Sean O’Connell is a Biomedical Engineering PhD candidate, planning to graduate in the Summer 2025 semester. His project focuses on development of new computational and experimental methods for advancing the field of motor control. He recently developed EMUsort, a tool that extends on open source softwares for spike sorting, which significantly improves the accuracy of identifying recurring patterns of activity in high resolution muscle recordings. This contribution helps researchers answer new scientific questions about how motor units are coordinated to produce the complex range of behavior that animals and humans produce.

Long term, he is interested to apply the things he has learned in SNEL and Sober Lab toward neurotechnology development in industry, to solve real world problems that help people and collaborate toward building a brighter future and pushing the frontier of knowledge.