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) for assistive technology, statistical analysis and modeling, machine learning algorithms, healthcare units and biomedical data analysis. Dr. Shahriari accomplished her postdoctoral studies at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She got her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at the Old Dominion University, her M. Sc. in Biomedical Engineering at Iran University of Science and Technology, and her B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering at Ferdowsi University, Iran. Dr. Shahriari is the recipient of multiple National Science Foundation awards, including NSF/DARE (2019), NSF/NCS (2020), NSF/CHS (2020), and Rhode Island IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (2017). 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. Student

Dissertation: TBD

Fall 2020-

John is currently a PhD student in Biomedical Engineering at NeuralPC Lab. His research interests include neural engineering and digital signal processing.

Alumni

Bahram Borgheai, Ph.D. 

Dissertation: Incorporating Hemodynamic Cognitive Neuromarkers for Personalized Assistive Communication Technology

Fall 2018-Spring 2022

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

Danica Kate Ramos

Danica is 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. 

Damon Georgiou

Julia Donovan