Indie Garwood is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and an affiliate of the Carney Institute for Brain Science and the Rhode Island Hospital Department of Neurosurgery. Formerly, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in the Department of Neurosurgery, where she studied multiregional neural communication. She completed her undergraduate work in biomedical engineering from the University of Michigan in 2017 and Ph.D. in medical engineering and medical physics from Harvard-MIT in 2023. She is a recipient of the University of Pennsylvania Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, MIT MathWorks Fellowship, and NSF GRFP. During her Ph.D., she translated multifunctional fiber technology to study cortical and deep brain neurochemical signaling during altered states of consciousness.
The Garwood lab develops neurotechnology to study the mechanisms of antidepressant therapies. To complement technology innovation, they apply machine learning algorithms to make sense of the brain's dynamic response to local and systemic neuromodulation. Their mission is to discover new, safer ways to modulate and treat brain function.
