I am a Postdoctoral Fellow developing intracortical brain computer interfaces for the restoration of sensation and movement in human patients in the lab of Dr. Dan Kramer and Dr. John Thompson at CU Anschutz. My work incorporates microelectrode arrays, behavioral data, and machine learning to expand our knowledge of how the sensorimotor loop interacts with high cognitive functions in order to build better neural prosthetics.

I completed my PhD in Computation and Neural Systems in Richard Andersen’s neural prosthetics lab at Caltech. My graduate research focused on how tactile experiences are constructed by the brain using sensory inputs and internal models, as well as understanding how multisensory contexts affect artificially generated sensations in people with spinal cord injuries. To study these topics, I used a combination of human electrophysiology data collected with microelectrode arrays, behavioral data, intracortical microstimulation (ICMS), and virtual reality environments.

My most recently published project is on how artificial touch sensations are temporally integrated with visual information relating to touch, and how somatosensory cortex encodes visual information that relates to artificial touches. Check out the paper here!