http://www.naselarislab.net/home daily 1.0 2025-07-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529e96c6e4b02dbe8c63d032/1489006649993-9ZNWEALDX1BSQI5TXA4A/home.jpg Home - RECENT NEWS: Mario Serrafero, PhD candidate in Computer Science, joins the lab! Reese’s mental imagery decoding paper was accepted as a highlighted paper at CVPR! Read it here. Thomas has been named a class of 2025 Kavli Fellow — see his Kavli talk on mental imagery here. Congratulations to Kayla Hartman on successfully defending her undergraduate honor’s thesis! Congratulations to Reese on successfully defending his PhD thesis! READ MORE… Image details: Thomas Struth, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529e96c6e4b02dbe8c63d032/1489006649993-9ZNWEALDX1BSQI5TXA4A/home.jpg Home - RECENT NEWS: Mario Serrafero, PhD candidate in Computer Science, joins the lab! Reese’s mental imagery decoding paper was accepted as a highlighted paper at CVPR! Read it here. Thomas has been named a class of 2025 Kavli Fellow — see his Kavli talk on mental imagery here. Congratulations to Kayla Hartman on successfully defending her undergraduate honor’s thesis! Congratulations to Reese on successfully defending his PhD thesis! READ MORE… Image details: Thomas Struth, 2005. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529e96c6e4b02dbe8c63d032/1399312224974-W2C8RX08RWWH2RPJ5PR7/banner1.jpg Home http://www.naselarislab.net/research daily 0.75 2017-03-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529e96c6e4b02dbe8c63d032/1398564839384-VVC2Y4L3F280LK47KIPP/image-asset.jpeg Research - The generative capabilities of the human visual system [From Shepard, 1978] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529e96c6e4b02dbe8c63d032/1398564903261-J8LKC53DUTH2GDD6SVYH/image-asset.jpeg Research - Neural decoding [From Nishimoto et al., 2011] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529e96c6e4b02dbe8c63d032/1398564988395-G5LUY6KOK34E1Z3ZH8VI/image-asset.png Research - Modeling the brain’s response to the natural environment [From Naselaris et al., 2012] http://www.naselarislab.net/jobs daily 0.75 2020-11-19 http://www.naselarislab.net/publications daily 0.75 2025-07-09 http://www.naselarislab.net/people daily 0.75 2026-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529e96c6e4b02dbe8c63d032/1398738168970-T0SCUWCZ1BCOB4XKU3KH/Thomas+Naselaris People - Thomas Naselaris, Ph.D., Primary Investigator Thomas majored in Math and Philosophy as an undergraduate at Indiana University. He received a Ph.D. in Neuroscience under Apostolos Georgopoulos at the University of Minnesota. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship under Jack Gallant at University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Department of Neurosciences at MUSC as an Assistant Professor in 2012. He is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota, and a member of the Medical Discovery Team on Optical Imaging and Brain Science at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research. He is co-founder and currently Executive Chair of the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529e96c6e4b02dbe8c63d032/1434983745408-G4OLEWV0M3L006FMUTHW/image-asset.jpeg People - Ghislain St-Yves, Ph.D., Staff Scientist Ghislain completed a Biophysics B.Sc. and Physics M.Sc. at UQTR, Québec. He subsequently studied at the University of Calgary, where he received his Ph.D. in Physics under Prof. Joern Davidsen in 2015. His main thesis work focused on simulations, modeling, and analysis of the statistical properties of 2D and 3D spatiotemporal chaos in chemical and electrochemical systems. Ghislain started postdoctoral studies in neurosciences at MUSC in June 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529e96c6e4b02dbe8c63d032/771a5d2f-eb11-4296-b03a-bbbca1403401/bio-template.jpg People - Tiasha Saha Roy, Ph.D., Post-Doc Tiasha completed a B.Sc(Hons) degree in Mathematics from the University of Calcutta and M.Sc in Mathematics and Computing from IIT Guwahati. She received her Ph.D. from IISER Kolkata in 2021. Her PhD thesis focused on exploring the neural timeline of different real world perceptual decision making tasks. She is currently a postdoc in the Naselaris Lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529e96c6e4b02dbe8c63d032/0375c697-7b67-4bcc-ad07-f9ee3bf63d03/Reese%2BKneeland.webp People - Reese Kneeland, Ph.D., Researcher Reese is a researcher in computational neuroscience, machine learning and cognitive sciences focused on decoding brain activity and building brain computer interfaces. He received his Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota. He has a deep fascination in consciousness and the nature of mind and reality, and specializes in utilizing contemporary ML techniques to uncover hidden contents and mechanics of human brain activity. Outside of work he enjoys cooking, climbing, and painting, and spends too much time in the garage building high performance ML computing rigs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529e96c6e4b02dbe8c63d032/ccbc5bc4-7c44-4da8-8045-5662fdbe9f5d/bio-template_current.jpg People - Koustav Banerjee, M.S., Graduate Student Koustav is a Ph.D. student in the Cognitive and Brain Sciences program of the Psychology department. He is co-advised by Dr. Daniel Kersten. His current focus is on how implied motion is represented in the brain. He has an M.S. in Robotics from the University of Minnesota where he used information theory to understand how capacity limits affect mental imagery, and reconstructed mental images using psychophysics. His bachelor's was in Electronics Engineering from India where he briefly worked in astrophysics and imaging. Outside of work, he loves poetry, arts, writing, and photography. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529e96c6e4b02dbe8c63d032/766dd122-25e0-489b-a8f5-8e25b2e8506d/Mario+Serrafero+photo+website.png People - Mario Serrafero, M.S., Graduate Student Mario is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at the University of Minnesota, where he also received an M.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Mathematics. Before beginning his doctoral research under Dr. Daniel Boley, he spent several years in industry as a data scientist and analyst. His current research focuses on mechanistic interpretability of artificial neural networks and its applications to computational neuroscience, investigating how insights from learned representations in deep learning models can advance our understanding of neural information processing. Outside of research, Mario enjoys exploring technology from home automation to virtual reality, often tinkering with hardware and software to understand their inner workings -- an obsession left over from his past life in tech journalism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/529e96c6e4b02dbe8c63d032/978a18b8-f5bc-44ac-97a0-19cf02551b40/Kayla_pic.png People - Kayla Hartman, B.S., Researcher (Post-Bacc.) Kayla received a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, where she completed her senior honors thesis in the Naselaris Lab evaluating retrieval-based methods for decoding vision from fMRI data. She is currently a post-baccalaureate researcher in the lab, contributing to projects exploring her interests at the intersection of computational neuroscience and machine learning. Outside of research, Kayla enjoys board and card games, reading, hiking, and disc golf. http://www.naselarislab.net/news daily 0.75 2025-07-09