About me

I am a fourth-year undergraduate student at the University of Michigan, pursuing a quadruple major in Biopsychology, Cognition, and Neuroscience (BCN), Cognitive Science, Computer Science, and Data Science with a minor in Business. I’m working on my Honors Thesis in Multisensory Perception Lab, advised by Dr. David Brang.

My research interests focus on using electrocorticography (ECoG) to understand how human brain processes speech information, and how visual information supports auditory speech processing. I am interested in the neural mechanisms underlying audiovisual integration during speech, and how different acoustic and visual features contribute to speech comprehension.

My long-term goal is to pursue a PhD in computational cognitive neuroscience or a related field, investigating the neural mechanisms underlying speech and multisensory perception.

My name pronunciation is RAY-shee Pyao (朴睿熙).

Presentations

• Piao, R., Cao, C., Li, Y., Brissenden, J., Jahn, A., & Brang, D. (2025, September). The functional-anatomical organization of spectral and temporal restoration in auditory cortex [Poster presentation]. Seventeenth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Washington, DC, United States.

• Ma, S., Piao, R., Geng, C., Hua, Y., Jones, M., & Hu, J. (2025, May). A statistical human head geometry model considering variations in head skin, skull, and brain among the whole population [Poster presentation]. The 20th Annual Injury Biomechanics Symposium, Columbus, OH, United States.

• Ma, S., Mao, S., Piao, R., Geng, C., Hua, Y., & Levy, R. (2024, December). A parametric head geometry model accounting for morphological variation in the adult population [Poster presentation]. 2024 Multidisciplinary Design Program Design Expo, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.