I'm Karahan

Toward the end of my Neuroengineering degree, I was still missing 6 credits. My main focus, however, was my master’s thesis for Neuro-Cognitive Psychology, which had already been underway for four to five months by the time I realized I needed to complete one more course before the semester ended.... [Read More]

Today was the last day of my internship at the Clinical Neurotechnology Lab of Surjo R. Soekadar at Charité, under the supervision of Jan Zerfowski. My task was to classify rock, paper, scissors hand movements from brain data recorded with novel optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs). I tried out multiple classification... [Read More]

After our supervisors approached us about developing our exoskeleton project further, we started by choosing a first author. Christian volunteered since he was primarily responsible for designing the exoskeleton. This part was straightforward, but the real challenge was the amount of time the project took to finalize. [Read More]

During the NeuroTechX hackathon that I joined with my friends, there were supposed to be two main challenges: a data analysis challenge and a hands-on engineering challenge. For the data analysis challenge, participants had to analyze resting-state EEG data with eyes open and eyes closed from 1,200 subjects. [Read More]

Having gained experience in separate projects with motor imagery and Steady State Visually Evoked Potential (SSVEP) based Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs), the idea to merge these two paradigms for controlling an assistive arm exoskeleton blossomed during the NeuroTechX Hackathon. Teaming up with the fantastic David S. Martinez, Inés Martín Muñoz and... [Read More]