Academic Faculty and Research Fellows

Research Associates

  • Dr Alejandro Pascual Valdunciel

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    Dr Alejandro Pascual Valdunciel Research Associate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    SERG Tremor Project, Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation

  • Dr Aritra Kundu

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    Dr Aritra Kundu Research Associate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Neurorehab researcher for the EPSRC funded NISNEM project. Working on electrode design, animal experiments, modelling and algorithm development. The project, with the help of partner labs at ICL, aims to develop an ultra-high-density, non-invasive interface and novel algorithms to discern single neuron activity.

  • Arnault Caillet

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    Arnault Caillet Research Associate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    ERC Natural BionicS project - Electrophysiological and computational methods for neural drive estimation and neuromusculoskeletal modelling and control

  • Ciaran McGeady

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    Ciaran McGeady Research Associate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

  • Dr. Deren Barsakcioglu

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    Dr. Deren Barsakcioglu Research Associate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    INTERSPINE: Non-Invasive, General-Purpose Interfacing With Human Spinal Motor Neurons

  • Emma R M Lubel

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    Emma R M Lubel Research Associate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Human machine interfacing using ultrasound

  • Irene Mendez Guerra

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    Irene Mendez Guerra Research Associate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Wearable surface electromyographic systems for neural interfacing

  • Dr Jaime Ibanez Pereda

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    Dr Jaime Ibanez Pereda Honorary Research Fellow

    Projects

    Natural Bionics

  • Dr Jumpei Kashiwakura

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    Dr Jumpei Kashiwakura Research Associate

    Projects

    Natural Bionics

  • Laura Ferrante

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    Laura Ferrante Research Associate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Natural BionicS: neural interfacing, prostheses control.

  • Pranav Mamidanna

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    Pranav Mamidanna Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Dr Rejin Varghese

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    Dr Rejin Varghese Research Associate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    EPSRC NISNEM (Soft-Exosuits) and ERC U-WEAR (wearable motion-capture system)

  • Dr Simos Koutsoftidis

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    Dr Simos Koutsoftidis Research Associate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Eurobench, MyolinkV3 (a part of NISNEM), EMG ASIC (main core of my PhD), Closed-loop stimulator for tremor suppression

  • Dr Tianyi Yu

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    Dr Tianyi Yu Research Associate

    Projects

    NISNEM

  • Tianyu Jia

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    Tianyu Jia Sponsored Researcher

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    BCI-based Neurorehabilitation

  • Vishal Rawji

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    Vishal Rawji Research Associate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Natural BionicS, neural constraints on human motor control, neuromotor interfacing for neurological disorders

  • Xingchen Yang

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    Xingchen Yang Research Associate

PhD Students and Research Assistants

  • Agnese Grison

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    Agnese Grison Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Neural interfaces, Subcutaneous high-density electrode arrays to connect to the human spinal cord

  • Alexander Clarke

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    Alexander Clarke Research Assistant

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

  • Balint Hodossy

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    Balint Hodossy Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Intent-driven Gait Synthesis for Simulated Assistive Technology

  • Blanka Zicher

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    Blanka Zicher Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Peripheral neural interfaces for motor augmentation

  • Bruno Grandi Sgambato

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    Bruno Grandi Sgambato Research Assistant

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Wearable Human machine interfacing using Ultrasound
    SOMA: Ultrasound peripheral interface and in-vitro model of human somatosensory system and muscles for motor decoding and restoration of somatic sensations in amputees
  • Ciara Gibbs

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    Ciara Gibbs PhD Student

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    The neural constraints on human motor control

  • Dimitrios Chalatsis

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    Dimitrios Chalatsis Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Deep Learning Techniques for Robust EMG Analysis in Cross Subject Settings

  • Emanuele Abbagnano

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    Emanuele Abbagnano Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Peripheral non-invasive brain interfacing for neurorehabilitation and motor augmentation

  • Halla Hakami

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    Halla Hakami Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Biomechanical Analysis of Body Movements of Myoelectric Prosthesis Users During Standardised Clinical Tests

  • Jiatong Jiang

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    Jiatong Jiang Research Assistant

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Optimization of Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation for Tremor Suppression

  • Joao Pereira

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    Joao Pereira Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Closed-loop brain stimulation for induction of targeted functional brain plasticity in neurological patients

  • Kourosh S Kamali

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    Kourosh S Kamali Research Assistant

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Wearable Stroke Rehabilitation Band 

  • Manasavee Yimyam

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    Manasavee Yimyam Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Neural interfacing by decoding spinal motoneuron activities in SCI patients

  • Matteo Pizzi

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    Matteo Pizzi PhD Student

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Generative models for the investigation of latent spaces during human-motor augmentation tasks

  • Megan Hutchings

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    Megan Hutchings Megan Hutchings

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Severe stroke rehabilitation using AI

  • Michael Alummoottil

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    Michael Alummoottil Research Assistant

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    EPSRC-UWEAR (wearable motion capture system) 

  • Natalia Torres-Consul

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    Natalia Torres-Consul PhD Student

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Neuromodulatory influences in motoneuron control and learning

  • Nina Merino Miralles

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    Nina Merino Miralles PhD Student

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Reinforcement Learning for Motion Synthesis in Pain and Motor Control Research

  • Noura Ezaz-Nikpay

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    Noura Ezaz-Nikpay Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Deep PDE Solvers, Muscle and brain machine interfaces

  • Patrick G Sagastegui Alva

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    Patrick G Sagastegui Alva Research Assistant

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Sensory feedback for advanced prosthesis interfacing

  • Peter Bryan

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    Peter Bryan Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    TBC

  • Rita Kharboush

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    Rita Kharboush Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Sensory feedback via spinal cord stimulation for upper-limb prosthetic users

  • Shibo Jing

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    Shibo Jing Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Locomotion Intention Recognition and Lower limb Exoskeleton control using High-density EMG

  • Shihan Ma

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    Shihan Ma Research Assistant

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Surface electromyography (sEMG) modelling

  • Shloak M Mehta

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    Shloak M Mehta Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    The Sergtech Tremor project, lower limb sensation project

  • Siyi Wu

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    Siyi Wu Research Assistant

    Location

    1st Floor
    Bessemer Building
    South Kensington Campus

    Projects

    High-performance wearable circuits and systems toward surface EMG
  • Visva Moorthy

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    Visva Moorthy Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Real-time control of soft, high-frequency actuators for tremor suppression

  • William Raftery

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    William Raftery Research Postgraduate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Multi-modal bio-signal foundation model as biomarkers for clinical use

  • Yongkun Zhao

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    Yongkun Zhao PhD Student

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    TBC

Admin

  • Chuan Ching Foo

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    Chuan Ching Foo Meta Centre Administrator

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Meta Centre

  • Mulenga Duodu

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    Mulenga Duodu Project Administrator

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Natural Bionics

Alumni

  • Dr Hsien-Yung Huang

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    Dr Hsien-Yung Huang Research Associate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    NIMA

  • Mario Bracklein

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    Mario Bracklein PhD Student

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Controlling redundant robotic systems with spinal motor neurons

  • Milia Hasbani

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    Milia Hasbani PhD Student

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    Integrating computer vision with neural interfacing for semi-autonomous control of robotic limbs

  • Dr. Silvia Muceli

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    Dr. Silvia Muceli Research Associate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    EXTEND: Bidirectional Hyper-Connected Neural System
    INPUT: Intuitive Natural Prosthesis Utilization

  • Silvia Muceli

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    Silvia Muceli Visiting Researcher

  • Dr Simon Avrillon

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    Dr Simon Avrillon Research Associate

    Location

    4th Floor
    Sir Michael Uren Hub
    White City Campus

    Projects

    BBSRC Neural Commands for Fast Movements in the Primate Motor System