DePasquale Lab

Principal Investigator

member portrait Brian DePasquale Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

I am an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University where I run the Artificial and Biological Intelligence Laboratory. I did my postdoctoral research with Carlos Brody and Jonathan Pillow on latent variable models of evidence accumulation. During my Ph.D., I worked with Larry Abbott developing methods for training recurrent neural networks, and with Mark Churchland connecting these models conceptually to statistical models of low-dimensional dynamics applied to data. Before that I studied the basal ganglia in the laboratory of Ann Graybiel at MIT and completed by BS in physics at Fordham University.

Members

member portrait Yihan (Darcy) Zi Neuroscience (GPN) PhD student, joint with Mark Howe
member portrait Grant McConachie BME PhD student
member portrait Halley Dante BME PhD student, joint with Jerry Chen
member portrait Omar El Sayed BME PhD Candidate, joint with Mike Economo
member portrait Ryan Senne Neuroscience (GPN) PhD student, joint with Ben Scott
member portrait Sarah Zylka Neuroscience (GPN) PhD student, Member of Economo lab, Fun manager
member portrait Tushar Arora Computational Neuroscience (GPN) PhD student, joint with Dr. Chandramouli Chandrasekaran
member portrait Zachary Loschinskey BME PhD Candidate, joint with Mike Economo

Survivors

Those who have sucessfully managed Brian’s terrible, terrible personality.

member portrait Emily Duniec MS in Data Science at Columbia University

Collaborators

Collaborations are central to our research. Here are some of the groups we currently work with.

member portrait Economo Lab BME, BU
member portrait Howe Lab Psychological & Brain Sciences, BU
member portrait Scott Lab Psychological & Brain Sciences, BU
member portrait Sen Lab BME, BU
member portrait Younger Lab Biology, BU

Interested in joining?

Prospective PhDs

If you are interested in conducting research within the group as a PhD student, please apply to the BU BME PhD program or the BU graduate program in neuroscience. Unfortunately, I cannot respond to individual email inquiries about joining my group as a PhD student. If you are interested, apply to one of the programs above.

Admitted PhD students

My rotation project policy is to encourage you to bring your own ideas to the table. I try not to ‘assign’ projects (although I will if needed)!

Postdocs

If you are interested in a postdoc, please email Brian.