CIS Ph.D. Alumni

 

 

  • Dr. Sergio Ponce de Leon (2026)
  • Dr. Alejandro Perez Velilla  (2026) postdoctoral research fellow, School of Computing at the National University of Singapore.
  • Dr. Helia Hosseinpour (2026) Adjunct professor in General Psychology at Fairfield University 
  • Dr. Chanuwas Aswamenakul (2026)
  • Dr. Tevin Williams (2026) - Assistant Professor of Psychology, Anderson University
  • Dr. Ellis Cain (2026) - Post Doc in Interdisciplinary Computing, Kenyon College
  • Dr. Sam Carey (2025) - Post Doc Northwestern University
  • Dr. Benjamin Nguyen (2025)
  • Dr. Liza Kim (2025)
  • Dr. Andrew Proulx (2025)
  • Dr. Alejandra Santoyo (2025) - PostDoc Italian Inst Tech, Roma, Italy
  • Dr. Jaskanwaljeet Kaur (2025) - PostDoc UC Berkeley/NeuroStim
  • Dr. Cody Moser (2025) - Assistant Professor of Collective Intelligence at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University. 
  • Dr. Joshua Clingo (2025)
  • Dr. Alex Dayer (2024)
  • Dr. Emilio Lobato (2024)
  • Dr. Zunaira Iqbal (2024)
  • Dr. Shadab Tabatabaeian (2023) - Post Doc, Georgetown University
  • Dr. Ben Falandays (2022) — Assistant Professor Arizona State University
  • Dr. Ketika Garg (2022) — Postdoctoral Researcher, Caltech
  • Dr. Tim Meyer (2022) — Applied Cognitive Scientist, Pacific Science and Engineering
  • Dr. Shannon Proksch (2022) — Assistant Professor, Augustana University
  • Dr. Adolfo Ramirez-Aristizabal (2022) — Associate Principal Researcher, Accenture Labs
  • Dr. Jordan Ackerman (2022) — Associate Principal Researcher, Accenture Labs
  • Dr. Camila Alviar (2021) — Postdoctoral Researcher, Vanderbilt University
  • Dr. Sara Schneider (2021) — Project Coordinator at UC Merced
  • Dr. Daniel Schloesser (2021) — Production Designer at gen.boutique
  • Dr. Daniel Comstock (2021) — Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Mind and Brain, UC Davis
  • Dr. Ayme Tomson (2021) — Lawrence Livermore National Labs
  • Dr. Matthew Turner (2021) — Postdoctoral Researcher, Earth System Science, Stanford University
  • Dr. Alexandria Pabst (2021) —  Uniformed Services Health Sciences University
  • Dr. Butovens Médé (2021) - Cosumnes River College, Los Rios Community College
  • Dr. Umesh Krishnamurthy (2021) - Google
  • Dr. Morgan Fleming (2019) — Quantitative UX Researcher, Facebook
  • Dr. Brandon Batzloff (2020) — Teaching Assistant Professor, School of Information Sci, University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  • Dr. Gina Pretzer (2019) — Speech pathologist, Seattle-Tacoma
  • Dr. Samuel Spevack (2019) — Data Scientist, Exponent
  • Dr. Chelsea Gordon (2019) — Research and Data Analysis Lead, zyBooks
  • Dr. Tim Shea (2018) — Accenture Inc.
  • Dr. Daniel Holman (2018) - 
  • Dr. Laura Kelly (2018) — Post-Doctoral Fellow, Naval Research Labs, Washington, D.C.
  • Dr. Jessica Ross (2018) — Instructor of Neurology, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • Dr. David Vinson (2017) — AI Researcher, Accenture Tech Labs
  • Dr. Patricia Lichtenstein (2017) — Sessional Instructor, UC Merced
  • Dr. Maryam Tabatabaeian (2017) — Data Scientist, CISCO, CA
  • Dr. Jeffrey Rodny (2017 — Research Scientist, Neurala, Boston, MA
  • Dr. Drew Abney (2016) — Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Georgia (previously post-doc Indiana: Linda Smith)
  • Dr. Bryan Kerster (2016) — SMB Analyst, Facebook, Menlo Park, CA
  • Dr. Till Bergmann (2016) — Data Scientist, Sales Force Einstein
  • Dr. William Benjamin St. Clair (2016) — Machine Learning Developer, Krypton Cloud, San Francisco, CA
  • Dr. Bodo Winter (2016) — Professor, Linguistics, University of Birmingham, UK
  • Dr. Alexandra Paxton (2015) — Associate Professor, Psychology, University of Connecticut 
  • Dr. Shanna Erickson (2015) — Instructor, Chabot College, Las Positas College, Livermore, CA
  • Dr. Michelle Greenwood (2015) — Assistant Director, Rising Scholars Program, Merced College
  • Dr. Katherine Livins (2015) — Data Scientist, Apple 
  • Dr. Janelle Szary (2015) — Data Scientist, Pymetrics, NY
  • Dr. Justin Matthews (2014) — Professor, Psychology, California State University, Monterey Bay
  • Dr. Eva Čadež (2014) — 
  • Dr. Eric Chiu (2014) — Senior Data Scientist, Educational Results Partnership
  • Dr. Stephanie Huette (2013) — Associate Professor, University of Memphis
  • Dr. Michael Romano (2011) — Research Associate, Emory-Tibet Neuroscience Initiative
  • Dr. Corrine Townsend (2011) — Administrator, School of Natural Sciences, UC Merced
  • Dr. Trent Kriete (2010) — Chief Data Scientist, RxREVU, Boulder, CO

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Updated 2026