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Seeking undergraduate research opportunities.

I build tools for understanding. Now I want to understand the brain.

I'm Sergio, an Applied Data Science student at Boston College, continuing into a BS in Neuroscience, exploring EEG, learning, and brain computer interfaces.

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Boston College, Messina College · AA in Applied Data Science, Computer Science concentration · Expected Spring 2027. Continuing into a BS in Neuroscience.

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Selected work

One project I actually shipped, described honestly.

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BoltLit: making difficult reading easier to navigate.

I built BoltLit to help readers work through difficult material with explanations and examples close to the source.

  • Web app
  • Reading
  • Interface design
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Research direction

What I want to learn next, and how I would test it.

I am interested in the gap between feeling like you understand something and actually understanding it. Building a reading tool made that gap concrete. EEG is the direction I want to take it, carefully and with people who know the methods.

  • Brain computer interfaces
  • EEG
  • Computational neuroscience
  • Attention and learning
An illustrative trace with a selected analysis window. Synthetic illustration. Not recorded brain data.

Synthetic illustration. Not recorded brain data.

What I'm preparing to build

These are plans. There are no results, no code links, and no metrics yet, and there will not be any until real work exists behind them.

Planned

When does an EEG decoder generalize?

A planned reproducible comparison of simple motor imagery decoding baselines, with evaluation on held out runs and people.

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Planned

An EEG quality report you can inspect.

A planned tool to make missing channels, unusual amplitudes, and processing decisions easier to review.

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About

Early, curious, and building in public.

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I mostly learn by building. I start with a problem that annoys me, make a rough version, and keep rewriting it until it is actually useful to someone other than me.

That habit is what pulled me toward the brain. Building a reading tool made me curious about how attention and understanding could be measured rather than guessed at, and that curiosity turned into reading about EEG, decoding, and brain computer interfaces.

I am early. What I can offer a lab right now is careful work, comfort with data and code, and real willingness to learn rigorous research practice from people who already do it well.

Now
AA in Applied Data Science, Computer Science concentration, Boston College, Messina College. Expected Spring 2027.
Next
Continuing into a BS in Neuroscience.

Contact

If there is room in your lab, I would like to help.

Seeking undergraduate research opportunities. I am happy to start with the unglamorous parts: cleaning data, writing scripts, checking recordings, reading with the group.

Email delvals@bc.edu