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
Chunxiu Yu
Research Scientist
Chunxiu Yu is a research scientist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering working with Dr. Jonathon Viventi and Dr. Warren Grill. Her work in the Viventi’s lab focuses on examining the long-term recording stability of chronically implanted micro-electrocorticography (µECoG) arrays in freely... More
Postdoctoral Fellows
Virginia Woods
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
virginia.woods@duke.edu
My research focuses on device reliability and high-density stimulation strategies for implantable medical devices. I have training in bioengineering and neuroscience through my undergraduate engineering program, and a PhD in biomedical engineering. My broader academic interests include analog... More
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
Hello, I’m Kay, an undergraduate senior. I’m majoring in Biomedical Engineering, with a Bioelectricity concentration, as well as earning a certificate in Genome Sciences and Policy. My main focus in lab is electrode testing. Specifically, I evaluate the long term reliability of µECOG arrays... 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