Lab Members

Robbe Goris: Principal Investigator

Jongmin Moon: Postdoc

Jongmin studies how the brain transforms sensory input into perceptions and thoughts that drive behavior, combining psychophysical and electrophysiological data with normative theories and computational models. He received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, where he worked with Oh-Sang Kwon, studying computational principles underlying biases in human perceptual behavior.

Jiaming Xu: Graduate Student

Jiaming Xu is a psychology graduate student in the Center for Perceptual Systems, co-advised by Robbe Goris and Mary Hayhoe. She is interested in visual prediction in naturalistic environments and the underlying neural computations. BSc in Psychology, University of Western Ontario (advisor: Jody Culham), MA in Psychology, NYU (advisor: Michael Landy)

Akash Raj: Graduate Student

Akash Raj is a psychology graduate student in the Center for Perceptual Systems. He is interested in sensory perception and decision processes in the primate brain, and is currently working on understanding the basis of adaptively improving confidence judgements during decision making. BS and MS in Biology from the Indian Institute of Science.

Tien Dung Nguyen: Graduate Student

Tien is a graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program (INP). He is interested in how the visual system processes sensory inputs and turns them into predictions about the environment. Specifically, he aims to understand what makes the visual system robust to environmental perturbations and how these principles can inform the design of more adversarially robust neural networks. Tien holds a Master’s in Computational Neuroscience at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin, Advisors: Stefan Haufe and Arnaud Delorme, and a Bachelor’s in Computer Science & Economics from the Berlin School of Economics and Law.

Avinash Ranjan: Graduate Student

Avinash is a graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program (INP).

Molly Pierce: Postbac

Molly is a post-baccalaureate research coordinator in the neuroscience department at the University of Texas at Austin. She is interested in systems neuroscience and how large-scale neural circuits support perception, learning, and decision-making. Her work is driven by a curiosity about how computational principles in combination with interactions across levels—from molecular and cellular mechanisms to network organization—give rise to high-level cognitive functions and guide behavior.

Gabriela Coello-Reyes: Research Engineer/Lab Manager

Gaby holds a Bachelors degree in Neurobiology and a Masters degree in Psychology from UT Austin. Lab member 2022 - present.

Alumni

Ryan Truong: Research Laboratory Technician

Ryan Truong was part of the Goris Lab from 2023- 2025. He recieved his BS in Psychology at UT Austin the Fall of 2023 and is now a graduate student at Harvard's Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab working with Sam Gershman.

Zoe Boundy-Singer: Graduate Student

Zoe Boundy-Singer sucessfully defended her PhD on April of 2025 and will be joining the Jazayeri Lab at MIT. She is interested in the neural computations that underlie our sensory capabilities and how this information is used to make perceptual decisions. Currently Zoe studies the primary visual cortex – in particular, how it processes uncertainty of visual features. Her approach consists of a combination of computational theory, electrophysiological recordings, and perceptual experiments.

Thomas Langlois: Post-Doc

Thomas explores the behavioral, computational, and neural (biological) components of bayesian inference during visual decision making and memory. He also investigates how biological vision systems differ from artificial ones. He completed his Ph.D. in Thomas Griffiths’ Computational Cognitive Science Lab at UC Berkeley in August of 2018. He then joined Princeton University as a postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Cognitive Science Lab, where he used experimental methods based on iterated reproduction to quantify subjective priors in vision. Work with the Goris lab focused on uncovering the neural correlates of Bayesian inference during visual decision making. Thomas was a postdoct in the Goris Lab from 2023 - 2024. Now: postdoctoral associate in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Department (BCS) at MIT, working with Roger Levy and Noga Zaslavsky.

Corey Ziemba: Post-Doc

Corey Ziemba received his PhD in 2016 from New York University. His doctoral work under advisors Tony Movshon and Eero Simoncelli focused on dissecting the role of the second visual area in the representation and discrimination of naturalistic visual patterns, particularly visual textures. Corey was a postdoc from 2018 - 2024. Now: Staff Scientist at NIH.

Oliver Muthmann: Post-Doc

Julie Charlton: Graduate Student

Julie was a neuroscience (INS) graduate student from 2017 - 2022; Now: postdoc with Carlos Brody at Princeton.

Yoon Bai: Graduate Student

Yoon was a psychology (CPS) graduate student in the lab from 2016 - 2020; Now: postdoc with Jim DiCarlo at MIT.

Quiana Jeffs: Lab Manager.

Quiana was a lab manager from 2020 - 2021; Now graduate student at the University of Wyoming.