Tian Lan is a biomedical engineer with the Brain Institute. He holds an M.S. in Biomedical Engineering from UC Irvine. He oversees the equipment and experiments in the lab, as well as the day-to-day operations of the institute

Tian is interested in using EEG, EMG, TMS, eye-tracking, VR and other tools in various environments to assess human brain activities and physiological changes, in particular, the underlying mechanisms of consciousness in decision making and voluntary actions.