SELECTED WORK
What I’ve built and led, where I’ve spoken, and the research underneath both.
01 / PRODUCTS & PROJECTS
Field Notes No. 02 · Products & projects
What I’ve built and led, one project at a time.
01
Neurotechnology / motorsport
I founded and led NeuRace. I built its sensor hardware and machine-learning pipeline, then ran it as a service with professional Grand Prix teams. It combined driver brain and biometric signals with car telemetry so teams could see how drivers responded on track.
02
Personalized support / families
I co-founded a startup that creates personalized visual stories to help neurodivergent children and their families prepare for unfamiliar experiences.
03
Patient education / families
A patient-education platform created with Dana-Farber clinicians, child-life specialists, and social workers to help children with cancer and their families understand what to expect.
04
Interactive stories / workplaces
An interactive-story platform for workplace learning teams, built so people can practice consequential decisions rather than only read or watch.
05
Skills assessment / education
A learning-telemetry product I developed to identify behavioral evidence of hard-to-measure competencies. We partnered with a nationwide provider and published it at IEEE EDUCON 2025.
06
Workforce development / youth
As Chief Innovation Officer at this Boston workforce-development organization and youth business incubator, I led technology, product, and AI strategy, including the development of ZoneSight.
02 / PUBLIC SPEAKING
Keynotes, conference talks, and executive briefings on AI, learning, healthcare, and human performance. Available for speaking, panels, and workshops.
Field Notes No. 03 · Public speaking
Recent talks first, from Porto Alegre this year back to Barcelona in 2010.
2026Porto Alegre, Brazil
The Bridge Is the Breakthrough: Building AI Innovation with Healthcare, Not Simply for It. I spoke about building AI with the people doing the work, testing it in responsible settings, and measuring it against outcomes that already matter. I also joined the healthcare panel that followed.
2025Washington, D.C.
Joined a delegation of workforce-development leaders for meetings with congressional representatives and staff, advocating for workforce technology, entrepreneurship, and preparation for the jobs of the future, including priorities tied to WIOA.
2025London, UK
ZoneSight: Generative AI for Assessing Practical Competency in Project-Based Learning. ZoneSight is a learning-telemetry system for unstructured, experiential training environments. It analyzes speech and project-work data to surface evidence of practical competencies that conventional assessments often miss.
2024Austin, Texas
Navigating Safely: Empowering Stakeholders, Streamlining Staff Operations, and Informing Technology Policy. I shared a practical approach to helping people use AI well, improving staff workflows, and turning what an organization learns into responsible technology policy.
2023Austin, Texas
Stories of Skepticism and Success: AI and Education, Beyond the Buzzwords. I shared early lessons from bringing generative AI into education and workforce development: where it helped, where people pushed back, and what the hype tended to miss.
2019Jacksonville, Florida
The Brain Under Construction: Motivation Frameworks for the Adolescent Learner. I connected adolescent brain development with practical ways educators can understand motivation and design more effective learning experiences.
2015Geneva, Switzerland
I presented NeuRace, the company I founded and led, and its machine-learning pipeline for quantifying human performance, integrating EEG, vehicle telemetry, and performance analytics for driver evaluation, safety, and peak-performance training. The talk started our collaboration with Hintsa.
2015Winchester, Massachusetts
Presented neuroscience research through public demonstrations and dialogue alongside MIT bioengineer Angela Belcher, Dana-Farber physician-scientist James Cleary, and researchers from MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital.
2012Abu Dhabi, UAE
Music, Neuroscience & Education: What We Can Learn from the Spaces Between. I explored the connections among musical experience, the brain, and learning—and what each field can teach the others.
2010Barcelona, Spain
White Matters: Musical Training & the Brain in Adults. I presented research comparing white-matter pathways in adult singers, instrumentalists, and non-musicians.
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03 / RESEARCH
Field Notes No. 04 · Research
The research, and the question underneath it.
Methods DTI · fMRI · EEG
Systems Auditory–motor networks
Translation Expertise · disorder · intervention
Graduate & postdoc
My doctoral training was in the Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, supported by an NIH training grant. Across doctoral and postdoctoral work, including at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, I studied how auditory–motor systems adapt through expertise and disorder. My dissertation was Structural and Functional Adaptations of the Auditory-Motor System: Insights from Expertise & Disorder.
2011
At Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, I studied white-matter pathways in singers, instrumentalists, and non-musicians. The work was published in Frontiers in Neuroscience.
2012
I won an IDEA2 grant to develop a new approach to treating stroke-induced aphasia.
2005–07
Worked on an EEG and event-related-potential system for people with ALS at the University of South Florida.
Field Notes · Open session
I take on select talks, workshops, and projects. If something here rhymes with what you’re working on, send me a note. Tell me the problem, and we’ll see what we can make.
gushalwani [at] alum [dot] mit [dot] edu
