Mahsa Shoaran
Scholar

Mahsa Shoaran

Google Scholar ID: 9tu1zw4AAAAJ
Associate Professor, EPFL, Switzerland
Neural InterfacingBiomedical CircuitsMachine Learning HardwareNeuroengineering
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
1,577
 
H-index
22
 
i10-index
42
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
21
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Awarded an ERC Starting Grant in 2022
  • Honored with an IEEE Award in 2023 (one of four EPFL professors recognized)
  • PhD student Uisub Shin received the IEEE SSCS Predoctoral Achievement Award in 2023 under her supervision
  • Led development of a next-generation miniaturized brain-machine interface on a chip (2024)
  • Developed a neuro-chip integrating low-power circuit design, ML algorithms, and soft electrodes for managing brain disorders (2023)
  • Strong presence at top conferences such as ISSCC
Background
  • Research at the intersection of circuit design, machine learning, and neuroscience
  • Mission: developing new diagnostic and therapeutic devices for neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders
  • Develops low-power, miniaturized system-on-chips (SoCs) for neural recording, real-time brain dysfunction detection, and therapeutic neurostimulation
  • Applies machine learning for accurate symptom detection in closed-loop neural implants
  • Works on motor decoding in brain-machine interface (BMI) systems