Liberty Hamilton is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin in the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, and holds a joint affiliation with the Dell Medical School Department of Neurology. She’s the Principal Investigator on this project, meaning she leads the research of the entire team! 

Dr. Tyler-Kabara is the chief of Pediatric Neurosurgery at UTHealth Austin at Dell Children’s Medical Center. Dr. Tyler-Kabara performs invasive monitoring surgeries at DCMC.

Dr. Nancy Nussbaum is a Pediatric Neuropsychologist at Dell Children’s Medical Center. Dr. Nussbaum provides neuropsychological and epilepsy evaluations to our participants; she also aids in patient referral and recruitment at DCMC.

Dr. Schraegle is a pediatric neuropsychologist practicing within the Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Dell Children’s. He provides pre- and post-surgical assessments for our participants. He also aids in patient referral and recruitment at DCMC.

Rajvi Agravat (BS) is a 3rd year Neuroscience Ph.D. student at UT Austin.  Her goal is to help improve auditory attention in people preparing for epilepsy surgery using intracranial EEG. Prior to joining UT, she was a Research Assistant at the Jarvis Lab at Rockefeller University in New York where she studied motor cortex connectivity and its role in vocal production.

Leah is a first-year Ph.D student. Her background is in computer science and psychology. She is interested in understanding how bilingualism is represented in the human brain.

Alyssa graduated with a BA in Linguistics from the University of Texas at Austin and her M.Ed in Talent Development from Texas State University. She is a Research Program Coordinator at the Hamilton Lab and supports our efforts in acquiring intracranial data and neuroimaging at Dell Children's and Texas Children's Hospital.

Dr. Dave Clarke is the Chief of Pediatric Epilepsy at the University of Texas at Austin and the Director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Program at Dell Children's. He aids in patient referral and recruitment at DCMC.

Dr. DeLeon is a Pediatric Neuropsychologist at the Comprehensive Pediatric Epilepsy Center at Dell Children’s. Dr. DeLeon provides neuropsychological evaluations to our participants in both English and Spanish; she also aids in patient referral and recruitment at DCMC. 

Diego graduated as a General Practitioner/Doctor in Medicine, has a Master's degree in Cognitive Neuroscience, and completed his Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Lyon, France. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow, meaning he's a researcher. 
His research interests include cognitive neuroscience and high neural processes, such as attention, memory, language, and decision-making.

Elise is pursuing her doctorate of Audiology (AuD) degree at UT Austin and working on her 4th year externship. She is interested in how the brain processes speech in noisy environments.