Lab Alumni

Sabbatical Fellows and Visiting Scholars:

Pedro Julian, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (2003-2004, with Andreas Andreou).
Currently at: Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca, Argentina (Professor).

Muhammad T. Akhtar, Institute for Neural Computation, UC San Diego (2010-2011).
Currently at: University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan (Associate Professor).

Akinori Ueno, Department of Bioengineering, UC San Diego (2013-2014). Currently at: Tokyo Denki University, Tokyo, Japan (Professor).

Steven Levitan, Institute for Neural Computation, UC San Diego (2014-2015). Previously at: University of Pittsburg, PA (Professor; deceased 2016).

Snorre Aunet, Institute for Neural Computation, UC San Diego (2015-2016).
Currently at: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway (Professor).

Seung-Tak Ryu, Department of Bioengineering, UC San Diego (2017-2018).
Currently at: KAIST, Seoul, Korea (Professor).

Yasufumi Sakai, Institute for Neural Computation, UC San Diego (2017-2018).
Currently at: Fujitsu, Toronto Canada (Research Scientist).

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Tim Horiuchi, Mind-Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University (1997-1999, with Ernst Niebur).
Currently at: ECE Dept., University of Maryland, College Park (Associate Professor).

Tom Sullivan, Biological Sciences, UC San Diego (2006-2007).
Currently at: Apple, Cupertino CA.

Dimitrios Loizos, Biological Sciences, UC San Diego (2007-2008).
Currently at: nusemi inc, San Jose CA (Senior Member of Technical Staff).

Massoud L. Khraiche, Bioengineering, UC San Diego (with Gabriel Silva, Yuhwa Lo and Deli Wang, 2009-2012).
Currently at: American University, Beirut, Lebanon (Assistant Professor).

Christoph Maier, Institute for Neural Computation, UC San Diego (2011-2016).

Emre Neftci, Institute for Neural Computation, UC San Diego (2012-2015).
Currently at: Department of Cognitive Science, UC Irvine (Assistant Professor).

Sadique Sheik, BioCircuits Institute, UC San Diego (2014-2018).
Currently at: aiCorTeX (Senior R&D Engineer).

Hesham Mostafa, Institute for Neural Computation, UC San Diego (2016-2019).
Currently at: Intel Corporation Artificial Intelligence (Research Scientist).

Ph.D. Students:

Robert Timothy Edwards, Ph.D. Degree (Johns Hopkins University Electrical and Computer Engineering), June 1999. Thesis: Time-Frequency Acoustic Processing and Recognition: Analysis and Analog VLSI Implementations; Currently at: MultiGiG, Inc., San Jose CA.

Kai He, Ph.D. Degree (JHU ECE), June 2000. Thesis: Analog VLSI Decoding for Digital Communications and High-Performance Data Conversion Currently at: Octillion Communications, San Jose CA.

Marc Cohen, Ph.D. Degree (JHU ECE), June 2001. Thesis: Analog VLSI Adaptive Systems for Active Optics and Imaging; Currently at: ErgonometriX, Rockville MD (CTO and co-founder).

Roman Genov, Ph.D. Degree (JHU ECE), August 2002. Thesis: Massively Parallel Mixed-Signal VLSI Kernel Machines; Currently at: ECE Dept., University of Toronto, Canada (Full Professor).

Shantanu Chakrabartty, Ph.D. Degree (JHU ECE), August 2004. Thesis: Design and Implementation of Ultra-Low Power Pattern and Sequence Decoders; Currently at: McKelvey School of Engineering, Washington University Saint Louis, MO (Full Professor).

Milutin Stanacevic, Ph.D. Degree (JHU ECE), August 2005. Thesis: Mixed-Signal Micropower VLSI Systems for Biomedical Array Signal Processing; Currently at: ECE Dept., State University of New York, Stony Brook NY (Associate Professor).

Yunbin Deng, Ph.D. Degree (JHU ECE), May 2006. Thesis: Analog VLSI Systems for Robust Time-Frequency Processing; Currently at: BAE Systems, Boston MA.

Dimitrios Loizos, Ph.D. Degree (JHU ECE), July 2007. Thesis: Multi-Dithering Sub-Microsecond Controller: Analysis and SiGe BiCMOS Implementation; Currently at: nusemi inc, San Jose CA (Senior Member of Technical Staff).

Barry Jacobson, Ph.D. Degree, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, June 2008. Thesis: Instantaneous Frequency Analysis for Audio Source Separation Based on Comodulation; Currently at: Yale School of Medicine (Postdoctoral Fellow).

Kartik Murari, Ph.D. Degree (JHU Biomedical Engineering, with Nitish Thakor), May 2010. Thesis: Optical Methods and Integrated Systems for Brain Imaging in Awake, Untethered Animals; Currently at: ECE Department, University of Calgary, Canada (Assistant Professor).

Mike Chi, Ph.D. Degree (UC San Diego Electrical and Computer Engineering), May 2011. Thesis: Non-contact Biopotential Sensing; Currently at: Cognionics Inc., San Diego CA (CEO and co-founder).

Mohsen Mollazadeh, Ph.D. Degree (JHU Biomedical Engineering, with Nitish Thakor), Sept. 2011. Thesis: Integrated Neural Systems and Algorithms for Analysis of Population Activity during Dexterous Hand Movements; Currently at: Apple, Cupertino CA.

Jonathan Driscoll, Ph.D. Degree (UCSD Physics, with David Kleinfeld), Nov. 2011. Thesis: Techniques in Two Photon Microscopy for Neuroscience; Currently at: Acutus Medical Inc., San Diego CA.

Theodore Yu, Ph.D. Degree (UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering), June 2012. Thesis: Biophysical Neuron and Synapse Circuits in Reconfigurable and Scalable Analog VLSI; Currently at: Apple, Cupertino CA.

Paxon Frady, Ph.D. Degree (UCSD Neurosciences, with Bill Kristan), May 2014. Thesis: Scalable Mapping of Neural Activity and Circuitry Using Voltage-Sensitive Dyes Reveals Canonical Networks in the Leech; Currently at: UCSD Division of Biological Sciences, La Jolla CA (Postdoctoral Fellow).

Omer Tal, Ph.D. Degree (UCSD Bioengineering, with Thomas Liu), May 2014. Thesis: Resting State Magnetoencephalography: Methods and Applications

Jongkil Park, Ph.D. Degree (UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering), Oct. 2014. Thesis: Large Scale Asynchronous Low-power VLSI Systems for Event-driven Sensory and Neural Processing; Currently at: ETRI, Korea (Research Scientist).

Chris Thomas, Ph.D. Degree (UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering, with Larry Larson/Jim Buckwalter), May 2015. Thesis: Advances in N-path Filtering for Broadband Tunable and Interference Robust Reception; Currently at: MaXentric (Senior Engineer).

Sohmyung Ha, Ph.D. Degree (UCSD Bioengineering), May 2016. Thesis: Silicon Integrated High-density Electrocortical Interfaces; Currently at: New York University, Abu Dhabi, UAE (Assistant Professor). Espoir Kyubwa, combined M.D.-Ph.D. Degree (Bioengineering , with Ed Callaway, Salk Institute), Ph.D. May 2016. Thesis: Optogenetic Dissection of Cell Types and Circuits in Mouse Visual Cortex.

Siddharth Joshi, Ph.D. Degree (UCSD Electrical and Computer Engineering), March 2017. Thesis: High-Fidelity Spatial Signal Processing in Low-Power Mixed-Signal VLSI Arrays; Currently at: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame IN (Assistant Professor).

Chul Kim, Ph.D. Degree (UCSD Bioengineering), Oct. 2017. Thesis: Energy-Efficient Integrated Biomedical Circuits and Systems for Unobtrusive Neural Recording and Wireless Body-Area Networks; Currently at: Department of Bioengineering, KAIST, Korea (Assistant Professor).

Chun-Shu Wei, Ph.D. Degree (UCSD Bioengineering, with Tzyy-Ping Jung), Oct. 2017. Thesis: Towards Brain Decoding for Real-World Drowsiness Detection; Currently at: Department of Neurosciences, Stanford University (Postdoctoral Fellow).

Cory Stevenson, Ph.D. Degree (UCSD Bioengineering), Dec. 2017. Thesis: Investigating Human Movement and Vision in 3-Dimensional Space; Currently at: National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (Postdoctoral Scholar).

Mieko Hirabayashi, Ph.D. Degree (UCSD-SDSU Joint Doctoral Program in Bioengineering, with Sam Kassegne), Apr. 2018. Thesis: Glassy Carbon Neural Probes for Cortical and Spinal Electrochemical and Electrophysiological Sensing and Stimulation; Currently at: Invoy, Aliso Viejo CA (Senior Engineer and Clinical Analyst)