Director

Dr. Fow-Sen Choa Professor – Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland Baltimore CountyResearch Areas: Dr. Choa’s current research focuses on building critical tools that can non-invasively activate or block any part of the brain along studying their individual roles in functional networks. His past research work was related to optoelectronic devices, optical network, and optical materials.

Collaborators

	Dr. Mary Kay Lobo University of Maryland, School of Medicine http://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/profiles/Lobo-Mary-Kay/ https://www.lobolab.org/
	MPRC: Dr. Elliot Hong University of Maryland, School of Medicine http://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/profiles/Hong-L-Elliot/

Current Students

Graduate students
	Qinglei Meng Ph.D. candidate in Computer Engineering at UMBC M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2015 B.S. Microelectronics and Solid State Electronics, Tianjin University, 2011 Research interests: Development of targeted transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) for humans and animals; EEG data processing; development of sensors for induced electric field and transient magnetic field measurement
	Deepa Gupta Ph.D. student in Computer Engineering at UMBC M.S. Computer Engineering, University of Florida, 2010 B.S. Computer Science and Engineering, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, 2009 Research interests: EEG data gathering; signal processing; machine learning; computational analysis of neuroimaging data
	Hedyeh Bagherzadeh Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at UMBC (2017–present) Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering at Wright State University (2015–2017) M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Tabriz, 2014 B.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Guilan, 2012 Research interests: Improvement of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS); development of targeted transcranial DC and AC stimulation (tDCS and tACS); machine learning using neural networks
	Sadi M Jawad Ahsan M.S. student in Computer Engineering at UMBC, 2025 B.Sc. Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, 2014 Research interests: Photonic IC design, nanofabrication of metasurfaces Current projects: Mach-Zehnder Interferometer-based splitter tree design for wavelength-specific applications; nanohole-based metasurface design and optimization; nanofabrication of high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs)

Undergraduate
	Julian Loiacono
	Caroline Nseir
	Corey Scheideman

High School
	Daniel Li

Lab Alumni

Graduate
	Mohammd Islam
	Xing Chen
	Dingkai Guo
	Edward Luzhansky
	Mohit Godbole

Undergraduate
	Serena Spickler
	Barnes Williams
	Alex Miu
	Abenezer Wudenhe
	Ahmed Refai

High School
	Jennifer Luzhansky