Ewina Tsam Kiu Pun
Recent Ph.D. at Brown University.
Lab for Restorative Neurotechnology
131 Waterman Street
Providence, RI, 02912
I’m currently on the job market! Please reach out if you are hiring a research scientist, software engineer, or other similar role. You can find my resume below.
I completed my Ph.D. at Brown University, under the supervision of Dr. Leigh Hochberg in the BrainGate team. My research focuses on designing stable and reliable brain-computer interfaces for long-term continuous clinical use for people with tetraplegia.
Prior to Brown, I completed both undergraduate and master degree at the University of Southern California from 2014-2018, majoring in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering respectively. I have research experience on BioMEMS design for implantable device and adaptive subspace identification algorithm for dynamic tracking in BCI.
During my free time, I am a competitive ballroom dancer at Brown, and enjoy baking and making artisan chocolates (level 1 certified by the International Institute of Chocolate and Cacao Tasting). My hobby list keeps growing, and I love learning new skills and traveling around the world.
news
| Nov 12, 2024 | I passed my PhD thesis defense today! The title of my thesis is “Towards Stable and Reliable Intracortical Brain-Computer Interfaces for Long-term Independent Use”. |
| Oct 5, 2024 | I presented a poster, at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Aug 26, 2024 | My first-authored paper, titled “Measuring instability in chronic human intracortical neural recordings towards stable, long-term brain-computer interfaces”, is accepted in Nature Communications Biology! |
| Aug 2, 2024 | I enjoy working at Forest Neurotech as a software engineer for the summer! Fascinating technology of functional Ultrasound in BCI. |
| Apr 23, 2023 | Our paper, “Months-long high-performance fixed LSTM decoder for cursor control in human intracortical brain-computer interfaces”, co-written with my colleague, was published in the 2023 11th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER). I was honored to present this work at the conference in Baltimore, Maryland. |
| Nov 15, 2022 | I presented a poster, at Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting in San Diego, California. |
| Jun 29, 2022 | I presented a poster at Research in Encoding And Decoding of Neural Ensembles (AREADNE) in Santorini, Greece. An absolutely breathtaking view! |
| Nov 9, 2021 | I presented a poster at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting (virtual). |
| Sep 1, 2021 | I am thankful to receive a two-year T32 training grant for Interdisciplinary Training in Computational, Cognitive, and Systems Neuroscience (ICoN) from the Carney Institute for Brain Science. |
| Jul 23, 2021 | I had a great experience working for NeuroMatch Academy Computational Neuroscience as a TA! My students also completed two short projects using the Allen Institute 2-Photon dataset. Learn more here on how to participate next year! |
| Jun 26, 2020 | Today I passed my qualifying exam! Officially a candidate! |
| Mar 30, 2020 | New blog post about a meta-learning algorithm called ANIL. |
| Jan 25, 2020 | Check out the project page for the new article on the SfN poster I presented last year. |
| Oct 25, 2019 | I presented a poster at the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) Annual meeting in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Sep 1, 2019 | I received a 2-year funding scholarship from the wonderful Croucher Foundation in Hong Kong! |
| Feb 28, 2019 | New blog post about coding style. |
| Oct 19, 2018 | New blog post about analysis of variance (ANOVA). |
| Oct 4, 2018 | New blog post about cosine tuning. |
| Jul 25, 2018 | Several past projects are added. Check them out! |
| Jul 25, 2018 | This personal academic website is live! |