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Mahsa Shoaran
Google Scholar ID: 9tu1zw4AAAAJ
Associate Professor, EPFL, Switzerland
Neural Interfacing
Biomedical Circuits
Machine Learning Hardware
Neuroengineering
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RECTOR: Masked Region-Channel-Temporal Modeling for Affective and Cognitive Representation Learning
2026
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BrainDistill: Implantable Motor Decoding with Task-Specific Knowledge Distillation
2026
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rETF-semiSL: Semi-Supervised Learning for Neural Collapse in Temporal Data
2025
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Machine-Learning-Powered Neural Interfaces for Smart Prosthetics and Diagnostics
2025
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MT-NAM: An Efficient and Adaptive Model for Epileptic Seizure Detection
2025
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Linear Attention for Efficient Bidirectional Sequence Modeling
2025
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Academic Achievements
Awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2022
Honored with an IEEE Award in 2023 (one of four EPFL professors recognized)
PhD student Uisub Shin received the IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award in 2023 under her supervision
Led development of a next-generation miniaturized brain-machine interface on a chip (2024)
Developed a neuro-chip integrating low-power circuit design, ML algorithms, and soft electrodes for managing brain disorders (2023)
Strong presence at top conferences such as ISSCC
Background
Research at the intersection of circuit design, machine learning, and neuroscience
Mission: developing new diagnostic and therapeutic devices for neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders
Develops low-power, miniaturized system-on-chips (SoCs) for neural recording, real-time brain dysfunction detection, and therapeutic neurostimulation
Applies machine learning for accurate symptom detection in closed-loop neural implants
Works on motor decoding in brain-machine interface (BMI) systems
Co-authors
8 total
Lin Yao
Cornell University
Alik S. Widge
University of Minnesota
Pierre Vandergheynst
Professor of Electrical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Kaspar Anton Schindler, MD PhD
Sleep-Wake-Epilepsy-Center, Department of Neurology, Bern University Hospital
George Karypis
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota; SPS, AWS
Nick Erickson
Amazon Web Services
Georg Northoff
Canada Research Chair in Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics, ELJB-CIHR Michael Smith Chair in Neurosciences and Mental Health
Richard Andersen
Professor of Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology