Rate Professor Cynthia Chestek

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2010; M.S., Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 2005; B.S., Electrical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 2003.

Research Interests: Brain-machine interfaces, neural prosthetics, and neural engineering for restoring motor function.

Appointments: Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2018–present; Assistant Professor, University of Michigan, 2012–2018.

Awards: NSF CAREER Award, 2016; NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, 2017.

Publications:

• High-performance brain-machine interface for prosthetic control (Nature Biomedical Engineering, 2019)
• Neural decoding of motor cortex signals (Journal of Neural Engineering, 2015)

Additional Contributions: Director of the Cortical Neural Prosthetics Lab; collaborator on DARPA-funded neural interface projects.