Eena Kosik-Rose, Ph.D.

Research Scientist
Digital Health & Wearable Physiology

About Me

I received my Ph.D. in Cognitive Science in Dr. Bradley Voytek’s lab at the University of California, San Diego. My dissertation quantified respiratory waveform shape across a population and measured its coupling to neural activity. Together, this work uses breathing as a window into brain-body interactions at the resolution of a single cycle.

During my Ph.D. I had the privilege of interning across many industry domains working on novel hardware sensing capabilities at Oura, multi-modal bio-signal data at Apple, clinical trial wearable data at Takeda, and large-scale, qualitative survey data at Fidelity.

Before graduate school, I worked at UCSF’s Memory and Aging Center with Dr. Virginia Sturm, studying emotion dysfunction in neurodegenerative disease via autonomic signals, MRI, and facial expression coding. I received my B.A. from UC Berkeley, where I completed an honors thesis in Dr. Robert Knight’s lab on event-related potential responses in scalp and intracranial EEG.

Recent News

  • Sep 2026
    Successfully defended Ph.D. dissertation: "The Shape of Breathing: Cycle-by-Cycle Waveforms in Respiration-Brain Interactions".
  • Sep 2026
    First-author manuscript published in the Journal of Neuroscience: "Cycle-by-cycle respiration waveforms are coupled with the shape of neural oscillations".
  • Jun 2026
    Began 3-month internship on the Algorithms team at Oura!
  • Apr 2026
    First-author preprint posted to bioRxiv: "Cycle-by-cycle respiration waveforms are coupled with the shape of neural oscillations".
  • Mar 2026
    First-author manuscript from Takeda internship published in Digital Biomarkers: "Methods for Wearable-Derived Pulse Rate Measures and Their Application to Modeling the Relationship Between Pulse Rate and Motor Activity in Narcolepsy Type 1".
  • Mar 2025
    Received the Rita L. Atkinson Graduate Fellowship.
  • Mar 2025
    Manuscript published in CHEST Pulmonary: "Sleep Parameters of Breathing and Cognitive Function in a Diverse Hispanic/Latino Cohort"
  • Jan 2025
    Began 8-month internship on the Neuro team at Apple!

Publications

Also available on Google Scholar.

2026

Cycle-by-cycle respiration waveforms are coupled with the shape of neural oscillations
Eena L. Kosik-Rose, Guangyu Zhou, Andrew Sheriff, Joshua M. Rosenow, Stephan U. Schuele, Chima O. Oluigbo, Saige Anabel Teti, Mohamad Koubeissi, Md Rakibul Mowla, Ariane E. Rhone, Sukhbinder Kumar, Brian James Dlouhy†, Christina Zelano†, Bradley Voytek
†equal contribution
Journal of Neuroscience  |  Paper  |  PDF

Methods for Wearable-Derived Pulse Rate Measures and Their Application to Modeling the Relationship Between Pulse Rate and Motor Activity in Narcolepsy Type 1
Eena L. Kosik-Rose, Raul Torres, Brian Tracey, Tina Olsson, Dmitri Volfson, Francesco Onorati, Marta Karas

Digital Biomarkers  |  Paper  |  PDF

2025

Sleep parameters of breathing and cognitive function in a diverse Hispanic/Latino cohort
Kevin A. González, Wassim Tarraf, Shanmin Sultana, Barbara Junco, Eena L. Kosik, Bradley Voytek, Hector M. González, Alberto R. Ramos

CHEST Pulmonary  |  Paper  |  PDF

2024

A trainee-informed model for undergraduate neuroscience research programs serving marginalized students
Christian Cazares, Maribel Patiño, Minerva Contreras, Julia C. Gorman, Jillybeth Burgado, Sana A. Ali, Quirine van Engen, Eena L. Kosik, Pamela Riviere, Emily T. Baltz, Chimuanya K. Agba, Michael Preston, Akshay Nagarajan, Jianna Cressy, Natalie Paredes, Chiaki Santiago, Kevin L. White

Nature Neuroscience  |  Paper  |  PDF

Unveiling hidden sources of noise
Morgan Fitzgerald, Eena L. Kosik, Bradley Voytek

eLife  |  Paper  |  PDF

Structural neuroanatomy of human facial behaviors
Fate Noohi, Eena L. Kosik, Christina Veziris, David C. Perry, Howard J. Rosen, Joel H. Kramer, Bruce L. Miller, Sarah R. Holley, William W. Seeley, Virginia E. Sturm

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience  |  Paper  |  PDF

2023

Sleep breathing patterns and neurocognitive function in a diverse Hispanic/Latino cohort
Kevin A. González, Wassim Tarraf, Eena L. Kosik, Kenton Guarian, Bradley Voytek, Hector M. González, Alberto R. Ramos

Alzheimer’s & Dementia  |  Paper

Higher emotional granularity relates to greater inferior frontal cortex cortical thickness in healthy, older adults
Sladjana Lukic, Eena L. Kosik, Ashlin R.K. Roy, Nathaniel Morris, Isabel J. Sible, Samir Datta, Tiffany Chow, Christina R. Veziris, Sarah R. Holley, Joel H. Kramer, Bruce L. Miller, Dacher Keltner, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Virginia E. Sturm

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience  |  Paper  |  PDF

Diminished baseline autonomic outflow in semantic dementia relates to left-lateralized insula atrophy
Alice Y. Hua, Ashlin R. K. Roy, Eena L. Kosik, Nathaniel A. Morris, Tiffany E. Chow, Sladjana Lukic, Maxime Montembeault, Valentina Borghesani, Kyan Younes, Joel H. Kramer, William W. Seeley, David C. Perry, Zachary A. Miller, Howard J. Rosen, Bruce L. Miller, Katherine P. Rankin, Maria Luisa Gorno-Tempini, Virginia E. Sturm

Neuroimage: Clinical  |  Paper  |  PDF

Magnetic seizure therapy and electroconvulsive therapy increase aperiodic activity
Sydney E. Smith†, Eena L. Kosik†, Quirine van Engen†, Aron T. Hill, Reza Zomorrodi, Daniel M. Blumberger, Zafiris J. Daskalakis, Itay Hadas, Bradley Voytek
†equal contribution
Translational Psychiatry  |  Paper  |  PDF

2022

Dynamic autonomic nervous system states arise during emotions and manifest in basal physiology
Lorenzo Pasquini, Fatemeh Noohi, Christina R. Veziris, Eena L. Kosik, Sarah R. Holley, Alex Lee, Jesse A. Brown, Ashlin R. K. Roy, Tiffany E. Chow, Isabel Allen, Howard J. Rosen, Joel H. Kramer, Bruce L. Miller, Manish Saggar, William W. Seeley, Virginia E. Sturm

Psychophysiology  |  Paper  |  PDF

2020

Big Smile, Small Self: Awe Walks Promote Prosocial Positive Emotions in Older Adults
Virginia E. Sturm, Samir Datta, Ashlin R. K Roy, Isabel J. Sible, Eena L. Kosik, Christina Veziris, Tiffany E. Chow, Nathaniel Morris, John Neuhaus, Joel H. Kramer, Bruce L. Miller, Sarah R. Holley, Dacher Keltner

Emotion  |  Paper  |  PDF

2019

Thalamo-cortical network hyperconnectivity in preclinical progranulin mutation carriers
Suzee E. Lee, Ana C. Sias, Eena L. Kosik, Taru M. Flagan, Jersey Deng, Stephanie A. Chu, Jesse A. Brown, Anna A. Vidovzsky, Maria Luisa Gorno Tempini, Anna M. Karydas, Giovanni Coppola, Dan H. Geschwind, Rosa Rademakers, Howard J. Rosen, Bruce L. Miller, William W. Seeley

Neuroimage: Clinical  |  Paper  |  PDF

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