Curriculum Vitae

Current Roles

Post-doctoral Fellow @ ∀ (“For All”) Lab, Carnegie Mellon University
Developing neurotechnology methods for non-invasive human brain stimulation and sensing

Founder, Lead Consultant @ Insight Biorhythms, LLC

Education

• Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) - 2019 to 2021

  • Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering - May 2021

  • Affiliations: Neuroscience Institute, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition

• Boston University (BU) - 2014 to 2018

  • Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering - 2017

  • Affiliation: Hearing Research Center

• Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) - 2009 to 2013

  • Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering

  • Minor in Electrical Engineering

• Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (IMSA) - 2006 to 2009

  • 3 total years of high school

Teaching Experience

Boston University Graduate Teaching Fellowships

• CN 560: Perception and Quantitative Physiology of the Auditory System - 2017

• BE 401: Signals and Systems in Biomedical Engineering (studio / flipped format) - 2016

  • Rating: 4.7/5.0

• BE 401: Signals and Systems in Biomedical Engineering (lecture format) - 2015

  • Rating: 4.4/5.0

Washington University Teaching Assistant Positions

• BME 123B: Engineering Virtual Studio I - Spring 2013

• BME 124B: Engineering Virtual Studio II - Fall 2013

Publications

• J. Kwasa, R. Tusi, A Buitano Tang, J. Kim, A. Chambers, B. J. Alter, and P. Grover1 “Safety, Tolerability, and Feasibility of Pulsed Transcranial Electrical Stimulation (PTES) During Treadmill Walking” IEEE Proceedings of the  2025IEEE Eng in Med and Bio. Neural Eng. Conference (In Press)

• Kwasa, J., Noyce, A., Bressler, S., Bonacci, L., Ruesch, A., & Shinn-Cunningham, B. “Differences in neural representations of auditory and visual inputs dictates different metrics to quantify selective attention” (Under Review)

• Kwasa, J., Mensah-Agyekum, E., Etienne, A., Phillips, R., Patterson, C., and Grover, P. “Clinical Evaluation of Sevo Systems: Equitable EEG for Coarse, Dense, and Curly Hair” IEEE Proceedings of the IEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, 2024

• Kwasa, J., Peterson, H. M., Karrobi, K., Jones, L., Parker, T., Nickerson, N., & Wood, S. “Demographic Reporting and Phenotypic Exclusion in fNIRS". Frontiers in Neuroscience Brain Imaging Methods (2023). https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.08.515730

• Ricard J.A.*, Parker T.C.*, Dhamala E., Kwasa, J., Allsop, A.S., and Holmes A.J. “Confronting racially exclusionary practices in the acquisition and analyses of neuroimaging data.” Nature Neuroscience, 26, 4–11 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01218-y

• Webb, E.K., Etter, J.A. & Kwasa, J.A. “Addressing racial and phenotypic bias in human neuroscience methods.” Nature Neuroscience 25, 410–414 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01046-0

• D. E. Bradford*, A. DeFalco*, E. R. Perkins, I. Carbajal, J. Kwasa, F. R. Goodman, F. Jackson, L. N. S. Richardson, N. Woodley, L. Neuberger, J. A. Sandoval, H. J. Huang, & K. J. Joyner. “Whose Signals Are We Amplifying?  Towards a More Equitable Clinical Psychophysiology” Invited Commentary, Clinical Psychological Science (2022) https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702622111211

• Kwasa, J. A., Noyce, A. L., Torres, L. M., Richardson, B. N., & Shinn-Cunningham, B. G. (2023). “Top-down auditory attention modulates neural responses more strongly in neurotypical than ADHD young adults.” Brain Research, 1798, 148144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2022.148144

• Noyce, A. L., Kwasa, J. A. C., & Shinn-Cunningham, B. G. (2022). “Defining attention from an auditory perspective.” WIREs Cognitive Science, e1610. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcs.1610

• Lia Bonacci, Scott Bressler, Jasmine Kwasa, Abigail Noyce, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, “Effects of Visual Scene Complexity on Neural Signatures of Spatial Attention”, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Volume 14, March 2020, ISSN 1662-5161. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00091

• Nithya J. Jesuraj, Laura M. Marquardt, Jasmine A. Kwasa, Shelly E. Sakiyama-Elbert, “Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor promotes increased phenotypic marker expression in femoral sensory and motor-derived Schwann cell cultures”. Experimental Neurology, Volume 257, July 2014, Pages 10-18, ISSN 0014-4886. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00091

• Jenny Liu, Will Ransohoff, Jason Dunkley, Jasmine Kwasa, David Welshon, Maisie Mahoney, Matt Everett, Jake Lefkowitz. “Eyereader: SSVEP-Based BCI”. 2013 IEEE Neural Engineering Short Papers No. 0673.