Faculty Mentors

How sensory information about orientation and movement drives body movement to adjust posture

Efficient multidimensional behavioral assessments and game-based training exercises for cognitive neurorehabilitation

How temporal coding is processed by sensory systems, and how central sensory pathways process temporally coded information

Design of self-powered and energy harvesting systems, some used for developing battery-less self-powered and wireless sensing implants

Advancing medical uses of ultrasound for diagnostics and drug delivery to the brain,  specifically, ultrasound-induced cavitation to deliver drugs and tracer molecules

Systems and control engineering in application to neuroscience and clinical engineering

Advancing machine learning methods to understand the process of making intelligent decisions under uncertainty and with a paucity of data

Advancing multi-electrode recordings and dynamic, 3D imaging to study the neural basis of behavior in humans and in pre-clinical, animal systems

Studying mechanisms leading to vascular dysfunction and neuronal degeneration in stroke and neurodegenerative disorders

Studies of brain-machine interface, technologies to advance laser-based surgery in neurosurgery, and task-based fMRI

Control and dynamical systems, optimization, computational mathematics, and machine learning

Expertise in neural engineering, neurophysiology, and neurological rehabilitation across both preclinical/animal model and human-subjects research

Expertise in neural engineering, neural control of movement, motor unit physiology, biomechanics, and neurologic rehabilitation

Studies spinal cord injury, spinal oncology, spinal deformity, and enabling spine surgery technologies

Studying primate brain circuits and mechanisms controlling emotional and motivational states, learning and memory

Expertise in neuroprosthetics, neural engineering, brain computer interfaces, & motor control

Information visualization, human-computer interaction and visual analytics

Examines the design and computing principles of sensory systems in simple invertebrate models (Schistocerca Americana and Drosophila melanogaster)