John Kochalka

John earned his B.S. in Computation and Neural Systems at Caltech before completing an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering at USC. Prior to starting his Ph.D., John worked in the Menon lab at Stanford where he developed machine learning approaches for human MRI data in order to understand the structural and functional bases of autism spectrum disorders and cognitive development. As a Neuroscience Ph.D. candidate in the Deisseroth and Druckmann labs, John is working to uncover the mechanisms governing large-scale cortical network dynamics and elucidate their role in behavior.