Faculty
The faculty of the Volen Center have appointments in Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics and Psychology. This diverse group of researches is united by a common interest in the brain and intelligence. Approaches run the gamut from gene and protein structure to in vivo and in silico computation.
Director of the Volen Center for Complex Systems

Expertise: Biochemistry of synaptic plasticity. lab website
Biochemistry

Expertise: Dynamics of enzymes. Magnetic resonance methods. lab website

Expertise: Structure-function studies of visual pigments and other cell surface receptors.
Biology

Expertise: Developmental neurobiology. lab website

Expertise: Neural development and behavior. lab website

Expertise: Understanding how the brain is able to produce learned behaviors. lab website

Expertise: Molecular Neurobiology and RNA metabolism. lab website

Expertise: Modulation of neural networks. lab website

Expertise: Physiological genomics of the mammalian neocortex. lab website

Expertise: Molecular mechanisms of synaptic development. lab website

Expertise: Endosomal membrane traffic in neurons. lab website

Expertise: Circadian rhythms, behavior, and gene expression. lab website

Expertise: Behavioral and neuronal development in C. elegans. lab website

Expertise: Activity-dependent regulation of neuronal properties. lab website

Expertise: Development and function of cortical circuits. lab website

Chemistry

Expertise: Oscillating chemical reactions and pattern formation in reaction-diffusion systems. Mathematical modeling of biochemical kinetics and neural systems
Computer Science

Expertise: Computer-supported communication, cooperation, and collaboration, learning and technology, cognitive engineering and modeling, human computer interaction, communication and discourse, internet and society.

Expertise: Databases and Systems supporting the management of "Big Data", software engineering.

Expertise: Educational Technology, Computer Science Education, 3D Game Design, Interval Arithmetic, Scientific Visualization, Computer Supported Learning, Groupware and Collaborative Editing, Constraint Logic Programming. website

Expertise: Computer science, FinTech, machine learning, image processing, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, intelligent education.

Expertise: Computational linguistics, natural language processing, language acquisition and change, and psycholinguistics.

Expertise: Logic in computer science, Lambda calculus, functional programming.

Expertise: Formal semantics and pragmatics, corpus linguistics, speech acts, game and decision theory, reference and information structure, modality, impersonals and passives, heritage language acquisition.

Expertise: Data management, distributed systems, data science, machine learning, and cloud computing.

Expertise: Artificial intelligence, neural networks, machine learning, evolutionary computation and artificial life.

Expertise: Theoretical and computational linguistics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, corpus linguistics and annotation, lexical semantics, temporal and spatial reasoning.

Expertise: Distributed Systems, reliable and scalable storage systems.

Expertise: Computer Vision, Multiple-View and Video-Based Dynamic 3-D Reconstruction. website

Expertise: Computational linguistics, Chinese language processing, Semantic role labeling, machine translation and linguistic annotation, including Chinese Treebank, Chinese Proposition Bank, OntoNotes.

Mathematics

Expertise: Scientific computing, fluid dynamics, and mathematical biology.

Psychology

Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, executive function, neuromodulator systems (dopamine, acetylcholine), aging

Expertise: Human spatial orientation and motor control.

Expertise: Cognitive and social neuroscience; influence of age and culture on memory. lab website

Expertise: Self-control; empathy and environmentalism. lab website

Expertise: Cognitive neuroscience, reward, learning, decision-making, chemosensation. lab website

Expertise: Neural mechanisms of learning and memory-guided behavior in the mammalian brain. lab website

Expertise: Neural dynamics of gustatory perception and learning. lab website

Expertise: Spatial orientation. Human movement control. Adaptation to spaceflight and autonomous vehicles.

Expertise: Visual perception. Cognitive processes.