Hasan Ayaz

Drexel University

Dr. Hasan Ayaz, PhD is a Provost Solutions Fellow and an associate professor of biomedical engineering at Drexel University, with a focus on human neuroengineering, neuroergonomics, and mobile neuroimaging for brain health and performance, across the lifespan, and from healthy (typical to specialized groups) to diverse clinical conditions (psychiatric to neurological).  He has developed brain monitoring tools routinely utilized for clinical and field research, and FDA-approved brain imaging medical devices deployed globally in civilian and military hospitals. His most recent research aims to design, develop, and utilize (i.e., to measure->elucidate->enable) next-generation brain monitoring for neuroergonomic applications over a broad spectrum. from aerospace to healthcare.  

João Ricardo Sato

Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC)

João Ricardo Sato is a statistician, a professor, and a coordinator of the Research Unit for Cognition and Complex Systems at Universidade Federal do ABC. Dr. Sato's research combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as neurodevelopment, brain connectivity, and artificial intelligence. His main neuroscience research in education applies Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to record multiple brain activities and study teaching and learning processes. Dr. Sato is also a coordinator of the Interdisciplinary Unit for Applied Neuroscience and he has more than 330 Peer-reviewed published papers.

Raimundo da Silva Soares Junior

Federal University of ABC (UFABC), Center of Mathematics, Computing and Cognition; Drexel University, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems

Raimundo is a PhD candidate in Neuroscience and Cognition at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC), where he researches human cognitive functions, such as geometric problem-solving, with a particular interest in cognitive load and metacognition. His area of concentration is neuroscience, focusing on education, teaching, and learning. He received his BSc in Biomedical Sciences at UNESP, São Paulo, Brazil, and his MSc degree in Neurology at the University of São Paulo. He is also a Fulbright scholar at Drexel University, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Philadelphia, PA. His current project investigates the mental effort signs and neural mechanisms that underlie cognitive effort during visuospatial reasoning.