Nico Hawthorne
Electrical & Computer Engineering Doctoral Student at University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, United States
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Top SchoolNico Hawthorne is an Electrical & Computer Engineering doctoral student with nine years of hands-on experience building neural interfaces, bio-inspired prosthetics, and immersive VR systems that blend electrophysiology and real-time feedback. Based at UC Santa Cruz, his research designs improved devices for recording and stimulating neurons and applies data modeling to translate complex biological signals into actionable insights for neuroscience and AI. He has practical expertise across hardware (servos, sensors, custom elastomers), electronics, and software stacks including Python, Docker, AWS, MATLAB/EEGlab, and spike-sorting workflows. Nico also runs IRB-approved VR studies that gamify rehabilitation and combine EEG neurofeedback with virtual environments—an uncommon intersection of clinical research, human factors, and engineering. Known among peers as a manic learner, he pairs rigorous experimentation with creative prototyping to move concepts from bedside data to working devices.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (18)
electrophysiology7
sorting5
spike5
neuroscience5
simulation5
post-processing4
validating4
python4
raw-data4
headset3
evaluation-framework3
datasets3
simple-api2
matlab1
toolbox1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nahawtho/lab3
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
nahawtho/tmp
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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