Dr. Priya S. Balasubramanian holds a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell University. She is currently a post doctoral scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She holds a service position in IEEE as a Technical Committee Member of the IEEE Nano-Acoustic Devices, Processes, and Materials Committee. She held a position with the Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine through the CU-WCGS Linkage Program. Her research interests include biodevices and MEMS, in particular neural interfaces. She has expertise in devices, cell biology, and computation with an emphasis in the neuroscience field. Her dissertation research encompasses high-resolution neural engineering using localizable ultrasonic and electrical stimuli in addition to computational algorithm development for the mapping of magnetic susceptibility distribution using magnetic resonance imaging data. She is interested in using computational and device-based techniques to further biology and biomedical science without the need to use animal models towards more ethical and conscientious scientific methodology.
Dr. Priya S Balasubramanian is an animal rights activist and scientist and has received numerous awards, including the Summa Cum Laude and Graduation with Distinction honors at Duke University, the Tesla Scholarship and the National Science Foundation STEM SEGUE Fellowship for her M.S. degree at Columbia University, where she served as an Electrical Engineering Ambassador, the Cornell University Graduate Fellowship, the Cornell University Neurotechnology Fellowship, the Horizons Scholarship, the Kavli Institute TRF Scholarship, the ISMRM Educational Stipend, and the T35 National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for Summer Clinical Immersion for her research at Cornell University and Weill Cornell Medicine. Her publications have won awards and been featured in major collections of various high-impact journals, including Cell Press, Nature Press, and IEEE.
