Rate My Professor Vinod Menon

Dr. Vinod Menon is the Rachel L. and Walter F. Nichols, MD, Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Professor, by courtesy, of Neurology & Neurological Sciences and Education at Stanford University. He serves as director of the Stanford Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Laboratory. Dr. Menon received his B.Sc. (Honors) in physics from the Indian Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in neurophysiology at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the Stanford faculty in 2000 after serving as a Sinclair Foundation Research Fellow.

Dr. Menon’s research has advanced understanding of the architecture, function, and development of large-scale distributed human brain networks, including the default mode, frontoparietal, and salience networks. His work has been cited over 101,000 times with an h-index of 130. He is an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Neuroscience and has received the NIH MERIT Award. Dr. Menon has held editorial board positions for journals including Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience and Network Neuroscience. His laboratory integrates cognitive, behavioral, neuroscience, and computational approaches to study brain function in typical development and in psychiatric and neurological disorders.