Lab Members

Principal Investigator

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Michael Beyeler
Associate Professor

Staff

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PBS

Yolanda He
Lab Manager

Postdoctoral Scholars

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CS

Jacob Granley
Postdoctoral Researcher

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ICB

Marius Schneider
Postdoctoral Researcher

Graduate Students

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CS

Yuchen Hou
PhD Student

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DYNS

Emily M. Joyce
PhD Student

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DYNS

Lucas Nadolskis
PhD Student

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CS

Galen Pogoncheff
PhD Student

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CS

Adyah Rastogi
BS/MS Student

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PBS

Hannah L. Stone
PhD Student

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PBS

Lily M. Turkstra
PhD Student

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CS

Apurv Varshney
PhD Student

Undergraduate Students

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PBS/PSTAT

Raiyah Ahmed
Research Assistant

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PBS/PSTAT

Ruyi Cao
Honors Student

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PBS

Ethan Fook
Research Assistant

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CS

Luke Herbelin
Research Assistant

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PBS/PSTAT

Karolina Huang
Research Assistant

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PHYS

Ryan Klopfenstein
Research Assistant

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CS

Jeffrey Liu
Research Assistant

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EE

Magnolia Saur
UC LEADS Scholar

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CCS

Eirini Schoinas
Research Assistant

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PBS

Nora Thomas
Research Assistant

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CS

Rui Tong
Research Assistant

Alumni

PhD Students (4)

  • Byron A. Johnson, PhD Student, PBS (2020 – 2025)
    • Next position: Postdoc with Susana Chung at UC Berkeley
  • Jacob Granley, PhD Student, CS (2020 – 2025)
    • Next position: Postdoc in the Bionic Vision Lab
  • Aiwen Xu, PhD Student, CS (2020 – 2024)
    • Next position: Software Engineer, AI/ML at Snowflake
    • Google Summer Internship (2022, 2023)
    • Started PhD in 2019 in the Four Eyes Lab; joined us in 2020
  • Justin M. Kasowski, PhD Student, DYNS (2020 – 2023)
    • Next position: Founder/CEO at RealmVR
    • Started PhD in 2018 in the Liz Chrastil Lab; joined us in 2020

Postdoctoral Scholars (3)

  • Roksana Sadeghi, Postdoctoral Researcher, CS (2025)
    • Next position: Health Studies Scientist at Apple
  • Amirali Vahid, Postdoctoral Scholar, ICB (2022 – 2023)
    • Next position: Postdoc at Stanford Medicine
  • Melani Sanchez-Garcia, Postdoctoral Scholar, CS (2022 – 2023)
    • Next position: Senior AI Researcher at Kimera Technologies

Accessibility Assistants (1)

  • Krishna Dhulipala, Student Assistant, CS (F24 – S25)

Visiting Scholars (2)

  • Julia Tomas-Barba, PhD Student, University of Zaragoza (F25)
  • Kha Nguyen, UC LEADS Scholar, UC San Diego (M20)

Lab Managers (4)

  • Jiaxin Su, Student Assistant, PBS/PSTAT (F24 – S25)
    • Next position: MS in Health Data Science at UC San Francisco
  • Tori LeVier, Student Assistant, PBS (F23 – S24)
    • Next position: Lab manager for Crockett Lab at Princeton
    • Colville-Dearborn Memorial Award, CoL&S, UCSB (2024)
    • Morgan Award for Research Promise, PBS, UCSB (2024)
  • Lily M. Turkstra, Junior Specialist, PBS (F22 – M23)
    • Next position: PhD student in the Bionic Vision Lab
  • Ryan Neydavood, Junior Specialist, PBS (F21 – S22)
    • Next position: Doctoral of Dental Surgery Program at USC

MS Students (10)

  • Jing Peng, MS Student, CS (S24 – F25)
  • Callie Sardina, Research Assistant, CS (F23 – S24)
  • Madori Spiker, MS Student, CS (F21 – W24)
  • Umang Garg, Lab Volunteer, ECE (F23)
  • Kimia Afshari, Research Assistant, CS (F22 – W23)
  • Ashley Bruce, MS Student, CS (F21 – S22)
    • MS Student of the Year Award, CS, UCSB (2022)
  • Alex Rasla, BS/MS Student, MS, CS (F21 – S22)
  • Lucas Relic, MS Student, MS, CS (W22 – S22)
  • Avani Tanna, Research Assistant, MS, CS (W22)
  • Zuying Hu, Research Assistant, CS (W20 – M20)

Honors Students (10)

  • Catrina Coe, Honors Student, PBS (S25 – F25)
  • Hasith Basnayake, Honors Student, PBS (F24 – S25)
  • Ivy Wang, DIMAP Student, CS (F23 – S24)
    • Outstanding Senior Award, CoE, UCSB (2024)
  • Lauren Eckhardt, Honors Student, PBS (F22 – S23)
  • Ethan Meade, DIMAP Student, CS (W23 – S23)
  • Anvitha Akkaraju, Honors Student, PBS (F21 – S22)
  • Tanya Bhatia, Honors Student, PBS (F21 – S22)
  • Bill Nguyen, Honors Student, PBS/MATH (S21 – S22)
  • Rachel Mochizuki, Honors Student, PBS (W21 – M21)
  • Nathan Wu, Research Assistant & DIMAP Student, CS (W20 – S21)

High School Students (11)
(most via UCSB Research Mentorship Program)

  • Andrew Liang, RMP Scholar, RMP, The Harker School (M23)
  • Emma Shen, RMP Scholar, Del Norte High School (M23)
  • Shivani Sama, High School Researcher, Tesla STEM High School (F22 – S23)
  • Emma Gao, RMP Scholar, The Harker School (M21)
  • Chitsein Htun, RMP Scholar, North Hollywood High (M21)
  • Surya Jasper, RMP Scholar, Saint Francis High School (M21)
  • Andre Mao, RMP Scholar, Homestead High (M21)
  • Lisa Li, RMP Scholar, Texas Academy of Math & Science (M21)
  • Versha Rohatgi, RMP Scholar, Mountain View High (M20, M21)
  • Jain Yash, RMP Scholar, Moreau Catholic High (M21)
  • Ethan Gao, RMP Scholar, Ojai Valley School (M20)

Undergraduate Students (84)

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