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Seyed successfully defended his PhD dissertation, “Corticomuscular adaptation to mechanical perturbations in a seated locomotor task.” He is the first Dr. from the lab. He will be leaving us to start a new postdoc at NYU in May! Congrats, Dr. Shirazi! 

Dr. Huang was recognized as with the UCF Graduate Faculty Spotlight for Women’s History Month! Read the short article here.

Congratulations to Seyed on publishing the lab’s first paper in 2021! Check out a brief twitter thread about it. Shirazi, S. Y. & Huang, H. J. Differential Theta-Band Signatures of the Anterior Cingulate and Motor Cortices During Seated Locomotor Perturbations. IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng. 29, 468–477 (2021).  

Congratulations to Cesar Castano for receiving the President’s Award for the best poster at the virtual American Society of Biomechanics 2020 Conference! The ASB President selects the winner out of all of the posters, and this year, there were 619 posters. You can view his poster here.

Lietsel Richardson has been helping to promote Black excellence in neuroscience as one of the 23 organizers of the massively successful inaugural #BlackInNeuroWeek, July 27-Aug 2. Lietsel was part of the Black In Neuro committees that planned the #BlackNeuroMentors and #BlackNeuroArt days for Black In Neuro Week. She played a role in inviting speakers, planning meetings, … Lietsel and BlackInNeuro was a huge success! Read More »

Dr. Huang chatted with some young students as part of the UCF STEM Virtual Chat Series about “Electroencephalography (EEG): A Messy but Alluring Tool to Uncover Brain Processes During Human Locomotion.”  All of the talks are posted here.

We are so proud of Seyed! He has received the UCF College of Engineering and Computer Science Frank Hubbard Scholarships for 2020-2021. Excited to be one of awardees of @UCFCECS Frank Hubbard Scholarship. ??? Frank Hubbard scholarship is especially based on the extracurricular activities and community service. pic.twitter.com/cVFahTAF2n — Seyed Y. (@shirazi_en) April 24, 2020

We are excited that Jasmine Balsalobre will be joining the UCF BRaIN lab team as a PhD student in the fall 2020 on a UCF Office of Research (ORC) Doctoral Fellowship! She’s been a standout student in the UCF Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. She previously studied mosquito biomechanics in Dr. Dickerson’s Fluids and Structures … Welcome Jasmine! Read More »