Phil Xie's headshot Phil Xie

Hi, I'm Phil! 👋

I'm passionate about neurotechnology, medical devices and imaging, machine learning, and music, and I'm actively working on these things.

I'm an electrical engineer at Science, where I'm building next-generation biomedical technologies as part of an excellent, interdisciplinary team.

I'm also a research engineer in UC Berkeley's Sensorimotor Neural Engineering Lab, where I am building a hand kinematics-tracking wearable for stroke rehabilitation, driving electronics and form factor design in our space-constrained, easy-to-apply wireless device.

Previously, I've done research in Transcranial Magnetic Brain Stimulation and Machine Learning for 3D Multi-class Cancer Tumor Segmentation on MRIs. More about my research experience on LinkedIn, and check out my Projects!

During undergrad, I am grateful to have had the chance to lead Neurotech@Berkeley 🧠, a group of 120+ undergrads actively building BCI devices, software, and wetware, consulting with companies, and getting more people interested in the field through our student-led courses, publications, and diverse event series.

I love playing and thinking about music — I play the piano, bassoon, and chromatic harmonica in jazz, classical, and pop genres, and am always curious about the connection between music and our brains and bodies. I'm currently trying to learn more about sound design!

I do not (yet) own Philz Coffee, but will still thank you for your business if you decide to buy a coffee from the Californian chain. For reasons not so obvious, I'm a fan of their Philtered Soul and Philharmonic drinks.

Always happy to chat or grab a coffee — please send me an email at phil.xie [at] berkeley [dot] edu or on LinkedIn!

🛠 This website is under construction. More cool stuff coming soon!

Projects

🦾 Here are some highlighted projects! To see what I'm researching, check out my LinkedIn.


Honorable Mentions • ECG Device (Analog Front End Design, LTSpice)
• LCD Display Driver in 45nm CMOS Transistors (Cadence)
• 3-stage Pipelined RISC-V CPU on Xilinx PYNQ FPGA (Verilog, Vivado)
• Chemical Reaction Mining via Transformers (PyTorch, PubChemPy, InChI) — teammates went on to publish a paper!
• Mentored Portola High School team to develop low-cost, high-accuracy dental drilling alignment device — 2nd place out of 30+ teams at the 2025 BioEHS Competition Medical Devices track at UC Berkeley!
• EMG-controlled Robot Arm (Python, CAD, OpenBCI Ganglion)
• SSVEP-EEG for hands-free typing (PyTorch)
• Extracting, sequencing, and analyzing 2 Landoltia punctata protein genes (mRNA Sequences on NIH GenBank: Iron sulfur assembly protein, Hypersensitive induced reaction protein)

Bookshelf

Science

  • Physics for Future Presidents
  • Stuff Matters
  • Deep Medicine

Sociology

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow
  • The Lean Startup
  • Where's My Flying Car?
  • Sapiens
  • Homo Deus
  • Mere Christianity

Literature & Fiction

  • 1984
  • Cat's Cradle
  • The Martian
  • Project Hail Mary
  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Essays

  • As a Man Thinketh
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed

Music

  • The Lives of the Great Composers
  • Musicophilia
  • Why You Like It: The Science and Culture of Musical Taste
  • The Physics of Sound

Thoughts

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