Our Team

Saurabh Vyas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Neuroscience Institute

Biomedical Engineering (courtesy)

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).

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.