Projects

Things I've built outside formal job duties — a benchmark for BCI-style selection interfaces, a precision-engineered job crawler, clinical and neuroimaging data infrastructure, a spiking-neuron simulator, and a couple of from-scratch probability and signal-processing tools. The same engineering habits show up throughout: careful about what a system actually needs versus what it's tempting to build.

• Neural Sub-Processes of Speech

  First-author iEEG study resolving the parallel neural sub-processes that link hearing a word to saying it — using a GPU-accelerated PyTorch tensor decomposition (sliceTCA) over intracranial recordings from 31 patients.

  • PyTorch
  • CUDA
  • iEEG
  • sliceTCA

• IEEG_Pipelines

  Author and lead maintainer of the Cogan Lab's open-source iEEG/ECoG analysis toolkit — a PyPI package with CUDA kernels, Cython hot paths, and a parallel MATLAB API on its own CI.

  • Python
  • MATLAB
  • Cython
  • CUDA

• GridQuest

  A spatial-selection input game that measures achieved information transfer rate the way BCI decoders are benchmarked.

  • Python
  • Pygame
  • Nuitka

• Visualizers

  Two small from-scratch tools for building probability and signal-processing intuition by hand — exact dice-pool distributions, and a live time-domain/frequency-domain wave explorer.

  • Python
  • Tkinter
  • NumPy

• Clinical EEG Alert System

  A client/server system that routes EEG data from bedside to database to a physician, with a 3D electrode-review GUI at the end of the chain.

  • Python
  • Flask
  • Tkinter
  • MNE

• CMRIF Preprocess

  A BIDS-aware fMRI preprocessing pipeline that lets you mix and match tools across FSL, AFNI, FreeSurfer, and ME-ICA instead of committing to one package's whole stack.

  • Python
  • Nipype
  • BIDS
  • AWS

• Neuron Simulator

  An object-oriented spiking-neuron network simulator — neurons and synapses as class instances, with a live graphical view of activation spreading through the network.

  • Python
  • matplotlib

• matgrab

  A small PyPI package that pulls named variables out of MATLAB .mat files — however deeply nested — straight into a pandas DataFrame.

  • Python
  • pandas
  • SciPy

• Job Crawler

  A multi-source ATS crawler that finds neural-engineering roles by running one pipeline in two postures — relax the location, or relax the domain.

  • Python
  • SQLite
  • Claude API
  • Gmail SMTP

• BIDS_coding

  A configurable BIDS-conversion toolkit for the lab's iEEG datasets, with PHI removal built in for NWB/DANDI compliance.

  • Python
  • BIDS
  • Nipype

• Junctional Tourniquet

  A patented, fast-deploy pneumatic tourniquet for junctional hemorrhage — a full four-semester medical device design-controls project, not just a prototype.

  • Fusion 360
  • Design Controls
  • ISO 14971

• EEG Earbud Biometric Authentication

  An in-ear EEG device for personal identification, small enough to fit inside an earbud — led the team through a classical-ML classifier and its transition to deep learning.

  • MATLAB
  • Machine Learning

• Self-Inserting Speculum

  A medical-device redesign of the vaginal speculum around patient comfort — a device the patient inserts and controls herself, rather than a cold, provider-operated instrument.

  • CAD
  • Medical Device Design
  • Human Factors

• kegg-cli

  A command-line pathfinder over the KEGG biochemical database — depth-first search for the shortest reaction path between two compounds.

  • Python