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Previous Experiences and Projects

Experience: CV

Sept 2017 - Present

Postdoctoral Researcher

  • Developed experiments to study perceptual decision-making and motor control in a clinical trial for brain-computer interface (BCI) using electrophysiological recordings from chronically implanted microelectrodes.

  • Performed experiments as part of a multi-site clinical trial, working with clinicians, engineers, and scientists

    • Languages used: Matlab, Simulink

    • Computational techniques: dimensionality reduction, neural decoding, psychophysics

Aug 2011 - Aug 2017

Graduate Student Researcher (PhD), University of Pittsburgh, Depts of Bioengineering and Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

  • Designed and carried out experiments to deliver tactile feedback to participants using a brain-computer interface to control a prosthetic robotic limb and assess its utility on functional hand and arm tasks

  • Developed & implemented system to deliver real-time tactile feedback to brain-computer interface (BCI) users

    • Languages used: Matlab, C++

  • Designed experiments using an anthropomorphic robotic arm and hand in a real-time, closed-loop BCI system

    • Used electrophysiological recordings & intracortical microstimulation in non-human primate (NHP) & human subjects

  • Led multi-institutional collaborative team of clinicians, engineers & scientists resulting in a high-impact publication picked up by over 170 news outlets internationally with 3 publications in preparation  

    • Collaboration through  DARPA with the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and Blackrock Microsystems

  • Implemented statistical analyses on sets of big data including real-time neural & kinematic data

June 2010 - July 2011

Student Engineer, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), Applied Physics Division

  • Designed and created a process for automating signal analysis in recorded speech

  • Wrote, debugged and tested serial communication protocols and interrupt controlled data collection

    • Languages used: embedded C, Matlab

    • Protocols implemented: I2C, SPI, interrupt-driven processing

  • Tested and debugged code in simulated potential scenarios

Feel free to contact me for more information regarding my research and career experiences. More details about side projects are also on my LinkedIn profile.

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