Welcome!
Research in the Hwang Lab focuses on the cognitive and neural dynamics of cognitive control. Learn more on our research and publications pages. We are affiliated with the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the Cognitive Control Collaborative, a super-lab initiative for researchers studying cognitive control.
We are located at 355W PBSB, 340 Iowa Ave, Iowa City, IA 52242.
Our research is supported by the National Institute of Mental Health.
News
- — Xitong graduated this summer and is now a postdoc with Anne Collins at UC Berkeley.
- — Our lab has received a new 5yr R01 funding from NIMH, which will support the continuation of our research on cognitive control and thalamocortical interactions.
- — With this new funding, we are now activily recruiting new graduate students and postdocs. Please see the positions page for details.
Lab Members
- Kai Hwang, Ph.D. — Lab Director — Email: kai-hwang@uiowa.edu
- Shannon Stokes — Research Assistant & Lab Manager
- Stephanie Leach — Ph.D. Student, Psychological and Brain Sciences
Alumni
- Xitong Chen, Ph.D. — Ph.D. Student, 2019 to 2025; now postdoc at UC Berkeley
- Ray Gonzalez — Scientific Programmer, 2022–2024
- Mengxing Liu, Ph.D. — Postdoc collaborator from Tufts
- Hannah Morrow — Lab Manager, 2022–2024; now Ph.D. student at Montclair State University
- Neha Nagarkar — Undergraduate RA & ICRU Fellow, 2022–2024; now Ph.D. student at Oregon
- Juniper Hollis — Lab Manager, 2020–2022; now Research Associate, Radiology, UIHC
- Dillan Cellier — Lab Manager, 2018–2020; now Ph.D. student at UCSD
- Evan Sorenson — Scientific Programmer, 2020–2022; now Software Engineer