Biography

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, NSF/NCS, NSF/CHS, 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.