People
Faculty

Professor & Principal Investigator/Director for IEBL
sdayeh@eng.ucsd.edu
Novel and Clinical Devices for Interfacing with the Brain and Spine; Gallium Nitride Materials and Devices
Graduate Students

Fadi Khoury
PhD Student

Suhyun Kim
PhD Student

Andrew Bourhis
PhD Student | NSF Fellow
abourhis@eng.ucsd.edu
TFTs and Circuits for High Density Neural Recording and Stimulation

Kevin Coffey
MS Student
kecoffey@ucsd.edu
Optic nerve electrodes

Shawn Fisher
PhD Student
swfisher@ucsd.edu
Combined ECoG and LED microdisplay
Jing Gu
PhD Student
j7gu@ucsd.edu
ZnO TFTs for Tactile Pressure Sensing

Hao Le
MS Student
Embedded system design

ChangJun Lee
Visiting Graduate | PhD Student
lchangjun@ucsd.edu
Combined μEcoG+μLED interface for CNS and ENS

Joel Martin
Resident Physician at Dept. Neurological Surgery

Tara Porter
PhD Student | NSF Fellow
Neural interfaces for BMI
Kaushik Shukla
PhD Student
Spinal Cord Implants

Tianhai Wu
PhD Student
tiw026@eng.ucsd.edu
GaN and InN HEMTs; GaN LEDs in biointerfaces
Staff
L. Daniel Diaz-aguilar
Neurosurgery Resident

Kiefer Forseth
Neurosurgery Resident

Wonjae Jeon
Visiting Scholar
wonjae7302@gmail.com
Sub-Q Unit Enclosure and BMI Device Fabrication
Hyeonseok Kim
Postdoctoral Scholar
hyk076@ucsd.edu

Keundong Lee
Visiting Scholar
kel024@eng.ucsd.edu
Novel laminar depth electrode arrays and addressable flexible surface ECOG/LED devices
Jihwan Lee
Visting Scholar
j8lee@eng.ucsd.edu
Jacob Lujan
Faculty Assistant
jalujan@eng.ucsd.edu

Karen Tonsfeldt
Project Scientist
Intracellular Electrophysiological Investigations of SCN Neurons
Ritwik Vatsyayan
Postdoctoral Scholar
rvatsyay@eng.ucsd.edu
Safety and Applications of Electrical Stimulation in Neural Interfaces

Jungho Yi
Postdoctoral Scholar
juy045@ucsd.edu
Multimodal neural interface devices for the central nervous system