Sook-lei Liew
Professor at University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSook-lei Liew is a professor and leader in neurorehabilitation who directs USC’s Neural Plasticity and Neurorehabilitation Laboratory and chairs the ENIGMA Stroke Recovery Working Group, combining deep expertise in brain imaging, stimulation, BCIs, and VR to advance stroke recovery. With a decade of focused experience bridging clinical occupational therapy and translational neuroscience, she has built multidisciplinary programs across engineering and medicine that rigorously emphasize reproducibility through ReproRehab. Her trajectory—from OTR/L clinician to NIH postdoc and visiting fellowships in Europe and Johns Hopkins—gives her rare practical insight into both patient care and cutting-edge neurotechnology. She is known for translating real-time neuroimaging and noninvasive stimulation methods into rehabilitative interventions, and for fostering large-scale collaborative science across institutions. A quirky but telling detail: she values accessibility in research communication and even keeps snacks on hand—reflecting a pragmatic, people-centered approach to lab leadership.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Occupational Science concentration in Cognitive Neuroscience, PhD Occupational Science concentration in Cognitive Neuroscience at University of Southern CaliforniaB.A. Kinesiology English, B.A. Kinesiology English at Rice UniversityPlano Senior High School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (28)
stroke10
tinder8
atlas8
weighted7
mri6
bids6
database5
biology4
computational-neuroscience4
electrophysiology4
bioinformatics4
imaging4
neuroimaging4
pipeline4
specification4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
npnl/braindrles
Jun 2018 - Mar 2023
Its like Tinder, for Brains with Lesions!
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
tinder-liketinderlesions
npnl/ASNR_2019
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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