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Boyla Octavie Mainsah

Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering · 2020 - Present Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering
Assistant Professor in Neurology · 2024 - Present Neurology, Clinical Science Departments

In the News


Published December 3, 2024
Research & Innovation Seed Grants Total Nearly $2 Million

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Recent Publications


Assessing the Impact of Population Data Domain Differences on Transfer Learning in P300-based Brain-Computer Interfaces (Student Abstract)

Conference Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · April 11, 2025 Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can provide a means of communication for individuals with severe neuromuscular diseases, the target end-users. While personalized BCI machine learning models are the current standard, models trained on data from oth ... Full text Cite

Deep Learning Resolves Myovascular Dynamics in the Failing Human Heart.

Journal Article JACC Basic Transl Sci · May 2024 The adult mammalian heart harbors minute levels of cycling cardiomyocytes (CMs). Large numbers of images are needed to accurately quantify cycling events using microscopy-based methods. CardioCount is a new deep learning-based pipeline to rigorously score ... Full text Link to item Cite

Objective intelligibility measurement of reverberant vocoded speech for normal-hearing listeners: Towards facilitating the development of speech enhancement algorithms for cochlear implants.

Journal Article The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · March 2024 Cochlear implant (CI) recipients often struggle to understand speech in reverberant environments. Speech enhancement algorithms could restore speech perception for CI listeners by removing reverberant artifacts from the CI stimulation pattern. Listening st ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


Leveraging Natural Language Processing for Reverberant Speech Enhancement in Cochlear Implants

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2023 - 2025

Closed-Loop Stimulus Optimisation to Increase Communication Efficiency in Brain-Computer Interfaces

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2023

Using Machine Learning to Mitigate Reverberation Effects in Cochlear Implants

ResearchResearch Scientist · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2015 - 2021

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Education, Training & Certifications


Duke University · 2016 Ph.D.