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ALUMNI
PhD Students
- Gopal Santhanam PhD (2001-2006) EE PhD thesis, "Design of higher performance neural prosthetic systems". Next & current postion: Co-founder and Vice President, Total Phase, Inc.
- Byron Yu PhD (2001-2006) EE PhD thesis, "Neural dynamics of movement preparation and execution". Next position: postdoc, see below.
- Afsheen Afshar MD, PhD (2004-2008) EE PhD thesis, "Neural mechanisms of motor preparation and applications to prostheses". Next positon: completed medical school (MSTP, MD) at Stanford University. Next position: Associate, Goldman Sachs, Ney York City. Current position: Vice President, Goldman Sachs, New York City.
- John Cunningham PhD (2004-2009) EE PhD thesis, "Algorithms for understanding motor cortical processing and neural prosthetic systems". Next postion: postdoc, see below.
- Vikash Gilja PhD (2004-2010) CS PhD thesis, "Towards Clinically Viable Neural Prosthetic Systems". Next position: research associate, NPTL, Stanford University.
- Cindy Chestek PhD (2005-2010) EE PhD thesis, "Measurements and technology for long-term neural prosthetic systems". Next position: research associate, NPTL, Stanford University (2010-2012). Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan.
- Rachel Kalmar PhD (2005-2010) Neurosciences PhD thesis, "Moving through the brain: A study of movement preparation in the oculomotor and reach systems". Next position: inventor / startups.
- Matthew Kaufman PhD (2005-2011) Neurosciences PhD thesis, "Neural mechanisms and dynamics underlying reaching and decision making". Next position: postdoc, see below.
- Zuley Rivera Alvidrez (2005-2011) EE PhD thesis, "Low-dimensional neural features reflect the features of muscle activation". Next postion: Novelist.
Masters Students
- Joline Fan MS (2009-2011) Bioengineering MS. Next postion: UCSF medical school.
Postdocs
- Stephen Ryu MS, MD (2002-2004) Next position: Completed neurosurgery residency at Stanford University (2004-2006). Next position: Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery and Consulting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University (2006-2009). Current position: Department of Neurosurgery, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, and Consulting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University.
- Aaron Batista PhD (2003-2007) Next & current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh.
- Byron Yu PhD (2007-2009) Shenoy Group, Stanford University, and Sahani Group at Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London. Next & current position: Assistant Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University.
- John Cunningham PhD (2009) Accepted Assistant Professorship in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis. Next position: postdoc with Prof. Zoubin Ghahramani, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University (2010-2011). Current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in Saint Louis.
- Mark Churchland PhD (2001-2011) Next & current position: Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University
- Ilka Diester PhD (2008-2011) Next & current position: Assistant Professor, Ernst Strüngmann Institute / Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, Germany
- Paul Kalanithi MD (2010-2012) Next position: Completing neurosurgery residency at Stanford University (2012-2014).
- Matt Kaufman PhD (2011-2012) Next position: postdoc with Prof. Anne Churchland at CSHL (primary) and Prof. Mark Churchland at Columbia University (secondary).
Staff
- Missy Howard RVT, RLATG (2002-2005) Laboratory staff. Next: IACUC Inspection Manager in Office of Vice Provost and Dean of Research, Research Compliance, Stanford University. Currently: private practice, Montana.
- Evie Kalmar BS (2007) Laboratory assistant, part time. Next position: medical school at UCSF, and public policy at UC Berkeley (2007-)
- Heather Graham BS (2007-2008) Laboratory assistant, part time. Next postion: veterinary school, Virginia Tech (2008-2012)
- Willie Phan BS (2008-2009) Laboratory assistant, part time. Next position: veterinary school, UC Davis (2009-2013)
- Stacey Kang BS (2009-2010) Laboratory assistant, part time. Next position: veterinary school, UC Davis (2010-2014)
- Drew Haven BS (2006-2010) Computer and network systems analysis, joint with faculty in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University; also (2008-2012) part time masters studented in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University. Next position: industry. Next position: CTO at TheMML.com and owner at Kelpie Consulting. Current position: Google.
- Wendy Kalkus (2010-2011) Laboratory assistant, part time. Next position: marine sciences intern. Current position: veterinary school, UC Davis (2012-2016)
REU students
- Justin Blanco BS (2002-2003) Next & Currently: U Penn, BioE gradate school
- R. Carter Dunn BS (2004 summer) Next: MIT MBA, Currently: Boston Consulting Group
- Erem Boto (2005 summer) Next: NeuroPace, Inc., then founder CloudMed, Current: co-founder eGraphs
- Neil Achtman (2005 summer) Next & Currently: Intel
- Alex Chan (2007 summer) Next & Currently: MIT, EE graduate student
- Joya Deri (2008 summer) Next: Stanford, EE co-term student, Currently: CMU, EE graduate student
- Ogi Zivojnovic (2008 summer) Next: Stanford, EE co-term, Currently: Qualcomm
- Vivek Athalye (2010 summer) Next: UC Berkeley, EE graduate student
- Chip Schulman (2010 summer) Next & Currently: Stanford, EE co-term student
- Gil Shotan (2010, 2011 summers) Next & Currently: Stanford, EE co-term student
- Aaron Zarraga (2010 summer) Next & Currently: Stanford, EE co-term student
- Chia-Jung (Dana) Chang (2011 summer), from National Taiwan University (joint with Prof. Teresa Meng) Next: NTU undergraduate, Currently: JHU, Bioengineering graduate student (Fall 2012)
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