I’m currently a CTS-IGERT Fellow in the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) Bioengineering Department. My advisor is Prof. Patrick Rousche, who is a great researcher and an all-around great person. I’m researching brain-computer interface (BCI) and its applications, specifically to enable communication.
Research background
In 2006-2007, I recevied a Fulbright Scholarship to study BCI in the lab of Prof. Andrea Kuebler in Tuebingen, Germany, where I helped to develop a browser that was controlled by the P300 signal. Before that, I studied biomedical engineering and neuroscience at Duke University (Pratt ‘06) and worked as a Pratt Fellow in the lab of Prof. Patrick Wolf. I’ve also worked as a research intern at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) under Prof. Christopher Moore and at the Walter A. Hoyt, Jr. Musculoskeletal Research Lab at St. Thomas Hospital in Akron, Ohio.
Music background
My parents, both deans at the University of Akron, directed the church youth choir for 30 years. I grew up with harmony. I started piano at 5, trumpet at 11, guitar at 14, and I’m pretty sure I could sing before I could talk. I currently do singer-songwriter sets around Chicago and am always open to collaboration.
