Maria Mody, PhD, is Director of the Developmental Language and Reading Research Laboratory at the MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and an Assistant Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School.

She uses neuroimaging to investigate normal and atypical speech and language development in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia and fragile X syndrome. She has published widely in this area, including a recently edited volume on the Neural Mechanisms of Language (2017).

Her work focuses on bringing together clinicians and biomedical engineers towards development of novel analysis and intervention approaches for application to the field of communication disorders.

Mr. Sharma is currently the Clinical Manager of the Neurophysiology Lab and Epilepsy Monitoring Unit at SickKids. He obtained his R.E.T. from the Canadian Board of Registered Electroencephalograph Technologists, his R.EP.T. from the American Board of Electroencephalographic and Evoked Potentials Technologists, and his Diploma as a Neurodiagnostic Technologists from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

Dr. Kirsch is an epileptologist and clinical neurophysiologist at UCSF, where she is Professor of Neurology and Radiology and Clinical Director of the UCSF Biomagnetic Imaging Laboratory. She trained at UCSF and at Johns Hopkins.