We believe that our science is better with a diverse team. We embrace and encourage our lab members’ differences in age, color, disability, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, socio-economic status, and other characteristics that make our lab members who they are.
Ralf Schmaelzle, Ph.D., Associate Professor
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Sue Lim, M.A. (Communication, University of Wisconsin), Ph.D. Communication, MSU, PostDoctoral Researcher
Research Area Human-AI communication, communication neuroscience
Hee Jung Cho, BA/MA (English Language and Literature & Television and Film/ Communication & Media, Ewha Womans University), PhD student of Communication
Research Area: Persuasion, Cognitive Processing, Communication Neuroscience, Health Communication, Emotion
Xiaoran Cui, BA (Advertising, Yunnan University of Finance and Economics), MA student of Communication.
Research Area: Health Communication, AI & Interpersonal Communication.
Collaborators
Mass Communication, Ali Syed Hussain, University of Sharjah, Department of Mass Communication, Sharjah, UAE
Cognitive Communication Science Lab, PI Richard Huskey, UC Davis, Department of Communication, Davis, CA, USA
Communication Neuroscience Lab, PI Emily Falk, UPenn, Annenberg School for Communication, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Medical Psychology and Sociology, Steffen Walter, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
Schupp Lab, University of Konstanz, Department of Psychology, Konstanz, Germany
Social Media and Neuroscience Lab, Dar Meshi, Department of Advertising, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
Alumni
Sue Lim, Ph.D, (communication)
Human-AI Communication & Neuroscience, Now Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Nolan Jahn, (communication)
Interpersonal and Nonverbal Communication & Neuroscience, Research Scientist, Lansing, Michigan
Shelby Wilcox, Ph.D, (communication)
The lab’s second doctoral student; Interpersonal and Health Communication & Neuroscience, Research Scientist, Columbus, Ohio
Wenyuan Li, (communication)
M.A. student, interpersonal communication and neuroscience
Taenyun Kim, (communication)
Ph.D. student, Human-robot interaction
Juncheng Wu, Ph.D, (communication)
Ph.D. student; Visiting Scholar from Chinese Communication University (CUC), Bejing, China
Juncheng Wu, Ph.D, (communication)
Ph.D. student; Visiting Scholar from Chinese Communication University (CUC), Bejing, China
Joshua A. Baldwin, Ph.D, (communication)
Ph.D. student; Work on using computer vision for content analysis of screen media; Media Neuroscience, now PostDoc at University of Georgia
Qijia Ye, M.A., (communication)
Media Neuroscience, now Ph. D. student at University of Pennsylvania
Clare Grall, Ph.D, (communication)
The lab’s first doctoral student, Media Neuroscience, PostDoc at Dartmouth College, Research Scientist, StoryFit
Amanda Allard, B.A. (communication)
Master student in communication, Research Assistant
Kevin Kryston (communication)
PhD student, Communication
2017-2018, Independent Study: CRM Analysis
Joomi Lee
PhD student, Communication
2017-2018, Inspirational Message Processing
Ali Hussain
PhD student, now Assistant Professor at Arizona State University
2017-2018, Communication Campaigns, Message Effects
Yi Yan
Master, Communication
SS 2017, Independent Study, “Social” brain network visualization in Python.
David Sherwood
Undergraduate, Linguistics
SS 2017, Independent Study, Linguistic Analysis of Narratives in Python
Nolan Jahn
Undergraduate, Neuroscience
SS 2017, Independent Study, Brain Segmentation, 3d Printing, & Virtual Reality Brain Modeling