Lab Director
Yalda Shahriari, Ph.D.
Dr. Yalda Shahriari is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and the director of NeuralPC Lab at the University of Rhode Island. Her research interests are biomedical signal processing, brain-computer interface (BCI), machine learning algorithms, healthcare units, and biomedical statistical data analysis.
Dr. Shahriari joined URI in 2016 after completing her postdoctoral studies at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), following the achievement of her PhD at the Old Dominion University in 2015. Dr. Shahriari is the recipient of multiple National Science Foundation awards, including NSF/DARE, NSF/NCS, NSF/HCC, and Rhode Island IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence. She is a professional member of Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) Society, Society for Neuroscience (SfN), IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, and IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Graduate Students
John McLinden, Ph.D. Candidate
Dissertation: Electro-vascular dynamics during auditory processing: variation along the schizotypy continuum
Fall 2020 –
John is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the NeuralPC Lab. His research interests include noninvasive neuroimaging techniques, physiological processing, and the exploration of auditory processing.
Behtom Adeli, Ph.D. Student
Dissertation: TBD
Fall 2023 –
Behtom is a Ph.D. student in Neural Engineering at the NeuralPC Lab, with research interests at the intersection of neural engineering, neuroscience, and deep learning. He is now working on developing a VR framework to elucidate visual hallucination from patients with Parkinson’s disease using multimodal neuroimaging and finding neural signatures of VH using explainable deep fusion models.
Maryam Norouzi, Ph.D. Student
Dissertation: TBD
Fall 2022-
Maryam’s research is focused on analyzing simultaneous fNIRS and EEG signals collected from subjects engaged in sustained attention tasks. The goal is to identify biomarkers linked to sustained attention and utilize these findings to develop an adaptive decoder that integrates fused fNIRS-EEG features. Furthermore, her work includes advancing novel tripolar EEG technology.
Saba Bijari, Ph.D. Student
Dissertation: TBD
Fall 2022-
Alex Cerullo, M.S. Student
Project: TBD
Spring 2023-
Graduate Alumni
Pankaj Pandey, Ph.D.
Pankaj Pandey worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the NeuralPC Lab, where his researched on decoding cognitive tasks through multimodal neuroimaging data.
He is now a postdoctoral fellow at St. Jude children’s research hospital.
Bahram Borgheai, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Incorporating Hemodynamic Cognitive Neuromarkers for Personalized Assistive Communication Technology
Fall 2018-Spring 2022
He is currently a postdoc at Georgia Tech and Emory University School of Medicine.
Sarah Hosni, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Multimodal Integration of Motor Imagery-based Signatures for Neural Response Classification
Fall 2017- Dec 2021
Currently a lecturer at Old Dominion University.
Roohi Jafari, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Spectro-Temporal Based Quantification of Brain Functions in Neurological Disorders
Fall 2017-Spring 2021
Currently a postdoc at Georgia Tech and Emory University School of Medicine
Alyssa Zisk, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Quantifying and Compensating for P300 Variations in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Fall 2018-Spring 2021
Currently a project coordinator at Communication First
James Mcintyre, M.Sc.
Fall 2020-Summer 2022
Debanjan Borthakur, M.Sc.
Dissertation: Quantifying the Effects of Motor Tasks on Cortico-kinematic Coherence in Parkinson’s Disease
Summer 2017-Summer 2018
Undergrad Alumni
Klara Szilagyi
Klara was a biomedical Engineering student. She is now a biostatistician at Brigham and Women’s hospital.
Oluwatobi Williams
Tobi was a Junior majoring in biomedical engineering with a minor in mathematics. His interests are in neural and genetic engineering.
Danica Kate Ramos
Danica was a Sophomore studying Biomedical Engineering with a Minor in Mathematics and in the Pre-Med Track. Her research interests are Neural Engineering, Tissue and Cell Engineering and Medical Instrumentation.
James Gannon
Damon Georgiou
Julia Donovan