People

Jonathan R. Wolpaw, MD
NCAN Director

National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208

Peter Brunner, PhD
NCAN Deputy DIrector

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology & Biomedical Engineering
Deputy Director, National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Division of Neurotechnology
Washington University School of Medicine
660 S. Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8057, St. Louis, MO 63110

William Z. Rymer, MD, PhD

Professor of Physical Medicine,
Rehabilitation & Physiology


Vice President for Research
at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago


Feinberg School of Medicine
Northwestern University

Rymer website
Kip A. Ludwig, PhD

Associate Director of Technology
Neural Engineering Laboratory
Mayo Clinic Rochester

Ludwig website
Hilton Kaplan, MBBCh FCSSA PhD

Associate Research Professor
New Jersey Center for Biomaterials
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey

Kaplan website
Charles J. Robinson, DSc

Director of the Center for Rehabilitation Engineering Science & Technology
Dept. Electrical & Computer Engineering
Clarkson University


Professor, Herman L Shulman Endowed Chair
Rehabilitation Engineering Science & Technology
Dept. Electrical & Computer Engineering
Clarkson University

Robinson website
Carolee J. Winstein, PhD, PT, FAPTA

Professor of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy
Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy
Laboratory of Motor Behavior and Neurorehabilitation
University of Southern California

Winstein website
Theresa Vaughan, BA
Research Scientist

National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208

Juliana Amaral Passipieri, PhD
Program Manager

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery
660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110

Aiko Thompson, PhD
TR&D 1 Leader

Associate Professor
Barbara S. Christie Evoked Potential Operant Conditioning Laboratory
Dept. Health Sciences and Research
College of Health Professions
Medical University of South Carolina

Collaborative project description
Jonathan R. Wolpaw, MD
TR&D 2 Co-Leader

National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208

Peter Brunner, PhD
TR&D 2&3 Co-Leader

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology & Biomedical Engineering
Deputy Director, National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Division of Neurotechnology
Washington University School of Medicine
660 S. Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8057, St. Louis, MO 63110

Jon T. Willie, MD, PhD
TR&D 3 Co-Leader

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience
Department of Neurosurgery
Division of Neurotechnology
Washington University School of Medicine
660 S. Euclid Avenue, Campus Box 8057, St. Louis, MO 63110

Jodi Brangaccio, DPT
Research Scientist

National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208

Russell Hardesty, PhD
Research Scientist

National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208

Bruce Herron, PhD
Research Scientist

Wadsworth Center, NYS Dept Health
Center for Medical Sciences
150 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY 12208

518-473-6033
Herron website
Jonathan Carp, PhD
Research Scientist, Training & Dissemination Leader

National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208

Disha Gupta, PhD
Research Scientist

National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208

Jeremy Hill, DPhil
Research Scientist

National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208

James Norton, PhD
Research Scientist

National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208

Huiling Huang, MSc
Research Assistant

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery
660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110

Molly Rusgrove
Research Assistant

Union College
Schenectady, NY

Naasik Syed
Research Assistant

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery
660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110

Nicholas Luczak
Research Assistant

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery
660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110

William Engelhardt, MSc

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery
660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110

Xinxin Yang
Laboratory Technician

National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208

Collaborators
Dora Hermes, PhD
Collaborative Project: Mapping the Human Brain using Cortico-Cortical Evoked Potentials (CCEPs)

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Mayo Clinic Rochester

Hermes website
Sudhin A. Shah, PhD
Collaborative Project: Alerting, Orienting, and Executive Control Networks in Children and Adults

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience in Radiology
Weill Cornell Medical College

Shah website, NCAN project description
Cory Inman, PhD
Collaborative Project: Mechanisms of Amygdala-Mediated Memory Enhancement in Humans

Assistant Professor of Cognition & Neural Science
Immersive NeuroModulation and Neuroimaging Lab
University of Utah

Inman website, NCAN project description
David Reinkensmeyer, PhD
Collaborative Project: Stroke BCI-based EEG Rehabilitation


Professor
Dept. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Dept. Anatomy and Neurobiology
Dept. Biomedical Engineering
University of California, Irvine

Reinkensmeyer website, NCAN project description
Ellyn Riley, PhD
Collaborative Project: BCI-based Aphasia Rehabilitation

Associate Professor
Dept. Communication Sciences & Disorders
Syracuse University


Assistant Research Professor
Dept. Neurology
SUNY Upstate Medical University

Riley website, NCAN project description
Kathleen M. Friel, PhD
Collaborative Project: Reflex Conditioning in Cerebral Palsy

Lab Director, Clinical Laboratory for Early Brain Injury Recovery
Burke Neurological Institute


Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Brain and Mind Research Institute
Weill Cornell Medicine


Co-Director of Research
Director of Cerebral Palsy Research
Blythedale Children's Hospital

Friel website, NCAN project description
Kai J. Miller, PhD, MD, PhD
Collaborative Project: Mapping the Human Brain using Cortico-Cortical Evoked Potentials (CCEPs)

Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, Pediatrics & Biomedical Engineering
Mayo Clinic Rochester

Miller website
Nancy Kanwisher, PhD
Collaborative Project: Cortical Connectivity by DTI and Stimulation

Investigator
McGovern Institute


Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dept. Brain and Cognitive Sciences
MIT

Kanwisher website, NCAN project description
Robert Knight, MD
Collaborative Project: Decoding the Prefrontal Cortex

Professor
Depts. Psychology and Neuroscience
University of California, Berkeley

Knight website, NCAN project description
Alessandro Vato, PhD
Collaborative Project: BCIs for training and enhancing the motor imagery ability of disabled people enhance rehabilitation

Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Catholic University
620 Michigan Avenue NE
Washington, DC 20064

Vato website, NCAN project description
Helia Mojtabavi, MD

Post-Doctoral Research Scientist
National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208

Hohyun Cho, PhD
Staff Scientist

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery
660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110

James Swift, MScE, PhD
Staff Scientist

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery
660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110


Michael Park, PhD
Post-Doctoral Researcher

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery
660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110


Sebastian Rueda Parra, PhD
Post-Doctoral Researcher

National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208

Tao Xie, PhD
Post-Doctoral Researcher

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery
660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110


Shubhada Joshi, PhD
Visiting Research Scientist

National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies
Albany Stratton VA Medical Center
113 Holland Ave, Albany, NY 12208

Alexis Simmons
Ph.D. Student of Biomedical Engineering

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery
660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110

Gansheng Tan
Ph.D. Student of Biomedical Engineering

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery
660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110

Kara Donovan
Ph.D. Student of Biomedical Engineering

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery
660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110

Murphy Liu
Ph.D. Student of Biomedical Engineering

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery
660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110

Phil Demarest
Ph.D. Student of Biomedical Engineering

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery
660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110

Ziwei Li, MSc
Ph.D. Student of Biomedical Engineering

Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Dept. of Neurosurgery
660 S. Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110

Alumni
Graduate Students

Joshua Fialkoff, Will Coon, Adriana de Pesters, Ladan Moheimanian, Jennifer Barnes, Amin Nourmohammadi, Hadi Habibzadeh, Lynn McCane, Markus Adamek, Sebastian Rueda Parra

Masters Students

Claire Chaisson, Monica Torrecilla Vall-llossera, Abhishek Balavida, Danish Mohamed

Visiting Scientists

Brendan Allison, Nick Anderson, Andreas Dantele, Gregor Fabiani, Helene Floriach, Jan Kubanek, Gregor Malischnig, Peter Mandl, Juergen Metzler, Jakob Miklautz, Kai Miller, Ursula Mochty, Juan Carlos Montes-Castillo, Juerg Moser, Markus Neuper, Javier Temprano, Zuoguan Wang, Lawrence Crowther, Sivylla Paraskevopoulou, Guangye Li, Stavrina Devetzoglou Toliou, Naomi Du Bois

Undergraduate Students

Sean Austin, Richmund Fries, Paul Ignatenko, Sanandeesh Kamat, Chuizheng Kong, Lauren Mance, Nicholas Mathias, Griffin Milsap, Kathleen Sheridan, Alexander Belsten, Abdallah Elmi, Dan Corral, Mike Fedor, Matthew Calandrella, Ryan Gladwell

 

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