Synchrony 2026 Poster Sessions by ASD Students

This year’s BRAIN Foundation Synchrony event featured a low-stakes poster session to display the work and impact of ASD students. Our outstanding community of young adults with ASD shared their research and experiences on various topics including:

Caregiver Financial Burden in Autism – by Arjun Agrawal

Low-Cost IMU-based Seizure Detector – by Siddharth Vembu

Building an Embodied AI Assistant for Independent Daily Living – by Siddharth Vembu

Autism and AAC: Variation in Perception and Attitudes among Undergraduate Students – by Hridhay Bashyam

Preparing Autistic Students for the AI Workforce – by Jaiden Virani

GLP-1s: To Affinity and Beyond! – by Amy Siri Chettipally

Designing a Digital Letterboard for Independent Communication in Nonspeaking Autistic Individuals – by Siri Chettipally et al

Can Popping Bubbles Help us Understand Autism – by Hari Srinivasan et al

Life Experience and Educational Journey with Autism – by David Teplitz

The MilBot (a Buddy Bot to help me communicate) – by Milind Gopal

Cortical Blind Spots in Neurotechnology – by Desarathi (Dash) Narayanan

Thank you to our wonderful sponsors!

platinum sponsor

We wish to express our gratitude to our generous sponsors, above all the fantastic CharmHealth for their continuous support and dedication to our cause. Powered by cutting-edge AI, CharmHealth offers a comprehensive suite for medical practices of all sizes. From practice management and an EHR to billing and revenue cycle management, CharmHealth provides everything a healthcare practitioner needs to run efficiently and focus on patient care.

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Thank you also to the O’Sullivan Foundation, whose mission is to support causes that help enable people to help themselves, through education, employment, research and disruptive advances of technology.

Luminous Pathways who provide high-quality, accessible, and reliable services and support to individuals with autism, cognitive, intellectual, and other related disabilities. 

Sirica Therapeutics is developing Cognitive Sensorimotor Therapy©, a novel category of therapy for autism and related disorders that integrates virtual reality, video gaming, advanced robotics, and physical exercise in a deeply immersive environment.

Metabolic Psychiatry Labs is a physician-led care built on over a decade of clinical research that looks at how metabolism affects the brain and treats both together. For adults with depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and other psychiatric conditions.

Meaxtime is an operations platform for Regional Center providers — connecting staff, clients, schedules, EVV-compliant clock-ins, documentation, mileage, expenses, approvals, and report exports in one place.

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