Sara Jane Webb
Dr. Sara Jane Webb is a professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at Seattle Children’s Research Institute in Seattle WA. She is a cognitive/social developmental neuroscientist, with research across the lifespan (infancy to adulthood) and with a focus on identifying the relation between functional brain activity and social ability and social disability in autistic individuals and individuals with neurodevelopmental disabilities. She is the Director of the Data Acquisition and Analytic Core for the NIMH Autism Biomarkers Consortium For Clinical Trials overseeing the consortium acquisition protocol development, site initiation/training/quality control, pipeline development and implementation, and analytic aim implementation.
Frederick Shic
Dr. Frederick Shic is a Professor of Pediatrics at UW and Seattle Children’s Research Institute. He currently leads Seattle Children’s Innovative Technologies Laboratory which focuses on the exploration of new technologies and methodologies for enriching the lives of children with ASD and their families. His work includes experimental and biomarker research focused on social visual attention in ASD as well as the application and development of technological and computational methods (including apps, video games, virtual reality, computer vision, machine learning, wearables, and robots) for educational and interventional purposes. Dr. Shic received a B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from Caltech, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale, and Postdoctoral Training as a NIMH T32 Fellow in Childhood Neuropsychiatric Disorders at the Yale Child Study Center. Previously, Dr. Shic was a video game programmer for Sony Interactive Studies, a magnetic resonance spectroscopy researcher at Huntington Medical Research Institutes, and faculty at the Yale Child Study Center.
Emily Neuhaus
Dr. Emily Neuhaus is a licensed clinical psychologist and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Dr. Neuhaus has a broad research focus on phenotypic understanding among individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders, particularly children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), intellectual disability, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), or inherited or de novo genetic conditions. Dr. Neuhaus’s research is informed by a number of methodological approaches, including clinical/behavioral assessment and physiological measures such as EEG and autonomic biomarkers. Dr. Neuhaus is particularly interested in how social and emotional processes relate to brain function and development, and in how they interact with one another to influence diagnostic outcomes (e.g., phenotypes within autism) and psychiatric trajectories over the course of development. Clinically, Dr. Neuhaus specializes in diagnostic assessment of ASD and works directly with families through the Seattle Children’s Autism Center.
Wei Siong Neo
Wei Siong Neo is a psychology postdoctoral fellow at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. He has longstanding research and clinical interests in autism, neurogenetic syndromes, and developmental disabilities. His research leverages and integrates physiological, phenotyping, and digital health methodologies to understand core autism features and associated behaviors. Clinically, he is involved in diagnostic evaluations across the autism spectrum, treatment of severe behaviors in profound autism, and caregiver psychoeducation on early interventions.
Megha Santhosh
Megha Santhosh brings over 10 years of experience in clinical research coordination, staff supervision, and research management at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. She hold a master’s degree in Healthcare Administration and has led work in regulatory compliance, quality control, and multisite clinical research operations. She’s passionate about building collaborative, efficient research teams and connecting with others to share best practices. Outside of work, Megha enjoys traveling, hiking, and photography.
Jenny Skytta
Ms. Jenny Skytta holds a master’s in Information Management with a data science specialization, and brings over 15 years of clinical research experience with strong expertise in data oversight, research compliance, and multi-site coordination. She has worked across numerous genetic, rare disease, and pharmaceutical trials, with deep familiarity in ALCOA-C principles, EDC systems, and FDA-regulated research data standards. Her background includes data curation, quality control, and repository submission across complex NIH-funded studies. Ms. Skytta currently serves as a research manager in the Shic lab and will transition to this role at the start of the project period.