SIPLab
Structured Information for Precision Neuroengineering Lab

people

Chris Rozell

Dr. Christopher Rozell

Julian T. Hightower Chaired Professor (ECE)
SIPLab director

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Research interests: Computational neuroscience and neuroengineering; computational psychiatry; dynamical systems and closed-loop interactions; machine learning and AI; societal impacts and public engagement.

Sankar Alagapan

Dr. Sankar Alagapan

Research Scientist II (ECE)
SIPLab co-director

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Research interests: Human neuroscience; dynamical systems modeling for neural and biological systems; brain stimulation; psychiatric disorders; machine learning.

Nathanael Cruzado

Dr. Nathanael Cruzado

Postdoctoral Fellow (ECE)

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Research interests: closed-loop control of neural systems; neural coding; cognitive modeling.

Adam Willats

Adam Willats

Ph.D. student (BME)

Computational Neuroscience Training Grant Fellow
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Research interests: closed-loop optogenetic control; neural coding.

Kyle Johnsen

Kyle Johnsen

Ph.D. student (BME)

Computational Neuroengineering Training Program Graduate Scholar
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Twitter: @KyleAJohnsen
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Research interests: closed-loop control of neural systems; spiking neural networks; machine learning; neuromorphic brain-computer interfaces.

Belén Martín Urcelay

Belén Martín Urcelay

Ph.D. student (ECE)

Fulbright Fellow
Co-advised by Matthieu Bloch
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Research interests: information theory; interactive machine learning.

Yenho Chen

Yenho Chen

Ph.D. student (ML:BME)

Computational Neuroengineering Training Program Graduate Scholar
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Research interests: machine learning; generative models; dynamical systems.

Elif Ceren Fitoz

Elif Ceren Fitoz

Ph.D. student (ECE)

Computational Neuroengineering Training Program Graduate Scholar
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Research interests: machine learning; bioelectrical signal processing & modeling; deep brain stimulation.

Camilla May

Camilla May

Research technician

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Research interests: neurobiology of diseases; neurodegeneration; neuroimaging; electrophysiology.

former members

PhD students

  • Dr. Asim Gazi | 2023; Now Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard University; Schmidt Science Fellow, NSF Graduate Fellowship
  • Dr. Kion Fallah | 2023; Now Senior Research Scientist, Waabi; CSIP Outstanding Research Award
  • Dr. Stefano Fenu | 2023.
  • Dr. Matt O'Shaughnessy | 2021; Now Foreign Affairs Officer, US Department of State; visiting Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, NDSEG Graduate Fellowship, Science ATL Communication Fellowship
  • Dr. Marissa Connor | 2021; Now Machine Intelligence Engineer at Embedded Intelligence; NSF Graduate Fellowship, Herbert P. Haley Fellowship
  • Dr. Greg Canal | 2021, Now AI Research Scientist, Intelligent Systems Center, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Postdoctoral Scholar at University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Dr. Ayse Cakmak | 2021, Now Motion Health Algorithm Scientist, Apple, Inc.
  • Dr. Nicholas Bertrand | 2019, Now Software Engineer at Google, Inc.; Senior Principal Systems Engineer, Future Technical Leaders Program at Northrop Grumman
  • Dr. John Lee | 2019, Now Principal Member of Technical Staff at DSO National Laboratories of Singapore; DSO Postgraduate Scholar, CSIP Outstanding Research Award
  • Dr. Adam Charles | 2015, Now Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University; postdoctoral Scholar at Princeton University, ECE Outstanding GRA Award, CSIP Outstanding Research Award, Sigma Xi Best Dissertation Award
  • Dr. Abigail Kressner | 2015, Now Assistant Professor at Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Copenhagen University Hospital; NSF and NDSEG Graduate Fellow, Chih Foundation Research Award
  • Dr. Mengchen Zhu | 2015, Now an Associate at BlackRock, Inc.; Fellow in the Insight Data Science Fellows Program
  • Dr. Aurele Balavoine | 2014, Now Software Engineer at The MathWorks, Inc.
  • Dr. Han Lun Yap | 2013, Now Principal Member of Technical Staff and Lab Director (Radar Lab) at DSO National Laboratories of Singapore; DSO Postgraduate Scholar, ECE Outstanding GRA Award, CSIP Outstanding Research Award

Other students and visitors

  • Alec Helbling | Now a PhD student at Georgia Tech
  • Arish Alreja | Now a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University
  • Allison Del Giorno | Now Research Software Engineer at Microsoft Research; Ph.D. in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University (2022); GT Stamps President's Scholar, Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, NSF and NDSEG Graduate Fellow
  • Dong Yin | Now PhD student at UC Berkeley
  • Ninghao Liu | Now PhD student at Texas A&M University
  • Siva Manivasagam | Now at Uber ATG and graduate student at University of Toronto; GT Stamps President's Scholar, Barry M. Goldwater Scholar, NSF Graduate Fellow
  • Saurabh Kumar | Now PhD student at Stanford University; Knight-Hennessy Scholar, Google AI Resident at Google Brain Montreal, GT Stamps President's Scholar