Yannan Zhu

Yannan is a Ph.D. student in the Cognitive Neuroscience Admitting Program. She graduated from Brandeis University in 2023 with a B.S. in Neuroscience and Psychology, and then worked for two years as the Lab Manager/Research Assistant with Dr. Nick Turk-Browne at Yale University. Yannan’s research explores the intersection between learning, memory, and neuromodulation, including how we extract schematic information from memory episodes, how the brain state evolves as we learn, and how endogenous neuromodulation would improve learning and adaptive behavior. She leverages behavioural and neuroimaging methods, computational modeling and machine learning approaches to answer these questions.