Stanford NPSL

Group

Cindy Chestek MS (EE)
Mark Churchland PhD (Neuroscience postdoc)
John Cunningham MS (EE)
Joya Deri (EE undergraduae, REU summer 2008)
Sandra Eisensee (Administrative associate)
Vikash Gilja MS (CS)
Drew Haven BS (Network and systems administrator, also with other Neurobiology groups)
Rachel Kalmar BS (Neurosciences Program, co-advised by Prof. Newsome)
Matt Kaufman BS (Neurosciences Program)
Paul Nuyujukian BS (Medical student)
Mackenzie Risch BS (Laboratory staff)
Zuley Rivera MS (EE)
Krishna Shenoy PhD (PI, Associate Professor)
Byron Yu PhD (EE & Neuroscience postdoc)
Ognjen Zivojnovic (EE undergraduate, REU summer 2008)

Alumni

Afsheen Afshar MS (EE graduate student 2004-2008, PhD thesis, "Neural mechanisms of motor preparation and applications to prostheses"), currently completing medical school (MSTP) at Stanford University
Aaron Batista PhD (postdoc 2003-2007), currently Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
Missy Howard RVT, RLATG (laboratory staff 2002-2005), currently IACUC Inspection Manager in Office of Vice Provost and Dean of Research, Research Compliance, Stanford University
Stephen Ryu MS, MD (postdoc 2002-2004), completed neurosurgery residency at Stanford University (2004-2006), currently Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University
Gopal Santhanam PhD (EE graduate student 2001-2006, PhD thesis, "Design of higher performance neural prosthetic systems"), currently senior engineer at Total Phase, Inc.
Byron Yu PhD (EE graduate student 2001-2006, PhD thesis, "Neural dynamics of movement preparation and execution"), currently postdoc at Stanford (Shenoy Group) and Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London (Sahani Group)

Collaborators

Jaimie Henderson MD (Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery)
- Bruce Hill PhD (Research staff, Department of Neurosurgery)
Teresa Meng PhD (Professor, EE)
- Henrique Miranda (EE graduate student)
- Michael Linderman MS (EE graduate student)
- Stephen O'Driscoll MS (EE graduate student)
- Caleb Kemere PhD (EE graduate student 2001-2006, PhD thesis, "Model-Based Decoding of Neural Signals for Prosthetic Interfaces"), currently neuroscience postdoc at UCSF.
Bill Newsome PhD (HHMI, Professor & Chair, Department of Neurobiology)
Stephen Ryu MD (Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery)
Maneesh Sahani PhD (Assistant Professor (lecturer), Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London and Visiting Assistant Professor, EE, Stanford University)
Florian Solzbacher PhD (Assistant Professor, ECE), Reid Harrison PhD (Associate Professor, ECE) and Richard Normann PhD (Professor, BioE), University of Utah, Integrated Neural Interfaces Program

Updated: 23 August 2008