Siyuan Rao, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at UMass Amherst. She completed her bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering in 2010 and her Ph.D in Materials Physics and Chemistry in 2015 at Beihang University, China. She received postdoctoral training at MIT from 2016 to 2020. Her research team in Neurobiological Interfaces Laboratory is working in the fields of neuroengineering, bioelectronics, and neural modulation. She is an awardee of the Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016-2018), NIH Pathway to Independence Award K99/R00 (2019-2024), Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant (2022-2024), and Air Force Young Investigator Program (2023-2026).