Full (Tenured) Professor of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Director of the Sensory Motor Integration Lab and Editor in Chief of the Journal of Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience.
Torres is a Professor of Psychology, Computer Science and Cognitive Science at the Rutgers Psychology dept., the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science and the Computer Science Center of Computational Biomedicine and Modeling. She holds graduate appointments at the Biomedical Engineering Dept and at the Neuroscience and Cell Biology Program of Rutgers. She has published over 130 papers in highly prestigious and open access journals, and she holds 4 granted patents and 5 provisional patents, has co-founded 3 companies, written 4 printed books with Elsevier and Tailor and Francis, and co-edited multiple open access e-books in Frontiers Journals.
Torres has been recognized by the autism community with multiple awards for her labor of love, education and dissemination of scientific and technological advances. The state of NJ, where she lives, conferred her a joint legislative resolution from the Senate and General Assembly to acknowledge her as an individual of strong character, and exceptional determination and to pay tribute to her meritorious record of service, leadership and commitment to leading initiatives that have transformed research and treatments of autism.
Torres holds a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from CAL State San Jose, a master’s degree and PhD in Cognitive Science with applications to AI from the University of California San Diego, has done her postdoctoral training in electrophysiology and computational neural systems at CALTECH and her Sabbatical on genomics and computational biology at the Salk Institute of La Jolla, CA.
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.