Dr. Nicole Provenza is an assistant professor of Neurosurgery and McNair Scholar at Baylor College of Medicine. She holds adjunct appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Bioengineering at Rice University. She received her Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Brown University and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Provenza’s laboratory studies the neurophysiology underlying cognition and emotion and the effects of neuromodulation on neural activity and behavior. Her work integrates real-world neural recordings and deep phenotyping approaches to better understand psychiatric disorders and develop neuromodulation strategies that more effectively guide brain activity toward healthy states.