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Kim completed her PhD in 2026 at Vanderbilt University where she con research examining the role of the arousal system on cognitive impairment in schizophrenia using fMRI. She started her postdoctoral fellowship in the CAN Lab in 2026 and is working on our R33 cognitive training for emotion regulation grant. Her primary interests involve the neurobiological basis of cognitive and affective impairments in schizophrenia.

Alex is a 1st year graduate student in the clinical psychology PhD program. He completed his bachelors degree at UMASS Amherst, followed by postbacc coordinator positions at Harvard Medical School and NIMH. His research uses digital phenotyping and neuroimaging to examine the neurobiological basis of affective dysfunction and negative symptoms in schizophrenia and youth with prodromal syndromes.

Anna is a 5th year graduate student in Clinical Psychology. She is originally from Texas. Her research interests involve identifying mechanisms and treatments for anhedonia in schizophrenia using neuroscience methods. She is exploring a model of emotional memory impairment using fMRI and resting state functional connectivity circuits predicting the 5 domains of negative symptoms.

Michael is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with extensive  experience in behavioral health leadership, clinical supervision, and  justice-involved care, including roles in juvenile justice, county  jails, crisis response, inpatient psychiatry, and community mental  health. He is currently a Ph.D.student  in the Counselor Education and Supervision Program at UGA, and a CAN Lab affiliate who is conducting his dissertation in our lab. His research, clinical, and teaching  interests are in psychosis and schizophrenia spectrum disorders, substance use treatment, and systems-level approaches to behavioral health care.

Luyu is a 6th year graduate student in Clinical Psychology. He is originally from China. His research interests involve digital neuropsychology. For his dissertation, he is focusing on the interaction between environmental exposures and state fluctuations in cognitive impairment in schizophrenia.

Katiah completed her PhD in 2013. Her dissertation examined emotional maintenance in schizophrenia using ERPs. She is currently faculty at UCSF.

Sara completed her PhD in 2016. Her dissertation focused on the effects of emotion regulation on subsequent cognitive control in schizophrenia using ERPs. She is currently a staff psychologist at the Bedford VA in MA.

Lindsay completed her PhD in 2016. Her dissertation examined the association between metabolic dysfunction and cognition in schizophrenia. She is currently a staff psychologist in the psychiatry department at Johns Hopkins.

Kayla completed her PhD in 2017. Her dissertation examined the role of emotional memory impairment in anhedonia in schizophrenia using eye tracking. She  is currently a staff psychologist at NYU and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Hofstra University.

Katie completed her Ph.D. in 2020. Her dissertation examined mechanisms of emotion regulation in youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis using EMA. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Brown University and Staff Psychologist at Butler Hospital.

Ivan completed his PhD in 2022. His dissertation examined whether effort fails to become a secondary reinforcer in schizophrenia. He is currently a postdoc at UCLA.

Michael was a postdoctoral fellow in the CAN lab from 2021-2022. He worked on fMRI projects on the R61 cognitive training grant and the CAPR clinical high-risk for psychosis study. He is currently working as a data scientist in private industry where he works with digital phenotyping technology.

Lisa defended her dissertation in 2023.  Her study examined the positivity offset theory of anhedonia in people diagnosed with schizophrenia and youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis. She completed her clinical psychology internship at UCLA and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UCLA where she is studying schizophrenia.

Ian defended his dissertation in 2023. He examined state and trait mindfulness in people diagnosed with schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, and bipolar disorder. He completed his clinical internship at the Ann Arbor VA Hospital in Michigan and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University where he is studying emotion regulation in serious mental illness.

Dr. Luther was a postdoc and then research scientist from 2021-2024.  Her research takes an experimental therapeutics approach to treating negative symptoms in  schizophrenia. She is currently a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Alabama-Birmingham (UAB).  Those interested in applying to our lab are encouraged to apply to work with her too.

Sydney completed her dissertation in 2026 examining cultural factors associated with negative symptoms in schizophrenia. She is currently on internship at the Houston VA completing the serious mental illness training track.

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