Sahithi (Sahi) Challam is a third-year undergraduate at Emory University majoring in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology with a minor in Artificial Intelligence. She is a Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellow in Neuroscience through the Simons Foundation. In the lab, she works with intracortical brain-computer interface (BCI) data, focusing on analyzing neural activity during attempted handwriting tasks in a patient with tetraplegia, under the mentorship of Ahmad Abdal Qader.

She is passionate about advancing brain-computer interface technologies at the intersection of neuroscience, engineering, and medicine to help restore movement and communication in people with neurological conditions.