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Jawshan Ara

Graduate student
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Summary

I am currently doing my PhD in neuroscience, under the joint supervision of Dr. Alireza Tavakkoli, Dept of Computer Science, University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno, and Dr. Michael A. Crognale, Dept of Psychology, University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno. My research focuses on using visual-evoked potential (VEP) and multifocal visual-evoked potential (mVEP) for the early detection of visual pathologies. I am interested in using machine learning techniques on the VEP/mVEP dataset to classify the loss of visual function in visual pathologies. I am also interested in transferring the standard VEP experiments to VR for better accessibility.

In the past, for my MS in Neuroscience, I studied the effect of visual deprivation on retinal physiology in an amblyopic mouse model. I also worked on a computational model of trichromatic color vision anomaly in humans using the psychophysics method with Dr. Michael Webster at the University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno. Besides this, for my MS in Biomedical Engineering, I studied the effects of stimulus parameters on electrically elicited tactile sensations to augment the prosthetic hand to the human body with a feedback mechanism.

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Education

  • MS in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, USA, 2020
  • MS in Biomedical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, South Korea, 2013
  • Doctoral student of Neuroscience, University of ÁùºÏ±¦µä, Reno, USA, (2022- present)

Research Interests

Vision Science, Chromatic VEP(cVEP), Virtual Reality(VR), and Machine Learning