Eirini Schoinas

Eirini Schoinas is an undergraduate researcher in Computing at UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies. She develops computational methods for neural interfaces, with a particular interest in the software and algorithms that translate neural stimulation into useful function.

Her research combines computational neuroscience, machine learning, and neuroengineering. In the Bionic Vision Lab, she has developed models of how electrical stimulation produces neural activity and visual percepts, with recent work focused on predicting phosphene patterns produced by stimulation of the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). More broadly, she is interested in algorithmic approaches to brain-computer interfaces and other neurotechnologies that connect artificial systems with the nervous system.

Eirini is a 2026 Barry Goldwater Scholar and received an Honorable Mention for the Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award, as well as a UC Santa Barbara College of Creative Studies Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship. She has presented her research at the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference.

Outside of the lab, Eirini enjoys reading, hiking, and making art.