People
Who is in the lab?
Researchers studying memory persistence and mental health at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
Principal Investigator
Salman E. Qasim, Ph.D.
PI
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Core Faculty at the Rutgers Brain Health Institute. PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University; postdoctoral training in Computational Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai. His research unearths the unique features of human neural computations that enable high-level cognitive functions.
salman.qasim@rutgers.eduPostdoctoral Fellows
Marco Chia-Ho Lai, Ph.D.
Postdoc
Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. PhD in Psychology from New York University. His research centers on speech processing and semantic memory across the human lifespan, investigating how speech information is represented in the human brain using a multimodal neuroimaging approach.
Carlo Cerquetella, Ph.D.
Postdoc
Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Neurosurgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. PhD in Neuroscience from the Institut für Physiologie, Universität Bern. He investigates how the limbic system regulates emotional states during stressful experiences, with a focus on anxiety and depression across rodents and humans using behavioral paradigms, optogenetics, electrophysiology, and computational modeling.
Graduate Students
Lauren Carrillo
Master's Student
Master's Candidate in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rutgers University. B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Washington. Her research interests include understanding and developing methods for neuromodulation of pathological neural activity, with an emphasis on epilepsy and neurotechnology.
Undergraduate Researchers
Zain Soomro
Undergraduate
Undergraduate student at Rutgers University pursuing a B.S. in Computer Science. His research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning, neuroscience, and medicine, with a focus on applying computational methods to better understand neural activity. At the Qasim Lab, he is working on developing automated pipelines to detect and classify high-frequency oscillations in intracranial EEG recordings.
Staff
Aminah Twyman, B.A.
Staff
Clinical Research Coordinator in the Department of Neurosurgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. With degrees in Psychology, English Literature, and Biology, she supports the lab's intracranial research studies and ensures that medical research is as compassionate as it is innovative.