Ajay Satpute – Ph.D., Lab Director
Email: a.satpute@northeastern.edu
I am an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Northeastern University. I also have appointments as core faculty at the Institute for Experiential Artificial Intelligence at Northeastern University and as an investigator in Department of Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. My research focusses on understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying social perception and emotion. My lab combines behavioral, peripheral autonomic, and brain imaging methods with computational modeling to investigate mind-brain-behavior relationships.
Kent Lee, Ph.D. – Post-doctoral researcher
Email: kentml19@gmail.com
I am a postdoc in the lab. I am interested in studying how representations of bodily states (affect) and prior experiences (concept knowledge) combine to form emotions, attitudes, perceptions and other socially-relevant mental phenomena using social cognitive, psychophysiological, and neuroimaging methods. Kent is currently looking for a faculty position in psychology.
Josh Rodriguez – Lab Technician
I graduated with a B.S. in Data Science and Psychology from here at Northeastern University. I am generally interested in causal and computational models of affective and decision-making processes. I also enjoy local music, comics, and cycling.
Alessia Iancarelli – Graduate Student
Email: iancarelli.a@northeastern.edu
I received my B.S. in psychology at the University of L’Aquila (in Italy) and my Master in Clinical and affective psychology at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). After my graduation, I moved to Boston where I worked as a research assistant at Harvard in Sidanius’Lab. Currently, I am interested in moral violence and its neuro-representation in the brain. I am interested in neuroimaging, machine learning analysis (predictive coding), and chocolate.
Kieran McVeigh – Graduate Student
Email: kieran.mcveighc@gmail.com
I am from Middlesex, Vermont. I am broadly interested in Psychological Constructivism, particularly the biological and psychological effects of different conceptualizations of the same sensation, how malleable existing conceptualizations are, and the ways one’s body’s state affects cognition. I am also an avid surfer, skier, and rock climber.