Maitreyee Wairagkar, PhD

I am a neuroscientist and neuroengineer developing advance neuroprostheses using artificial intelligence for people with severe speech and motor impairments. My research focuses on building “brain-to-voice” brain-computer interface (BCI) to translate intracortical neural activity into voice instantaneously to restore lost speech, enabling a clinical trial participant with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to ‘speak’ expressively through a BCI.

Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Imperial College London, UK. I earned my PhD and MEng degrees in AI and Cybernetics from the University of Reading, UK. In my previous work, I developed non-invasive motor-BCIs by decoding neural mechanisms of motor command generation, neurotechnology for stroke rehabilitation and Parkinson’s disease monitoring, and assistive social robotics for dementia care.