Our Team
Saurabh Vyas, Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon University
Assistant Professor
Neuroscience Institute
Biomedical Engineering (courtesy)
University of Pittsburgh
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Neuroscience
Saurabh Vyas completed undergraduate training in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 2012. While working on his MSE in Biomedical Engineering, Saurabh was a research engineer at the Applied Physics Laboratory. Saurabh completed his PhD in Bioengineering at Stanford University in 2020, where he was advised by Prof. Krishna Shenoy. His research was recognized with a NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, and a NIH NINDS NRSA (F31) fellowship. In 2021, Saurabh's thesis was awarded the Donald B. Lindsley Prize by the Society for Neuroscience, which "recognizes a young neuroscientist's outstanding PhD thesis in the general area of behavioral (i.e., systems) neuroscience." Saurabh completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University in 2025, where he was co-advised by Profs. Mark Churchland and Michael Shadlen. Saurabh's work was recognized by both an NIH NINDS Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F32), and a K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award. In January 2026, Saurabh joined the Neuroscience Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, where he leads the Laboratory of General Intelligence and Computation (LOGIC).
Jimmy Pulido Arias
PhD Student
Program in Neural Computation
Jimmy is from Bogotá, Colombia. He has a background in computer science and AI (B.S., Universidad Nacional de Colombia) and Neuroengineering (M.S., CNU, Korea). He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Neural Computation program at CMU as a Fulbright Scholar. He is interested in understanding how flexible intelligence emerges in both biological and artificial systems, with the goal of bridging neuroscience and machine learning. Outside the lab, he enjoys cooking, learning languages, and hiking, especially in the Andes, where he grew up.
Pokey & Merlin Vyas, PhDog
Merlin's (left) primary interest is playing with his ball. Pokey's (right) interests lie at the intersection of supervising all other creatures in the neighborhood, getting belly rubs, and devising new ways to obtain snacks.