Neuroscience × engineering

How do we learn and maintain dexteous skills? I am a scientist, engineer, and entrepreneur building tools and approaches for recording neural activity and tracking skilled behavior to understand physically intelligent systems. I lead a small, exeptionallly talented team at Morphosis Neurotech and act as a Project Lead at Lawrence Berkeley Lab / Cyclotron Road.
Research
Nature
Stable hippocampal code for 3D navigation
2022
Cell Reports
Spatial regulation of alveolar cell fate promotes lung regeneration
2021 · Open Source Tool
Nature
Neural dynamics underlying practice and performance
2021
Nature
Hidden neural states underlie canary song syntax
2020
Light: Science & Applications
Miniscope3D: optimized single-shot miniature 3D fluorescence microscopy
2020
Nature Neuroscience
Unstable neurons underlie a stable, learned behavior
2016
PLoS Biology
Mesoscopic patterns of neural activity support songbird cortical sequences
2015
J. Neural Engineering
An open source, wireless capable miniature microscope system
2017 · Open Source Tool
IEEE NER
Local network coordination supports neuroprosthetic control
2019
J. Neural Engineering
A carbon-fiber electrode array for long-term neural recording
2013
bioRxiv
Songbird organotypic culture as an in vitro model for sparse sequencing networks
2017
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Press & Coverage
10 Years of Cyclotron Road Helping Entrepreneurs Bring Technologies to Market Berkeley Lab, 2026
Cyclotron Road Announces 2023 Cohort of Entrepreneurial Fellows Berkeley Lab, 2023
Meet the 46 New Activate Fellows Activate, 2023
Researchers resolve riddle of mammalian brain's navigation system Berkeley, 2022
Bat study may help solve puzzle about space representation HWNI, 2022
Wireless miniature microscope opens new applications BU, 2017
OpenBehavior: The FinchScope OpenBehavior, 2017
Constant song: Neural mechanisms explain vocal stability FAPESP, 2016
Song circuit contains map of space and time PLoS, 2015
Writing
Essays on motor learning, open science, and building research tools — coming soon.