Michael Bonner

Principal Investigator

Michael Bonner

Assistant Professor, Cognitive Science · mfbonner@jhu.edu

Mick Bonner has led the lab since 2019. He earned his PhD in Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania with Murray Grossman and stayed at Penn for a postdoctoral fellowship with Russell Epstein. He is a Humboldt Research Fellow, and his work has been recognized with a Johns Hopkins Catalyst Award, IDIES seed funding, and the Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s Postdoctoral Fellows Award. He also serves as a Consulting Editor for the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. He has delivered keynotes at the Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (2023), the Vision Sciences Society’s AI Revolution in Visual Science workshop (2025), and NeuroAI Talks (2026).

Lab

Zirui Chen

Zirui Chen

PhD Student
Yash Mehta

Yash Mehta

PhD Student
Ananya Passi

Ananya Passi

PhD Student

Alumni

Kelsey Han

Kelsey Han

PhD Student2020–2026
NowPostdoctoral Scientist, NIH
Raj Magesh Gauthaman

Raj Magesh Gauthaman

PhD Student2020–2025
NowPostdoc, Behrmann Lab, CMU / Pitt
Colin Conwell

Colin Conwell

Postdoc2023–2024
NowResearch Scientist, MIT
Emalie McMahon

Emalie McMahon

PhD Student (with Leyla Isik)2019–2024
NowPostdoc, Kanwisher Lab, MIT
Atlas Kazemian

Atlas Kazemian

Lab Manager2022–2024
NowPhD Student, Stanford
Eric Elmoznino

Eric Elmoznino

Lab Manager2018–2022
NowPhD Student, Mila (Yoshua Bengio)
Alon Hafri

Alon Hafri

Postdoc2019–2021
NowAssistant Professor, University of Delaware
Donald Li

Donald Li

PhD Student2019–2021
NowVisiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins
Caterina Magri

Caterina Magri

Postdoc2019–2021
NowQuantitative UX Researcher, Google

Collaborators

Former Hopkins students

Master's students

  • Caitlin Sim2024
  • Keaton Townley2024
  • Tailai Shen2024
  • Delilah Catron2024
  • Yingqi Rong2024
  • Feikai Lin2021
  • Wanyi Guo2020

Undergraduates

  • Shreya WadhwaCS & CogSci'23
  • Jiayu ShaoCogSci'23
  • Neha NandiwadaCS & CogSci'22
  • Ajay AnanthakrishnanNeuroscience'22
  • Adyant BalajiCS & Neuroscience'22