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
Undergraduate Students
Emmy Wei
Olivia Ma
ECoG design and fabrication
Graduate Students
Emma Blenkinsop
PhD Student
Fadi Khoury
PhD Student
Spinal cord implants for SCI
Shawn Fisher
PhD Student
swfisher@ucsd.edu
Combined ECoG and LED microdisplay, wireless sEEG
Jing Gu
PhD Student
j7gu@ucsd.edu
ZnO TFTs for Tactile Pressure Sensing
Tara Porter
PhD Student | NSF Fellow
Neural interfaces for BMI
Kaushik Shukla
PhD Student
Optic nerve implants
Staff
Juhyeon Lee
Postdoctoral Scholar
jul283@ucsd.edu
Wireless multimodal neural implants
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
Jungho Yi
Postdoctoral Scholar
juy045@ucsd.edu
Multimodal neural interface devices for the central nervous system
Alumni
Ananya Achanta
Researcher at Merge Labs
B.S. Neurobiology
2026
Farid Medhat Azzazy
Engineer at Qualcomm Inc.
2014
Paul Botros
Chronosphere Inc.
2023
Andrew Bourhis
Display Panel Engineer, Apple
PhD
2025
Renjie Chen
Device Engineer, Intel Inc.
2018
Po Chun Chen
Intel
PhD
2024
Dr. Daniel Cleary
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurological Surgery, OHSU
Kevin Coffey
MS
2025
Xing Dai
Staff member at Almae Technologies, France.
2014
Mehran Ganji
Postdoc, Rice University
Valeria Gonzalez
Graduate Student at UCSD
Oscar Guerrero
Graduate Student at Stanford University
Cory Heath
2014
Lorraine Hossain
Intel
PhD
2020
Yoon-Tae Hwang
Senior Engineer at Samsung Electronics
2013
Chennupati Jagadish
Massoud L. Khraiche
Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut
Dongwoo Kim
Senior Engineer at Samsung
2023
Hao Le
Engineer at Quartus
MS
2025
ChangJun Lee
Sang Heon Lee
Avery Technologies
2020
Ren Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
2019
Adrian Luna
Engineer at SPAWAR
Phil Mages
Angel in Heaven
Martin Magno
Graduate Student at UCSD
2016
Joel Martin
2025
Keisuke Matsushita
Graduate student at UCSD
2016
Rhea Montgomery-Walsh
R&D Engineer, Psyonic
MS
2023
Michael Mullins-Jensen
Member of Technical Staff, AT&T
2014
Allen Munk
Freelance Software Developer
Binh-Minh Nguyen
Technical Staff Member at Hughes Research Labs
2014
Hongseok Oh
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Soongsil University
Namseok Park
Staff Member at Roswell Biotechnologies
Yun Goo Ro
Postdoctoral Fellow, UNIST
2020
Samantha Russman
Senior Engineer, Dexcom
PhD
2024
Timothy Searcy
Staff Member at Net Medical Xpress
Joonseop Sim
Graduate Student at UCSD
2016
Supanee Sukrittanon
Technical Staff, Intel Inc.
Ahmed Taha ElThakeb
Graduate Student at UCSD
Atsunori Tanaka
Process Integration Engineer, Intel
2019
Wei Tang
Data Scientist at A9 (Amazon)
2013
Youngbin Tchoe
Professor, UNIST
2023
Nasim Vahidi
2019
Ritwik Vatsyayan
Postdoc at UCSF
PhD
2024
Siarhei Vishniakou
Technical Staff Member at Google
2016
Tianhai Wu
PhD
2026
Gyu-Chul Yi
Professor, Seoul National University
Jinkyoung Yoo
CINT Scientist, nanoscale electronics and mechanics thrust co-leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory
2012