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Neural engineering research involves fundamental and applied studies related to neurons, neural systems, behavior and neurological disease.
This program involves fundamental and applied studies related to neurons, neural systems, behavior and neurological disease encompassing a spectrum of activities, including mathematical modeling; exploring novel approaches to sensory (vision, hearing, smell and touch) and motor processing; exploring fundamentals of neural plasticity; and designing neuroprosthetics. The approaches involve information processing at the molecular, cellular, systems and behavioral levels.
Primary Faculty
- Dennis Barbour, MD, associate professor
- Jianmin Cui, professor
- Song Hu, associate professor
- Dan Moran, professor
- Barani Raman, associate professor
- Jonathan Silva, assistant professor
- Kurt Thoroughman, associate professor
Affiliate Faculty

Martha Bagnall - Neuroscience
Vestibular and spinal neural circuits in zebrafish

Randall Bateman - Neurology
Diagnostic clinical test biochemistry mass spectrometry process robotics Alzheimer's disease neurodegeneration

Bruce Carlson - Neuroscience
Neurophysiology, sensory systems, behavior, evolution, mathematical modeling, neuroanatomy

Shantanu Chakrabartty - Computer Science & Engineering
Self-powered sensors, wireless telemetry, energy harvesting, neuromorphic systems

ShiNung Ching - Electrical & Systems Engineering
Neural Dynamics and Control Theory, Brain Network Analysis, Theoretical Neuroscience

Meaghan Creed, PhD - Anesthesiology
Deep brain stimulation, Neuromodulation, Synaptic Plasticity, Addiction, Pain, Affect, Electrophysiology, Behavioral Analysis

Nico Dosenbach - Neurology
Precisions mapping of individual human brains; Real-time image processing

Robert Gereau - Anesthesiology
Pain, optogenetics, optoelectronics, neural circuitry, in vivo imaging, electrophysiology

Edward Han - Neuroscience
Two-photon calcium imaging, electrophysiology, virtual reality behavior, neuronal networks, learning and memory, hippocampus

Keith Hengen - Biology
systems neuroscience, big data, neural networks, neuronal recording, emergence, homeostasis, plasticity

Tim Holy - Neuroscience
Novel optical microscopy to record large neuronal populations

James Huettner - Cell Biology & Physiology
glutamate receptors, chimeric subunits, in vitro differentiation, neural differentiation from stem cells

Daniel Kerschensteiner, MD - Ophthalmology & Visual Science
Neural circuits, vision, 2-photon imaging, electrophysiology, retina, visual processing

Alexxai Kravitz, MD, PhD
Striatum, dopamine, electrophysiology, open-source, devices, recording, electrodes, fiber optics, calcium imaging

Jin-Moo Lee, MD - Neurology
Stroke, Brain injury, Alzheimer's disease, Brain repair

Eric Leuthardt, MD - Neurosurgery
Brain Computer Interfaces, Neuroprosthetics, Advanced Imaging, Resting State fMRI

Christopher Lingle - Anesthesiology Basic Science Research
ion channel biophysics, modeling of channel gating and cell excitability, methods of analysis

Matthew MacEwan - Neurology
Neuroprosthetics, Nerve Regeneration, Peripheral Nerve Interfacing, Transient Electronics, Nanomaterials

Jacob McPherson, MD, PhD - Physical Therapy, Anesthesiology
Neural engineering; neurological injury; neurorehabilitation; stroke; spinal cord injury; neural control of movement; neuropathic pain; neural-computer interfaces; neural plasticity; sensorimotor integration; neuromodulation; electrophysiology; spinal physiology; neuropharmacology; physical rehabilitation

Robi Mitra - Genetics
Genomics. Genome Engineering. Computational Biology. Transcription Factors.

Ilya Monosov - Neuroscience
Neuronal mechanisms of voluntary behavior

Josh Morgan - Ophthalmology
vision, retina, connectomics, synapse, imaging, electron microscopy, circuitry, thalamus, development, neuron, image analysis

Arye Nehorai - Electrical & Systems Engineering
Forward models, inverse models, statistical analysis, quantitative methods, modeling

Colin Nichols - Cell Biology & Physiology
Molecular aspects of potassium channels

Camillo Padoa-Schioppa - Neuroscience
Decision Making, Neurophysiology, Modeling, Primates

Carlos Ponce -Neural Engineering
Vision, electrophysiology, non-human primates, cortex, neurons, deep learning, neural networks

W. Zachary Ray, MD - Neurosurgery
neuroprosthetics, resorbable electronics, nerve regeneration, spinal cord injury

Janice Robertson - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
membrane protein folding thermodynamics assembly single-molecule TIRF microscopy computational modeling structure function oligomerization lipids

Erica Scheller - Internal Medicine - Bone & Mineral Diseases
diabetes, fracture risk, advanced imaging, neurobiology, metabolic disease, bone regeneration, biosensors

Larry Snyder, MD, PhD - Neuroscience
Primate sensory-motor and cognitive neurophysiology; electrophysiological bases and correlates of resting state functional connectivity (rs-fcMRI).

Aristeidis Sotiras, PhD - Radiology
Machine learning; deep learning; image processing; image analysis; data science; neuroimaging; neurodegenerative diseases; neuropsychiatric disorders

David Van Essen - Neuroscience
Functional brain-mapping

Yong Wang- Obstetrics & Gynecology
Diffusion MRI and PET imaging; Noninvasive Electrophysiology Imaging; Cancer and Immunotherapy Imaging; Preterm Birth; Alzheimer's disease