The mind has always been a great fascination, and I have been pursuing its study currently in the Bio Engineering Lab (BEL) at ETH Zurich, and formerly in the Kanzaki-Takahashi laboratory, in the Graduate School of Information Science and Technology at the University of Tokyo, and as a doctoral student in the Potter Lab, a part of the Neurolab in the joint department of Bioengineering between Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology. I have had sojourns to earn Bachelor and Master degrees in Mechanical Engineering, a certificate in Cognitive Science, and graduate research in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. I now culture cortical neurons over 11,011-electrode CMOS arrays and seek how rules of neural network communication can scale to produce cognition: learning, memory, and creativity.

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