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Roy Lycke (2012-07/2014)

Roy Lycke graduated with a B.S. and a M.S. in computer engineering from the Iowa State University in 2011 and 2012 respectively. At Iowa State he worked with Dr. Santosh Pandey in bioengineering and the analysis of C. elegans. He desires to bring his engineering perspective to the field of brain machine interfaces and neuroprostheses. […]

Derrick McKee

Derrick McKee is an undergraduate working in the laboratory. He has a degree in physics from Carnegie Mellon and is currently pursuing a computer science degree.

Ryan Slabaugh

Ryan Slabaugh is a junior in the College of Science majoring in Biology. He joined the NPR Lab team in January 2011. He is interested in researching the rat model of Parkinson’s disease. Ryan hopes to gain entry into IU Medical School and become a general surgeon.

Alan Truong (2010 – 07/2014)

Alan Truong completed his B.S. in Bioengineering at the University of Utah in 2010. Currently he is pursuing a PhD in Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. He joined the Neuroprostheses Research Laboratory in the fall of 2010 and is currently involved in Parkinson’s disease research.

Ryan Verner (2013-07/2014)

Ryan Verner completed his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in December of 2012. During his undergraduate studies, he worked in the Electrical and Optical Neuroimaging Lab under Dr. Linda Larson-Prior and in Dr. Daniel Moran’s Brain-Computer Interfacing Lab. A majority of his research focused on ECoG data analysis in humans […]

Max Youngs

Max Youngs is studying biomedical engineering as an undergraduate student. His research contributions focus in optimal parameters for neural microstimulation. He joined the NPR lab in the fall of 2012. He received College of Engineering Dean’s Choice Award at 2013 Purdue University Undergraduate Poster Competition (primary author: M Youngs)

Johnny Zhang

Johnny Zhang is a senior in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. He joined the NPR Lab in the summer of 2012 as part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Experience. He was accepted into the BS/MS program and will continue researching in the lab for his Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering.

November 2014: Dr. Otto quoted as expert on neuroprostheses in Nature news article

Dr. Kevin Otto was recently quoted in a Nature news  article titled, “Artificial arms get closer to the real thing”. Powered prosthetic hands and arms have advanced little in the last 50 years. Their appearance and structure have improved, but advances in underlying function and control have been harder to come by. In a pair […]