PEOPLE

DONG LAB

Our cross-disciplinary group develops neuroanatomic and neuroinformatic approaches to understand connectivity patterns in both health and disease.

DIRECTOR

HONG WEI DONG, M.D., Ph.D.

hongweid@mednet.ucla.edu

ASSOCIATE ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

HOURIG HINTIRYAN, Ph.D.

HHintiryan@mednet.ucla.edu

DIRECTOR OF INFORMATICS

IAN BOWMAN

ibowman@mednet.ucla.edu

LAB MANAGER

YEJI (ESTHER) HAN

YEHan@mednet.ucla.edu

PROJECT SCIENTISTS

Nick Foster, Ph.D.

Wet Lab Team

Keivan Moradi, M.D., Ph.D.

Computational Neuroscience Team

Sumit Nanda, Ph.D.

Computational Neuroscience Team

Jiandong Sun, Ph.D.

Wet Lab Team

Qiuying Zhao, Ph.D.

Wet Lab Team

Brian Zingg, Ph.D.

Wet Lab Team

WET LAB TEAM

Chunru Cao

Staff Research Associate

Lin Gou

Staff Research Associate

Alex Romero

Wet Lab Team

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE TEAM

Tyler Boesen

Staff Research Associate

Aishwarya Dev

Staff Research Associate

Christian Estrada

Programmer

Luis Garcia

Programmer

Jennifer Gonzalez

Staff Research Associate

Adriana Gutierrez

Staff Research Associate

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Mitchell Rudd

Neuroscience Ph.D. Candidate

FEATURED ALUMNI

Helen Xue

Seita Yamashita

Hanpeng Xu

Maxwell Bay, Ph.D.

Sr. Quantitive Analyst
Los Angeles Dodgers

Nora Benavidez, Ph.D.

Director of Operations
Psychedelic Science Funders Collaborative

Kaelan Cotter

Senior Validation Engineer
Shell Recharge Solutions

Marina Fayzullina

Ph.D. program, USC School of Pharmacy

Lei Gao

Ph.D. program, Biological Physics, Structure & Design at University of Washington

Inga Yenokian

Darrick Lo

Kaladhar Mummadi

Software engineer at Adobe

Hyun-Seung (Christine) Mun

Samantha Serrano, MBA

Senior associate at PwC

Monica Song

Amanda J. Tugangui

Operations Coordinator at Starr Whitehouse Landscapes Architects and Planners

Suyi Wang, Ph.D.

Senior software engineer at Amazon

Xinhai Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.

Director of Autopsy and Neuropathology at Rush Medical College

Muye Zhu, Ph.D.

Senior software engineer at Google