News
2026
Thank you to UMD’s Brain & Behavior Institute for supporting our work with a seed grant. In collaboration with Dr. Nicolas Francis, the grant will fund our project on Stimulus and State-Dependence of Brain Network Dynamics During Psilocybin Treatment in Mice.
Congratulations to Dr. Nan Xu on being nominated to and inducted into the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society. Sigma Xi was founded in 1886 as Cornell University, Dr. Xu’s alma mater, and is an international honor society for scientists and engineers.
2025
We would like to thank the NIH BRAIN Initiative for supporting our research with the R00 Pathway to Independence Award!
We are excited to welcome four new lab members that have joined us with the new semester! Junhao and Nida have joined the INSPIRE Lab as PhD students in Artificial Intelligence and Bioengineering, respectively. Catherine (Biocomputational Engineering) and Nurahmed (Computer Engineering) have joined the lab as undergraduate researchers. We look forward to working with them!
We are pleased to welcome Dr. Linnea Hoheisel and Dr. Jianan Jian to our lab as postdoctoral researchers. Linnea’s work focuses on brain network dynamics, while Jianan is interested in exploring brain connectivity through neuroimaging techniques.
We are excited to welcome the first cohort of lab members joining us! Mike (Physiology and Neurobiology, Psychology) is our new lab manager, Nirmal (Computer Science, Mathematics) is our new research technician, and Olaniyi (Computer Science, Mathematics), Matthew (Computer Science), Ben (Computer Science), and Archana (Psychology, Criminology & Criminal Justice) are our new undergraduate researchers. We look forward to achieving great things together!
2024
INSPIRE Lab is launching at UMD College Park! We have multiple openings for motivated young minds!