Recent News

Dr. Jonathan Viventi receives tenure!

December 22, 2023

In May 2023, Dr. Jonathan Viventi became a tenured professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. Congratulations to Jon!

Viventi Lab Presents at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2023

December 22, 2023

Mackenna Hill, Iakov Rachinskiy, Katrina Barth, Kumar Duraivel, Gabi Shull, Ceci Schmitz, Zac Spalding, and Evan Smith presented research at the Society for Neuroscience (SFN) Annual Meeting 2023 in Washington DC.

Evan Smith Receives NSF-GRFP Award

April 17, 2023

Congratulations to Evan Smith for receiving the National Science Foundation - Graduate Research Fellowship Program award. The GRFP "recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported disciplines".

Viventi Lab Presents at the 2022 Division of Translational Brain Sciences, DCEC, and Neurology Residents Research Symposium

November 8, 2022

Kumar Duraivel, Katrina Barth, and Winnie Lu presented posters at the 2022 Duke Division of Translational Brain Sciences, Duke Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, and Neurology Residents Research Symposium. Katrina Barth's poster was awarded Best Clinical Poster. 

Dr. Ashley Williams receives IEEE-USA Congressional Fellowship

July 12, 2022

This Fall 2022, Dr. Ashley Williams will head to Washington, DC to begin work advising our legislatures in science policy under the IEEE-USA Congressional Fellowship. Congrats to Dr.

Congratulations Dr. Ashley Williams!

July 12, 2022

Congratulations to Ashley for successfully defending her thesis - "Analysis of uECoG Design Elements for Optimized Signal Acquisition".

Viventi Lab Members Present at Duke Neurobiology Retreat

December 1, 2021

Gabi Shull, Iakov Rachinskiy, Katrina Barth, and Kumar Duraivel all present research posters at the Duke Nueorbiology retreat poster session. 

Dr. Ken Chiang Wins the BME 2020-2021 Dissertation Award

May 26, 2021

Ken wins the BME department award for his dissertation - "Developing Chronically Reliable, High-Resolution, Flexible Neural Interfaces for Human and Animal Research

Congratulations Dr. Ken Chiang!

May 26, 2021

Ken has successfully defended his thesis "Developing Chronically Reliable, High-Resolution, Flexible Neural Interfaces for Human and Animal Research." Here he is celebrating with his thesis hat and champagne!

Gabi Presents a Poster at the NIH Brain Initiative Investigator's Meeting, 2019

May 26, 2021

Gabi presented a poster on her design and simulation of a 16,000+ channel active micro-ECoG array.

Katrina Barth Presents at American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting, 2019

May 26, 2021

Katrina Barth presented a poster on the design of implantable LCP micro-ECoG arrays at the American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting in 2019. 

Viventi Lab Members Present at Society for Neuroscience Conference, 2019

May 26, 2021

Ken Chiang, Ashley Williams, Gabi Shull, Iakov Rachinskiy, and Kumar Duraivel all presented posters at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference (2019) in Chicago. 

PhD Candidates Ashley and Brinnae Present at EMBC

August 22, 2018

Ashley Williams and Brinnae Bent presented their conference papers (listed below) at the EMBC conference in July. The papers were presented in the Neural Interface Session.

Congratulations Dr. Michael Trumpis!

May 3, 2018

We would like to congratulate Dr. Michael Trumpis on his successful defense of "Quantifying High Dimensional Recordings of Neural Surface Potentials".

Dr. Jonathan Viventi awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award

April 9, 2018

Jonathan Viventi, an assistant professor in the department of biomedical engineering at Duke University, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.

High School Student McKenzy Heavlin places second in research presntation at NCSEF Region 3b Science and Engineering Fair

February 8, 2018

McKenzy Heavlin, a current high school senior at NCSSM, presented his research at the NCSEF Region 3b Science and Engineering Fair, hosted by NCSSM on Monday, Feb. 5.

Viventi Lab Presents at National BMES Meeting

October 17, 2017

Jon, Ken, Mike, Ashley, Brinnae, and Kay traveled to Phoenix, AZ for the National Biomedical Engineering Society Conference (BMES).

PhD Student Brinnae Bent awarded Steven W. Smith Fellowship

August 31, 2017

Congratulations to PhD Student Brinnae Bent who has received the Steven W. Smith Second Year Fellowship!

PhD Student Ashley Williams awarded NIH Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research

August 3, 2017

Congratulations to PhD Student Ashley Williams who has been awarded an NIH Fellowship to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research within the national BRAIN Initiative!

Supplying Neuroscience Laboratories with Tomorrow’s Brain Interfaces

January 6, 2017

Jonathan Viventi, assistant professor of biomedical engineering and neurology at Duke, has received a three-year, $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative. See more: [...]

Positions Available

October 12, 2016

PhD student and postdoctoral positions are available immediately – See our Positions page for details.