Principal Investigator

Jose Carmena, PhD (U of
Edinburgh)
Associate Professor of Electrical
Engineering and
Neuroscience, UC Berkeley
Co-Director, Center for Neural Engineering and
Prostheses
UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco
Staff

Alejandra Dominguez, BS (UC Berkeley)
Lab Manager
Postdoctoral Fellows
Ryan Canolty, PhD (UC
Berkeley)
Research interests:
Neuronal oscillations, sparse coding, adaptive time-frequency
decomposition, spatiotemporal dynamics of multi-scale brain networks.
Curriculum Vitae
Simon Overduin, PhD (MIT)
Dystonia Medical
Research Foundation Fellowship
Research interests:
Movement
disorders,
brain-machine interfaces, control of muscles,
movement and posture.
Curriculum Vitae
Maryam Shanechi, PhD (MIT)
Research interests:
BMI
architecture development using the principles of optimal feedback
control theory and statistical signal processing. Neural signal
processing.
Curriculum Vitae
Graduate Students
Vivek Athalye, BS
(Stanford)
EECS Graduate
ProgramNSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Research interests: Neural dynamics of action learning and execution, brain-machine interfaces, signal processing.
Curriculum Vitae
Siddharth Dangi, BS
(UC Berkeley)
EECS Graduate
ProgramResearch interests: Brain-machine interfaces, closed-loop decoder adaptation, signal processing.
Suraj Gowda, BS
(UC Berkeley)
EECS Graduate
ProgramResearch interests: Brain machine interfaces, neural ensemble computation, machine learning.
Aaron Koralek, BS
(Princeton)
Neuroscience
Graduate
Program
Research interests:
Neural plasticity, neural
ensemble
dynamics, brain-machine interfaces.
Helene Moorman, BS
(MIT)
Neuroscience
Graduate
Program
NSF
Graduate Research Fellowship
Research interests: Motor
control, motor learning,
brain-machine interfaces, movement disorders.
Amy Orsborn, BS (Case
Western)
UCB/UCSF Graduate Program in
BioengineeringNSF Graduate Research Fellowship Research Interests: Neural representations of movement, motor control, brain-machine interfaces.
Curriculum Vitae
Kelvin So, BS (U of Toronto)
EECS
Graduate Program
(Co-advised with Michael Gastpar, EPFL)
Research interests:
Information theoretic methods applied to computational neuroscience,
brain-machine interfaces, signal processing.
Past Members
Postdoctoral Fellows
-
Karunesh Ganguly (2007-2011). Currently Assistant Professor of Neurology, UCSF, and Staff Physician at SFVAMC.
-
Rodolphe Heliot (2008-2009). Currently Project Leader at CEA-LETI MINATEC (France)
-
Ignasi Cos-Aguilera (2006-2007). Currently postdoc at Paul Cisek's lab, University of Montreal
Graduate Students
-
Johhn Long (PhD, 2006-2011). Currently postdoc at Gyorgy Buzsaki's lab, Rutgers University
-
Jessica Jimenez (MS, 2009-2011).
-
Subramaniam Venkatraman (PhD, 2006-2009). Currently Senior Development Engineer at Qualcomm (San Diego, CA)
-
Gireeja Ranade (MS, 2007-2009). Currently PhD candidate at Anant Sahai's Lab, UC Berkeley
-
Aaron Kaluszca (MS, 2006-2007). Currently PhD candidate at Yang Dan's Lab, UC Berkeley
-
Lavi Secundo (PhD 2005-2007, then at Robert Knight's Lab, UC Berkeley 2007-2010)
Undergraduate Students
-
Pattana Lee (EECS/MCB, UC Berkeley, 2007-2009)
-
Sandra Truong (MCB, UC Berkeley, 2008-2009)
-
Numa Perez (EECS, UC Berkeley, 2008-2009)
-
Nicolai Heinze (University of Erlangen, Germany, 2008-2009)
-
Yimin Yao (EECS/MCB, UC Berkeley, 2006-2007)
-
Ken Elkabany (EECS, UC Berkeley, 2006-2007)
-
Darin Hoyer (Pierce College Los Angeles, summer 2008)
-
Maria Bustamante (Oregon State University, summer 2007)
-
Jeffrey Chou (EECS, UC Berkeley, 2006-2007)








