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Sridevi V. Sarma is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering, where she also serves as Vice Dean for Graduate Education. She is the Associate Director of the Institute for Computational Medicine and is affiliated with the Institute for Basic Biomedical Science and the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute.
Dr. Sarma received her BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University (1994), and MS (1997) and PhD (2006) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. She completed postdoctoral training in Statistical Neural Data Analysis at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and at MIT's Computational Neuroscience Laboratory.
Her research focuses on computational neuroscience, estimation and control theory, and applications to disorders of the central nervous system. Specifically, she develops computational, data-driven, and biological approaches to advance knowledge and treatment of neurological diseases including epilepsy, chronic pain, Parkinson's disease, and insomnia. Her work harnesses dynamical systems and control theory to understand how the brain governs complex behaviors such as motor control and decision making.
Dr. Sarma founded and directs the Neuromedical Control Systems Lab (NCSL), which develops computational tools for clinical translation. Her groundbreaking work includes EZTrack, a computational tool that accurately identifies epileptogenic zones from EEG recordings, which has demonstrated 25% greater accuracy in predicting surgical outcomes compared to clinicians. She also developed computational models for pain control and Parkinson's disease, finding that deep brain stimulation restores pathological network dynamics in the brain.
- GE Faculty for the Future Research Fellowship
- National Science Foundation Research Fellowship
- Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE, 2012)
- Krishna Kumar New Investigator Award from NANS (2014)
- Whiting School of Engineering Robert B. Pond Excellence in Teaching Award (2015)
Dr. Sarma is an active member of several professional organizations including IEEE, AWIS, BMES, ASME, and the Society for Neuroscience. She has served as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation and edited a special issue of the Journal of Computational Neuroscience. Her research has led to the founding of Neurologic Solutions, Inc., which is commercializing her EZTrack technology. She has given numerous invited presentations at major conferences and has appeared as an expert on National Geographic's "Brain Games."
