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5.04/23/2026

Encourages students to think creatively.

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Krishna V. Shenoy was the Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor of Engineering at Stanford University in the School of Engineering. He served as Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and by courtesy in the Departments of Bioengineering, Neurobiology, and Neurosurgery in the Schools of Engineering and Medicine. Shenoy was also a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator from 2015. His academic background includes a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Irvine in 1990, a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995, and postdoctoral training as a Fellow in Neurobiology at the California Institute of Technology from 1995 to 2001. Shenoy joined the Stanford faculty as Assistant Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Neurobiology in 2001, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008, Professor in 2012, and appointed to the endowed chair in 2017. He directed the Stanford Neural Prosthetic Systems Lab, which conducted basic neuroscience and engineering research, and co-directed the Stanford Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory, overseeing clinical trials such as the FDA pilot BrainGate2 trial (NCT00912041) for intracortical brain-computer interfaces in paralysis patients.