Jordan Harrod

Jordan Harrod (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics at the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program. She works at the intersection of non-invasive brain-machine interfaces and machine learning for pain and anesthesia under Dr. Ed Boyden and Dr. Emery Brown. Jordan received her Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University in 2018, where she worked on interfacial tissue engineering, medical image analysis, and machine learning for MRI reconstruction. In her spare time, Jordan is actively involved in science communication via her YouTube channel, which focuses on engaging the public on artificial intelligence, as well as on Twitter, Tiktok, and Instagram. Outside of research, you can find her reading the latest V. E. Schwab book or practicing her Olympic lifts at the gym.