Current Graduate Students
Ekomobong Eyoh
Ekomobong Eyoh is a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science program at the University of Minnesota’s Institute of Child Development. Broadly, she is interested in studying the heterogeneity inherent in psychopathology and social cognition. More specifically, she is interested in studying autism early identification, heterogeneity in developmental disorders and other psychopathological profiles, and social cognition and interactions, including sibling relationships, in typical and atypical populations. Prior to graduate school at ICD, Ekom received a B.E. in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience from Vanderbilt University in 2016 and a M.P.H. from the University of Miami in 2019. Later, she worked as a research coordinator for a year and a half in the Laboratory of Affective Sensory Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center studying sensory differences in autism.
Angelina Jones
Angelina Jones is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science program at the Institute of Child Development. She earned a B.S. in Psychology from The University of Alabama and worked as a research assistant in the Cognition and Intellectual Disability Lab. Later, she worked as a clinical research coordinator with the Neurobehavioral Treatment Discovery Team at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, where she coordinated several clinical research studies using multi-method assessment batteries with the overarching aim to create personalized treatments in Fragile X Syndrome. Her current research interests are investigating neuropsychological profiles and biomarkers of cognitive deficits during early childhood among children with neurodevelopmental disorders, aiming to contribute to the advancement of treatment development in this field.
Sanju Koirala
Sanju is a third year PhD student in the developmental psychology track at the Institute of Child Development (ICD). She is interested in characterizing the development of brain-behavior associations in the early years of life and examining how it differs in various neurodevelopmental disorders and delays. Prior to joining ICD, she worked as a Simons Fellow in Computational Neuroscience at Emory University’s Marcus Autism Center where she examined how early trajectories of social visual engagement predicts later language outcome in infants at low and high-risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder. She received her B.A. in neuroscience from Hamilton College in 2019.
Beatrice Ojuri
Beatrice (Bea) Ojuri is a second-year PhD student on the Developmental Psychopathology and Clinical Science track in the Institute of Child Development (ICD). She is broadly interested in examining shared and distinct behavioral and neurobiological traits in children with ASD and ADHD as well as early neural predictors within those disorders that contribute to emerging psychopathology. Prior to joining ICD, Bea earned her B.S. in psychology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2022. Later, as a research coordinator and assistant In the Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research at the Kennedy Krieger Institute, she investigated behavioral, neuropsychological, motor, and neurobiological profiles of children and adolescents with ASD, ADHD, and reading disorders.
Aaron Glick, MS
Aaron completed a Bachelor of Science in Engineering Physics at Colorado School of Mines and a Master of Science in Communication Sciences and Disorders at McGill University. In 2022, Aaron joined the CNS Lab as a data manager and developer and is enthusiastic about the robust, rigorous data practices and analytics applied across all CNS Lab research studies. He is now in his second year pursuing a PhD in Computer Science, and continues to contribute to the CNS lab as a data analyst. Previously, he worked as an analyst in eLearning, direct-care for children with intellectual and developmental disorders, and as a clinical app developer. Aaron has researched complexity in quantum systems, and the spread of stigma related to voice disorders through agent-based models, and the social factors that impact how children learn from screens. While not at a computer, Aaron can be found cooking, knitting, woodworking, or outside exploring.