Our Team

Dr. Jack Lin

Principal Investigator

Dr. Jack Lin is Professor of Neurology at the University of California, Davis, where he directs the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program, a state-of-the-art clinical and research program. He has a Bachelor of Science degree from Northwestern University, a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from Rush University, neurology residency training at the University of California, San Diego, and epilepsy fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Lin is a renowned epilepsy specialist focused on treating drug-resistant epilepsy. He works with a multidisciplinary team of epilepsy specialists, neurosurgeons, neuropsychologists, neuroradiologists, and EEG technologists to provide the most advanced technology to diagnose and treat epilepsy, such as minimally invasive robot-assisted Stereo-EEG, laser ablation, responsive neurostimulation, and deep brain stimulation to diagnose. His research, funded by the NIH Brain Initiative, focuses on the neurophysiological analysis of memory, emotional processing, learning, and sleep using intracranial EEG and single neuron recordings in humans. He has published in top journals, including The Lancet, Nature Communications, Neuron, and PNAS.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Anand Shankar

Anand serves as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory for Intracranial Neurophysiology, where he utilizes explainable machine learning and statistical learning-based frameworks to analyze complex intracranial data. He is also actively engaged in the design and development of responsive neurostimulation (RNS) systems aimed at recording and analyzing iEEG data and behavioral metrics during cognitive tasks. During his doctoral studies (Sept. 2019-June 2024) at the Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, Assam, India, Anand conducted comprehensive analyses of epileptic seizures using EEG and MRI data, integrating machine/deep learning and statistical learning-based methodologies. He holds a Master of Technology degree (2015-2017) in the department of Information Technology from the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology (IIEST) Shibpur, Kolkata, India. In his leisure time, Anand enjoys net surfing, delving into history and geography, playing cricket and badminton, and savoring tasty and spicy foods.

Email: anshankar@ucdavis.com

Google Scholar

Junior Specialist / Lab Manager

Parker holds a Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science from UC Santa Cruz, with a foundation in Perception and Cognitive Neuroscience research. His interests span a wide range of disciplines, including Brain-Computer Interfaces, Artificial Intelligence, and Psychedelic Research.

Parker Ansoms

PhD Student

Sophie is a member of both the Laboratory for Intracranial Neurophysiology and the Dynamic Memory Lab. She is broadly interested in neural representations underlying episodic memory and imagination. Before coming to Davis, Sophie received her bachelor’s degree from Yonsei University.

Sophie Park

Collaborators

  • UC Berkeley

Alumni

  • Bhargavi Ram // Lab Manager
  • Dr. Haoxin Zhang
  • Dr. Jie Zheng