People

Sabato Santaniello, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor


Research Interests:

Deep Brain Stimulation; Movement Disorders; Epilepsy; Seizure Onset Detection; Brain Computer Interface; Neural Prosthetics; Computational Neuroscience.

Education:

  • Postdoc, Johns Hopkins University
  • Ph.D., University of Sannio (Italy)
  • Laurea, University of Napoli “Federico II” (Italy)

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Stefan Sumsky

Ph.D. Candidate (Fall 2015 - now)


Research Interests:

Epilepsy; Seizure Onset Detection; Brain-Machine Interface; Computational Neuroscience.

Education:

  • B.S., University of Rochester

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Xu Zhang (Shawn)

Ph.D. Candidate (Fall 2017 - now)


Research Interests:

I am interested in identifying the mechanisms of essential tremor and Parkinsonian tremor through computational modeling, and developing novel neurostimulation protocols to treat them.

Education:

  • B.Eng. in Biomedical Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology (China)

I like playing the piano 🙂

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Undergraduate Students

I'jaaz Muhammad   BME Major - Spring 2017 Independent Study: "Neural Decoding of Kinematic Variables from Spike Trains and Local Motor Potentials"
Shaheer Hassan   BME Major - Fall 2016 / Spring 2017 Senior Design: "A Diagnostic System for Overnight Automatic Epileptogenic Zone Localization"
Paige Murphy   BME Major - Fall 2016 / Spring 2017
Adam von Paternos   BME Major - Fall 2016 / Spring 2017
Stephen Schmidt   BME Major - Fall 2016 / Spring 2017
Adam von Paternos   BME Major - Spring 2016 Independent Study: "Algorithms for Automatic Detection of Inter-Ictal Spikes in Intracranial EEG Recordings "
Megan Calabrese   BME Major - Fall 2015 / Spring 2016 Research Experience
Allison Colberg   BME Major - Fall 2015 / Spring 2016 Senior Design: "A Microcontroller-based System for Real-Time Seizure Onset
Detection in Patients with Drug-
Resistant Epilepsy"
Jamie Mierzejewski   BME Major - Fall 2015 / Spring 2016
Rebecca Newman   BME Major - Fall 2015 / Spring 2016
Edward Novikov   BME Major - Fall 2015 / Spring 2016
Juan Romero   BME Major - Fall 2015 / Spring 2016
Brooke Tornifoglio   BME Major - Fall 2015 Research Experience
Ashraf Magdum   BME Major - Summer 2015 Web development