Notes

Media · Writing · Talks · Presentations · Public engagement

Media & news
Jan 2026
Global News feature — Northeastern University: Sugar Slay, a gamified glucose-tracking app for T1D↗
Oct 2025
Bouvé College "Redefining What's Possible" series — featured for translational diabetes and autism research
Oct 2025
Bouvé College Instagram takeover — showcasing Playful Mind Lab research to the Northeastern community
Writing on Medium
Medium
@srenga93 on Medium↗ — essays on neuroscience, digital health, research-to-startup, and life as a PhD student
Podcasts & video talks
Dec 2025
Ask A Mentor Series — Johns Hopkins University: pathways to advanced research careers in STEM↗
Sep 2025
The Aura Legacy Podcast: turning research into startups — my path in neuroscience and digital health↗
Jan 2025
PMI Mass Bay Chapter: Lab Rats Meet Agile — evidence-based project management for researchers↗
Dec 2024
CRI Student Spotlights: Gamifying Diabetes Care — a SPARK-funded journey in innovation↗
Jun 2024
CRI Student Spotlights: Bridging Academia and Industry — autism and diabetes research↗
Jul 2023
Anna University Tech Podcast: neuroscience, eye tracking, and autism research↗
Invited talks & panels
Aug 2025
Building health-tech startups — CEG Ascend Workshop, Chennai, India
Jul 2025
Spinout Showcase — Mith.AI & Sugar Slay at MALSI 2025 (18th Annual Massachusetts Life Sciences Innovation Day)↗
Nov 2024
Panelist — Multidisciplinary Prevention Science Working Group: working with community groups on prevention research
Dec 2022
Panelist — CMU-TCCI BrainPlay Conference: exploring the methodological value of Extended Reality (XR) in neuroscience
Feb 2021
Dancing Heart and Eye Rhythms: a showcase that's overlooked — Online Faculty Development Program on Wearable Devices
Conference presentations
Mar 2025
Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD) — Amsterdam, Netherlands  ·  Sugar Slay / gamified CGM app
Nov 2024
Northern New England MedTech Conference — Sugar Slay  ·  Selected as 1 of 10 presenters statewide
Aug 2024
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN) — Boston, MA  ·  The Beat of a Glimpse↗
Mar 2024
Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes (ATTD) — Florence, Italy  ·  Sugar Slay / gamified CGM app
Nov 2023
Society for Neuroscience — Washington, D.C.  ·  The Beat of a Glimpse↗
Dec 2022
CMU-TCCI BrainPlay Conference — Pittsburgh, PA  ·  Conflict-Minimizing and Goal-Seeking Motor Imperatives in ASD
Nov 2022
Society for Neuroscience — San Diego, CA  ·  Conflict-Minimizing and Goal-Seeking Motor Imperatives↗
Sep 2022
Neuromatch Conference — Flash Talk (Virtual)↗
Jul 2022
ISAGA Conference — Boston, MA  ·  Conflict-Minimizing and Goal-Seeking Motor Imperatives in ASD
Aug 2019
Flux Congress — New York City, NY  ·  Computerized assessment of motor imitation in ASD
May 2019
International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) — Montreal, Canada  ·  Motor imitation in ASD
Mar 2019
Society for Research in Child Development — Baltimore, MD  ·  Motor imitation in ASD
Dec 2017
Japanese Society for Immunology Meeting — Sendai, Japan  ·  Role of prolonged ROS in BCR signaling
Oct 2014
International Medical Sciences Academy Conference — Bangkok, Thailand  ·  Are we carrying too many nephrons?
Reflections
2026
On defending a dissertation: what the final stretch actually looks like
2022
On mentorship: what I wish someone had told me at 22