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Alissa Sachiko Ling
Research Asst - Graduate, Bioengineering
BioAlissa Ling completed her PhD in Electrical Engineering in Professor Paul Nuyujukian's Brain Interfacing Lab (BIL). Her research goal is to advance our understanding of motor cortical control of naturalistic behavior by performing ambulatory neuroscience studies.
During her PhD, she completed three main projects:
1. Developed a novel platform that combines wireless electrophysiology with a markerless motion capture system to study naturalistic behavior.
2. Investigated the neural dynamical differences of similar unconstrained behavior performed under different contexts.
3. Decoded center of mass and individual arm locomotion to quantify the neural relationships between the gait cycle and total body position
She hopes that her research can inform clinical studies that can improve the standard of care for patients with motor disabilities.
She graduated from Washington University in St. Louis as a double major in Applied Math and Physics. During the summers of her Junior and Senior years at WashU, Alissa interned at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, researching computer vision techniques to improve the Argus II, a retina prosthetic for a subset of blind people, and analyzing large disease data sets to determine trajectories and risk factors for both humans and animals.
