PRESENT
- Benjamin Antin, MS Software engineer & data scientist, joint with Prof. Scott Linderman
- Donald Avansino, BS Clinical technician, joint with Prof. Jaimie Henderson, NPTL
- Beverly Davis, BS Faculty Administrator, joint with Prof. Subhashish Mitra
- Dr. Darrel Deo, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Prof. Jaimie Henderson, NPTL
- Dr. Laura Driscoll, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Adjunct Prof. David Sussillo
- Dr. Sharlene Flesher, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Prof. Jaimie Henderson, NPTL
- Dr. Matthew Golub, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Prof. Bill Newsome and Adjunct Prof. David Sussillo
- Dr. Dan O'Shea, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow
- Prof. Stephen Ryu, MD Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University and Department of Neurosurgery, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, Palo Alto, CA
- Prof. Krishna Shenoy, PhD Professor of Electrical Engineering and, by courtesy, of BioEngineering and Neurobiology (NeuroTree)
- Dr. Sergey Stavisky, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Prof. Jaimie Henderson, NPTL
- Xulu Sun, BS Graduate Student, Biosciences Program
- Prof. David Sussillo, PhD Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University and Google AI (formerly Google Brain), Alphabet, Mountain View, CA
- Elias Stein, BS Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering, NPTL
- Jessica Verhein, BS Graduate Student, Neurosciences Program, joint with Prof. Bill Newsome, and MD (MSTP)
- Saurabh Vyas, BS, MS Graduate Student, Bioengineering
- Megan Wang, BS Graduate Student, Neurosciences Program
- Dr. Frank Willett PhD Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Prof. Jaimie Henderson, NPTL
- Guy Wilson, BS Graduate Student, Neurosciences Program, joint with Prof. Shaul Druckmann and Prof. Jaimie Henderson, NPTL
ALUMNI
PhD Students
- Dr. Gopal Santhanam, PhD
- UC Berkeley undergraduate
- 2001-2006 EE PhD thesis, "Design of higher performance neural prosthetic systems" pdf
- 2006-2013 Co-founder and Vice President, Total Phase, Inc
- 2013- Senior Engineer at Waymo
- Prof. Byron Yu, PhD
- UC Berkeley undergraduate
- 2001-2006 EE PhD thesis, "Neural dynamics of movement preparation and execution" pdf
- 2007-2009 Postdoc in NPSL (joint w/ Prof. Maneesh Sahani at The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
- 2010-2015 Assistant Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- 2015- Associate Professor, "
- Dr. Afsheen Afshar, MD, PhD
- Princeton University undergraduate
- 2004-2008 EE PhD thesis, "Neural mechanisms of motor preparation and applications to prostheses" pdf
- 2008-2010 Completed medical school (MSTP, MD) at Stanford University
- 2010-2016 VP Goldman Sachs, New York City
- 2016-2017 Head, Data Sciences, JP Morgan, New York City
- 2017- Private equity, New York City
- Prof. John Cunningham, PhD
- Dartmouth College undergraduate
- 2004-2009 EE PhD thesis, "Algorithms for understanding motor cortical processing and neural prosthetic systems" pdf
- 2009 Postdoc in NPSL
- 2009 Accepted Assistant Professorship in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, Saint Louis (WUSTL)
- 2010-2011 Postdoc with Prof. Zoubin Ghahramani, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University
- 2011-2013 Assistant Professor, WUSTL
- 2013-2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics & Neuroscience, Columbia University
- 2017- Associate Professor, "
- Prof. Vikash Gilja, PhD
- Prof. Cindy Chestek, PhD
- Case Western Reserve University undergraduate
- 2005-2010 EE PhD thesis, "Measurements and technology for long-term neural prosthetic systems" pdf
- 2010-2012 Research associate, NPTL, Stanford University
- 2012-2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
- 2018- Associate Professor (with tenure), "
- Dr. Rachel Kalmar, PhD
- Prof. Matthew Kaufman, PhD
- Stanford University undergraduate
- 2005-2011 Neurosciences Program PhD thesis, "Neural mechanisms and dynamics underlying reaching and decision making" pdf
- 2011-2012 Postdoc in NPSL
- 2012-2017 Postdoc with Prof. Anne Churchland at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- 2017- Assistant Professor, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago
- Dr. Zuley Rivera Alvidrez, PhD
- Prof. Paul Nuyujukian, MD, PhD
- Dr. Werapong Goo, PhD
- Duke University Undergraduate
- 2009-2014 BioE PhD thesis, "Development of optogenetics for motor systems neuroscience in non-human primates" pdf
- 2014- Senior Associate, Boston Consulting Group, Bangkok, Thailand
- Dr. Justin Foster, PhD
- Columbia University undergraduate
- 2007-2014 EE PhD thesis, "A freely-moving monkey treadmill model" pdf
- 2014- Data Scientist, Everstring
- Dr. K. Cora Ames, PhD
- University of Chicago undergraduate
- 2009-2014 Neurosciences PhD thesis, "Neural dynamics of reaching following incorrect, absent, or last-minute preparation" pdf
- 2014- Postdoc with Prof. Mark Churchland and Prof. Larry Abbott at Columbia University
- Dr. Sergey Stavisky, PhD
- Brown University undergraduate
- 2010-2016 Neurosciences PhD thesis, "Advancing motor neural prosthesis robustness and neuroscience" pdf
- 2016- Postdoc with NPTL, Stanford University
- Prof. Jonathan Kao, PhD
- Stanford University undergraduate
- 2010-2016 EE PhD thesis, "Decoder algorithm design for high-performance and robust neural prostheses" pdf
- 2016-2017 Postdoc with NPSL
- 2017- Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
- Dr. Dan O'Shea, PhD
- Dr. Eric Trautmann, PhD
- Dartmouth University undergraduate
- 2011-2018 Neurosciences PhD thesis, "Neural dynamics of motor preparation and tools for large scale neuroscience"
- 2018- Postdoc with NPSL
- 2019- Postdoc with Prof. Mark Churchand and Prof. Michael Shadlen, Columbia University
- Dr. Nir Even-Chen, PhD
- Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, undergraduate and masters
- 2014-2018 Electrical Engineering PhD thesis, "Towards clinically viable neural prostheses through innovations in neuroscience, decoders, and interfaces"
- 2019 Postdoc with NPSL
- 2019- Lyft
- Dr. Megan Wang, PhD
- Dr. Saurabh Vyas, PhD
MS Students
- Dr. Joline Fan, MS
- Princeton University undergraduate
- 2009-2011 Bioengineering MS
- 2011-2015 Medical school, UCSF
- 2015- Neurology resident, UCSF
- Shikhar Shrestha, MS
- IIT undergraduate
- 2014-2015 Mechanical Engineering MS
- 2015- Mechanical Engineering PhD program at Stanford
- Allan Raventos, MS
- Stanford University undergraduate
- 2015-2016 REU summer student and undergraduate, NPTL
- 2016-2017 EE MS graduate student, NPTL
- Iliana Bray, BS
- Stanford University undergraduate
- 2016-2017 REU summer student and undergraduate
- 2017-2018 PhD student
- 2018- PhD student with Professor Paul Nuyujukian, Stanford University
- Avery Krieger, BS
- University of Pennsylvania undergraduate
- 2017-2019 PhD student
- 2019- PhD student with Professor Tom Clandinin, Stanford University
- Tucker Fisher, BS
- UC Davis undergraduate
- 2017-2019 PhD student
- 2019- PhD student with Professor Lisa Giocomo, Stanford University
Postdoctoral Fellows
- Prof. Stephen Ryu, MS, MD
- Stanford Universty undergrad and masters
- UC San Diego Medical School
- 2002-2004 Postdoc
- 2004-2006 Completing neurosurgery residency, Stanford University
- 2006- Adjunct Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- 2006-2009 Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University
- 2009- Department of Neurosurgery, Palo Alto Medical Foundation
- Prof. Aaron Batista, PhD
- Caltech graduate school
- 2003-2007 Postdoc
- 2007-2015 Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
- 2015- Associate Professor (with tenure), "
- Prof. Byron Yu, PhD
- Stanford University graduate school (NPSL)
- 2007-2009 Postdoc (joint w/ Prof. Maneesh Sahani at The Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
- 2010-2015 Assistant Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
- 2015- Associate Professor, "
- Prof. John Cunningham, PhD
- Stanford University graduate school (NPSL)
- 2009 Postdoc
- 2009 Accepted Assistant Professorship in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, Saint Louis (WUSTL)
- 2010-2011 Postdoc with Prof. Zoubin Ghahramani, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University
- 2011-2013 Assistant Professor, WUSTL
- 2013-2017 Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics & Neuroscience, Columbia University
- 2017- Associate Professor, "
- Prof. Mark Churchland, PhD
- Prof. Cindy Chestek, PhD
- Stanford University graduate school (NPSL)
- 2010-2012 Research associate, NPTL, Stanford University
- 2012-2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
- 2018- Associate Professor (with tenure), "
- Prof. Vikash Gilja, PhD
- Stanford University Graduate School (NPSL)
- 2010-2013 Research associate, NPTL, Stanford University
- 2013- Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, San Diego
- 2017-2018 Neuralink Inc.
- Prof. Ilka Diester, PhD
- Eberhart-Karls-University, Tubigen, Germany graduate school
- 2008-2011 Postdoc
- 2011-2014 Assistant Professor, Ernst Strüngmann Institute / Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
- 2014- Professor, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
- Dr. Paul Kalanithi, MD
- Prof. Matt Kaufman, PhD
- Stanford University graduate school (NPSL)
- 2011-2012 Postdoc
- 2012-2017 Postdoc with Prof. Anne Churchland at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- 2017- Assistant Professor, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago
- Prof. David Sussillo, PhD
- Columbia University graduate school
- 2010-2014 Postdoc
- 2014- Brain Group, Google
- 2017- Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- Prof. Chethan Pandarinath, PhD
- Cornell University graduate school
- 2011-2016 Postdoc in NPTL
- 2016- Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University & Georgia Tech
- Prof. Jonathan Kao, PhD
- Stanford University graduate school (NPSL)
- 2016-2017 Postdoc with NPSL
- 2017- Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
- Prof. Paul Nuyujukian, MD, PhD
- Stanford University graduate school (NPSL)
- 2014-2017 Postdoc with NPTL, Stanford University
- 2017- Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, Stanford University
- Dr. Matthew MacDougall, MD
- UC San Diego, neurosurgery residency
- 2016-2017 Neurosurgery Fellow with Prof. Jaimie Henderson, Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University
- 2016-2017 Postdoc with NPTL
- 2017- Department of Neurosurgery, California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC), San Francisco, CA
- 2018- Department of Neurosurgery, California Pacific Medical Center and Neuralink Inc.
- Dr. Chand Chandrasekaran, PhD
- Princeton University graduate school
- 2011-2018 Postdoc with NPSL, Stanford University
- 2019- Assistant Professor, Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology & Psychology and Brain Sciences, Boston University
- Dr. Jonathan Michaels, PhD
- University of Göttingen and Deutsches Primatenzentrum GmbH graduate school
- 2017-2019 Postdoc with NPSL, Stanford University
- 2019- Postdoc with Prof. Andrew Pruzynski, Western University
- Dartmouth University undergraduate
- 2011-2018 Stanford University graduate school (NPSL)
- 2018-2019 Postdoc with NPSL, Stanford University
- 2019- Postdoc with Prof. Mark Churchand and Prof. Michael Shadlen, Columbia University
Research Scientists
1. Dr. Beata Jarosiewicz, PhD 2016-2018 Senior Research Scientist. 2018- Neuropace Inc.
Laboratory Staff
- Missy Howard, RVT, RLATG 2002-2005 Laboratory staff. 2006-2010 IACUC Inspection Manager in Office of Vice Provost and Dean of Research, Research Compliance, Stanford University. 2010- Private practice, Montana.
- Evie Kalmar, BS 2007 Laboratory assistant, part time. 2007- Medical school at UCSF, and public policy at UC Berkeley.
- Heather Graham, BS 2007-2008 Laboratory assistant, part time. 2008-2012 Veterinary school, Virginia Tech.
- Willie Phan, BS 2008-2009 Laboratory assistant, part time. 2009-2013 Veterinary school, UC Davis.
- Stacey Kang, BS 2009-2010 Laboratory assistant, part time. 2010-2014 Veterinary school, UC Davis. 2014-2016 Veterinary resident, Department of Comparative Medicine, Stanford University.
- Drew Haven, BS 2006-2010 Computer and network systems analysist, joint with faculty in the Department of Neurobiology. 2008-2012 Part time masters studented in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. 2012- Industry positions, then Google.
- Wendy Kalkus, BS 2010-2011 Laboratory assistant, part time. 2011-2012 Marine sciences intern. 2012-2016 Veterinary school, UC Davis.
- Erica Morgan, BS 2011-2012 Laboratory staff, part time. 2013-2017 Veterinary school, UC Davis.
- Sandra Eisensee 2001-2013 Financial analyst and administrative associate. 2013- Retired.
- John Aguayo, MS 2010-2013 Laboratory staff, joint with Prof. Karl Deisseroth. 2013- System software developer with Prof. Kwabena Boahen, Stanford University.
- Clare Sherman, BS 2011-2013 Laboratory staff, part time. 2013-2017 Veterinary school, Cornell University.
- Boris Osktotsky, PhD 2010-2014 Computer and network systems analysist, joint with faculty in the Department of Neurobiology. 2014-2015 Stanford University School of Medicine. 2015- UCSF.
- Armand Smith, BS 2014-2015 Computer and network systems analyist, joint with Neurobiology faculty.
- Evelyn Castaneda, MBA 2010-2015 DARPA REPAIR program manager. 2015- Department of Chemistry, SLAC / Stanford University.
- Rosie Steinbach, BS 2014-2016 Laboratory staff, part time. 2016- Oregon Primate Center.
- Shannon Smith, BS 2014-2016 Laboratory staff, part time. 2015-2016 MS program, Stanford University. 2016- Veterinary school, UC Davis.
- Christine Blabe, MS 2010-2017 NPTL clinical technician. 2017- research coordinator, Dept. of Neurology, Stanford University.
- Noel Aliyyah, BS 2016-2017. Laboratory staff, part time.
- Lucas Cofer, BS 2016-2017 Laboratory staff during gap year. Harvard University undergraduate . 2017- NYU medical school.
- Liana Yates, BS 2013-2016 Laboratory staff, part time. 2016-2017 Laboratory staff (full time). 2017- UC Davis veterinary school.
- Andrea Craig, BS 2016-2018 Laboratory staff, 2018-2019 Laboratory staff, Harousch Lab, Dept. of Neurobiology, Stanford University; animal care taker Veternary Service Center, Stanford University.
- Paymon Rezaii, BS 2017-2018 NPTL Clinical technician. 2018- reseach coordinator, Dept. of Neurosurgery, Stanford University
- Robyn Reeder, BS 2017-2019 Laboratory staff, 2019- refuge technician, Conboy National Wildlife Refuge (Washington State)
- Michelle Wechsler, BS 2014-2019 Laboratory staff, 2019- Assist. Prof. Paul Nuyujukian's Lab
- Mackenzie Risch, BS 2005-2019 Head, Laboratory staff, 2019- Assist. Prof. Paul Nuyujukian's Lab
Summer interns - Research Experience for Undergrads (EE REUs)
- Johnson Huang, BS (2001-2002) Next: MIT EECS graduate school
- Justin Blanco, BS (2002-2003) Next: U Penn, BioE gradate school
- R. Carter Dunn, BS (2004 summer) Next: MIT MBA, Current: Boston Consulting Group
- Erem Boto, BS (2005 summer, Biology REU) Next: NeuroPace, Inc., Next: founder CloudMed, Next: co-founder eGraphs (acquired by Linked In), Current: Linked In.
- Neil Achtman, BS (2005 summer) Next: Intel
- Alex Chan, BS (2007 summer) Next: MIT EECS graduate student
- Joya Deri, BS (2008 summer) Next: Stanford, EE co-term student, Currently: CMU, EE graduate student
- Ogi Zivojnovic, BS (2008 summer) Next: Stanford, EE co-term, Next: Qualcomm
- Vivek Athalye, BS (2010 summer) Next: UC Berkeley, EE graduate student
- Chip Schulman, BS (2010 summer) Next: Stanford, EE co-term student
- Gil Shotan, BS (2010, 2011 summers) Next: Stanford, EE co-term student
- Aaron Zarraga, BS (2010 summer) Next: Stanford, EE co-term student
- Chia-Jung (Dana) Chang, BS (2011 summer), from National Taiwan University (joint with Prof. Teresa Meng) Next: NTU undergraduate, Next: JHU, Bioengineering graduate student, Currently: MIT EECS graduate student
- Jai Sajnani (2013 summer, NPTL) Next: Stanford, EE undergraduate (continuing)
- Steven Lin (2014 summer, winter) Next: Stanford, EE undergraduate
- Axel Sly (2015 summer) Next: Stanford, EE undergraduate
- Alexander Sosa (2015 summer) Next: Stanford, EE undergraduate
- Chayakorn (Tun) Pongsiri (2015 summer, daily advisor: Dr. Jonathan Kao) Next: Stanford, EE undergraduate
- Iliana Bray (2016 summer, daily advisor: Dr. Chand Chandrasekaran) Next: Stanford, EE undergraduate
- Sabar Dasgupta (2016 summer, daily advisor: Dr. Paul Nuyujukian) Next: Stanford, EE undergraduate
- Pavan Mehrotra (2016 summer, daily advisor: Dr. Paul Nuyujukian) Next: Stanford, EE undergraduate
- Allan Raventos (2016 summer, daily advisor: Dr. Sergey Stavisky) Next: Stanford, EE masters student
- Blue Sheffer (2016 summer, daily advisor: Dr. Sergey Stavisky) Next: Stanford, EE undergraduate
- Nick Sovich (2016 summer, daily advisor: Eric Trautmann) Next: Stanford, EE undergraduate
- Gabriel Vega (2016 summer, daily advisor: Dr. Sergey Stavisky) Next: Stanford, EE undergraduate
- James Pillot (2017 summer, daily advisor: Dr. Dan O'Shea)