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.

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.

Alex Cerullo, M.S. Student

Project: TBD

Spring 2023-