Maxine Annel Pacheco-Ramírez
B.S Biomedical Engineer, Graduate Research Assistant (Cognitive neuroscience; Behavioural neuroscience)
Houston, Texas
Maxine Annel Pacheco-Ramírez, B.S. Biomedical Engineer (mpachec4@cougarnet.uh.edu; https://www.linkedin.com/in/annelpacheco) is a doctoral student in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Graduate Research Assistant at the IUCRC BRAIN’s Noninvasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems Laboratory at the University of Houston. Her work spans art-science collaborative research projects, including the "LiveWire" project, which was presented at the Society for Neuroscience 2023 in Washington, DC, and to Her Royal Highness Princess Marie of Denmark.
Maxine has also been part of the "Meeting of Minds" (MoM) project. This performance has been presented in the US, Switzerland, and Mexico, exploring brain synchronization through different types of interactions between dancers within a choreography. Additionally, Maxine has participated in the "Music-in-Medicine Program" at MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she worked alongside doctors who are also musicians in open concerts within the hospital, featuring visual displays of neural signals.
Recently, she has been involved in a pioneering cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary partnership studying the neuroscience of creativity, learning, and social interactions in Balinese gamelan music and dance, focusing on both performers and audiences in Bali, Indonesia. This collaboration features real-time AI-driven visualizations that change dynamically based on inter-brain synchrony, engaging audiences regardless of their neuroscience background.
In the lab, she is focusing her research on the "EEGonEmotions" project, which aims to design a mobile wearable device for emotion recognition based on biometrics.