Through the Advancing Research Careers program, Benca-Bachman studied the relationship between sleep and PTSD.

Ted Wilson joined Brown’s Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research as Provost’s Assistant Professor of Brain Science and Neuroimmunology in December, 2025. Wilson holds a PhD in neuroscience from McGill University, and is joining Brown from Stanford, where he completed post-doctoral training and started his own research laboratory two years ago.

New faculty member Anda Chirila is no stranger to Brown. In the lab of former Carney affiliate Julie Kauer, Chirila earned a PhD studying synaptic signaling and how it contributes to pain. Now, she is advancing work she began as a postdoc at Harvard: integrating molecular-genetic tools and electrophysiology with computational, anatomical and behavioral approaches to study circuits involved in touch and pain processing.

Jay Gopal is enrolled in Brown’s Program in Liberal Medical Education, which combines undergraduate and medical school education. A researcher in the Serre Lab, Gopal is creating human-aligned deep neural networks and leading the design and development of ClickMe, an object recognition game with thousands of online users who are creating a massive AI training set. He is also co-founder of a medical software startup.

Ellie Pavlick is the associate chair of the Department of Computer Science, and a Carney collaborator on artificial intelligence projects that involve natural language processing - a technology that makes chatbots possible. How language works, in humans and machines, is Pavlick's central scientific fascination.