Scientific Director of Magnetoencephalography Lab, Department of Pediatrics, Neurology, Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Aug. 2019-Present.

I specialize in biomedical signal processing and advanced neuroimaging, with a focus on developing and applying novel computational approaches to electrophysiological signals recorded from large-scale sensor arrays. My expertise spans noninvasive brain imaging techniques including magnetoencephalography (MEG), electroencephalography (EEG), intracranial and high-density EEG, and fetal MEG (fMEG).

My training includes research internships at the Dynamic Neuroimaging Laboratory at McGill University and the SARA/Fetal MEG Research Center at UAMS, both internationally recognized for their contributions to neuroimaging and biomedical signal analysis.

Currently, I serve as Technical Director of the MEG Laboratory at Arkansas Children’s Hospital (ACH), where I lead clinical and translational MEG studies for pediatric epilepsy and brain tumor. I also direct the hospital’s Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) program, expanding noninvasive functional mapping techniques to improve surgical planning in pediatric epilepsy.

I maintain active research collaborations with the UAMS fMEG Laboratory to investigate maternal–fetal physiology to study how clinical drug exposure affects fetal brain development and the use of emerging optically pumped magnetometer (OPM) systems for fetal magnetocardiography (fMCG). In parallel, I collaborate on adult EEG studies using intracranial and high-density EEG to investigate epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease.

My broader research interests include multimodal neuroimaging of cognitive development and brain function across the lifespan, with a strong emphasis on translational applications. I am particularly focused on optimizing pre-surgical mapping of language and memory networks in children with epilepsy to improve post-surgical outcomes. A parallel research track investigates how environmental and psychosocial factors—such as obesity, stress, emotional regulation, and functional seizures—impact brain function in pediatric populations.