Noelle R. B. Stiles is a vision scientist at the University of Southern California, with a doctorate in Neuroscience from the Computation and Neural Systems Program at the California Institute of Technology. She has been crocheting for more than 15 years and actively designing crochet items for six years. She was the winner in the Baby Category for the 2017 Herrschners Grand National Afghan Contest, has designed patterns for Red Heart Yarns, and has published over 100 crochet patterns on Love Crafts, WeCrochet, Ravelry, and Etsy under her designer label: Rebecca’s Stylings.