Team

  • Angela Radulescu, Ph.D.

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

    Angela is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Neuroscience at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and core faculty in the Mount Sinai Center of Computational Psychiatry. They are interested in how people learn from interaction with their environment, and when and how learning can lead to changes in mental health. Angela enjoys photography, hiking, travel and trying a new sport every few years.

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    angela.radulescu [at] mssm.edu

  • Christina Maher

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    Christina is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Neuroscience at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, co-mentored with Ignacio Saez. Her research combines intracranial recording and computational modeling to investigate how people learn in dynamic environments.

    CV

    christina.maher [at] icahn.mssm.edu

  • Jing Li

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    Jing is a Ph.D. student in the lab. He is interested in studying how self-efficacy and mood interact with learning, and how mania emerges in bipolar disorders. Outside of the lab, Jing enjoys snowboarding, cooking, exploring restaurants in NYC, and walking his golden retriever at parks.

    CV

    jing.li [at] icahn.mssm.edu

  • Jacqueline Beltrán

    GRADUATE STUDENT

    Jacqueline Beltrán is a Ph.D. Student in the Morris/Murrough labs. Her research utilizes ultra high-field neuroimaging and computational modeling to study reward processing in patients with Major Depressive Disorder. Outside of the lab, Jacqueline enjoys going social dancing, exploring the outdoors, and trying new vegan recipes.

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  • Catherine Kim

    LAB MANAGER

    Catherine is broadly interested in the overlap of studying clinical populations and applying statistical analysis to better understand mechanisms of aberrant social behaviors and decision-making in psychiatric disorders. She uses a combination of eye-tracking and virtual reality to mimic naturalistic environments people would experience in real-life. In her free time, she enjoys binge-watching tv shows, movies and baking.

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Collaborators

  • Ian Ballard, Assistant Professor, UC Riverside

  • Daniel Bennett, Lecturer, Monash University

  • Bas van Opheusden, AI Research Scientist, Imbue

  • Sam McDougle, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Yale University

  • Laurel Morris, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

  • Ignacio Saez, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

  • Daniela Schiller, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

  • Herbert Zheng Wu, Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

  • Sam Zorowitz, Clinical Biostatistician, National Institute of Mental Health

Alumni

  • Kara Emery - Postdoctoral Associate, NYU (2021-2023)

    Now Assistant Director of Research for the AI Hub, NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research