Maryam M. Shanechi | |
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| Born | 1981 (age 42–43) Iran |
| Awards | NIH Director's New Innovator Award
MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 NSF CAREER Award ONR Young Investigator Award American Society for Engineering Educations's Curtis W. McGraw Research Award Science News 10 Scientists to Watch Popular Science Brilliant 10 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto, MIT |
| Thesis | Real-time brain-machine interface architectures : neural decoding from plan to movement (2011) |
Maryam M. Shanechi is an Iran-born American neuroengineer. She studies ways of decoding the brain's activity to control brain-machine interfaces. She was honored as one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators under 35 in 2014, one of the Science News 10 scientists to watch in 2019, and a National Finalist for the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in 2023. She is Dean's Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, and a member of the Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Southern California.