Maryam Shanechi
Alexander A. Sawchuk Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Computer Science, University of Southern California
Biography
Maryam M. Shanechi is the Alexander A. Sawchuk Chair and Professor in ECE, CS, and BME and the Founding Director of the Center for Neurotechnology at USC. She received her B.A.Sc. degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto and her S.M. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. She conducts research at the intersection of engineering, AI, and neuroscience to develop closed-loop neurotechnology and brain-computer interfaces. Awards include the NIH Director’s New Innovator, NSF CAREER, ONR Young Investigator, ASEE’s Curtis W. McGraw Research Award, MIT TR35, Popular Science Brilliant 10, Science News SN10, One Mind Rising Star Award, and a DoD MURI. She is a Fellow of IEEE and AIMBE and a two-time Blavatnik National Awards Finalist.