BIOSIGNAL PROCESSING LABORATORY (BPL)

Director

Priya Atiyolil

Education

Statecraft, Institute of World Politics

M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering; M.S. Financial Mathematics, The Johns Hopkins University

B.S., Biomedical Engineering & Applied Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Amherst Commonwealth Honors College
 

Organizations

Founding Director and Principal Investigator, Biosignal Processing Laboratory
CEO, Regent Hill Advisors

Managing Partner, Mariana Wealth
Managing Partner, King of Spades Energy Assets
​Chairperson, Garden of the Nine Spheres

Memberships and Public Service 

Member, Intelligence and National Security Alliance
Envoy, World Affairs Council of America
Member, American Mathematical Society
Former Vice Chair, Town of Warren Finance Committee

Past Employment

RF/Microwave Engineer, Raytheon Intelligence and Space
Engineering Design Team Lead, LAB:SYNC, a National Endowment for the Arts Laboratory
Statistician/Machine Learning Systems Software Engineer (Research Assistantship), Behavioral Data and Visualization Lab
 

Awards & Honors

Graduate Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University (2025-).
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey & Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll Award for Scientific Innovation (2025).
Special Congressional Recognition from James Langevin (2019).
Special Congressional Recognition from Elizabeth Warren (2024).
Undergraduate Research Award (2023). 
Chancellor's Award (2019-2020). 
Qualified for the American Invitational Mathematics Examination (2017).
 

Publications
 

P. Atiyolil, Formulae for the Number of Twin Primes, Honors thesis, Commonwealth Honors College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, 2023. Available: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst.
 

P. Atiyolil, A Deterministic Interpretation of Apparent Non-Determinism, Honors thesis, Commonwealth Honors College, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, 2024. Available: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst.
 

Preprints

P. Atiyolil, On Hölder Foliations of Smooth Manifolds, preprint, 2026.

P. Atiyolil, MOF-Based Porous Nanostructures for Synthetic Chemoreception, preprint, 2026.

P. Atiyolil, Z. Ali, A Compact MgB₂ Loop-Antenna System with MATLAB-Based Signal Processing for Modest Remote Acquisition and Auditory Translation of Neural Oscillations, preprint, 2025.

A. McCullough, P. Atiyolil, B. Simoes, A. Lazarov, and S. Warren, A Wi-Fi-Enabled ECG System with MATLAB-Based Signal Processing for Real-Time Heart Rate to Music Translation via MIDI and Max/MSP, preprint, 2023.

Link to project: https://minutefund.uma-foundation.org/project/35296

P. Atiyolil, Simulation of Nonlinear Acoustic Wave Propagation in Tumor Ablation, preprint, 2020.

P. Atiyolil, The Weil-Étale Topology and Its Properties, preprint, 2018.

​Deputy Director

Zayan Ali

Education

PhD Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut Storrs

M.S. Applied Mathematics, The Johns Hopkins University

B.S., Engineering Physics, Neuroscience, and Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut Storrs
 

Organizations

Deputy Director, Biosignal Processing Laboratory

Memberships

Volunteer Craftsman, Project ALS

Past Employment

Research Assistant, The Neuroscience Department, University of Connecticut Storrs
Application Developer, Simulations LLC
Tutor, Paper
 

Certifications

Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, Johns Hopkins University (2024).
Computational Neuroscience, University of Washington (2024).
 

Projects
 

A Time Series Forecast Modeling Tool to Predict Stock Market Data (2023).
 

Semantic Image Segmentation on the CARLA Self-Driving Car Dataset Using U-Net (2023). 
 

Preprints

P. Atiyolil, Z. Ali, A Compact MgB₂ Loop-Antenna System with MATLAB-Based Signal Processing for Modest Remote Acquisition and Auditory Translation of Neural Oscillations, preprint, 2025.

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Advisor

A.M. Debellis

Education

M.S. Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University

M.S. Biophysics, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
 

Publications
 

Wavelet Denoising of In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging Data

Quantification of Clinical MR Spectra through Complex Wavelet Denoising

Enhanced Microcalcification Detection in Digital Mammography through Optimal Wavelet Transforms

Wavelet Packets and Local Cosine Bases: Optimal Basis Selection in Application to Medical Imaging

In Vivo and Cellular Fluid Flow Dynamics through Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Detection and Evaluation of the Progression of Cardiovascular and Cerebral Diseases

Memory and Language Functional MRI Studies: Localization of Neuronal Activation through Statistical Parametric Mapping in MEDX3.3

Generalized Protein Structure Recognition Using Associative Memory Hamiltonians: Protein Backbone Biasing through Neural Networks in Molecules Parallel Supercomputer Simulations

Computer Modeling of Double-Stranded B-DNA Coordinated to a Cis-Platin Derivative, [Pt{NH3}2{d(ATGGAT)}N7(3),N7(4)], a Potent Antitumor Agent

Distance Geometry Calculations for the Structural Refinement of Carbonmonoxy-Myoglobin

Analyses of Physical and Chemical Properties of Interferon Inducers, Poly-L-Lysine Complexes as Potent Primate Antitumor and Antiviral Agents

Introduction to Biology, College Review Series, for Words and Numbers

Introduction to Chemistry, College Review Series, for Words and Numbers

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