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Sept 2026
Haojun passes the EECS prelims! Congrats Haojun!
August 2026
Our collaborative work with the Arias lab on using carbon-nanotube thin film electrodes for stable, multi-day sEMG is published in Nature Communications! Congrats to all authors!
link to paper!
August 2026
Woohyun wins a Weill Award for Translational Scientists in the Neurosciences! Congrats Woohyun!
August 2026
Maithreya, Sanjana, and Ani join the lab as undergrad research assistants! Welcome!
July 2026
Preeya is named a 2026 Hellman Faculty fellow! Thank you to the Hellman family for supporting our work!
July 2026
Preeya is awarded the 2026 Rose Hills Innovator grant for developing next-generation brain-machine interfaces!
rose hills innovator program
July 2026
Hanna presents kinematics tracking work at EMBC in Toronto! Congrats Hanna!
July 2026
Labs first paper on a hand kinematics tracking wearable is published in Sensors! Congrats Tom, Hanna, Phil, Zeyad!
link to paper!
May 2026
Haojun commits to the Berkeley EECS PhD program! Congrats Haojun!
April 2026
Beautiful day for kayaking on the Bay!
Nov 2025
Many lab departures: Shivam goes to Brown to start a PhD, Phil goes to Science to make science fiction reality. Thank you both so much for your contributions to the lab -- we will miss you!
Nov 13, 2025
Preeya presents at IEEE NER 2025 on the ISMORE project -- paper wins best paper award!
link to paper!
Oct 1, 2025
Natalie Koh joins the lab as a postdoc scholar. Welcome Natalie!
Sept 30, 2025
Pizza / boba day :)
Sept 15, 2025
Weill Neurohub Next Great Ideas project focused on personalized hand-tracking devices with Chet Moritzs lab at UW is funded! Thanks to the Weill Neurohub!
link
Sept 2, 2025
Hanna passes EECS prelims! Congrats Hanna!
Sept 1, 2025
We are part of a new Weill Neurohub Pillars project with UCSF, UW, and UC Berkeley colleagues: Engineering non-invasive therapeutic technologies for stroke and addiction
link
August 8, 2025
Preeyas paper on global vs local beta bursts in sensorimotor cortex during stroke recovery is published!
link
July 2025
Lab dinner / lab hotpot!
July 7, 2025
Our lab wins the 2025 Rennie Fund for the Study of Epilepsy -- thanks HWNI!
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June 26, 2025
Vidhi passes quals! Congrats Vidhi -- first lab PhD candidate!
Jan 1, 2025
Brayden joins the lab as a research engineer -- welcome Brayden!
Dec 4, 2024
Preeya gives the EECS Colloquim
watch here!
Nov 2, 2024
Lab kayaking on the Bay !
Oct 8, 2024
The lab recieves a NIH New Innovator Award!
read more!
Oct 8, 2024
First lab poster from Woohyun, Shivam, and Tom presented at Society for Neuroscience in Chicago!
October 2024
Hanna joins the lab after her rotation -- welcome Hanna!
June 2024
Welcome summer undergrads Yash, Zeyad, Phil and research scholar Tom!
May 21, 2024
The lab receives a seed grant from the Brain Research Foundation. Thanks BRF!
May 2, 2024
Vidhi joins the lab -- welcome Vidhi!
April 9, 2024
Lab lunch in the sun :)
April 1, 2024
The lab receives the R00 part of the NIH BRAIN initiative K99/R00!
March 29, 2024
The lab receives a Google Research Scholar award. Thanks Google!
read more!
Feb 20, 2024
Preeya is named a 2024 Sloan Research Fellow. Thanks to the Alfred P. Sloan foundation for supporting our work!
Feb 19, 2024
First lab baby born and she is a thinker
Dec 14, 2023
Lab dinner at Viks Chaat in Berkeley!
Nov 14, 2023
Preeya and Behrazs work on coordinated cortical-subcortical beta burst dynamcis during recovery from stroke is presented at SFN 2023
Oct 7, 2023
First lab hike in Tilden park, followed by lunch @ Cheeseboard !
Oct 2, 2023
Woohyuns first day in the lab -- welcome Woohyun!
Sept 20, 2023
Preeya wins the Young Investigator Award and gives a talk at the SimCo conference in Chicago. Thanks for the support and the opportunity to speak, SimCo!
Sept 14, 2023
Our first lab meeting!
Sept 12, 2023
Shivams first day in the lab -- welcome Shivam!
July 26, 2023
We win a UC Berkeley Spark Grant to support our project on hand kinematics! Thanks for the support, Berkeley
July 14, 2023
Reece starts his rotation in the lab -- welcome Reece!
July 3, 2023
The Sensorimotor Neural Engineering lab opens its doors at UC Berkeley!
July 3, 2023
Preeya and Viveks BMI dynamics paper comes out in Current Biology!
June 9, 2023
Preeya and Toms hand kinematics paper comes out in Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair!