Ned Sahin, Ph.D. ✔️ Email & Phone Number

fastIEP provides a ground-breaking solution to special education teachers and school districts to address deep, unmet needs in real-time collection of data and monitoring of progress for the 7.5 million American children who are on IEPs (students with special needs). We apply principles of neuroscience and the psychology of learning to improve student outcomes, and to increase teacher job satisfaction and thus retention. fastIEP can save a teacher 100 hours per year, yet drastically improve the quality and compliance of their legally-required reports for each child. In line with the Endrew F. decision by the Supreme Court, fastIEP allows educators to construct appropriate and sufficiently challenging IEP goals, individualized to the student using our rubric, and demonstrate progress toward the goals with elegant, automatically-created charts. If you are or know a teacher, school administrator, or parent addressing the needs of our nation's neurodiverse youth, please communicate that we are ready to serve them and empower better outcomes!www.fastIEP.com

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Brain Power aims to unlock the power of the brain, with neuroscience-based software and hardware that transforms wearable computers into neuro-assistive and educational devices that are engaging and encourage human contact.Brain Power has developed the world's first wearable educational system for Autism: based on brain science from MIT and Harvard, and built on a hardware-enhanced smart-glass (currently Google Glass). Our system empowers children and adults all along the autism spectrum to teach themselves practical life skills crucial to self-sufficiency. The Brain Power System also monitors progress on those skills, and bodily signs of stress and learning, to deliver data-rich reports to the user, caregiver, and/or educator. It also self-customizes to each unique user based on the individual user's patterns as well as wider group trends / big data. We are hiring: www.brain-power.com/apply

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Formerly the "Boston Machine Intelligence Consortium", the AI Innovators Community aims to bring together applied practitioners of AI including founders, entrepreneurs, and applied scientists with no agenda except to help weave a better connective tissue among them toward fruitful collaboration, education, and/or inspiration.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Academic adjunct position: "Departmental Associate" in the Harvard Psychology Department. Research into the human mind and our language capability, in adjunct collaboration with Professor Steve Pinker.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Postdoc fellowship in the Department of Psychology, and in collaboration with Massachusetts General Hospital. Position was concurrent with a post-doctoral fellowship at UCSD and Salk, as part of a multi-university collaboration.

La Jolla, Ca, Us

Supervisors:- Eric Halgren, PhD- Terry Sejnowski, PhD

La Jolla, Ca, Us

- Probed the timing dynamics and information exchange among neural circuits underlying language and related faculties, such as visual object recognition, lexical processing, and speech articulation.- Methods: iEEG (intracranial EEG, in neurosurgical patients), fMRI, MEG, and EEG.- Collaborated with neurosurgeons, neurologists, epileptologists and neuroscientists at 5 hospitals. - Lab: Multi-Modal Imaging Laboratory (http://mmil.ucsd.edu) Department of Radiology, UCSD School of Medicine

Sponsorships, Marketing, Strategic Relationships

Boston, Ma, Us

Appointed as scholar at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Structural and Functional Biomedical Imaging, a world leading brain imaging center. Work using fMRI and other methods in intracranial electrophysiology, and course design, funded in part by a T32 NIH training grant. Led the brain imaging practice in the lab of Prof. Steven Pinker (Harvard).

Lexington, Ma, Us

Secured SBIR Phase I and Phase II grants and served as principle investigator on a Department of Defense project to measure and predict cognitive overload in military personnel. Project title: System to Evaluate Neurological Stress with Objective and Remote Sensors (SENSORS).

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Managed a 300-student course newly added to Harvard's "core curriculum", and supervised 20 sections (10 teaching fellows, with PhDs).

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Project Manager and Technical On-Site Consultant. Member, Bell Labs Technical Staff. Managed project team to deploy customer-support system at Dublin-based telecommunications company. Member of project team for a market-leading telecom in Spain. Programmed large-scale, mission-critical Oracle databases.

Us

Programmed Oracle and Sybase databases to translate business needs of clients. Clients included major telecommunications companies. The software products were systems to manage billing and customer care. Trained in unix, RDBMS database, C, and managerial skills.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Developed novel analysis and data-display methods for stroke patient MRI scans. Presented results at international research conference (Soc. for Neuroscience). Led to my undergraduate thesis work. Co-authored two published papers with the lab director.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Cognitive Neuroscience

Master'S Degree, Cognitive Neuroscience (Course 9)

Ba, Biology, Neuroscience

Linguistics, Neuroscience

High School

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