My Experience
Student Intern, Neurological Surgery
October 2025 - Present
- Investigating how the human brain processes sensory information and controls movement under different conditions, including with and without touch or visual feedback, using single or multiple fingers, and using one or both hands.
- Collected local field potentials, single-neuron activity, and somatosensory- and motor-evoked potentials from cortical and subcortical brain regions.
Student Intern, Electrical and Computer Engineering
May 2025 - August 2025
- Developed BLENT, a Bayesian shared-autonomy controller that infers intended targets from noisy movement commands and combines user input with goal-directed assistance to support high-degree-of-freedom robotic arm control for independent eating and drinking in future BrainGate2 participants (NCT00912041).
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Bioengineering
August 2024 - May 2025
- Characterized, evaluated, and optimized ultra-thin microelectrode arrays for neural recording and stimulation, focusing on chronic reliability and biocompatibility.
- Collaborated with industry partner Neuronexus.
Preclinical Research Assistant
October 2023 - May 2024
Co-PIs: Drs. Ana G. Hernandez-Reynoso & Seth A. Hays
- Targeted neuroplasticity in spinal cord injury rat models using vagus nerve stimulation to assess its potential for clinical translation in treating urinary dysfunction.
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Bioengineering
August 2023 - May 2024
- Collected human gait and sit-to-walk biomechanics from 30+ participants across 5 emotional states to characterize spatiotemporal and joint-kinematic features for gait-based emotion prediction models.