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Research and Teaching Interests: Neural prostheses, brain-machine interfaces, computational and systems neuroscience, neural signal processing, machine learning, dynamical systems, recurrent neural networks, deep learning |
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Awards and Recognitions
| 2020 | NIH Director’s New Innovator Award |
| 2020 | Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Award |
| 2020 | NSF Career Award |
| 2019 | UCLA Hellman Fellows Award |
| 2016 | Sammy Kuo Award in Neuroscience, Finalist, Stanford University |
| 2014 | BRAIN Best Paper Award, IEEE EMBS, Chicago (Stavisky SD, Kao JC, Nuyujukian P, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV) |
| 2006 | Hewlett Packard Best Paper Award, ASME IMECE, Chicago (Kao JC, Warren J, Xu J, Attinger D) |
| Selected Publications |
- Kao JC*, Nuyujukian P*, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV (2017) A high-performance neural prosthesis incorporating discrete state selection with hidden Markov models. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 64(4):935–945. (Link: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7497003/)
- Stavisky SD, Kao JC, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV (2017) Trial-by-trial motor cortical correlates of a rapidly adapting visuomotor internal model. The Journal of Neuroscience. 37(7):1721–1732. (Link: http://www.jneurosci.org/lookup/doi/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1091-16.2016)
- Nuyujukian P, Kao JC, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV (2017) A nonhuman primate brain-computer typing interface. Proceedings of the IEEE. 105(1):66–72. (Link: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7564474/)
- O Shea DJ, Trautmann E, Chandrasekaran C, Stavisky SD, Kao JC, Sahani M, Ryu SI, Deisseroth K, Shenoy KV (2017) The need for calcium imaging in nonhuman primates: New motor neuroscience and brain-machine interfaces. Experimental Neurology. 287:437–451. (Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.expneurol.2016.08.003)
- Sussillo D*, Stavisky SD*, Kao JC*, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV (2016) Making brain-machine interfaces robust to future neural variability. Nature Communications. 7:13749. (Link: http://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/ncomms13749)
- Kao JC, Nuyujukian P, Ryu SI, Churchland MM, Cunningham JP, Shenoy KV (2015) Single-trial dynamics of motor cortex and their applications to brain-machine interfaces. Nature Communications. 6(May):1–12. (Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8759)
- Nuyujukian P, Kao JC., Fan JM., Stavisky SD., Ryu SI., Shenoy KV. (2014) Performance sustaining intracortical neural prostheses. Journal of Neural Engineering. 11(6):066003. (Link: http://iopscience.iop.org/1741-2552/11/6/066003)
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Kao JC, Stavisky SD, Sussillo David, Nuyujukian P, Shenoy KV (2014) Information systems opportunities in brain-machine interface decoders. Proceedings of the IEEE. 102(5):666–682. (Link: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs/_all.jsp?arnumber6786380)
- Fan JM, Nuyujukian P, Kao JC, Chestek CA, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV (2014) Intention estimation in brain machine interfaces. Journal of Neuroengineering. 11(1):016004. (Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4105020/)
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Gilja V*, Nuyujukian P*, Chestek CA, Cunningham JP, Yu BM, Fan JM, Churchland MM, Kaufman MT, Kao JC, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV (2012) A high-performance neural prosthesis enabled by control algorithm design. Nature Neuroscience. 15(12):1752–7. (Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn.3265)
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Sussillo D, Nuyujukian P, Fan JM, Kao JC, Stavisky SD, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV (2012) A recurrent neural network for closed-loop intracortical brain-machine interface decoders. Journal of Neural Engineering. 9(2):026027. (Link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22427488)