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
Staff

Dongwoo Kim
Postdoctoral Fellow
Wireless embedded system design for neural interfaces

Paul Botros
Postdoctoral Fellow

Jody Dang
IEBL Executive Director
jod006@ucsd.edu
L. Daniel Diaz-aguilar
Neurosurgery Resident
Kiefer Forseth
Neurosurgery Resident

Keundong Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow
kel024@eng.ucsd.edu
Novel laminar depth electrode arrays and addressable flexible surface ECOG/LED devices
Jacob Lujan
Faculty Assistant
jalujan@eng.ucsd.edu
Allen Munk
Software Engineer
Neural data Acquisition and Visualization Applications

Karen Tonsfeldt
Project Scientist
Intracellular Electrophysiological Investigations of SCN Neurons
Graduate Students

Rhea Montgomery-Walsh
MS Student
rmontgomerywalsh@ucsd.edu
Epidural Electrical Stimulation in the Spine

Andrew Bourhis
PhD Student
abourhis@eng.ucsd.edu
Thin Film Transistors and Circuits for High Density Recording and Stimulation from the Brain
Po Chun Chen
PhD Student
p2chen@eng.ucsd.edu
GaN growth and devices
Jing Gu
PhD student
j7gu@ucsd.edu
ZnO TFTs for Tactile Pressure Sensing
Jihwan Lee
PhD Student
j8lee@eng.ucsd.edu
ECoG, sEEG and Intracellular Neural Probes

Joel Martin
Resident Physician at Dept. Neurological Surgery

Tara Porter
PhD Student
Neural interfaces for BMI

Samantha Russman
PhD Student
srussman@eng.ucsd.edu
Spinal Cord Implants
Ritwik Vatsyayan
PhD Student
rvatsyay@eng.ucsd.edu
Safety and Applications of Electrical Stimulation in Neural Interfaces

Tianhai Wu
PhD Student
tiw026@eng.ucsd.edu
GaN and InN HEMTs; GaN LEDs in biointerfaces