Principle Investigator
Postdoctoral Scholar
Graduate Students
Lainey Costa
lainey [dot] costa [at] email [dot] ucr [dot] edu
Lainey is a graduate student interested in how different contexts impact our episodic memory. She received her BS in Neuroscience and Psychology from the University of Oregon while working as a lab manager in Dr. Dasa Zeithamova’s Brain and Memory Lab.
Seongyun Kim
seongyun [dot] kim [at] email [dot] ucr [dot] edu
Seongyun (pronounced ‘Sung-yoon’; you can also hear her say it here) is a graduate student interested in understanding how task relevancy and/or attentional states can be represented in episodic memory, and how they dynamically update as contexts change. Before joining the DZMaC Lab, she received her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Systems Biology at Yonsei University, South Korea. She then earned her master’s degree in Psychology at Yonsei, where she worked with Dr. Do-Joon Yi.
Josh Olivier
joliv129 [at] ucr [dot] edu
Josh is a graduate student interested in how the brain supports episodic memory and how memory-related brain mechanisms are disrupted by aging and neurological conditions like Alzheimer’s disease. He earned his BS in Psychology from Brigham Young University, where he was a research assistant in the Nielsen Brain and Behavior lab. After graduating, he spent some time as lab manager of the Functional Neuroimaging of Memory lab at the University of Texas at Dallas. More information about Josh and his research can be found on his personal website.
Lab Manager
Beita Nejadriahi
bneja001 [at] ucr [dot] edu
Research Assistants
Victoria Avina
4th Year Undergraduate – Psychology
Monzerrath Miramontes Castellanos
4th Year Undergraduate – Neuroscience
Jolin Chin
3rd Year Undergraduate – Neuroscience
Maddy Hing
4th Year Undergraduate – Biology
Ridhvi Kannan
2nd Year Undergraduate – Neuroscience
Asamiko Khowdee
3rd Year Undergraduate – Psychology
Hermione Lam
4th Year Undergraduate – Neuroscience
Samika Mathada
4th Year Undergraduate – Neuroscience
Beita Nejadriahi
3rd Year Undergraduate – Elementary Education
Greyson Prosperi
2nd Year Undergraduate – Biology
Bruce Riazi
4th Year Undergraduate – Neuroscience
Derrick Rodrigo
4th Year Undergraduate – Biology
Joaquin Wada
2nd Year Undergraduate – Psychology
Sophia Wang
3rd Year Undergraduate – Biology
Lab Alumni
Lab Managers
Steven Greco, B.S.
2025-2026
Hannah Gonzales, B.S.
2023-2025
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Research Assistants
Kanji Linares
Class of 2027
Difei Zhu
Class of 2026
Ann Tai
Class of 2026
Jocelyn Ventura
Class of 2026
Elise Wyman
Class of 2026
Aryan Kundapur
Class of 2026
Georgetown University’s Special Master’s Program for Biophysics and Physiology
Ananya Mopur
Class of 2026
California Baptist University
Beldon Zhang
Class of 2026
Pepperdine University
Riddhi Parsekar
Class of 2026
Isabelle Pryor
Neishalee Perez
MSRIP Program 2025
Joshua Libiran
MSRIP Program 2025
Mia Lem
Victoria Velez
Class of 2025
Esha Dalsania
Class of 2025
Harshitha Muduganti
Class of 2025
Sumedh Nair
Class of 2025
Farah Khalil
Class of 2024
Yeleana Romero
Eyrica Arriola
Class of 2024