We are pleased to announce that PhD student Sweety Ramnani has been selected as one of 12 finalists in the University of South Carolina’s 2026 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. This year, participants represented 26 programs and departments across nine colleges and schools at USC.

Ramnani's presentation introduces SyneQxis, a research project connecting eye tracking with electrical brain signals to help researchers study the relationship between what we see and how the brain responds. The 3MT competition is an International competition, originally developed at the University of Queensland in Australia, 3MT challenges graduate researchers to explain their work to a general audience in just three minutes .