Neural Engineering

Department Faculty

Taner Akkin

Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical optics and imaging

Bin He

Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical imaging, neuroengineering, bioinstrumentation, biomodeling

Matt Johnson

Biomedical Engineering

Neuromodulation mechanisms and technology

Hugh Lim

Biomedical Engineering

Neural prostheses, auditory neuroscience, neural plasticity

Tay Netoff

Biomedical Engineering

Study of epilepsy, in vitro calcium imaging of seizures

Faculty with Graduate Education Responsibilities

James Ashe

Neurology

Neural control of behavior including basic motor function, motor learning, sequence production, and decision making

Kenneth Baker

Neurology

Deep brain stimulation, Parkinson's disease, stroke, addiction

Matthew Chafee

Neuroscience

Neural basis of spatial cognition and working memory, cortical system dysfunction in psychiatric disease

Wei Chen

Radiology

Study of brain metabolism and function using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) and imaging (MRI) technologies

Michel Cramer-Bornemann

Neurology

Sleep disorders medicine

Afshin Divani

Neurosurgery

Cerebrovascular diseases and stroke, spinal cord injury, endovascular/implantable devices, medical signal and image processing, traumatic brain injury

Timothy Ebner

Neuroscience

Cerebellum and motor cortex control of limb movements, optical imaging of the brain

Geoff Ghose

Neuroscience

Effect of cognitive phenomena on neuronal signals underlying visually-guided behaviors

Cornelius Lam

Neurosurgery

Pediatric neurosurgery, epilepsy, craniofacial disorders, brain tumors

Paul Letourneau

Neuroscience

Nerve fiber growth, formation of neuronal connections during embryogenesis, mechanisms of cell motility

Richard Poppele

Neuroscience

Neurophysiology of sensory-motor functions

David Redish

Neuroscience

Dynamics of neural ensemble activity during learning, computational models of addiction and other disorders

Kamil Ugurbil

Radiology

Development of ultrahigh field magnetic resonance methodology for MR imaging and spectroscopy

Thomas Vaughan

Radiology

Biomedical instrumentation, electromagnetics design and modeling, magnetic resonance imaging

Jerrold Vitek

Neurology

Deep brain stimulation, Parkinson's disease, dystonia, tremor