Winko An
Neuroscience & Neuroengineering

Wenkang (Winko) An

Staff Scientist, Division of Developmental Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital · Harvard Medical School
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Winko An

I am a Staff Scientist in the Division of Developmental Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where I study how the human brain develops in early childhood.

My work combines EEG, neuroimaging, and machine learning to build objective neural markers of attention, language, and neurodevelopmental conditions such as autism and Fragile X syndrome. I earned my PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, decoding attentional control from noninvasive brain measures, and have built brain–computer interfaces during research at Microsoft Research.

Research Interests
  • 01Neurodevelopment & clinical neuroscienceEEG markers of attention and language in infants and children, including autism, Fragile X, and Phelan–McDermid syndrome.
  • 02Brain–computer interfacesDecoding auditory, tactile, and multisensory attention from EEG and fMRI for user-friendly BCIs.
  • 03Computational methods for neuroimagingMachine learning and deep learning for EEG, including brain-age prediction across early development.
  • 04Global & translational healthScalable, mobile neural measures of child development in low-resource settings.
Selected Publications
2025
EEG-based brain age prediction in infants–toddlers: implications for early detection of neurodevelopmental disorders
W. An, A. C. Bhowmik, C. A. Nelson, C. L. Wilkinson
Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 71
2022
Neural response to repeated auditory stimuli and its association with early language ability in male children with Fragile X syndrome
W. An, C. Nelson, C. Wilkinson
Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 16
2021
Decoding auditory attention from EEG using a convolutional neural network
W. An, A. Pei, A. Noyce, B. Shinn-Cunningham
Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC)
2021
Decoding music attention from “EEG headphones”: a user-friendly auditory brain–computer interface
W. An, B. Shinn-Cunningham, H. Gamper, et al.
Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2020
Decoding auditory attention from single-trial EEG for a high-efficiency brain–computer interface
W. An, A. Pei, A. Noyce, B. Shinn-Cunningham
Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC)
2019
Neurophysiological correlates of gait retraining with real-time visual and auditory feedback
W. An, K. Ting, I. Au, et al.
IEEE Trans. on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 27(6)

A full publication list is on my Google Scholar profile.

Background
Positions
  • 2026–Staff ScientistBoston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School
  • 2021–26Postdoctoral Research FellowBoston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School
  • 2016–21Graduate Research AssistantBoston University / Carnegie Mellon University
  • 2019&20Research Intern, BCIMicrosoft Research, Redmond
Education
  • 2021PhD, Electrical & Computer EngineeringCarnegie Mellon University
  • 2016MSc, Biomedical EngineeringThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • 2014MSc, Electrical & Electronic EngineeringThe University of Hong Kong
  • 2013BEng & BBAThe Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Get in Touch
Email
anwenkang@gmail.com
GitHub
github.com/winkoan
Scholar
Google Scholar
Affiliation
Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
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