Recognizing Excellence: 2025 CCBS Graduate Research Awardees
The Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences is proud to announce the recipients of this year's Summer Graduate Research Awards.
Each year, the Center supports outstanding graduate research across The Ohio State University through our competitive summer funding program. These awards are granted to exceptional graduate students who showcase academic excellence and innovation in the cognitive and brain sciences. This program fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and provides meaningful financial support to advance graduate scholarship.
The 2025 award cycle marked a milestone year for the Center. We supported our largest cohort to date, 11 graduate students, reflecting both the depth of talent in our academic community and the growing impact of the program.
We were thrilled to receive a strong pool of proposals for this cycle and extend our sincere thanks to all applicants for their thoughtful submissions. Congratulations to this year’s awardees—we look forward to seeing the impact of your work in the months ahead.
Ash Lewis
Major: Linguistics; Expected Graduation: Fall 2025; Project: Measuring Hallucination in Dialogue Systems
Barry Baker
Major: Speech-Language and Hearing Science; Expected Graduation: Summer 2025; Project: Paracusis Musicalis: Age-Related Absolute Pitch Degeneration
Germán Alcaraz
Major: Hispanic Linguistics; Expected Graduation: MA: May 2026, PhD: May 2030; Project: Pretonic Vowel Lengthening in the Pitch-accented Word in the Cordobés Dialect from Argentina
Jeongwon Lee
Major: Educational Studies, Learning Technologies; Expected Graduation: Spring 2027; Project: Toward Hybrid Intelligence: The Influence of Generative AI on Group Cognition in Collaborative Problem Solving
K M Naimul Hassan
Major: Computer Science & Engineering; Expected Graduation: Autumn 2028; Project: Towards Generalizing Auditory EEG Decoding using Deep Neural Networks
Natalie Freitag
Major: Speech and Hearing Science; Expected Graduation: Summer 2028; Project: Functional Connectivity and Orthographic Cueing for Anomia
Patrick Sellers
Major: Human Nutrition; Expected Graduation: AU25; Project: Uncovering Roles of Glucose Metabolism on Immunomodulation in Alzheimer's Disease
Phuong Dang
Major: Linguistics; Expected Graduation: Spring 2027; Project: Cognitive processing of Vietnamese coordinative compounds
Tianyu Zhang
Major: Cognitive Neuroscience; Expected Graduation: Spring 2026; Project: Using language models to decode attentional strategies from open-ended responses
Co-Funded by the Dept of Psychology, James Mosher Klein Scholarship
Xinnan Wang
Major: Psychology; Expected Graduation: Summer 2029; Project: Longitudinal MRI research in the fetal brain
Yong Min Choi
Major: Psychology; Expected Graduation: Fall 2025; Project: Using Voxel-Wise Encoding Models to Investigate Saccadic Remapping in Healthy Human Visual Cortex and Visual Dysfunction.
