Recent News
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 the Virtual SFN Annual Meeting, 2021
December 1, 2021
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.
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.
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!
Kumar Duraivel, Gabi Shull, Katrina Barth, and Iakov Rachinskiy Pass Preliminary Exams, becoming PhD Candidates, 2020
May 26, 2021
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.
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.