Temporal interactions of brain rhythms emerging from the collective activity of neurons are critical for neural coding and cognitive performance and are altered in diseases and also with age. Brain electrical and auditory stimulation can manipulate the brain rhythms and can be used as noninvasive neurotherapeutics for treatments of patients with related disorders and also in healthy subjects to improve their cognitive performance.

Our research aims to understand the mechanisms underlying the generation and coupling of sleep rhythms which are crucial for memory consolidation both experimentally by analyzing human EEG/animal extracellular recordings and computationally by developing mathematical models. We are also interested in designing novel noninvasive brain stimulation devices/protocols for deep brain stimulation and efficient neural stimulation using multidisciplinary research approaches from neuroscience, electrical engineering and physics. We are specifically working on several projects to investigate the effects of electrical and auditory brain stimulation on neuronal activity, sleep rhythms and memory consolidation.