Excited to share our results testing a bidirectional #BCI that provides artificial touch in a person. Tasks times were cut in half. Sharlene Flesher and John Downey led the work with a great team at RNEL, including my long-time collaborator Jen Collinger. …ence-sciencemag-org.pitt.idm.oclc.org/content/372/65…

Very proud and grateful to be a part of this work and for being able to contribute to the rapidly growing field of #bci. Thanks Jan and Nathan Copeland #NeuroTwitter #neuroscience

Volunteers from RNEL, led by Rohit Bose and Lucy Liang, recently taught an intro to #python coding course to adult students Pitt CEC Hill. We are so proud of the CEC students and our volunteers for completing this course! (1/4)

Amazing work Maria Jantz. Very well deserved award!

Congratulations to Ritesh Kumar for defending his PhD thesis this week! It was an incredibly cool project on direct stimulation of the bladder. Thanks Ripple Neuro and SPARC.science for support. I'm looking forward to watching the career of another amazing RNEL grad.

We're #hiring! RNEL is looking for a talented #SoftwareEngineer to join our #BrainComputerInterface team University of Pittsburgh. Please apply if you're interested in using your #programming skills for #neuroengineering research in a great work environment! 🧠💻🦾💛💙cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/…

New paper now out at JNE! Bladder control is one of those things you don't think about much until it's gone, but it then becomes a huge priority. (1/4)

SPARC’s open, online, #simulationplatform o²S²PARC enables ZMT, a Swiss-based #Medtech company, to release S4L lite, a web-based version of their advanced commercial Sim4Life desktop #computationalplatform, FREE for students and teaching! @NIH_commonfund bit.ly/3S6zepl

Check out this excellent new work by Marc Powell, PhD , Nikhil Verma, Erynn Sorensen et al. exploring the use of #SpinalCordStimulation to improve upper limb function after chronic #stroke hemiparesis. ⚡️💪💙💛

Can a #robot arm be controlled by the #brain? Our Science Magazine paper about bidirectional #BCI was adapted into a #STEMeducation lesson plan for #teaching future neuroscientists and engineers. 🦾🧠⚡️👩‍🔬 sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/can-a…

sliman bensmaia (@[email protected]) was a great collaborator, scientist, mentor, and friend. His enthusiasm for science, and life in general, was unmatched. We will miss him greatly. Our thoughts are with his family, friends, and colleagues.

Congratulations to Dr. Jantz (Maria Jantz). It was a fantastic thesis and defense. Another graduate of RNEL who will do amazing things!

Check out this work from Joel Ye on multicontext pre-training of a deep neural network for brain-computer interfaces! Neural data from multiple sessions, subjects, and tasks can be combined in the same model.

Check this out. A huge effort by Joel Ye to bring together 2000 hours of neural recordings from multiple labs to test ideas in neural data scaling and large models! Thanks to all the data contributors too!

.Michigan Medicine University of Pittsburgh Pitt Innovates McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine @Pittengineering Pitt Alumni Association Pitt Panthers Pitt Public Health Pitt Health Sciences Rasu Shrestha MD MBA Barack Obama Thank you! The votes are in and UPMC/University of Pittsburgh's research has been named the No. 1 #innovation in #STATMadness 🏆 #UPMCinnovates #H2P

The polio vaccine. The father of transplantation. A paralyzed man feeling again. Now, the future of immunotherapy. Get the full story here: bit.ly/2H8xJ54

Registration and abstract submission is open for the Neural Interfaces Conference. This is a great meeting covering state-of-the-art in neural interfacing. June in Minneapolis! neuralinterfacesconference.org

At Recording of Science Friday Live with my daughter. #ScienceFriday