Frigyes Samuel Racz

Instructor, Dept. Neurology | UT Austin

Postdoc, 2021-2024

Cole Smylie

Software Engineer | Panadromics

Master's, 2025

Arpan Patel

Internal Medicine Resident | Dell Medical School UT Austin

Master's, 2025

Allan Frederick

co-founder | Informagen Analytics

Master's, 2024

Kanishka Mitra

PhD Student | MIT EECS

Master's, 2023

CNBI EPFL Alumni

Bastien Orset

Machine Learning Engineer | Aktiia, Switzerland

PhD, 2021

Ruslan Aydarkhanov

Co-founder | TheStage AI, USA

PhD, 2020

Ping-Keng Jao

Research Scientist | Qneuro, USA

PhD, 2020

Nuno João Machado Loureiro

Head of Data Science | +Atlantic, Portugal

PhD, 2020 (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal)

Tiffany Corbet

Project Manager | Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland

PhD, 2019

Christoph Schneider

R&D Scientist | Insel Group, Switzerland

PhD, 2018

Luca Randazzo

CEO & Founder | Emovo Care, Switzerland

PhD, 2018

Michael Pereira

Scientist | INSERM, France

PhD, 2018

Stéphanie Martin

Lead Neuroengineer & Founding Team Member | NextSense, USA

PhD, 2017

Andrea Crema

Researcher, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) & Founder, AGO Neurotechnologies, Switzerland

PhD, 2017

Lucian Gheorghe

Senior Innovation Researcher | Nissan, USA

PhD, 2017

Sareh Saeedi

Project Manager | CSEM, Switzerland

PhD, 2016

Post-Doc, 2016-2018

Zahra Khaliliardali

Entrepreneur | CSEM, Switzerland

PhD, 2016

Huaijian Zhang

Software Engineer | Meta, Singapore

PhD, 2015

Andrea Biasiucci

Founder of Intento; CEO of Confinis & COO Athagoras Group, Switzerland

PhD, 2014

Post-Doc, 2015-2016

Serafeim Perdikis

Senior Lecturer | University of Essex, United Kingdom

PhD, 2014

Post-Doc, 2015-2018

Marija Ušćumlić

Scientist | Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland

PhD, 2013

Post-Doc, 2016-2019

Mohit Kumar Goel

Director of Data Science | BOLD Technologies, India

PhD, 2013

Hesam Sagha

Product Owner of AI SoundLab platform | audEERING GmbH, Germany

PhD, 2013

Luca Tonin

Associate Professor | University of Padova, Italy

PhD, 2013 

Post-Doc, 2017-2019

Nicolas Bourdaud

Lead Software Engineer | Alice & Bob, France

PhD, 2012

Eileen Yi Lee Lew

Lead Principal Analyst ML | SingHealth, Singapor

PhD, 2012

Gangadhar Garipelli

VP Corporate Dev & Partnership | Mindmaze Therapeutics, Switzerland

PhD, 2011

Ricardo Chavarriaga

Head of CLAIRE Office & ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland

Senior Research 2009-2019
Postodoc, 2006-2009

Iñaki Iturrate

AI/ML Engineering Manager | Google, Switzerland

Post-Doc, 2014-2019

Kyuhwa Lee

Scientist | Wyss Center, Switzerland

Post-Doc, 2014-2019

Anwesha Khasnobish

Scientist | TCS Research & Innovation, India

Post-Doc, 2017 - 2018

Camille Jeunet

Research Scientist | CNRS, France

Post-Doc, 2018

Robert Leeb

Head of MindMaze LAB, Switzerland

Post-Doc, 2011-2016

Maria Laura Blefari

Associate Director Precision Medicine Neuroscience | AbbVie, USA

Post-Doc, 2012-2016

Andrea Maesani

Founder, General Manager | Intento SA, Switzerland

Post-Doc, 2015-2016

Aleksander Sobolewski

Neuroscientist | Wyss Center, Switzerland

Post-Doc, 2012-2015

Aaron Schurger

Assistant Professor, Dpt. Psychology & Institute for Interdisciplinary Brain and Behavioral Sciences | Chapman University, USA

Post-Doc, 2013-2014

Tom Carlson

Full Professor | University College London, UK

Post-Doc, 2011-2013

Sarah Degallier Rochat

Full Professeur | Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Post-Doc, 2010-2012

Former Members

Zoe Lalji, Research Assistant, 2025
Allan M. Frederick, Teaching Assistant (Spring 2025).
Evan Carnahan, Graduate Student, 2021-2023
Rawan Fakhreddine, Research affiliate, 2021-2022 (PhD student, Carnegie Mellon University)
Zachery Hernandez, Research engineer, 2020-2022

Former Visitors

Gaia Chini, Visiting MS Student (University of Genova, Italy, Sept. 2025-February 2026).
Wilfredo Alfonso-Morales, Visiting Professor (Fulbright Scholar, University of Valle, Cali, Colombia, January 2025-June 2025).
Piero Simonetto, Visiting PhD Student (University of Padova, Italy, Nov. 2024-April 2025).
Erick Guzman, Visiting PhD student,  University of Guadalajara, Mexico, Sept. 2021-May 2022