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.
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
Abraham Paroya
- 2025 Electrical Engineering Master’s thesis applying deep learning to predict epilepsy diagnosis with scalp EEG
Undergraduate students
Sasan Mournani
- 2025 Summer PURM program
Tomi Adenekan
- 2025 Summer PURM program
Lab alumni
- Zhiyu Kuang: 2025 Bioengineering Master’s thesis “Evaluation of machine learning based models on seizure onset detection with scalp EEG” -> PhD student at University of Illinois – Urbana Champaign
- Skyler Zhou: 2025 Bioengineering Master’s thesis “Network of seizure spread in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy” -> research coordinator at Pennsieve
- Brian Prager, PhD: 2022-2025 Data Scientist
- 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 Bioengineering Master’s Thesis “Effects of re-referencing and connectivity methods on IEEG networks and epilepsy lateralization” -> Bioengineering PhD program at University of Pennsylvania