Jose Carmena, PhD
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience; Co-Director, Center for Neural Engineering & Prostheses
Email: jcarmena@berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) 643 2430
Curriculum Vitae
Our lab is located in the Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences at UC Berkeley.
Address: 286 Li Ka Shing Center, MC # 3370, Berkeley, CA 94720
Postdoctoral Researchers
Preeya Khanna
PhD (UC Berkeley)
Research interests: Dynamics of neural oscillations in motor control, BMI, movement disorders.
Curriculum Vitae
Will Liberti
PhD (Boston University)
Research interests: Neural engineering, systems neurobiology, motor sequencing and learning, BMI.
Curriculum Vitae
Bing Liu
PhD (Chinese Academy of Science)
Research interests: BMI, deep brain stimulation, neural basis of cognition, learning and adaptation.
Curriculum Vitae
Samantha Santacruz
PhD (Rice University)
Research interests: Closed-loop deep brain stimulation, computational models of basal ganglia, neuroengineering.
Curriculum Vitae
Nuria Vendrell-Llopis
PhD (NERF, Belgium)
Research interests: Neuroprosthetic learning, neural coding, two-photon microscopy.
Curriculum Vitae
Graduate Students
Tanner Dixon
UCB/UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering
Research interests: Bimanual coordination, neural ensemble activity, BMI.
David Piech
UCB/UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering
Research interests: BMI, minimally invasive high-channel count neural recording & stimulation technology, clinical translation.
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Albert You
UCB/UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering
Research interests: BMI, motor learning, neuroprostheses.
Undergraduate Researchers
Abhimanyu Singhal
Computer Science and Physics double major
Past Members
Tom Roseberry (2017-2018). Neuralink Inc. (San Francisco, CA).
Maryam Shanechi (2012-2014). Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cornell University.
Ryan Canolty (2009-2013). Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Houston.
Simon Overduin (2010-2013). Cofounder and Owner, Neurecall Inc. (San Francisco, CA).
Karunesh Ganguly (2007-2011). Assistant Professor of Neurology, UCSF, and Staff Physician at SFVAMC.
Rodolphe Heliot (2008-2009). Scientist at Schneider Electric SA (France).
Ignasi Cos-Aguilera (2006-2007). ISIR, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie (France).
Vivek Athalye (PhD, 2012-2017). Postdoctoral fellow at Rui Costa’s lab, Columbia University.
Ryan Neely (PhD, 2012-2017). Iota Biosciences Inc. (Berkeley, CA).
Suraj Gowda (PhD, 2010-2015). Fitbit Inc. (San Francisco, CA).
Helene Moorman (PhD, 2009-2015). Exponent Inc. (Menlo Park, CA).
Siddharth Dangi (PhD, 2010-2015). Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA).
Helene Moorman (PhD, 2009-2015). Exponent Inc. (Menlo Park, CA).
Aaron Koralek (PhD, 2009-2014). Postdoctoral fellow at Rui Costa’s lab, Champalimaud Neuroscience Program (Lisbon, Portugal).
Amy Orsborn (PhD, 2007-2013). Postdoctoral fellow at Bijan Pesaran’s lab, New York University.
Kelvin So (PhD, 2009-2014). Apple Inc. (Cupertino, CA).
Peter Ledochowitsch (PhD, 2009-2013, co-supervised with Prof. Michel Maharbiz). Scientist I at Allen Institute for Brain Science (Seattle, WA).
Johhn Long (PhD, 2006-2011). Postdoctoral fellow at Gyorgy Buzsaki’s lab, New York University.
Jessica Jimenez (MS, 2009-2011). Engineer at Banks Integration Group (Vacaville, CA).
Subramaniam Venkatraman (PhD, 2006-2009). Research Scientist at Fitbit Inc. (San Francisco, CA).
Gireeja Ranade (MS, 2007-2009). Microsoft Research (Seattle, WA).
Aaron Kaluszca (MS, 2006-2007). Research Engineer at Lumos Labs (San Francisco, CA).
Lavi Secundo (PhD 2005-2007, then at Robert Knight’s Lab, UC Berkeley 2007-2010). Senior Researcher at Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel).
Axel de Tonnac (Visiting student, EPFL, 2016-2017)
Carmen Fernandez-Fisac (Visiting student, University College London, 2015-2016)
Rahul Nadkarni (BioE, UC Berkeley, 2012-2014)
Derek Tat (EECS/ME, UC Berkeley, 2011-2012)
Deepak Talwar (ME, UC Berkeley, 2013-2014)
Meredith Moore (Drake University, summer 2013)
Pattana Lee (EECS/MCB, UC Berkeley, 2007-2009)
Sandra Truong (MCB, UC Berkeley, 2008-2009)
Numa Perez (EECS, UC Berkeley, 2008-2009)
Nicolai Heinze (University of Erlangen, Germany, 2008-2009)
Yimin Yao (EECS/MCB, UC Berkeley, 2006-2007)
Ken Elkabany (EECS, UC Berkeley, 2006-2007)
Darin Hoyer (Pierce College Los Angeles, summer 2008)
Maria Bustamante (Oregon State University, summer 2007)
Jeffrey Chou (EECS, UC Berkeley, 2006-2007)