Resume
Academic Achievements
- 2025: Mentored Haatef to receive an NINDS F31 Predoctoral Fellowship Award
- 2025: Mentored Richard Song to achieve Highest Honors on his undergraduate Neuroscience thesis
- 2025: Lab member Mason Harding presented EEG-fMRI work at ISBI 2025 in Houston
- 2024: Mentored Haatef Pourmotabbed to receive an Early Career Award at the PAME meeting (American Epilepsy Society)
- 2024: Lab presented 7 scientific abstracts, an open-source software talk, and an educational workshop at OHBM 2024 in Seoul
- 2024: Mentored Shengchao Zhang and Sarah Goodale to successfully defend their PhD dissertations
- 2024: Mentored Kate Wang to be named a Barry Goldwater Scholar
- 2024: Mentored Yamin Li to win first prize for her poster at ECE Day
Background
- Aims to increase understanding of the human brain by advancing functional neuroimaging methodology
- Develops approaches combining neuroimaging (fMRI, EEG) and computational signal analysis to extract brain activity information in health and disease
- Research is highly interdisciplinary and collaborative, spanning engineering, computer science, neuroscience, psychology, and medicine
- Affiliated with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
- Also affiliated with the Department of Biomedical Engineering, VALIANT, VUIIS, VISE, Vanderbilt Brain Institute, and Vanderbilt Memory & Alzheimer's Center