Rajesh P. N. Rao is the Director of the NSF Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering and a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar award, an NSF CAREER award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, a Sloan Faculty Fellowship, and a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering. He is the author of Brain-Computer Interfacing (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and co-editor of Probabilistic Models of the Brain (MIT Press, 2002) and Bayesian Brain (MIT Press, 2007). His research spans the areas of computational neuroscience, robotics, and brain-computer interfacing.