Zada, Z., Nastase, S., Li, J., & Hasson, U. (2025).
arXiv.
Zaid Zada زيد زاده
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- Ph.D. Candidate
- Psychology
- Princeton University
I'm a fifth-year Ph.D. Candidate at Princeton University working with Uri Hasson.
My background education is in computer science (B.S., JMU) and machine learning (M.S., Georgia Tech).
I study language processing in the brain during naturalistic settings. My research explores how people and their brains use language to communicate and understand each other. Specifically, I'm interested in how multiple brains synchronize to share information, and the neural code underlying successful communication. I'm also broadly interested in the connection between how the brain and machines process language.
Selected works
For a complete list of papers, see my google scholar page or CV.
preprints
Samara, A., Zada, Z., Vanderwal, T., Hasson, U., & Nastase, S. (2025).
bioRxiv.
Zada, Z., Nastase, S., Speer, S., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Tsoi, L., Burns, S., Falk, E., Hasson, U., & Tamir, D. (2025).
bioRxiv.
Bhattacharjee, A., Zada, Z., Wang, H., Aubrey, B., Doyle, W., Dugan, P., Friedman, D., Devinsky, O., Flinker, A., Ramadge, P. J., Hasson, U., Goldstein, A., & Nastase, S. A. (2024).
bioRxiv.
publications
Zada, Z., Nastase, S. A., Aubrey, B., Jalon, I., Michelmann, S., Wang, H., Hasenfratz, L., Doyle, W., Friedman, D., Dugan, P., Melloni, L., Devore, S., Flinker, A., Devinsky, O., Goldstein, A., & Hasson, U. (2025).
Sci Data, 12(1), 1135.
Goldstein, A., Wang, H.*, Niekerken, L.*, Schain, M.*, Zada, Z.*, Aubrey, B.*, Sheffer, T.*, Nastase, S. A.*, Gazula, H., Singh, A., Rao, A., Choe, G., Kim, C., Doyle, W., Friedman, D., Devore, S., Dugan, P., Hassidim, A., Brenner, M., … Hasson, U. (2025).
Nature Human Behavior, 9(5), 1041-1055.
Zada, Z., Goldstein, A., Michelmann, S., Simony, E., Price, A., Hasenfratz, L., Barham, E., Zadbood, A., Doyle, W., Friedman, D., Dugan, P., Melloni, L., Devore, S., Flinker, A., Devinsky, O., Nastase, S. A.*, & Hasson, U.* (2024).
Neuron, 112(18), 3211-3222.e5.
Goldstein, A., Zada, Z., Buchnik, E., Schain, M., Price, A., Aubrey, B., Nastase, S. A., Feder, A., Emanuel, D., Cohen, A., Jansen, A., Gazula, H., Choe, G., Rao, A., Kim, C., Casto, C., Fanda, L., Doyle, W., Friedman, D., … Hasson, U. (2022).
Nature Neuroscience, 25(3), 369-380.
* equal contribution