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Graduate Students

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Kai Malcolm is a PhD Student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Rice University. His research is focused on developing federated learning models for personalized and privacy-preserving human-computer interfaces. Kai’s research interests broadly include data privacy, (distributed) machine learning, multi-task learning, neural interfaces, and neural control. | LinkedIn

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Mikayla Deehring is a graduate student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Rice University. Her research is focused on wearable devices for monitoring and rehabilitating chronic conditions. Her research interests broadly include equity and accessibility in healthcare, machine learning, and multimodal health informatics. | LinkedIn | Personal Website

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Lauren Peterson is a graduate student in the Electrical & Computer Engineering program at Rice University. Her research interests include analyzing dynamical systems and developing data-driven models to improve healthcare accessibility. Past projects include interpreting how humans use dynamical systems with different interfaces, and using convex optimization methods to improve real-time decoding of brain activity. | LinkedIn

Undergraduate Students

Joyce Wu is an undergraduate student at Rice University majoring in Bioengineering and Asian Studies. Her academic interests lie at the intersection of engineering and medicine. In her free time, she enjoys crafting, traveling, and discovering new foods. | LinkedIn

Tony Martinez is an undergraduate student at Rice University majoring in Computer Science, focusing on systems and computer engineering. His interests include playing the saxophone, creating puzzles, and late-night driving. | LinkedIn | Personal Website

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Eugenia Sung is an undergraduate at Rice University majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering with a minor in Data Science. She is passionate about exploring new technologies and how they can impact everyday life. Outside of academics, she enjoys art and design.

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Sanjana Dabbiru is an undergraduate student at Rice University majoring in Computer Science. Her academic interests include finding the intersection between using technology to contribute to meaningful change in the community. | LinkedIn.

Alumni

Philo Katzman is a graduate of Rice University in Cognitive Science and Neuroscience. He is broadly interested in systems integrating biological activity with electronics and aims to pursue a career in this field. During his free time, he enjoys backpacking, climbing, basketball, and solving puzzles. He is currently at Starling Medical. | LinkedIn

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Steven Chen was an undergraduate student in the Department of Biomechatronics Engineering at National Taiwan University. His current research project is developing a demo for simple gesture recognizing. His research interests are human-computer interfaces , bio-sensors, and signal processing. He is now a Rice MECE graduate student.

Shivam Dalmia is an undergraduate at Rice University majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Statistics. His current research focuses on developing a machine learning pipeline for stroke-specific gesture recognition to support low-cost exergaming in rehabilitation. Shivam is broadly interested in AI for health, computer vision, and human-centered computing. Outside the lab, he enjoys playing guitar, golfing, and working out.

Sabrina Geng is an undergraduate at UNC Chapel Hill, double-majoring in Computer Science and Statistics & Analytics. Her research spans from NLP to Human-Computer Interaction focusing on human-centric AI from which personalized healthcare can benefit. She is interested in music, enjoying new recipes, and filming with her cameras wherever she can.

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Chloe Park is an undergraduate student at Rice University majoring in Computer Science with a minor in Data Science. She is deeply passionate about how technology can be leveraged to help others and create a positive impact.

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Kaylah Patel was a senior at Rice University majoring in Cognitive Computational Science and minoring in Data Science and Biochemistry/ Cell Biology. Her interests include dance, walking, and learning new languages (currently Spanish, Hindi, and Gujarati)! She is now a Strategy Analytics Associate at KPMG.