Zaynab Azeem

Neuroscience Specialist, Minor in Applied Statistics

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

About

Experience

  • Biology Students' Association — BIOSA (4 yrs)
    • Co President
      May 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

    • Vice President For Academic Affairs
      May 2024 - May 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

    • Academics Director
      Jul 2022 - Sep 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      - Involved in running BioAID which is BioSA's official tutoring service hosting the entire biological sciences department and its students taking BIOA01/A02 - Involvved in organizing the annual Undergraduate Student Research Panel - Assisted Vice Presidents with events involving research nights, elections, and running review sessions

  • Research Assistant- Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (VisCn) at University of Toronto
    Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 9 mos

    - Help lead researchers with setting up experiments on ensemble perception for Introductory Psychology students. - Make use of softwares like MATLAB and Python to help set up the code to run experiments. - Administer tests and debrief students on testing procedures. - Maintain data entry for all experiments taken place.

  • NeurotechUofT (2 yrs 3 mos)
    • Neuroscience Subsystem Director
      Sep 2024 - Sep 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

      - Lead a team of 10 researchers in developing NeuronMove, a project focused on EEG-EMG integration to enhance tremor and bradykinesia modulation for Parkinson’s patients. - Oversee core research efforts, exploring EEG-EMG correlations to improve robust tremor detection and advance neurotechnology applications. - Guide the team in data analysis, experimentation, and manuscript preparation, ensuring steady progress toward peer-reviewed publication. - Actively engage with experts and advisors across Toronto & the GTA to refine research direction and expand project impact.

    • Neuroscience Team
      Jul 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Worked as part of the neuroscience team to conduct research on creating a student-based exoskeleton based on EEG signals through the OPEN BCI Headset Submitted project to NeuroTech Competition 2023

  • St. Michael's Hospital (1 yr 1 mo)
    • Research Student
      Sep 2024 - May 2025 · 9 mos

    • Research Student
      May 2024 - Feb 2025 · 10 mos

  • CAMH (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
    • Research Assistant
      May 2024 - Sep 2024 · 5 mos

    • Research Student
      May 2023 - Sep 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

    • Research Student
      May 2023 - Dec 2023 · 8 mos