Rachel June Smith

Rachel June Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), affiliated with the Neuroengineering Program. She joined UAB in August 2022. Her research focuses on biomedical signal processing, dynamical network models, neuroengineering, and brain-computer interfaces.

Education: B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. Completed postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University under Dr. Sridevi Sarma.

Research emphasizes developing computational metrics for EEG analysis in neurodegenerative disorders, leveraging dynamical systems and control theory. Highlights include work on seizure onset localization using intracranial EEG and therapeutic response prediction in infantile spasms.

Labs: Director of the Neural Signal Processing and Modeling Lab, collaborating with neurologists to advance clinical applications of computational neuroscience methods.