Lab Members
The Principal Investigator of the ACN lab is Dr. Fatima T. Husain.
She has a PhD in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University. She worked for several years as a PostDoc and later as a Research Fellow in the Brain Imaging and Modeling lab of NIDCD, National Institutes of Health. She first came to the US as an international student from India. She has been at University of Illinois since January 2008. Please visit here for more information about Dr. Husain.
Postdocs & Graduate Students

Postdoctoral associate

Gibbeum Kim
PhD student
Speech and Hearing Sciences



Emilia Kaniewska
PhD student
Speech and Hearing Sciences
Undergraduate Students

Macy Hoeveler

Elenna Claudio-Deustch
Lab alumni
Post-doctoral research associates
PhD Candidates
Dr. Rafay Khan – Neuroscience
Dr. Sara Schmidt – Speech and Hearing Sciences
Dr. Yihsin Tai – Speech and Hearing Sciences
AuD Candidates
Yadira Alonzo Espinoza
Ragnar Lindberg
Callie Brennan
Ariel Brownlee
Carolyn Jeon
James Woods
Alison Sherren
Jaclyn Utz
Jenise Chapel
External Candidates
Jake Carpenter-Thompson (PhD – MD candidate)
Caroline Davis (University of Minnesota Medical School)
Corinne Heller (AuD, CCC-A – Black Hawk Area Special Education District in East Moline, IL)
Roberto Medina (PhD candidate – Gulbankian Institute, Portugal)
Nathan Pajor (MD – Pediatrics, Lurie Childrens’ Hospital, Chicago)
Masters & Other
Ariana Romero
Madeleine Thomas
Kelli Utz
Madhuri Ratnakumar (MEng candidate, Bioengineering)