Spring 2017 Lab Dinner
Current Members
Principal Investigator
Jonathan Viventi
Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering
j.viventi@duke.edu
Dr. Viventi’s research uses flexible electronics to create new technology for interfacing with the brain at high resolution over large areas. These new tools can help diagnose and treat neurological disorders such as epilepsy, and help improve the performance of brain machine interfaces.
Research Scientists
PhD Students
Brinnae Bent
Ph.D. Student
brinnae.bent@duke.edu
My passion for neural engineering stems from the caregiving roles I held at an Alzheimer’s nursing home and with Cerebral Palsy of Mideast Wisconsin. In my current role in the Viventi Lab, I am working towards advancing our understanding of the brain and neurological disorders through the... More
Kay Palopoli
Ph.D. Student
kay.palopoli@duke.edu
My current work in the lab focuses on safe and effective stimulation of the brain through minimally invasive µECOG arrays. Previously, I evaluated the long term reliability of many of these arrays, manufactured through varying methods with different materials. I also test and... More
Michael Trumpis
Ph.D. Student
michael.trumpis@duke.edu
I am an electrical engineer by training, with a fondness for timeseries analysis, inverse problems, machine learning, and open source science software. As a student of timeseries, I stumbled into electrophysiology over a decade ago and have never yet gotten over the wonder of the brain's... More
Ashley Williams
Ph.D. Student
ashley.j.williams@duke.edu
My work focuses on designing novel electrode geometries and increasing the spatial density of electrode contacts of our flexible µECoG electrodes to obtain higher spatial resolution of brain activity. I am also exploring the use of materials such as Liquid Crystal Polymer and... More
Undergraduates
Alonso Trejo-Mora
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Piqued by the evolving field of electrode development, I seek to apply my Electrical and Computer Engineering background to the improvement of electrode array development and analysis. I have begun submitting batches of electrodes to Long Term Reliability testing and learning fabrication methods... More