- rjsmith2@uab.edu
- Office
- Gorrie Hall 5225
Rachel June Smith
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama at Birmingham
IEEE Member · American Epilepsy Society Member · 2024 NARSAD Young Investigator Award · Vanguard Fellowship, University of Birmingham, UK · Taking Flight Award, CURE Epilepsy
- rjsmith2@uab.edu
- Office
- Gorrie Hall 5225
Biography
Dr. Rachel June Smith is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Neuroengineering Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where she joined in August 2022. She directs the Neural Signal Processing and Modeling (NSPM) Lab.
Dr. Smith completed her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at UC Irvine under Dr. Beth Lopour, developing computational metrics from scalp EEG data for the diagnosis of infantile spasms. She then completed postdoctoral training at Johns Hopkins University with Dr. Sridevi Sarma, where she focused on seizure localization using dynamical systems and control theory.
Her research combines signal processing, machine learning, and mathematical modeling to advance brain-computer interfaces and computational approaches to epilepsy diagnosis and treatment.
Dr. Smith holds a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from UC Irvine.
Research Interests