Rathin K. Joshi

Rathin K. Joshi earned his PhD from the BEES Lab in the Electronic Systems Engineering department at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He holds a postgraduate degree in Information and Communication Technology from DA-IICT, Gandhinagar, and a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications from GEC, Bhavnagar. Additionally, he has three years of pre-doctoral experience in modular logic development for the automotive industry. 

He is a research-driven biomedical engineer with an interest in neural signal processing, brain-computer interfaces, and wearable neurotechnology. His research work bridges engineering and neuroscience, developing innovative tools for real-time EEG/ERP acquisition, signal analysis, and clinical translation. His research work has been recognized by several journals, conferences, patents, and hackathon competitions at regular intervals. With a strong foundation in neural signal processing and brain computer interfaces, he aims to contribute to impactful healthcare solutions through interdisciplinary collaboration, mentorship, and ethical research practices. 

More information: https://rathin63.github.io/website/  

Mahsa Khoshkhou

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.