My Experience
Student Intern, Neurological Surgery
October 2025 - Present
PI: Dr. Ceci Verbaarschot
- Built a sequential typing task to investigate sensorimotor neural dynamics across tactile/non-tactile, visual/non-visual, single-/multi-finger, and unilateral/bilateral hand conditions.
- Collected local field and single-unit neural activity, including somatosensory- and motor-evoked potentials, across distributed cortical and subcortical regions in patients undergoing intracranial monitoring for epilepsy treatment.
Student Intern, Electrical and Computer Engineering
May 2025 - August 2025
PI: Dr. Nishal P. Shah
- Developed BLENT, a shared-autonomy control policy that infers user intent from noisy neural activity in real time to enhance high-DOF robotic arm control for BrainGate2 participants with tetraplegia (NCT00912041) to eat and drink independently.
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Bioengineering
August 2024 - May 2025
PI: Dr. Stuart F. Cogan
- Characterized, evaluated, and optimized ultra-thin microelectrode arrays for neural recording and stimulation, focusing on chronic reliability and biocompatibility.
- Collaborated with industry partner Neuronexus.
Research Assistant
October 2023 - May 2024
PIs: Dr. Ana G. Hernandez-Reynoso & Dr. 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
PI: Dr. Gu Eon Kang
- 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.