Dr. Sossena Wood

Biography

Sossena Wood is an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and her Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Wood completed her postdoctoral training in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where she was an inaugural Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Jana Kainerstorfer’s lab. Her research focuses on developing a multi-modal, noninvasive hemodynamic imaging technique for data analysis to visualize and quantify the management and treatment of vascular diseases and their neural effects. Wood's lab investigates and evaluates cerebral health biomarkers within populations affected by cerebrovascular diseases using multi-modal hemodynamic neural imaging techniques such as MRI, NIRS, and EEG. Her work aims to contribute to the scientific community by expanding the understanding of cerebrovascular disease and changes in cerebral health related to functional states like sleep and cognition.

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