#  Parisa Vaziri 

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**For me, home is:** Dallas, Texas

**Prior degree(s):** B.S. Neuroscience, Yale

**Research experience before PiN:** In high school, I conducted fruit fly gustatory neuroscience research in Kristin Scott’s lab at UC Berkeley. In college, I studied a human auditory illusion in Damon Clark’s lab at Yale. Over the summer, I conducted fruit fly visual motion detection research in Tom Clandinin’s lab at Stanford.

**Current research interests:** sensory system algorithms, spatial navigation, illusions, abstract cognitive maps.

**Interests outside lab:** piano, cello, music composition, powerlifting, and fishing!



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Entry year
    
     [2025-2026](/entry-year/2025-2026)
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