Rajesh P. N. Rao is the Director of the NSF Center for Neurotechnology and the Cherng Jia and Elizabeth Yun Hwang Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a distinguished researcher, delving into brain-computer interface technology to establish direct communication between the human brain and machines for various applications. He is the author of the textbook Brain-Computer Interfacing: An Introduction and has co-edited two books, Probabilistic Models of the Brain and Bayesian Brain.