Dr. Fahd Baig

Fahd studied medicine at the University of Southampton. He conducted his neurology specialty training in the East Midlands Deanery before completing a fellowship in movement disorders in Bristol. During his training, he undertook a D.Phil. at the Oxford Parkinson’s Disease Centre, studying biomarkers and clinical outcomes in Parkinson’s.

Fahd joined the Group in August 2019. His research is focused on decoding speech from local field potential activities recorded in the subthalamic nucleus in patients undergoing surgery for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.  He will record signals from patients and link speech and neural population activities using Machine Learning techniques.