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Sri Sarma, associate director of the Institute for Computational Medicine, is the recipient of the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising. This award, created by Capers and Marion McDonald, is given to honor teachers, researchers, and administrators who have consistently supported the personal and professional development of their students. Sarma will be recognized for her achievement at the 2021 Whiting School of Engineering Convocation Ceremony on Thursday, May 27.

In addition to her role at the ICM, Sarma is an associate professor of biomedical engineering and vice dean for graduate education. She is the principal investigator of Neuromedical Control Systems Lab where she mentors undergraduates, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows in their research and professional development. Her research interests include modeling, estimation and control of neural systems using electrical stimulation.

Click here to learn about Sri (spoiler: her favorite movie is Forrest Gump) and what she has to say about the future of science here to the Kalvi Foundation: https://kavlifoundation.org/news/patterns-in-the-brain

Congratulations to Claire!

See for more details: https://icm.jhu.edu/2021/03/26/claire-zurn-awarded-nsf-graduate-research-fellowship-for-2021/

Rachel June Smith, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Computational Medicine, has been awarded a 2020 Young Investigator Award by the American Epilepsy Society for her abstract titled, “Dynamical Systems Theory Applied to Single-Pulse Electrical Stimulation Data to Infer Epileptogenic Networks.” Rachel was one of 20 young investigators selected from 1,100 submissions for outstanding achievement in basic, translational, or clinical epilepsy research.

Rachel’s research brings together computational modeling, systems theory, and epilepsy medicine. She constructs dynamic models of epileptic networks for the purposes of understanding where seizures start and spread in the brain. Her model predictions can assist neurologists in treating epilepsy patients who undergo surgery to remove epileptogenic brain tissue, thereby increasing the patient’s chances of seizure freedom after treatment.

Rachel conducts her research in the Neuromedical Control Systems Lab led by Sri Sarma, who is the Institute for Computational Medicine’s associate director and The Whiting School of Engineering’s vice dean of graduate education.

Rachel June Smith was selected as a 2020 American Epilepsy Society (AES) Fellow. Congrats to our new fellow!

Adam Li is a Ph.D. candidate in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University with Dr. Sridevi Sarma. He obtained his undergraduate degree at University of California, San Diego (B.S’s in Bioengineering and Applied Mathematics). His research is in computational approaches to seizure onset zone localization in human epilepsy patients using intracranial EEG data applying control theory, computational modeling and machine learning.

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