Senior design — EEG motor imagery BCI
Motor-imagery EEG classification in MATLAB, connected to controls for a virtual environment.
What
A wearable EEG headset recorded activity while a participant imagined movement. A MATLAB pipeline used common spatial patterns and a linear support vector machine to classify the recordings and control navigation in a virtual environment.
Why it mattered
The project brought together neural data, machine learning, and an interactive application. It led me toward a master’s in neurotechnology.
My role
Collected EEG data, wrote the feature-extraction and classification code, and integrated the output with the simulation.
Outcome
A working senior-design system, with the MATLAB pipeline available publicly.