Welcome to my personal webpage. It’s still a work in progress so bear with me…

I am currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Kording Lab in the Department of Bioengineering at University of Pennsylvania. I am broadly interested in studying complex natural/functional human movement in healthy individuals and those with movement disorders with the goal of developing better strategies for restoring lost function. In particular, I am interested in drawing from theories and techniques in movement science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, to rethink the way we study movement and the brain.

I recently received my Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston in Houston, TX working in the lab of Dr. Contreras-Vidal (UHBMIST). During my Ph.D., I was awarded the NIH Blueprint Diversity Specialized Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Advancement in Neuroscience (D-SPAN) Award (F99/K00). I was primarily focused on developing a non-invasive neural interface for control of robotic prosthetic devices by individuals with limb amputation. I utilized numerous recording modalities to extract signals from the brain (EEG), muscles (EMG), and movement (motion capture) during walking and other limb movements–for example, see this article in Scientific Data, which summarizes our experimental approach. For my dissertation, I developed a real-time noninvasive brain-machine interface for control of a powered-leg prosthesis by above-the-knee amputees. A number of publications detailing this work are still in review/preparation.

Check out my CV for some more details on my previous work.