{"id":1081,"date":"2026-10-27T10:36:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2026-11-02T10:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:52:20","slug":"the-ohio-academy-of-science-annual-meeting-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/2026\/10\/27\/the-ohio-academy-of-science-annual-meeting-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ohio Academy of Science Annual Meeting 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of our lab recently traveled to Ohio State University to present their work at the Ohio Academy of Science Annual Meeting 2026. Three of our researchers shared their projects:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Bayan Ahmad<\/strong> presented <em>Foundations for Generalizing Cortical Current Density Predictions From High-Density EEG Using Gradient Boosted Decision Trees<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Maria Leyba Mesa<\/strong> presented <em>A Multimodal Deep Network for Parkinson\u2019s Disease Assessment from Handwriting Kinematics and Visual Task Traces<\/em>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rachael Amira Brimm<\/strong> presented <em>Explainable AI and EEG for Cognitive Load Monitoring in Pediatric Language Therapy<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All three did an outstanding job communicating their research. The meeting was a great experience, with inspiring speakers and panelists, and a chance to talk with other researchers about our current work. It was also valuable to step outside the Akron-Cleveland area, see what other schools are working on, and represent the University of Akron Biomedical Engineering Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"768\" width=\"1024\" data-id=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/OAS-Conference_81.jpg?w=500\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/OAS-Conference_81.jpg 1440w, https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1664\/2026\/11\/OAS-Conference_81.jpg?resize=300,225 300w, 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Three of our researchers shared their projects: All three did an outstanding job communicating their research. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/2026\/10\/27\/the-ohio-academy-of-science-annual-meeting-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1094,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/barkana-signals-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}