Jose M. Carmena

Assistant Professor

Research Areas

• Biosystems & Computational Biology (BIO)
• Control, Intelligent Systems, and Robotics (CIR)
• Brain-machine interfaces; Neuroprosthetics; Sensorimotor learning and control; Neural ensemble computation

Teaching Schedule (Fall 2009)

• EE 128. Feedback Control Theory, TT 11:00-12:30P, 293 Cory

Biography

Jose M. Carmena received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain) in 1995 and the University of Valencia (Spain) in 1997. Following those he received the M.S. degree in artificial intelligence and the Ph.D. degree in robotics both from the University of Edinburgh (Scotland, UK) in 1998 and 2002 respectively. From 2002 to 2005 he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Neurobiology and the Center for Neuroengineering at Duke University (Durham, NC). In the summer of 2005 he was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, the Program in Cognitive Science, and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. He is senior member of the IEEE (RA, SMC and EMB societies), Society for Neuroscience, and the Neural Control of Movement Society. He has been the recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship (2009), the Okawa Foundation Research Grant Award (2007), the UC Berkeley Hellman Faculty Award (2007), and the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship (2003). His research interests span across systems neuroscience (neural basis of sensorimotor learning and control; neural ensemble computation) and neural engineering (brain-machine interfaces; neuroprosthetics; biomimetic robotics).

Selected Publications

• K. Ganguly and J. M. Carmena, "Emergence of a stable cortical map for neuroprosthetic control," PLoS Biology, July 2009.
• S. Venkatraman and J. M. Carmena, "Behavioral modulation of stimulus-evoked oscillations in barrel cortex of alert rats," Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, May 2009.
• S. Venkatraman, K. Elkabany, J. D. Long, Y. Yao, and J. M. Carmena, "A system for neural recording and closed-loop intracortical microstimulation in awake rodents," IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Jan. 2009.
• J. M. Carmena, M. A. Lebedev, C. S. Henriquez, and M. A. L. Nicolelis, "Stable ensemble performance with single-neuron variability during reaching movements in primates," Journal of Neuroscience, vol. 25, no. 46, pp. 10712-10716, Nov. 2005.
• J. M. Carmena, M. A. Lebedev, R. E. Crist, J. E. O'Doherty, D. M. Santucci, D. F. Dimitrov, P. G. Patil, and C. S. Henriquez, "Learning to control a brain-machine interface for reaching and grasping by primates," PLoS Biology, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 193-208, Nov. 2003.
• M. A. L. Nicolelis, D. F. Dimitrov, J. M. Carmena, R. Crist, G. Lehew, J. Kralik, and S. P. Wise, "Chronic, multisite, multielectrode recordings in macaque monkeys," PNAS, vol. 100, no. 19, pp. 11041-11046, Sep. 2003.