Postdoctoral Fellow of the Rutgers University Sensory Motor Integration Laboratory and Course Instructor for the Torres ARC

Dr. Elsayed completed her PhD work with a highly innovative thesis entitled “Framework of Interpretable Biometrics to Assess Internal Psychophysiological States of Distress in Autism and the General Population.”

Her thesis gained her a provisional patent (pending) to objectively determine individualized threshold of pain, to build the first-ever objective population pain scale. She is currently further advancing her research to find better and easier ways to sample organic, natural biophysical data from all humans, including those who cannot come to our labs. Her methods will help us diversify human behavioral data sets and improve AI and ML techniques. She has completed a book chapter and is preparing multiple manuscripts to go in the peer review system.

Her work as a Teaching Assistant during her PhD thesis training gained her several awards for her clarity, organization, and disciplined teaching techniques. She enjoys teaching and helping the advancement of knowledge to improve our lives. As a graduate student, she received a special mentioning by the NSF praising the high quality of her Graduate Fellowship proposal.

Dr. Elsayed received a BSc in Biology with a minor in Psychology at the College of New Jersey. She completed her master’s in Psychology and Cognitive Science at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, and is currently pursuing Postdoctoral Research at the Torres Sensory Motor Integration Laboratory, where she also serves the community and offers teaching and advising to undergraduate students from multiple disciplines.