Electrical Engineering · Neural Systems · New York
Jaeho Cho
I work at the seam between circuits and brains: a 0.8 volt amplifier quiet enough to overhear a single brain rhythm, and models of how a brain decides which synapses earned a reward that arrived seconds too late.
I'm an electrical engineer finishing a joint B.Eng/M.Eng at The Cooper Union, on my way to a PhD in neural engineering. A résumé can list this work — here you can actually see it.
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I like problems that sit between fields. My training is in electrical engineering — down to transistor-level analog design in 65 nm CMOS — but I taught myself computational neuroscience from Dayan & Abbott because I wanted to understand the signals my circuits were chasing.
So my work runs the whole stack: the amplifier that picks up a local field potential, the signal processing and machine learning that clean it up, and the dynamical-systems models that ask how a network of neurons learns in the first place.
Across labs at Cooper Union, Mount Sinai, and NYU Langone the through-line hasn't changed: take a faint, messy signal — a brain rhythm, a surgeon's hand, a bird's song — and build both the instrument and the analysis that make sense of it. I care as much about the 0.8 volt bias point as the theory it serves.