Recent News

Congratulations Dr. Katrina Barth!

Katrina Barth successfully defended her dissertation on "Quantifying Microscale Interictal Activity from High-Resolution Cortical Recordings in Patients with Epilepsy" on July 18th, 2024. Congratulations Dr. Barth!

Congratulations Dr. Kumar Duraivel!

Kumar Duraivel successfully defended his PhD dissertation on "Quantifying spatio-temporal features of neural activity for human speech production" on July 9th, 2024. Congratulations Dr. Duraivel!

Viventi lab members present at the 2024 Neuroelectronic Interfaces Gordon Research Conference

Ruth Verinder, Iakov Rachinskiy, and Gabriella Shull all presented posters at the 2024 Neuroelectronic Interfaces Gordon Research Conference in Galveston, TX. Cecilia Schmitz, Mackenna Hill, and Katrina Barth presented posters at the Neuroelectronic...

Dr. Jonathan Viventi receives tenure!

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

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. Topics included novel neural-interfacing...

Evan Smith Receives NSF-GRFP Award

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". Other prior Viventi lab recipients...

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

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...

Dr. Ashley Williams receives IEEE-USA Congressional Fellowship

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. Williams! https://gradschool.duke.edu/about/news/engineering-phd-...

Congratulations Dr. Ashley Williams!

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

Viventi Lab Members Present at Duke Neurobiology Retreat

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

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!

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

Ashley Receives an NIH F31 Predoctoral Fellowship, 2020