May Li

Prior to joining the lab, May liked solving interesting problems as a software engineer in fintech and a tech founder building robotics for pets such as litterboxes with computer vision, refrigerated feeders, and health-monitoring collars.

When she realized that the most vexing and impactful problems to solve can be found in neuroscience, she took the leap into research to develop novel computational approaches to allow finer-grained control of our own neural processes, in order to treat psychiatric disorders or modulate our cognitive states.

May graduated from Northwestern University in computer science where she worked on various mental health projects such as a health-monitoring wearable necklace for eating disorder patients, a diagnosis model for depression that she developed by scraping an absurd amount of Reddit data, and a search engine for finding low-cost and free in-person therapy.

She figure skates, plays classical piano, eats too much sushi regularly to be safe from mercury poisoning, and routinely walks her geriatric cat Todd at the park.