Seminars in Hearing Research at Purdue (SHRP)

Date: Thursday, April 28,  2022

Time: 10:30 – 11:20 am

Location: Virtual via Zoom (scroll down for link)

Title: Developing equitable neurotechnologies and addressing racial and phenotypic bias in human neuroscience methods

Speaker: Jasmine Kwasa, Ph.D.

Bio: Jasmine Kwasa, PhD, is an NIH-funded post-doctoral fellow in the Neuroscience Institute at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Originally from the South Side of Chicago, Jasmine earned her B.S. from Washington University in St. Louis, her M.S. from Boston University (both in Biomedical Engineering), and her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from CMU. Her ongoing post-doctoral research seeks to develop neurotechnologies, such as EEG and fNIRS, optimized for coarse, curly hair and dark skin pigmentation with collaborators at CMU. She is also a neuro-ethicist and writes about the future of inclusive neurotech and the history of racial bias in neuroscience, medicine, and technology. Jasmine has received several honors throughout her training, including being named a Ford Foundation Fellow, an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, a Society for Neuroscience fellow, and a “Rising Star in Biomedical Sciences" by MIT. In her free time, Jasmine is a dance fitness instructor and enjoys travel and time with her enormous family.

Related Article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-022-01046-0.

This seminar is presented in conjunction with Pudue SLHS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and the Purdue Institute for Integrative Neuroscience.

Zoom information:

https://purdue-edu.zoom.us/j/93108158900?pwd=RDdTQ0Z4UE9Rb0JUenhjMG1SMkp2QT09

Meeting ID: 931 0815 8900 

Passcode: 11501150

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The working schedule is available here: https://purdue.edu/TPAN/hearing/shrp_schedule

The titles and abstracts of the talks will be added here: https://purdue.edu/TPAN/hearing/shrp_abstracts