- Published in Nature Communications on the first demonstration of humans performing robotic hand control at the individual finger level using an EEG-based BCI.
- Published in Blood about the capability of transcranial focused ultrasound (tFUS) neuromodulation to suppress pain hypersensitivity in sickle cell mice.
- Members Sandhya Ramachandran, Xiyuan Jiang, and Dylan Forenzo successfully defended their PhD theses.
- Postdoctoral Associate Dr. Min Gon Kim received the Best Poster Presentation in Pre-Clinical Research at Pittsburgh Pain Day 2025.
- PhD student Yidan Ding was awarded the Liang Ji-Dian Graduate Fellowship from the College of Engineering.
Research Experience
Involved in multiple cutting-edge research projects, including but not limited to:
- Achieving individual finger-level robotic hand control via an EEG-based BCI
- Treating chronic pain with transcranial focused ultrasound
- Developing bidirectional BCIs to significantly boost communication performance
- Enabling noninvasive identification and imaging of epileptogenic networks
Background
Research interests include functional biomedical imaging (functional neuroimaging, cardiac imaging, and cancer imaging) as well as neuroengineering (neural interfacing, neural modulation, neural sensing, and neural control). The lab emphasizes developing advanced engineering technologies for biomedical applications and investigating biomedical systems using its developed techniques.