Antonio Ortega (Boas lab) is a Biomedical Engineering PhD student. He is an Electrical Engineer from the Universidad of Guadalajara (Mexico) and has a Masters in Optics from the Centro de Investigaciones en Optica (Mexico). While there, he worked for several years in industrial applications of light and infrared technology, mainly in quality control through photometry, spectrometry and artificial vision, as well as characterization of thermal materials and phenomena. Later, he immigrated to the United States to work as a Research Engineer at the Wellman Center for Photomedicine (in the Massachusetts General Hospital), where he used his previous experience to devise experimental setups to study diverse problems such as differential diagnosis of skin conditions or muscle oxygenation of free diving seals. At this position is where he discovered his interest for biomedical engineering, which led him to start a PhD and eventually join the David Boas lab, where he is working in a wearable low cost fNIRS system. Among his current interests are developing the hardware and software tools for extracting physiological and functional information of in vivo tissue using spectroscopy. He hopes to ultimately take his research to the field of brain-machine interfaces. He expects to graduate in 2022.
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