Layo Laniya is a recent Stanford graduate, here virtually posing next to his work! Layo noted that one of our empathy studies treated emotional as two dimensional. Eager to correct this, he designed a task to explore "emotion granularity" in the SEND v1 dataset! He also helped design an intervention-based experiment that helps people to better empathize with formerly incarcerated people.

​Summer 2020
​Stanford University


Gigi Keziah trained LSTMs to predict emotion using different feature modalities and compared their performance and explored 'feature importance' on select test instances. She was selected at the regional Boulder Science Fair to continue into the Intel competition!

​February, 2019
​CU Boulder


Huilin Han, a student at Monarch High School in Louisville, CO presented their work at the regional Boulder Science Fair: Neural Evidence for Embodied Emotion

February, 2018
​CU Boulder
Kate Nakasato and Madison Risi, students at Monarch High School in Louisville, CO presented their work at the regional Boulder Science Fair: A Meta-Analysis of Brain and Immune Interactions during Anger

February, 2017
​CU Boulder

Emily Tarbush, a student at Monarch High School in Louisville, CO presented her work at the regional Boulder Science Fair on gender effects in touch-supported analgesia.


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February, 2016
​CU Boulder

Natalie Guyton, a high school student in Nederland, CO, presented her work at the regional Boulder Science Fair on genetic and behavioral contributions to misophonia, a relatively mysterious condition where certain sounds cause pain.

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February, 2016
CU Boulder
Hannah Young, a talented CU-Boulder undergraduate student presented her work on the Analgesic Effects of Social Support and Gentle Touch at the Boulder Undergraduate Research Conference



April 29, 2015
​CU Boulder

Julia Faulkner, a student at Monarch High School in Louisville, CO presented her work at the regional Boulder Science Fair on how gentle touch and social interactions can influence pain perception.


She received the ISEF special award from the American Psychological Association for this presentation.

February 19, 2015
​CU Boulder

Tess Rudd, a student at Monarch High School in Louisville, CO, presented her work at the regional Boulder Science Fair on the embodiment of emotions.

February 19, 2015
​CU Boulder

Abigail Orland (left) and May Yuan (right) were students who I mentored on their Intel projects during their junior and senior years of high school in 2012-13 at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.

​Abbie is now studying psychology at Harvard (after sweeping the Intel competition with her experiment investigating the social importance of the emoticon) and May is at Wesleyan in Boston (after presenting an award winning poster on how disgust influences social decision making at the prestigious Society of Neuroscience annual meeting in 2012). 

Here they are at Zucotti Park during Occupy Wall Street showing their eagerness to change the world.