Ewina Tsam Kiu Pun
Computational neuroscientist and neuroengineer
San Fransisco, CA
I am currently a computational neuroscientist at a stealth startup. I completed my Ph.D. at Brown University in 2024, 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 EE and BME 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 was a competitive ballroom dancer at Brown. I also 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! |