Mahsa Khoshkhou is a Postdoctoral researcher in the Biomedical Engineering Department at The Johns Hopkins University. She is analyzing intracranial EEG data to unravel how cognitive efforts suppress epilepsy seizures. Her research is advised by Professor Sridevi Sarma and Dr. Joon Yi-Kang, MD. She earned her BSc, MSc, and PhD in Physics from Shiraz University. She has been developing computational models of biologically inspired spiking neural networks for several years and served as a Postdoctoral researcher in computational neuroscience at Washington University School of Medicine and the Mind/Brain Institute at The Johns Hopkins University. Her research interests include neural synchronization, biological frameworks of reinforcement learning, and associative memory formation.
