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Meet the Team

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Dr. Faranak Farzan

Dr. Faranak Farzan is the Chair in Technology Innovation for Youth Addiction Recovery and Mental Health in School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering, Simon Fraser University.
She is the EEG Platform Lead and Executive Member of CAN-BIND, an OBI-funded national network advancing biomarker-based depression research across Canada. Trained at McMaster, the University of Toronto, and Harvard Medical School, her work bridges engineering, neuroscience, and medicine. Her lab integrates neuromodulation, electrophysiology, AI, and data analytics within a state-of-the-art neurotechnology environment that supports large-scale clinical translation.

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Research Staff

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Post Doctorate Fellow

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Neuroscience, Depression, Brain Stimulation

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EEG Research Manager

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Neuro-Engineering, EEG Biomarkers, Machine Learning

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Post Doctorate Fellow

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Graduate Students

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Raaj Chatterjee

PhD Candidate

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Electrocorticography, TMS, Signal Reconstruction, Nonlinear Dynamics

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Vardhan Paliwal

PhD Student

    EEG, Computational Neuroscience, Whole Brain Modeling, Machine Learning

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    PhD Student

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    MDD, EEG Microstates, Event-Related Potentials, Biomarkers, Anhedonia

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    Cullen McCann

    Master Student

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    Electroencephalography, TMS, EEG Microstates, Closed-Loop Systems

    Research Assistants

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    Vivienne Nguyen

    Research Coordinator

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    Alex Knyahnytskyi

    Research Assistant

    Alumni

    Gema Mijancos Martinez
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    Haoran Ding
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    Inés Fernández Linsenbarth
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    Andrey Zhdanov
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    Jamie Hystad
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    Yasaman Vaghei
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    Rawad Refai
      Sravya Atluri
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      Mathew Frehlich
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      Marie-Anne Dussault Gomez
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      For staff and students of SFU eBrain Lab

      Centre for Engineering Led Brain Research, Surrey, B.C.

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