PaulNuyujukianMDPhD

Research • Stanford, CA

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Stanford
Stanford, CA 94305
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Summary

I am a physician-scientist and engineer developing intracortical brain-machine interfaces. Our work encompasses both animal models and human clinical studies. These systems have potential relevance for neuroprostheses and other neurological conditions.

Education & Training

Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford UniversityNeurosurgery, 2014 - 2017
Stanford University School of MedicineClass of 2014
Stanford UniversityPhD, Bioengineering, 2006 - 2012
Stanford UniversityMS, Bioengineering, 2006 - 2011
UCLABS, 2002 - 2006

Clinical Trials

BrainGate2: Feasibility Study of an Intracortical Neural Interface System for Persons With Tetraplegia Start of enrollment: 2009 May 01
Recruiting
Not Applicable

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

2 citations
A markerless platform for ambulatory systems neuroscience.
Michael P. Silvernagel, Alissa S. Ling, Paul Nuyujukian> ;Science Robotics. 2021 Sep 8
35 citations
Decoding and perturbing decision states in real time
Diogo Peixoto, Jessica R. Verhein, Roozbeh Kiani, Jonathan C. Kao, Paul Nuyujukian, Chandramouli Chandrasekaran, Julian Brown, Sania Fong, Stephen I. Ryu, Krishna V. S...> ;Nature. 2021 Jan 20
108 citations
Deep posteromedial cortical rhythm in dissociation.
Sam Vesuna, Isaac Kauvar, Ethan B. Richman, Felicity Gore, Tomiko Oskotsky, Clara Sava-Segal, Liqun Luo, Robert C. Malenka, Jaimie M. Henderson, Paul Nuyujukian, Josef...> ;Nature. 2020 Sep 16
Publisher Correction: Brain-machine interface cursor position only weakly affects monkey and human motor cortical activity in the absence of arm movements.
Sergey D. Stavisky, Jonathan C. Kao, Paul Nuyujukian, Chethan Pandarinath, Christine H Blabe, Stephen I. Ryu, Leigh R. Hochberg, Jaimie M. Henderson, Krishna V. Shenoy> ;Scientific Reports. 2019 Mar 28
62 citations
Cortical control of a tablet computer by people with paralysis.
Paul Nuyujukian, José Albites Sanabria, Jad Saab, Chethan Pandarinath, Beata Jarosiewicz, Christine H Blabe, Brian Franco, Stephen T. Mernoff, Emad N. Eskandar, John D...> ;Plos One. 2018 Nov 21
4 citations
Brain-machine interface cursor position only weakly affects monkey and human motor cortical activity in the absence of arm movements.
Sergey D. Stavisky, Jonathan C. Kao, Paul Nuyujukian, Chethan Pandarinath, Christine H Blabe, Stephen I. Ryu, Leigh R. Hochberg, Jaimie M. Henderson, Krishna V. Shenoy> ;Scientific Reports. 2018 Nov 5
75 citations
Neural Population Dynamics Underlying Motor Learning Transfer.
Saurabh Vyas, Nir Even-Chen, Sergey D. Stavisky, Stephen I. Ryu, Paul Nuyujukian, Krishna V. Shenoy> ;Neuron. 2018 Mar 7
8 citations
Feasibility of Automatic Error Detect-and-Undo System in Human Intracortical Brain–Computer Interfaces
Nir Even-Chen, Sergey D. Stavisky, Chethan Pandarinath, Paul Nuyujukian, Christine H Blabe, Leigh R. Hochberg, Jaimie M. Henderson, Krishna V. Shenoy> ;IEEE Transactions on Bio-Medical Engineering. 2018 Aug 1
44 citations
A High-Performance Neural Prosthesis Incorporating Discrete State Selection With Hidden Markov Models
Jonathan C. Kao, Paul Nuyujukian, Stephen I. Ryu, Krishna V. Shenoy> ;IEEE Transactions on Bio-Medical Engineering. 2017 Apr 1
208 citations
High performance communication by people with paralysis using an intracortical brain-computer interface
Chethan Pandarinath, Paul Nuyujukian, Christine H Blabe, Brittany L Sorice, Jad Saab, Francis R. Willett, Leigh R. Hochberg, Krishna V. Shenoy, Jaimie M. Henderson> ;Elife. 2017 Feb 21
15 citations
A Nonhuman Primate Brain–Computer Typing Interface
Paul Nuyujukian, Jonathan C. Kao, Stephen I. Ryu, Krishna V. Shenoy> ;Proceedings of the IEEE. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. 2017 Jan 1
192 citations
Clinical translation of a high-performance neural prosthesis
Vikash Gilja, Chethan Pandarinath, Christine H Blabe, Paul Nuyujukian, John D. Simeral, Anish A. Sarma, Brittany L Sorice, János A. Perge, Beata Jarosiewicz, Leigh R. ...> ;Nature Medicine. 2015 Oct 1
113 citations
Single-trial dynamics of motor cortex and their applications to brain-machine interfaces
Jonathan C. Kao, Paul Nuyujukian, Stephen I. Ryu, Mark M. Churchland, John P. Cunningham, Krishna V. Shenoy> ;Nature Communications. 2015 Jul 29
46 citations
Neural population dynamics in human motor cortex during movements in people with ALS
Chethan Pandarinath, Vikash Gilja, Christine H Blabe, Paul Nuyujukian, Anish A. Sarma, Brittany L Sorice, Emad N. Eskandar, Leigh R. Hochberg, Jaimie M. Henderson, Kri...> ;Elife. 2015 Jun 23
82 citations
A high performing brain-machine interface driven by low-frequency local field potentials alone and together with spikes
Sergey D. Stavisky, Jonathan C. Kao, Paul Nuyujukian, Stephen I. Ryu, Krishna V. Shenoy> ;Journal of Neural Engineering. 2015 May 7
45 citations
Comparison of spike sorting and thresholding of voltage waveforms for intracortical brain-machine interface performance.
Breanne P. Christie, Derek M. Tat, Zachary T. Irwin, Vikash Gilja, Paul Nuyujukian, Justin D Foster, Stephen I. Ryu, Krishna V. Shenoy, David E. Thompson, Cynthia A. C...> ;Journal of Neural Engineering. 2015 Feb 1
37 citations
A High-Performance Keyboard Neural Prosthesis Enabled by Task Optimization
Paul Nuyujukian, Joline M. Fan, Jonathan C. Kao, Stephen I. Ryu, Krishna V. Shenoy> ;IEEE Transactions on Bio-Medical Engineering. 2015 Jan 1
4 citations
Hybrid decoding of both spikes and low-frequency local field potentials for brain-machine interfaces
Sergey D. Stavisky, Jonathan C. Kao, Paul Nuyujukian, Stephen I. Ryu, Krishna V. Shenoy> ;Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2014 Nov 6
49 citations
Performance sustaining intracortical neural prostheses.
Paul Nuyujukian, Jonathan C. Kao, Joline M. Fan, Sergey D. Stavisky, Stephen I. Ryu, Krishna V. Shenoy> ;Journal of Neural Engineering. 2014 Oct 13
40 citations
A freely-moving monkey treadmill model.
Justin D Foster, Paul Nuyujukian, Oren Freifeld, Hua Gao, Ross M. Walker, Stephen I. Ryu, Teresa H. Meng, Boris Murmann, Michael J. Black, Krishna V. Shenoy> ;Journal of Neural Engineering. 2014 Jul 4
37 citations
Self-recalibrating classifiers for intracortical brain-computer interfaces.
William Bishop, Cynthia C Chestek, Vikash Gilja, Paul Nuyujukian, Justin D Foster, Stephen I. Ryu, Krishna V. Shenoy, Byron M. Yu> ;Journal of Neural Engineering. 2014 Apr 1
49 citations
Intention estimation in brain-machine interfaces.
Joline M. Fan, Paul Nuyujukian, Jonathan C. Kao, Cynthia A. Chestek, Stephen I. Ryu, Krishna V. Shenoy> ;Journal of Neural Engineering. 2014 Jan 8
12 citations
Investigating the role of firing-rate normalization and dimensionality reduction in brain-machine interface robustness
Jonathan C. Kao, Paul Nuyujukian, Sergey D. Stavisky, Stephen I. Ryu, Surya Ganguli, Krishna V. Shenoy> ;Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Annual International Conference. 2013 Jul 3
22 citations
Design and validation of a real-time spiking-neural-network decoder for brain–machine interfaces
Julie Dethier, Paul Nuyujukian, Stephen I. Ryu, Krishna V. Shenoy, Kwabena Boahen> ;Journal of Neural Engineering. 2013 Apr 10
299 citations
A high-performance neural prosthesis enabled by control algorithm design
Vikash Gilja, Paul Nuyujukian, Cynthia A. Chestek, John P. Cunningham, Byron M. Yu, Joline M. Fan, Mark M. Churchland, Matthew T. Kaufman, Jonathan C. Kao, Stephen I. ...> ;Nature Neuroscience. 2012 Dec 1
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Press Mentions

Brain Implants Have Begun to Restore Functions, but Advances Are SlowDecember 13th, 2022
Advanced Brain-Computer Interface for People with ParalysisFebruary 12th, 2019
BrainGate Lets Paralyzed People Use Their Thoughts to Perform TasksNovember 27th, 2018
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