Stanford NPSL

 Group

  • Cindy Chestek MS (EE)
  • Mark Churchland PhD (Research Associate, EE & Neuroscience)
  • John Cunningham PhD (Postdoc, EE & Neuroscience)
  • Sandra Eisensee (Administrative associate)
  • Ilka Diester PhD (Postdoc, BioE & Neurosience; co-advised by Prof. Karl Deisseroth)
  • Vikash Gilja MS (CS)
  • Werapong Goo (BioE, Autumn quarter rotation student; co-advised by Prof. Karl Deisseroth)
  • Drew Haven BS (Network and systems administrator, also with other Neurobiology groups)
  • Rachel Kalmar BS (Neurosciences Program, co-advised by Prof. Bill Newsome)
  • Stacey Kang BS (Laboratory assistant, part time, summer 2009 & AY 2009-2010)
  • Matt Kaufman BS (Neurosciences Program)
  • Paul Nuyujukian BS (MSTP-BioE)
  • Hakim Raja BS (EE, Autumn 2009)
  • Mackenzie Risch BS (Laboratory staff, head)
  • Zuley Rivera MS (EE)
  • Krishna Shenoy PhD (PI, Associate Professor)
  • Byron Yu PhD (Postdoc, EE & Neuroscience)

Alumni:

PhD Students

  • 2006 -- Gopal Santhanam PhD (EE graduate student 2001-2006, PhD thesis, "Design of higher performance neural prosthetic systems"), next & current postion: senior engineer at Total Phase, Inc.
  • 2006 -- Byron Yu PhD (EE graduate student 2001-2006, PhD thesis, "Neural dynamics of movement preparation and execution"), next position: postdoc (see below)
  • 2008 -- Afsheen Afshar PhD (EE graduate student 2004-2008, PhD thesis, "Neural mechanisms of motor preparation and applications to prostheses"), next & current positon: completing medical school (MSTP) at Stanford University
  • 2009 -- John Cunningham PhD (EE graduate student 2004-2009, PhD thesis, "Algorithms for understanding motor cortical processing and neural prosthetic systems"), next postion: postdoc (see below)

Postdoctoral Fellows

  • 2004 -- Stephen Ryu MS, MD (2002-2004), completed neurosurgery residency at Stanford University (2004-2006), Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, Stanford University (2006-2009), currently Department of Neurosurgery, Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Consulting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • 2007 -- Aaron Batista PhD (2003-2007), next & current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
  • 2009 -- Byron Yu PhD (2007-2009; Shenoy Group and Sahani Group at Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London), next position: Assistant Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
  • 2009 -- John Cunningham PhD (2009), next position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis. (2010-2011, postdoc with Prof. Zoubin Ghahramani, Cambridge University)

Laboratory Staff

  • 2005 -- Missy Howard RVT, RLATG (laboratory staff 2002-2005), current position: IACUC Inspection Manager in Office of Vice Provost and Dean of Research, Research Compliance, Stanford University
  • 2007 -- Evie Kalmar BS (summer 2007; laboratory assistant, part time), next position: medical school, UCSF and public policy, UC Berkeley
  • 2008 -- Heather Graham BS (AY 2007-2008; laboratory assistant, part time), next postion: veterinary school, Virginia Tech
  • 2009 -- Willie Phan (AY 2008-2009; laboratory assistant, part time), next position: veterinary school, UC Davis

REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) Students

  • 2005 summer -- Erem Boto (currently: NeuroPace Inc), Neil Achtman (currently: Intel)
  • 2007 summer -- Alex Chan (currently: graduate student EECS, MIT)
  • 2008 summer -- Joya Deri (currently: teachig in Japan) and Ogi Zivojnovic (currently co-term, EE, Stanford)

Collaborators

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Updated: 4 October 2009