Grace Steward
Biomedical Engineering PhD Candidate
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About Me
While pursuing my degree in Electrical Engineering, I was exposed to the inherent subjectivity in how the current health system diagnoses and treats psychiatric disorders. As an engineer, my goal is to improve these processes through adding computational methods to modern psychiatry to improve diagnosis reliability, prognosis tracking, and treatment development.
Find out more about what I'm working on.
Incentivizing Altruism
Status: Manuscript in Progress
Does rewarding people for being generous increase how much they give to a charity of their choice?
The Value of Cognitive Effort
Status: Data Collection
Exerting mental effort can be exhausting. How does the state of our mental fatigue effect how we value the cognitive effort we exert?
Computational Psychiatry
Status: Data Collection
Psychiatric disorders are extremely heterogeneous and diagnosed based on symptom checklists. What if we used the power of machine learning to diagnose and characterize depression based on a discrete set of choices instead?
July 2018 - May 2023
PhD Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
Concentration: Neuroengineering
Advisor: Dr. Vikram S. Chib
Status: Candidate
GPA: 3.57/4.00
August 2015 - May 2018
BS Electrical Engineering
Purdue University
Summa Cum Laude
Concentration: Fields and Optics
Minor: Anthropology
GPA: 3.96/4.00
Furthering understanding and creating solutions
January 2017 – May 2018
Magnetic Resonance Biomedical Engineering Laboratory
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Obtained coil resonance measurements for designed and constructed coils; soldered and assembled task specific PCBs and magnetic resonance (MR) coils; researched and designed phosphorous and water phantoms for preliminary MR testing.
May 2017 – August 2017
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Livermore, CA
DOE Summer Undergraduate Research Internship (SULI) Participant
Proposed, designed, built, and applied a novel testing apparatus and procedure to determine the material properties of high explosives; characterized microwave interferometry instruments.
