We are excited to announce the newest Flatiron Institute center, the Center for Computational Neuroscience. Led by computational neuroscientist Eero Simoncelli, CCN will use & develop comp. models to understand how brains work. Follow @FlatironCCN for updates! simonsfoundation.org/2021/01/26/eer…

Our Nature Communications paper is out. We find a multiscale low-dim dynamical mode shared in spiking and LFP activity that explains naturalistic reach-and-grasp behavior. First-authored by my student Salar Abbaspour, collaboration with Pesaran Lab, Summary & code👇: 1/n nature.com/articles/s4146…

The MATLAB code to learn a multiscale dynamical latent state model for spike-LFP is at github.com/ShanechiLab/mu…. We are excited to see how others might use our algorithm and results in their research. #neurotechnology #brain #MachineLearning USC Viterbi School USC ECE 11/n

Our paper is out Nature Communications! Huge shoutout to my PhD advisor Maryam Shanechi for her unconditional support and supervision. Also big thanks to the coauthors Yan Wong, Mahdi, and particularly Bijan Pesaran/Pesaran Lab for their much needed vision & contributions. Summary:👇

BRAIN Initiative grantee Maryam Shanechi and her team have created tools to predict the effect electrical stimulation will have on brain activity across multiple regions. The tools were then successfully demonstrated in actual brain stimulation experiments tinyurl.com/y6lzbpb8

We all see the finished product but there is much that goes #BehindThePaper. I wrote the story of the past 6 years that led to our new Nature Biomedical Engineering paper, how it can enable closed-loop #DBS therapies, other related advances we've made & the road ahead. Story: go.nature.com/3oL0TvI

Tomorrow 12pm EST NYU Center for Neural Science online/open Swartz Seminar by Dr. Christopher Harvey harveylab.hms.harvard.edu – hosted by Prof. Bijan Pesaran Bijan Pesaran pesaranlab.org here -> crowdcast.io/e/christopher-… Vishwa Goudar xjwanglab World Wide Neuro 🧠🗺️

Thrilled to share our latest work out today in Neuron using functional #ultrasound (fUS) neuroimaging to decode movement from single trials in non-human primates 🐒 - a new benchmark for fUS & a precursor to closed-loop #BCI. authors.elsevier.com/c/1cnFe3BtfGzj… #tweetprint 🧵 1/n

Grateful to NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for new R01 award to build Model-based neural control #neurotechnology for #brain stimulation in neuropsychiatric disorders Look forward to working w/Co-I’s ChangLabUCSF Katherine Scangos! #personalized #DBS #MachineLearning USC Viterbi School viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2021/04/m…

Huge congratulations to my brilliant PhD student & now postdoc Omid Sani for winning the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award at USC Viterbi School School of Engineering!👏🎉Testament to his amazing contributions to neuroengineering & computational neuroscience! #ProudPI USC ECE

Thank you U.S. National Science Foundation for this recognition and support of our ideas. I look forward to sharing the discoveries this CAREER award will allow my team and me to make!

I'm presenting RNN PSID @#SfN21. We find strikingly consistent results on nonlinearities in neural-behavioral data across multiple independent datasets (+more). Preprint & SfN video are out, happy to answer Qs on Mon🕝CST. w Bijan Pesaran & Maryam Shanechi biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Thurs 2:30-3:30 CST @#SfN21 P538.06, my postdoc Omid Sani will present RNN PSID: A new nonlinear dynamic modeling framework that can learn & dissect nonlinearities & their origin in behaviorally relevant neural dynamics biorxiv.org/content/10.110… collab w/Bijan Pesaran

My Neuromatch talk about RNN PSID is now on YouTube. Happy to answer any Qs in the discord channel: discord.com/channels/89571… (link works once u join the server, info is on #nmc4 website) w Bijan Pesaran & Maryam Shanechi 📖Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… youtu.be/NLmWqg8bKRo

New paper out today in Neuron led by Ashley Feinsinger👇 Neuroethics of working with patients who have intracranial electrodes to advance 🧠 research Honored to be a part of this growing area of research & community authors.elsevier.com/c/1eRo53BtfGzl…

Announcing the 2022 Big Brain Imaging Workshop (postponed from 2020), hosted by Nemonic-hub and BU_Neurophotonics will take place on April 7-8 at Boston University and online. Please spread the word! Info/registration: bit.ly/3uDt1HG

Great Summer School on Primate Cognitive Neuroscience (PCN 2022) will take place Jul 24 - Aug 05, 2022 in Bad Bevensen, Germany. Open for PhD students and early postdocs working in Primate Systems Neurophysiology. Application deadline: May 6, 2022. Check: tinyurl.com/5n6vween

Professor Bijan Pesaran of NYU's Center for Neural Science NYU Center for Neural Science in this month's issue of Nature on How Our Gaze is “Anchored” in the Brain. nature.com/articles/s4158…

GRINtrode: A neural implant for simultaneous two-photon imaging and extracellular electrophysiology in freely moving animals biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_neursci

The University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychology has a faculty search this year as part of a thematic cluster on "The Interconnected Mind." The posting just went live, please spread the word! Details here: apply.interfolio.com/116346