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
Undergrad Students
Oluwatobi Williams
Tobi is a Junior majoring in biomedical engineering with a minor in mathematics. His interests are in neural and genetic engineering.
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