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.

Lauren Peterson is a PhD 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.