Research Team

Our Team

Our research team includes leading neurologists, neuroscientists, clinicians, engineers, computer scientists, neurosurgeons, mathematicians, and other researchers – all focused on developing technologies to restore the communication, mobility, and independence of people with neurologic disease, injury, or limb loss.

Team Members

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Leigh Hochberg, MD, PhD

Director, BrainGate Consortium and Clinical Trials

Director, Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery, Neurocritical Care and Acute Stroke Services, Department of Neurology

Massachusetts General Hospital

L. Herbert Ballou University Professor of Engineering

Brown University

Director, VA RR&D Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Rehabilitation R&D Service

VA Providence Healthcare System

Senior Lecturer on Neurology

Harvard Medical School

Nicholas Au Yong, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurosurgery and Biomedical Engineering

Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology

David Brandman, MD, PhD, FRCSC

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery

University of California, Davis

John Donoghue, PhD

Henry Merritt Wriston Professor, Department of Neuroscience

Brown University

Jaimie Henderson, MD

Director, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Stanford University School of Medicine

Co-Director, Stanford Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory (NPTL)

Stanford University

John and Jene Blume — Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor

Chethan Pandarinath, PhD

Assistant Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurosurgery

Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology

Dan Rubin, MD, PhD

Assistant in Neurology

Massachusetts General Hospital

Assistant Professor in Neurology

Harvard Medical School

John Simeral, PhD

Assistant Professor (Research), Engineering

Brown University

Biomedical Engineer, VA RR&D Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Rehabilitation R&D Service

VA Providence Healthcare System

Sergey Stavisky, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery

University of California, Davis

Tulip Jettakun

Regulatory Coordinator

Massachusetts General Hospital

Josephine Buclez

Communications Lead

Massachusetts General Hospital

Maryam Masood

Clinical Research Program/Project Manager (Manager Regulatory Affairs)

Massachusetts General Hospital

Dave Rosler

Director of Technology Development and Innovation

VA Providence Healthcare System

Director of Operations, BrainGate Consortium

Brown University / Massachusetts General Hospital

Jolie Saint-Cyr

Administrative Coordinator

Massachusetts General Hospital

Beth Travers

Senior Laboratory Manager and BrainGate Team Manager

Brown University

Carlos Vargas-Irwin, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience (Research)

Brown University

Frank Willett, PhD

Research Scientist

Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory, Stanford University

David Borton, PhD

Associate Professor of Engineering

Brown University

Susan Fasoli, ScD

Associate Professor, Department of Occupational Therapy

MGH Institute of Health Professions

Visiting Scientist in Engineering

Brown University

Research Health Scientist, Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology

VA Providence Healthcare System

Matthew Harrison, PhD

Associate Professor, Division of Applied Mathematics

Brown University

David Lin, MD

Director, Neurorecovery Clinic, Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery

Massachusetts General Hospital

Visiting Scientist in Engineering

Brown University

Neurologist, Core Investigator

Center for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Rehabilitation R&D Service, VA Providence Healthcare System

Assistant Professor of Neurology

Harvard Medical School

Lee M. Miller

Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology & Behavior

University of California, Davis

Professor, Dept. of Otolaryngology | Head and Neck Surgery

University of California, Davis

Arto Nurmikko, PhD

Professor of Engineering

Brown University

Wilson Truccolo, PhD

Pablo J. Salame '88 Goldman Sachs Associate Professor of Computational Neuroscience

Brown University

Matthew Willsey, PhD

Visiting Instructor

Stanford University

Sydney Cash, MD, PhD

Associate Neurologist

Massachusetts General Hosptial

Associate Professor in Neurology

Harvard Medical School

Kristi Emerson

Neurorecovery Triage and Research Nurse

Massachusetts General Hospital

Stephen Mernoff, MD

Chief, Neurology Section

VA Providence Healthcare System

Associate Professor of Neurology (Clinical)

The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University

Ziv Williams, MD

Department of Neurosurgery, Associate Professor

Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital

Faculty

Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology

Faculty

Harvard Medical School Program in Neuroscience

Michael Young

Associate Director, NeuroRecovery Clinic

Massachusetts General Hospital

Hiroaki Hashimoto, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Massachusetts General Hospital

Daril E. Brown II, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

University of California, Davis

Nick Card, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

University of California, Davis

Darrel R. Deo, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University

Amanda Duffy, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Massachusetts General Hospital

Stephanie Haro, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Engineering

Brown University

Justin Jude, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Massachusetts General Hospital

Clinical Research Fellow

Harvard Medical School

Hadar Levi-Aharoni, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Massachusetts General Hospital

Clinical Research Fellow

Harvard Medical School

Sam Nason-Tomaszewski, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Assistant

Emory University

Nishal Shah, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Stanford University

Maitreyee Wairagkar, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

University of California, Davis

Alex Acosta

Head Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant

Massachusetts General Hospital

Shane Allcroft

Research Engineer

Brown University

Donald Avansino

Software Engineer

Stanford University

Payton Bechefsky

Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant

Emory University

Ronnie Gross

UI Engineer

Brown University

Nick Hahn

Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant

Stanford University

Carrina Iacobacci

Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant

University of California, Davis

Foram Kamdar

Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant

STANFORD UNIVERSITY

Domenick Mason Mifsud

Laboratory Technician

Emory University

Claire Nicolas

Head Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant

Massachusetts General Hospital

Yahia Ali

Graduate Student

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology

Nicole Dusang

Graduate Student

Electrical Engineering, Brown University

Chaofei Fan

Graduate Student

Stanford University

Jacob Gusman

Graduate Student

Biomedical Engineering, Brown University

Brianna Karpowicz

Graduate Student

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology

Erin Kunz

Graduate Student

Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Stefan Eduardo Lütschg Espinosa

Master's Student

Brown University

Benyamin Meschede-Krasa

Graduate Student

Stanford University

Mattia Rigotti

Graduate Student

Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology

Tyler Singer-Clark

Graduate Student

University of California, Davis

Research Engineer

Massachusetts General Hospital

Ewina Pun

Graduate Student

Biomedical Engineering, Brown University

Kushaal Rao

Graduate Student

Brown University

Suvi Varshney

Masters Student

University of California, Davis

Guy Wilson

Graduate Student

Neuroscience, Stanford University

Benjamin Schornstein

Undergraduate Researcher

Brown University

Bolu Ajiboye, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Case Western Reserve University

Biomedical Engineering Research Scientist, FES Center, Rehabilitation R&D Service

Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

Kenya Alfaro

Graduate Student

Case Western Reserve University

Jose Albites Sanabria

Graduate Student

Biomedical Engineering, Brown University

Daniel Bacher

Brown University

Laurie Barefoot, RN, NP, CCRC

Massachusetts General Hospital

Etsub Berhanu

Massachusetts General Hospital

James Besancon

Brown University

Christine Blabe

Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant, Stanford Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory

Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Neurosurgery

Michael Black, PhD

Brown University

Marguerite Bowker, RNBS, CIP

Clinical Research Nurse Manager, VA Center of Excellence for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Rehabilitation R&D Service

Providence VA Medical Center

Jannis Brea

User Experience Designer

Brown University

Michael Burkhart

PhD Candidate, Division of Applied Mathematics

Brown University

Alex Catoya

Graduate Student

Biotechnology, Brown University

Sarah Cavanagh

Research Engineer

VA Providence Healthcare System

Vamsidhar Chavakula, MD

Neurosurgery Resident

Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Boston Children’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Visiting Scientist in Engineering

Brown University

Cynthia Chestek, PhD

Stanford University

Johnny Ciancibello

Graduate Student

Biomedical Engineering, Brown University

Emily Conlan

Graduate Student

Case Western Reserve University

Andy Cornwell, PhD

Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

Case Western Reserve University

Rekha Crawford

Post Baccalaureate

Brown University

Cale Crowder

Graduate Student

Case Western Reserve University

Jessica De Abreu

Graduate Student

Case Western Reserve University

Jake Donoghue, PhD

Brown University

Emad Eskandar, MD

Professor of Neurosurgery

Harvard Medical School

Attending Neurosurgeon, Director of Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery, Director, Neurosurgery Residency Program

Massachusetts General Hospital

Jessica Feldman, MD, ScM

Brown University

Internal Medicine Intern (Prelim.)

Mount Auburn Hospital Harvard Medical School

Clinical Fellow in Medicine

Harvard Medical School

Aristotelis Filippidis, MD, PhD

Neurosurgery Resident

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical/Boston Medical Center/Boston Children’s Hospital

Visiting Scientist in Engineering

Brown University

Sharlene Flesher, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory, Stanford University

Brian Franco

Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant, Department of Neurology

Massachusetts General Hospital

Fabio Giatsidis, MD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Brown University

Senior Neurology Resident

University of Rome "Tor Vergata"

Vikash Gilja, PhD

Stanford University

Carol Grant, RN-BSN

Research Nurse, Department of Neurology

Massachusetts General Hospital

Mark Hays

Undergraduate Student

Brown University

Mark Homer, PhD

Brown University

Erin Hoops

Brown University

Tommy Hosman

Research Engineer

Brown University

Kevin Huang, MD

Neurosurgical Resident

Brigham and Women's Hospital / Boston Children's Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Visiting Scientist in Engineering

Brown University

Beata Jarosiewicz, PhD

Senior Research Scientist

Stanford University

Andrew Jones

Undergraduate Student

Brown University

Anastasia Kapitonava

Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant, Department of Neurology

MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL

Jessica Kelemen

Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant, Department of Neurology

Massachusetts General Hospital

S. Phil Kim, PhD

Brown University

Brandon King

Brown University

Bob Kirsch, PhD

Chairman, Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Engineering

Case Western Reserve University

Director, FES Center, Rehabilitation R&D Service

Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

Damien Lesenfants, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Brown University

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Providence VA Medical Center

Tanya Lewis

Brown University

Lev Litichevskiy

Brown University

Jie Liu, PhD

Brown University

Alexander Lo

Undergraduate Student

Brown University

April Luo

Junior Specialist

University of California, Davis

Miriam Madsen

MD/PhD Candidate, Division of Applied Mathematics

University of Massachusetts Medical School

Wasim Malik, PhD

Harvard Medical School

Brown University

Nicolas Masse, PhD

Brown University

Evan Matteson

Brown University

Bill Memberg

Senior Biomedical Engineer

Case Western Reserve University

Senior Biomedical Engineer, FES Center of Excellence, Rehabilitation R&D Service

Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center

David Menzer, PhD

Research Health Scientist, VA Center of Excellence for Neurorestoration and Neurotechnology, Rehabilitation R&D Service

Providence VA Medical Center

Visiting Researcher, Department of Neuroscience

Brown University

Danae Metaxa-Kakvouli

Brown University

Tomislav Milekovic, PhD

Brown University

Jonathan Miller, MD

Director, Functional and Restorative Neurosurgery Center Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery George R. and Constance P. Lincoln Endowed Chair

University Hospitals Case Medical Center Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Daniel Milstein

Graduate Student

Computer Science, Brown University

Yuliya Mironovas

Center for Neurotechnology and Neurorecovery Project Coordinator

Massachusetts General Hospital

Brian Murphy, PhD

Case Western Reserve University

Naryan Murthy

Undergraduate Student

Brown University

Katie (Centrella) Newell, MD

Massachusetts General Hospital

Paul Nuyujukian, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Neurosurgery Department, Stanford University

Postdoctoral Scholar

Electrical Engineering Department, Stanford University

Erin (Gallivan) Oakley

MGH

Lauren Ostrowski

Yun Park, PhD

Brown University

Hunter Peckham, PhD

Case Western Reserve University

Janos Perge, PhD

Brown University

N. Stevenson Potter, MD, PhD

Brown University

Caroline Raclin

Massachusetts General Hospital

Anisha Rastogi

Graduate Student

Case Western Reserve University

Paymon Rezaii

Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant

Stanford University

Jad Saab

Senior Systems Engineer

Brown University

Adam Sachs, MD

Stanford University

Anish Sarma

Research Engineer

Brown University

Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant

Massachusetts General Hospital

Nick Schmansky

Senior Software Engineer

Massachusetts General Hospital

Ammar Shaikhouni, MD

Brown University

Benjamin Shanahan

Computer Programmer

Brown University

Krishna Shenoy, PhD

Professor of Engineering, Co-Director, Stanford Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory (NPTL)

Stanford University

Investigator

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Brittany Sorice

Massachusetts General Hospital

Derek Wacks

Graduate Student

Biomedical Engineering, Brown University

Camille Spencer-Salmon

Brown University

Mark St. Louis

Brown University

Eric Sudderth, PhD

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Brown University

Jennifer Sweet, MD

Attending Neurosurgeon

Department of Neurological Surgery, University Hospitals Case Medical Center

Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery

Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Dawn Taylor, PhD

Case Western Reserve University

Daniel Thengone, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Brown University

Postdoctoral Research Associate (Non-Employee)

Massachusetts General Hospital

Shirin Tooloee

Graduate Student

Biomedical Engineering, Brown University

Kathryn Tringale

Brown University

Massachusetts General Hospital

Marco Vilela, PhD

Senior Research Associate, School of Engineering

Brown University

Ben Walter, MD

Associate Professor of Neurology and Penni and Stephen Weinberg Master Clinician in Brain Health

Case Western Reserve University - School of Medicine

Director, Movement Disorders Division

University Hospitals - Case Medical Center

Medical Director, Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) Program, Movement Disorders Center

University Hospitals - Case Medical Center

Kaitlin Wilcoxen

Graduate Student

Neuroscience, Brown University

Rose Marujo, RN

Research Nurse, Department of Neurology

Massachusetts General Hospital

Daniel Young

Graduate Student

Case Western Reserve University

Biomedical Engineer

Louis Stokes VA Medical Center, Cleveland FES Center

Blaise Yvert, PhD

Brown University

Shaomin Zhang, PhD

Brown University

Partner Institutions

Brown Emory University Harvard Medical School MGH Stanford School of Medicine University of California, Davis DVA