Maryam Shanechi, PhD
Maryam M. Shanechi is Associate Professor and Viterbi Early Career Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and a member of the Neuroscience Graduate Program and Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Prior to joining USC, she was Assistant Professor at Cornell University’s ECE department in 2014. She received her B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto, her S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT, and her postdoctoral training in Neural Engineering at Harvard Medical School and UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on developing closed-loop neurotechnology and studying the brain through decoding and control of neural dynamics. She is the recipient of several awards including the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, ASEE’s Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, MIT Technology Review’s top 35 Innovators Under 35, Popular Science Brilliant 10, Science News SN10, and a DoD Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Award.
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Date added:04/25/2022