Neural Privacy & BCI Ethics
Question
If neural devices and cognitive biometric systems can infer meaningful information before they can read thoughts perfectly, what protections should already exist for neural data and mental-state inferences?
Research threads
The questions underneath the work
These are not finished answers. They are the lines of inquiry that connect my reading, programs, prototypes, and writing.
Aphasia Recovery & AI Support
Question
How can AI support frequent speech and conversation practice after stroke-related aphasia without pretending to replace clinicians?
EEG & Sensory Regulation
Question
Can wearable EEG/body-signal patterns help cue sensory overwhelm early enough to support self-regulation?
Teen Brains & Digital Environments
Question
How do notifications, sleep, stress, and attention demands shape a brain that is still developing its control systems?
Accessibility & Biological Regulation
Question
When support works through nervous-system regulation rather than an obvious command, how should law separate disability access, public safety, and medical evidence?
Research outputs
What the questions have produced
Before Mind Reading Is Perfect
BCI, mental privacy, and neurorights
Blog notes using recent BCI developments and neurorights readings to ask what should count as protected neural information.
The Mental-State Inference Loophole
Cognitive biometrics and mental-state inferences
Companion blog notes asking what privacy law misses when it protects only brain signals, not non-neural data that can support similar inferences.
When the Task Is Regulation
Accessibility policy and stress physiology
Source-backed notes on psychiatric service-dog access, biological regulation, public safety, and what a better legal system could look like.
BCI & Neurorights Sources
AP Seminar reading trail
The papers and source notes behind the mental privacy question, with links chosen to stay stable where possible.
A.R.A.I.A.
Aphasia recovery AI concept
A Stanford Medicine CNI-X team capstone exploring AI-supported speech and conversation practice for stroke-related aphasia.
NeuroCalm
Wearable regulation prototype
A wearable prototype testing personal EEG/body-signal patterns, haptic cues, and trigger journaling as an early self-awareness layer for sensory regulation.
Stanford Neuroscience Forum
BCIs, biomarkers, teen attention, SCI mapping
My notes from the 2026 Stanford Medicine High School Neuroscience Virtual Forum, including what connects back to my own projects.
NeuroSense
Translating papers into episodes
Short neuroscience explainers for different age groups, built from source-backed mechanisms and age-appropriate explanations.
Programs, papers, and listening that feed the questions
How I handle claims
I try to keep three things separate: what a source directly shows, what I infer from it, and what I still do not know. That matters most when a claim is clinical, technical, or ethical.
Source shows
The study, deck, program page, or official source actually states it.
My inference
A careful connection I am making, labeled as my interpretation rather than as a fact from the source.
Still open
A question that needs better evidence, clinical review, replication, or real-world testing.
For clinical projects like A.R.A.I.A., this means the public wording should stay close to the source materials until a licensed clinician, therapist, or formal study supports stronger claims.