Lin Yao

Present Position: Post doctoral researcher at the Cornell University

Lin Yao received the Bachelor’s degree in mechanical design, manufacturing and automation from Sichuan University, Sichuan, China, in 2009, the Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, in 2015.

Dr. Yao was a Research Scientist with the Institute of Neurorehabilitation Systems, University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany, within the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience from Apr. 2015 to Aug. 2016. There, he was the Head of the Brain-computer Interface Laboratory. From Sep. 2016 to Feb. 2018, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. He is currently a Postdoctoral Associate at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA. His research interests include biomedical signal processing, BCI for neurorehabilitation, computational neuroscience, and machine learning.