02/09/2024 Our PNAS paper on disentangling intrinsic and input-driven brain dynamics is now published. Read the USC Viterbi Story here.
01/24/2024 Our paper made the cover of Nature Biomedical Engineering. It presents an AI algorithm that achieves real-time flexible inference for neurotechnology.
01/01/2024 Maryam Shanechi is elevated to IEEE Fellow.
12/11/2023 Our Nature Biomedical Engineering paper on neural network models with dynamical flexible inference for brain data is now published. Read the USC story here. Read the Nature Behind the Paper Story here.
12/11/2023 Our Journal of Neural Engineering paper on unsupervised learning of stationary and switching dynamical systems from Poisson observations is now published.
11/28/2023 Our Journal of Neural Engineering paper on multimodal subspace identification for discrete-continuous signals is now published.
10/23/2023 Our work at the interface of AI and mental health is highlighted by Psychology Today here.
09/19/2023 Our Journal of Neural Engineering paper on decoding confidence from human EEG activity is not published.
07/26/2023 Maryam Shanechi is named Blavatnik National Awards Finalist, read USC’s story here.
07/01/2023 Maryam Shanechi is appointed to a Dean’s Professorship.
05/22/2023 Our Nature Neuroscience paper on decoding chronic pain from human intracranial brain activity is now published.
05/05/2023 Maryam Shanechi is promoted to Full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Biomedical Engineering with tenure.
11/04/2022 Our work on AI-based neurotechnology for brain disorders is highlighted by MIT Technology Review.
10/19/2022 Our Journal of Neural Engineering paper on switching dynamical systems with multiscale spike-field observations is now published.
08/24/2022 Maryam receives the One Mind Rising Star Award. Read USC’s highlight here.
04/06/2022 Maryam receives the MINS Rising Star Award from the University of Pennsylvania.
03/29/2022 Maryam spoke at MARS 2022 conference, hosted by Jeff Bezos, about next generation neurotechnology. See video highlights here.
03/07/2022 Our Journal of Neural Engineering paper on modeling multiscale causality in spiking and field-potential networks is now published.
12/21/2021 Our eLife Insight article is now out.
09/24/2021 We are awarded a new NSF CRCNS grant to study the neural basis of naturalistic movements.
05/07/2021 Best Doctoral Dissertation Award at USC Viterbi School of Engineering is awarded to Omid Sani, former PhD student and current postdoc in the lab. Congratulations Omid!
04/16/2021 Our paper on modeling brain network dynamics during stimulation is the cover article for the April issue of Nature Biomedical Engineering here.
04/06/2021 We received an R01 grant from NIH/NIMH to work toward “model-based neural control of brain stimulation for neuropsychiatric disorders”. Read USC story here.
03/03/2021 Maryam Shanechi is promoted to Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with Tenure.
02/01/2021 Our Nature Biomedical Engineering paper is now published here. We demonstrate the ability to model & predict the dynamic response of multiregional brain networks to ongoing electrical stimulation. Read the USC Viterbi story here.
01/27/2021 Our Nature Communications paper is now published here. We develop novel multiscale dynamical models and discover a multiscale low-dimensional dynamical mode shared in spiking and LFP population activity that explains naturalistic reach-and-grasp behavior. Read the USC Viterbi story here.
01/20/2021 Maryam Shanechi will receive the 2021 Curtis W. McGraw Research Award of the American Society for Engineering (ASEE), given to one person each year across all domains of engineering at the assistant and associate professor levels.
11/16/2020 Our Nature Neuroscience paper on a new dynamic method that can dissociate and model behaviorally relevant neural dynamics is now published here. Read the USC story here.
10/06/2020 Maryam Shanechi received the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award. Read more here.
11/07/2019 Maryam Shanechi received the Mid-Career Achievement Award from the University of Toronto. Read more here.
10/02/2019 Maryam Shanechi is selected by Science News in the SN10 list of 10 Scientists to Watch. Read more here.
09/24/2019 My Nature Neuroscience perspective article on brain-machine interfaces and how they can extend to the neuropsychiatric domain is now published online here.
09/22/2019 Our work on BCIs for neuropsychiatric disorders is a winner of the 2019 international BCI award. Congratulations to my students Yuxiao Yang and Omid Sani and the entire team! Read more here.
08/22/2019 Our Journal of Neural Engineering paper on a new method for detecting events from population spike trains is now online here.
05/17/2019 Our papers published in Nature Biotechnology and Journal of Neural Engineering are featured by the IEEE Spectrum here.
05/17/2019 Our Journal of Neural Engineering paper on estimating functional connectivity in spike-field networks is now published online here.
05/16/2019 Our Journal of Neural Engineering paper on dynamic network modeling for human ECoG activity is now published online here.
04/25/2019 Our IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering paper develops an unsupervised method to learn multiscale dynamical models for spike-field activity and is now published online here.
04/23/2019 Maryam Shanechi receives the USC Viterbi Junior Research Award.
03/29/2019 Our IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering paper on how to compute multiscale causality graphs in spike-field networks is now published here.
03/18/2019 The joint meeting for two international MURI and BARI initiatives led by Maryam Shanechi is highlighted here.
03/11/2019 Our Journal of Neural Engineering paper on a personalized closed-loop brain interface system for anesthetic delivery is now published online here.
02/15/2019 We held a joint meeting for our MURI and BARI programs at USC with over 60 international experts from academia and government labs in US and UK. Led by Maryam Shanechi, MURI started in 2016 to develop brain-machine interfaces (BMIs) for enhanced decision accuracy and BARI was just kicked off to develop human-AI teams for joint decision making, funded by US DoD and UK MoD. Read more here.
02/11/2019 Science News has featured two of our papers published in Nature Biotechnology and Journal of Neural Engineering in an article about recent advances toward electrical stimulation treatments for depression here.
12/19/2018 Maryam Shanechi receives the ONR Young Investigator Award announced here.
10/24/2018 Our paper on multiscale decoding of spike-field activity is now published in Journal of Neural Engineering here.
10/11/2018 Our mood decoding paper is the cover article for the October issue of Nature Biotechnology here.
09/25/2018 DoD announces our new joint US-UK BARI program to build human-machine teams here.
09/17/2018 Our Journal of Neural Engineering paper on a computational framework for modeling the brain response to electrical stimulation is now published here.
09/11/2018 Read the “Behind the paper” story in Nature Communities about our new Nature Biotechnology mood decoding paper here.
09/10/2018 Our Nature Biotechnology paper on neural decoding of mood is now published here and the USC News Story is here. See also excerpts from Select Media Coverage: New Scientist, The Wall Street Journal, New Atlas
09/06/2018 We won the multi-institutional US-UK Bilateral Academic Research Initiative (BARI) award to work at the interface of AI and brain-machine interfaces.
06/29/2018 Watch Maryam’s invited lecture at the NAS Kavli Frontiers of Science on Brain-Machine Interfaces here.
06/27/2018 Our research is featured in the IEEE’s The Institute publication here.
06/23/2018 Maryam Shanechi is elected to the grade of IEEE senior member.
06/15/2018 IEEE Brain Initiative 2-part podcast series with Maryam Shanechi discussing brain-machine interfaces is now available here.
5/29/2018 Our PLoS Computational Biology paper on optimizing the learning rate in adaptive estimation of neural encoding models and decoders is now published here.
7/19/2017 Maryam will chair a session at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 2018 Kavli Frontiers of Science Symposium on “Brain-Machine Interfaces”. Read more here.
3/11/2017 Maryam will co-chair a session at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 2017 Frontiers of Engineering conference on “Unraveling the complexity of the brain”. Read more here.
3/10/2017 Our lab receives a DURIP award from ARO to develop brain-machine interfaces.
1/6/2017 Our new Nature Communications paper develops a brain-machine interface that significantly outperforms the existing state-of-the-art in neuroprosthetics. The work is featured in USC Viterbi news here.
12/14/2016 Our paper on brain-machine interface control algorithms is now published online in IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering here.
11/06/2016 Our Journal of Neural Engineering paper on a generalizable closed-loop system for control of anesthesia is now published here.
08/23/2016 We held our joint US/UK MURI kick-off meeting at USC with participation from academia, DoD labs, and UK MoD. Our program is now officially launched. See the page for our MURI for more information.
04/18/2016 My lab is awarded a joint US/UK multidisciplinary MURI grant to lead a multi-institutional collaboration that aims to build brain-machine interfaces for enhanced decision accuracy. Read more: USC news here , Viterbi news here, Press release here.
04/01/2016 Our PLoS Computational Biology paper on robust brain-machine interface design is now available here.
09/23/2015 Maryam Shanechi is recognized as one of the Popular Science Brilliant 10. Read more here.
08/26/2015 Our paper first authored by Yuxiao Yang in the IEEE EMBC is selected as the geographic finalist from North America, and is announced as a winner of the best student paper competition. Congratulations Yuxiao! Read more here.
06/25/2015 Maryam Shanechi is selected by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for the 2015 US Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) symposium. Read more here.
04/28/2015 NSEIP lab recieves an inaugural Cal-BRAIN Award as part of California’s new grant program to develop neurotechnologies that revolutionize the understanding of the brain. Read more here.
04/27/2015 Maryam Shanechi is appointed as the inaugural holder of a Viterbi Early Career Chair.
02/03/2015 Maryam Shanechi receives the NSF CAREER Award. Read the USC news story here.
12/23/2014 Our research has been selected by Google Solve for X as a “Tech Moonshot“. You can see our moonshot page and video here.
09/24/2014 Watch a 3 minute video summarizing our research at the MIT Technology Review EmTech conference here.
08/19/2014 Maryam Shanechi is selected as a Pioneer in the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 list for her work on brain-machine interfaces. See the MIT Technology Review story here and the USC story here.
05/17/2014 Our paper on a brain-machine interface for control of medical coma wins the best paper award in Technology, Computing, and Simulation at the 2014 International Anesthesia Research Society (IARS) annual meeting.
02/18/2014 Our Nature Communication paper on a cortical-spinal prosthesis is now online and has been highlighted in various media outlets including Cornell Chronicle, BBC news, and Le Monde.
10/31/2013 Our PLoS Computational Biology paper on a brain-machine interface for automatic control of anesthesia is now online and has been highlighted in various media outlets including Cornell Chronicle, MIT news, and NBC news.
04/10/2013 Our PLoS ONE paper on a brain-machine interface to jointly decode the target and trajectory of movement using an optimal feedback control design is now online.
11/11/2012 Our Nature Neuroscience paper on a brain-machine interface for enhanced sequential motor function is now online and has been highlighted in various outlets including Nature, MIT EECS News, and Discovery News.
10/02/2012 Our IEEE TNSRE paper on a decoder for goal-directed movements from neural signals is now online.