Mateo Gurria

Mateo earned his BS in Cybersecurity from Harrisburg University of Science and Technology, where he also focused on Natural Language Processing. After graduating at 18, he joined the NCSL, where he has been researching biomarkers for chronic pain in EEG.

Sayyida Shazia

Sayyida Shazia completed her engineering degree in biotechnology at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India. She also holds a Masters degree from University of Oxford in nanotechnology. Her PhD project is to study the stunted population of India, which is a prominent and persistent public health problem of India. We are taking a multifactorial approach to study stunting and build statistical models on the vast data collected from  different ethnic and regional populations of India. This project is co-supervised with Dr. Parul Christian from the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Patrick Myers

Patrick Myers earned his BS, MSE and DEng in Biomedical Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University. His recent research includes creating a network-based biomarker for epilepsy, generated from analyzing scalp EEG recordingsHe successfully defended his Doctor of Engineering in 2025. For this program, he collaborated with Dr. Yun Guan to develop a robust closed-loop stimulation system to control chronic pain.