Erin Conrad, MD
Dr. Conrad is an Assistant Professor of Neurology and faculty member of the Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her background in physics and math and her clinical training in epilepsy form a mixed quantitative-clinical skillset. Her long-term career goal is to bridge the gap between the engineering world and the clinical world, using her computational background to improve our understanding and treatment of epilepsy.
Research staff
Brian Prager, PhD – Data scientist
- Expertise in machine learning
PhD students
Carlos Aguila
- Interictal spike morphology to guide epilepsy surgery planning
Juri Kim
- Surgical outcome prediction based on diffuse network abnormalities on scalp EEG.
- Outside of the lab, I enjoy traveling and playing tennis.
Masters students
Zhiyu Kuang
- 2025 Bioengineering Master’s thesis detecting seizure onset in scalp EEG
Skyler Zhou
- 2025 Bioengineering Master’s thesis comparing seizure spread to CCEP spread
Lab alumni
- Joshua LaRocque, MD/PhD: postdoctoral researcher 2022-2024 -> Assistant Professor of Neurology at University of Milwaukee
- Bella Velez: 2023 Summer PURM Program
- Dori Xu: 2023 Summer PURM program, 2023 Fall Independent Study
- Saurabh Mallela: 2023 Summer PURM program
- Wilson Hu: 2023 Summer PURM program
- Haoer Shi: 2023 Master’s Thesis “Effects of re-referencing and connectivity methods on IEEG networks and epilepsy lateralization” -> Bioengineering PhD program at University of Pennsylvania