Group members
Graduate students
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Christopher Kenji Brenden (BioE)
B.S., New Mexico (Chemical Engineering), 2018
Electrochemical detection of neurochemicals
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Hrishikesh Thyagarajan Iyer (ECE)
B.S., Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (Electrical Engineering), 2019
Waveguide integrated meta beam shaper for optogenetics applicaitons
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Weihua Shi (ECE)
B.S., Peking University (Electrical Engineering), 2019
Nanodialysis-integrated implantable neural probes
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Alex Armstrong (Neuroscience)
BS, Manchester (Pharmacology), 2017
Coding of neural activity in somatosensory cortex
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Yu Ding (Physics)
MS, UIUC (Physics), 2019
Ultrafast sensory information processing of whisker microvibrations
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Garima Gupta (ECE)
BS, IT Mumbai (Electronics), 2023
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Miles Guo (ECE)
MS, UC Davis (ECE), 2023
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Akshit Mahajan (ECE)
BS, IIT Dehli (Engineering Physics), 2023
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Jacky Xiang (ECE)
BS, UIUC (ECE), 2023
Undergraduate students
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Justin Pan (MEchSe)
SiNx thin film development for optogenetics
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Yuhai Liu (Molecular and Cellular Biology)
Ethological behavior in tactile virtual reality
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Leon Ku (ECE)
Automation of behavioral tactile virtual reality