Current Members

Jonathan Viventi

Hawkins Family Associate Professor

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. [...]

Weizhe Huang

Associate in Research

Ryan Becker

PhD Candidate

ryan.becker860@duke.edu

I graduated from Wichita State University with a B.S. in Biology and a B.S. and M.S. in Biomedical engineering. During my undergraduate career, I worked in Dr. Kim Cluff’s biomedical sensors, imaging, modeling, and engineering (BioME) lab where I designed a multimodal spectral probe for [...]

Alex Wright

PhD Student

alex.wright@duke.edu

My curiosity about seizure detection and biomedical technologies began when my sister had a febrile seizure. This experience motivated me to pursue college at an early age. I studied biology and physics as part of the Program for the Exceptionally Gifted at Mary Baldwin University. My [...]

Ceci Schmitz

PhD Candidate

cecilia.schmitz@duke.edu

My background in electrical engineering and interest in neurological disorders fostered a curiosity about how to interact with the nervous system using medical devices. As an undergraduate, I performed data analysis research with neural sensors for electroencephalography (EEG) and [...]

Evan Smith

PhD Candidate

evan.smith@duke.edu

I am currently developing low-noise instrumentation and wireless solutions for neural interfaces. My interest in neural engineering was affirmed in serving as a research and development engineer in Duke’s Brain Stimulation Engineering Lab, following graduation from the University of North [...]

Zac Spalding

PhD Candidate

zac.spalding@duke.edu

My interests in neural engineering grew from seeing how a patient’s neural signals could be harnessed to restore motor ability to those who have lost such functions. From this, I became fascinated by how advances in signal processing enabled brain-computer interfaces to perform increasingly [...]

Ruth Verrinder

PhD Candidate

ruth.verrinder@duke.edu

I studied bioengineering at the University of California, Merced, and became interested in medical device design for neurological disorders as a junior undergraduate. As a Ph.D. student in Dr. Viventi’s lab, I am interested in developing minimally invasive, high resolution recording [...]

Richard Yang

Ph.D. Student

tianyu.yang@duke.edu

I graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with concentrations in Bioinstrumentation and Machine Vision. As an undergraduate student, I built fully-implantable chronic instrumentation systems for neural sensing and recording at the Wisconsin Institute for Neural Engineering. At Duke [...]

James Mu

Undergraduate Research Assistant

Sanjita Srinath

Undergraduate Research Assistant