Zada, Z., Nastase, S., Li, J., & Hasson, U. (2025).
arXiv.
Zaid Zada زيد زاده
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- Postdoctoral Scholar
- UC Berkeley
Hi! I'm a postdocotral researcher at the Huth Lab in the Department of Neuroscience, UC Berkeley.
I study how the brain supports our unique ability to use language to successfully communicate with one another. What is the neural code underlying language processing and sharing meaning? And how can we use language models to advance our understanding of the brain?
I completed my PhD at the Hasson Lab, Princeton University. Before that, I got an MSc in computer science at Georgia Tech and BSc at JMU.
Check out some of my work below, papers, talks, or student resources.
Selected works
For a complete list of papers see this page, my CV, or google scholar.
preprints
Samara, A., Zada, Z., Vanderwal, T., Hasson, U., & Nastase, S. (2025).
bioRxiv.
publications
Zada, Z., Nastase, S. A., Speer, S., Mwilambwe-Tshilobo, L., Tsoi, L., Burns, S. M., Falk, E., Hasson, U., & Tamir, D. I. (2026).
Neuron, 114(4), 774-787.e5.
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.
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