Congratulations to Dr. Samuel Nason-Tomaszewski on his successful thesis defense, “Restoring Fine Finger Control to Paralyzed Hands Using a Low-Power Brain-Controlled Functional Electrical Stimulation Neuroprosthesis,” on February 14, 2022!
Congratulations to Dr. Elissa Welle on her successful thesis defense, “Carbon Fiber Electrode Arrays for Cortical and Peripheral Neural Interfaces,” on May 7, 2021!
Congratulations to Dr. Alex Vaskov on his successful thesis defense, “Implantable Neural Interfaces for Direct Control of Hand Prostheses,” on April 27, 2021! Alex will be staying as a postdoc.
Congratulations to Sam Nason for his paper acceptance to Nature Biomedical Engineering, titled “A low-power band of neuronal spiking activity dominated by local single units improves the performance of brain-machine interfaces,” on July 27, 2020!
Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Willsey on his successful thesis defense, “Decoding, Modulating, and Imaging Sensorimotor Pathways in the Brain,” on June 29, 2020! Matthew will be continuing with his neurosurgery residency at Michigan.
Congratulations to Elissa Welle for her paper acceptance to Journal of Neural Engineering, titled “Ultra-small carbon fiber electrode recording site optimization and improved in vivo chronic recording yield,” on March 25, 2020!
Congratulations to Philip Vu for his paper acceptance to Science Translation Medicine, titled “A regenerative peripheral nerve interface allows for real-time control of an artificial hand in supper limb amputees,” on March 3, 2020!
Congratulations to Dr. Philip Vu on his successful thesis defense, “Restoring Fine Motor Prosthetic Hand Control Via Peripheral Neural Technology,” on March 29, 2019! Phil will be staying as a postdoc.
Congratulations to Dr. Autumn Bullard on her successful thesis defense, “Feasibility of Using the Utah Array for Long-term Fully Implantable Neuroprosthesis Systems,” on March 19, 2019! Autumn will be starting at Exponent in July.
Congratulations to Autumn Bullard for her paper acceptance to Bioelectronic Medicine, titled “Design and Testing of a 96-Channel Neural Interface Module for the Networked Neuroprosthesis System,” on January 22, 2019!
Congratulations to Alex Vaskov for his paper acceptance to Frontiers in Neuroscience, titled “Cortical Decoding of Individual Finger Group Motions Using ReFIT Kalman Filter,” on September 28, 2018!
Congratulations to Prof. Chestek on receiving tenure on May 17, 2018!!!!
Congratulations to Phil Vu for his paper acceptance to IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, titled “Closed-loop continuous hand control via chronic recording of regenerative peripheral nerve interfaces,” on October 12, 2017!
Congratulations to Zach Irwin for his paper acceptance to Journal of Neural Engineering, titled “Neural control of finger movement via intracortical brain-machine interface,” on July 18, 2017!
Congratulations to Karen Schroeder for her paper acceptance to Journal of Neural Engineering, titled “Robust tactile sensory responses in finger area of primate motor cortex relevant to prosthetic control,” on April 4, 2017!
Congratulations to Paras Patel for his paper acceptance to Journal of Neural Engineering, titled “Chronic In Vivo Stability Assessment of Carbon Fiber Microelectrode Arrays,” on September 13, 2016!
Congratulations to Zach Irwin for his paper acceptance to Journal of Neural Engineering, titled “Chronic recording of hand prosthesis control signals via a regenerative peripheral nerve interface in a rhesus macaque,” on May 12, 2016!
Congratulations to Dr. Karen Schroeder on her successful thesis defense, “Tactile Sensory Responses in Motor Cortex and Their Relevance to Brain-Machine Interfaces,” on May 9, 2016! Karen will be starting her postdoc at Columbia University in July.
Congratulations to Karen Schroeder for her paper acceptance to NeuroImage, titled “Disruption of Corticocortical Information Transfer during Ketamine Anesthesia in the Primate Brain,” on April 15, 2016!
Congratulations to Dr. Zach Irwin on his successful thesis defense, “Restoring Fine Motor Skills through Neural Interface Technology,” on March 24, 2016! Zach will be staying on as a postdoc.
Congratulations to Karlo Malaga for his paper acceptance to Journal of Neural Engineering, titled “Data-driven model comparing the effects of glial scarring and interface interactions on chronic neural recordings in non-human primates,” on October 26, 2015!
Congratulations to Zach Irwin for his paper acceptance to IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems & Rehabilitation Engineering, titled “Enabling Low-power, Multi-modal Neural Interfaces through a Common, Low-bandwidth Feature Space,” on October 15, 2015!
Congratulations to UROP students Michael Kobylarek and Shaun Marshall, who both won best poster presentation ribbons at the Annual Undergraduate Research Spring Symposium, on April 22, 2015. Karen Schroeder also won the Outstanding Research Mentor Award!
Congratulations to Dr. Paras Patel on his successful thesis defense, “Carbon Fiber Microelectrode Arrays For Neuroprosthetic And Neuroscience Applications,” on March 30, 2015! Paras will be staying on as a postdoc.
Dr. Chestek served as Science Guest of Honor at ConFusion! Jan 16-18, 2015
Congrats to Nicole Bentley! She received the Society of Neurological Surgeons Research Update in Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons (RUNN) Award for her project, Optogenetic alteration of proprioceptive inputs to motor cortex for the development of neuroprosthetic devices.