Dr. Tarrit is a research faculty at our NeuroAI Research Lab/Alzheimer’s Neural Network EEG (ANNE) Lab to investigate the use of AI in Neural Engineering especially as it applies to measuring electrical activities in the brain cortical regions using EEG (Electroencephalogram) working with other AI collaborators around the globe and mentoring our medical students and research students working in this area.  She is an Assistant Professor in the Information and Computer sciences Department at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and the principal investigator and director of the Hawai‘i Developmental and Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. She serves on the Editorial Board of the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Journal.  Dr. Tarrit received her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of the West of England in 2015, followed by advanced training in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Rochester Medical Center. She joined the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in 2023.   Her research is multidisciplinary, integrating knowledge from computer science, engineering and cognitive neuroscience to develop novel data analytics, scientific software pipeline, Image Processing, AI and ML techniques to study brain development and differences between healthy and patient populations such as individuals with neurodevelopmental, brain and psychiatric disorders. Her main research interests lie in understanding the effect of external and environmental factors (i.e., adversity, stress, drug exposure etc.) on neurodevelopment, cognitive function and behavior. With her research, she aims to inform early detection, intervention and therapeutic strategies to provide better life outcomes for individuals that were unfortunate from the start and help them build a life worth living.