Hi! I am a PhD candidate at Stanford University, advised by Prof. Laura Gwilliams, and I collaborate with the Neural Prosthetics Translational Lab.
I'm interested in:
1. Finding a mechanistic explanation of how the brain turns letters and sounds into meaning. My approach is to reveal the dynamic neural computations that support language processing across the space and time dimensions. To do so, I leverage speech and language models, machine learning tools, and neural data spanning from population-level recordings (MEG, EEG) to single-cell resolution (Utah arrays).
2. How uncovering these neural algorithms can inform and transform brain-computer interface (BCI) and human-computer interaction (HCI) systems.
I'm grateful to the Stanford Center for Mind, Brain, and Technology and the Data Science Scholars Fellowship for their support of my PhD research.
Before this, I completed my MSc in Cognitive Science at UniTrento & SISSA, Italy, and received my bachelor’s degree from Bogazici University, Turkey.
Thanks for stopping by and feel free to contact me at iergin@stanford.edu!
photo credit: Jill Kries
