Team
Remington Mallett
Remy is director of the Dream Mining Lab and a postdoc in the Dream Engineering Lab at the University of Montreal working under Michelle Carr and Tore Nielsen. He got his PhD in 2021 studying the cognitive neuroscience of memory under Jarrod Lewis-Peacock at UT Austin. He aims to better understand how sleep and dreaming impact our waking lives.
Science Research Program Trainees
Abigail Roman
(2022-2024)Abigail is a senior in the White Plains High School Science Research Program in New York. She is analyzing neuroscientific data to uncover the optimal brain state for cue-induced lucid dreams. Her work has been recognized on numerous occasions, including a Science Research Achievement Award from her school, Second Place in Medicine & Health at the Somers Science Fair, Second Place (junior year) and Third Place (senior year) in Neuroscience at the Regeneron-Westchester Science and Engineering Fair, First Place in Medicine and Medical Science & Technology at the Tri-County Science and Engineering Fair, fifth place at WR-JSHS, and recognition as a STANYS NYS Science Congress Nominee.
Daisy Star
(2023-2025)Daisy is a junior in the Briarcliff High School Science Research Program in New York. Her project uses machine learning to uncover how the brain creates a fully immersive experience during sleep. Her work has been well-received, notably winning First Place in the Behavioral Science category at the Somers Science Fair, Second Place in Computational Biology and the Regeneron Biomedical Science Award at the Regeneron-Westchester Science and Engineering Fair (WESEF), and Third Place in Computational Biology at the New York State Science and Engineering Fair (NYSSEF).
Research Assistants
Qiaorong Yu
(2022-present)Qiaorong is a senior at the University of Oxford working towards a Bachelor's degree in physics. Her research uses computational neuroscience tools to uncover the neural processes of dream generation. She received an Undergraduate Academic Project Grant from Oxford to pursue this work!
Rishabh Mallela
(2023-present)Rishabh is a high-school senior at St. Margaret’s Episcopal School in California. He is developing an Apple Watch app to induce lucid dreams via real-time sleep staging and sensory stimulation. See more about his app here.
Alumni
Science Research Program Trainees
Aito Okamoto
(2022-2023)Aito did his AP Research course project as a junior at Carnegie Vanguard High School in Houston, Texas. He led a project that tested the dream-lag effect by quantifying how long it takes major cultural events to show up in online dream reports. His final project won an Outstanding AP Research Project award! Aito will be pursuing his undergraduate degree at Texas A&M next year.
Norah Wolk
(2021-2023)Norah worked from the Marin Academy Research Collaborative (MARC) program at Marin Academy in California. During her junior and senior years, she led an independent study that combined Targeted Memory Reactivation with objective measures of mindfulness to induce lucid dreams in the laboratory. She is now pursuing an undergraduate degree at Barnard College. Check out her personal site.
Cameron Sandell
(2021-2023)Cami worked with us through her junior and senior years in John Jay High School's Science Research Program in New York. She ran a field study with survey methods to better understand the specific mechanisms of how lucid dreams could be used to treat post-traumatic nightmares. Her work earned her the IASD Ernest Hartmann Student Research Award and prestigious recognition as a Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) scholar. She is now pursuing an undergraduate degree at Northwestern University.
Research Assistants
Jordan West
(2023-2024)Jordan worked as a postbac from University of Caifornia at Berkeley ('23). He conducted research on the mechanisms of lucid dreaming therapy, focusing on mystical or "clear light" dreams, to determine their parallels with psychedelic therapy techniques. Jordan is now Research Program Coordinator at the Behavioral Pharmacology Research Unit at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
Neil Agrawal
(2022-2023)Neil worked as a high-school senior from The Academy of Math, Science, and Engineering in New Jersey. He developed an automated meta-analysis pipeline to answer questions about the efficacy of lucid-dream induction.
Armin Hamrah
(2022-2023)Armin worked as a senior from Sacred Heart Preparatory High School in California. His primary focus was a meta-analysis on the reliability of the popular "Wake-Back-to-Bed" approach of inducing lucid dreams. Check out his TEDx Talk: Lucid Dreaming as a Substitute for Real Life Experiences.
Donovan Handy
(2022-2023)Donovan worked as a postbac from University of Texas at Austin within the McNair Scholar Program. In collaboration with Cristine Legare, he led a study aiming to uncover the spiritual underpinnings, motivations, and outcomes of lucid dreaming.