Nishal P. Shah
@nishalpshah
Assistant Prof. at Rice Neuroengineering Initiative & ECE | Prev. Stanford NPTL / BrainGate2 & Stanford Artificial Retina | http://rice-npl.com
Super excited to start my lab @RiceNeuro and @RiceECE in January 2025 !🎆 We aim to understand the human brain using intracortical BCIs and enable new translational applications with high-dimensional read-out and write-in. Looking for awesome postdocs + grad students:…
I’m excited to present our new preprint! An intuitive, bimanual, high-throughput QWERTY touch typing neuroprosthesis for people with tetraplegia. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Amazing to see productized BCIs continuing to mature, and now working well for someone who is locked in! BCIs will improve many, many lives in the years to come.
I am the 3rd person in the world to receive the @Neuralink brain implant. 1st with ALS. 1st Nonverbal. I am typing this with my brain. It is my primary communication. Ask me anything! I will answer at least all verified users! Thank you @elonmusk!
4 yrs ago, I jumped from AI into Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) research—with almost zero neuroscience experience. Today, I'm at NPTL, one of the world's leading BCI labs, contributing to breakthroughs like restoring speech for people with ALS and developing a robust handwriting…
We're excited to announce the Brain-to-Text '25 competition, with a new intracortical speech neuroscience dataset and $9,000 in prizes generously provided by @BlackrockNeuro_!. Can you do better than us at decoding speech-related neural activity into text? kaggle.com/competitions/b…
20 years and 14 BrainGate participants - our latest preprint delivers the first systematic look at Utah array longevity, stability & decoding accuracy in people! 1/7 medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Awesome work, @Maitreyee_W !!
Our brain-to-voice synthesis brain-computer interface paper was published in @Nature today! This neuroprosthesis synthesized the voice of a man with ALS instantaneously, enabling him to ‘speak’ flexibly and modulate the prosody of his BCI-voice. 1/7 Paper: rdcu.be/eqH3C
Monitoring dynamic interactions between separate neural networks is a challenge. @RiceNeuro and @HMNeurosurgery faculty Valentin Dragoi's solution combines optogenetic stimulation and multi-electrode chamber-based EP recordings in NHPs. Read more: nature.com/articles/s4159…
Delighted to announce that the FDA has granted us approval for an IDE that allows chronic implantation of @BlackrockNeuro_ arrays for investigational use. Eager to advance our iBCI research at @UMich. Details forthcoming @umichneuro @UMBME @UMichResearch @UMengineering
Looking forward to our first seminar of the Spring semester with distinguished guest @SergeyStavisky from @ucd_neuroeng ! Should be a fascinating foray into higher-order cognitive decoding and improvements in expressive voice neuroprosthesis.
A superfun collaboration with @matthew_willsey , Donald Avansino, and others .. Big thanks to our inspirational participant T5, who always wanted to fly drones.
A BCI controlling virtual fingers is used to fly a high-performance virtual quadcopter. BCIs could allow people with paralysis to eventually play multiplayer video games with gamers who use video game controllers. @StanfordNsurg @umichneuro @UMBME nature.com/articles/s4159…
Cortical visual implant pre-print announcement! 🌠 Now out in @medrxivpreprint , together with Xing Chen, @Pieters_Tweet et al. Brain implant enterprises such as @neuralink and @Phosphoenix_BV aim to tackle some of the biggest challenges in sensory restoration, like…
Cool opportunity in a fantastic BCI group !
Looking to start off the new year with a bang? How about a postdoc position in intracortical BCIs to restore speech, as part of the @BrainGateTeam clinical trial? Come join us!! snel.ai/positions/spee…
Very elegant work!!
A new, improved version of this paper is now published at nature.com/articles/s4158… !
I'm hiring a postdoc to work with me on problems related to meta-learning and probabilistic representation learning in the brain. Perks: i) the amazing research community at @bcm_neurosci and @RiceNeuro. ii) Houston food is DELICIOUS (and cheap) jobs.bcm.edu/job/Postdoctor…
I'm super excited to share some results from the Science PRIMA retinal prosthesis clinical trial, including that it's exceeded its main efficacy endpoint with a mean acuity improvement of 4.6 EDTRS lines. Trial participants are almost completely blind due to macular degeneration.…
1/4 Check out our preprint, “Non-invasive brain-machine interface control with artificial intelligence copilots.” (biorxiv.org/content/10.110…). We demonstrate a paralyzed participant has non-invasive neural control of a cursor and a robotic arm (video: youtube.com/watch?v=SFQDkM…).
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”