Lyle received his B.A. in Biological Sciences and Bioinformatics in 2015 from Hunter College (CUNY) in New York, where he studied the molecular mechanisms of mechanotransduction and myelin formation in glial cells with Carmen Melendez-Vasquez. In 2015, he moved to sunny California to pursue a Ph.D. in neuroscience at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA). At UCLA, Lyle’s graduate work with Weizhe Hong focused on dissecting the neural circuit mechanisms of social behavior in mice. Using in vivo imaging and optogenetics, he studied how neurons in the prefrontal cortex encode social cues to shape animal behavior and explored multi-brain neural correlates of social interaction. Upon completing his Ph.D. in 2021, he now joins the Uchida lab to study the dopaminergic reward system and the biological implementation of reinforcement learning in the brain.