Principle Investigator

Chengcheng Huang

Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Department of Mathematics
University of Pittsburgh

Ph.D. New York University (2015)
B.Sc. Nanjing University (2010)

Postdoctoral Researchers

Saloni Saxena

Ph.D. Bown University (2021)

Email: SAS1432@pitt.edu

Anal Kumar

Ph.D. National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bengaluru, India
M.Sc. National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar, India
Email: ank741@pitt.edu

I am building biophysically realistic cortical network models to not only advance Brain-Machine interface technologies but also to better understand the principles of neural computation.

Graduate students

Mahdi Mazloum

B.Sc. University of Tehran (2021)
M.Sc. University of Pittsburgh (2025)

Computational Modeling & Simulation PhD Program

Email: SEM322@pitt.edu

Akshara Vijay

B.A. University of California, Berkeley (2022)

Neuroscience PhD Program (CNUP)

Email: vijaya2@upmc.edu

Research Assistants

Jinyi Ye

B.S. in Biotechnology, Tongji University (2024)
M.S. in Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University (2025) 

Email: JIY310@pitt.edu

Jianwei Liu

B.S. University of California, San Diego (2019) 
M.S. University of Pittsburgh (2025) 

Email: JIL891@pitt.edu

Alumni:

Madeline Edwards (postdoc)
Noga Mosheiff (postdoc)
Siwei Qiu (postdoc)
Deying Song (graduate)
Lane Lewis (rotation)
Reece Keller (rotation)
Akhil Bandi (rotation)
Christian Potter (rotation)
Liyuan Liang (rotation)
Antonija Kolobaric (rotation)
Anushka Sinha (master's)
Changcheng Ji (master's)
Zimei Chen (research assistant)
Alex Bauer (undergraduate)
Annie Marazita (undergraduate)
Sebastian Cohn (undergraduate)
Leya Luo (undergraduate)
Ruoxi Sun (undergraduate)
Kunming Shi (undergraduate)
Mara Frum (undergraduate)
Mia Blas (undergraduate)
Zhenhong Gong (undergraduate)