Biosketch Alexander G. Steele is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Houston. He is a research assistant at the Noninvasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems Laboratory and the Neuromodulation and Recovery Laboratory at Houston Methodist Research Institute. His research involves understanding the effect of spinal cord injury on neural signaling and how spinal cord stimulation can aid in the restoration of motor function. His interests include prosthetics, solid modeling, control theory, and neuroscience.