Graduate Students
Dennis Bourbeau
James Hokanson
Jim earned two bachelor's degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2006. While at Wash. U. Jim worked in Dr. Daniel Moran's lab studying ECoG. He is currently studying microstimulation of primary afferents as a method of restoring sensation in amputee patients. In addition he is developing a sensory neuron model for examing the effects of stimulation in the peripheral nervous system as well as conducting experiments to support and verify the model.
Gustavo Sudre
Gustavo Sudre earned his BS degree in Computer Science at the University of Kansas in 2006. During his 4 years there, he performed research on artificial intelligence and published works in data mining and knowledge representation. One of his research goals is to build truly intelligent machines and, in the Fall of 2006, Gustavo started his PhD studies in Bioengineering (Neuroengineering track) at the University of Pittsburgh in order to study how the human brain works. Working at the RNEL, Gustavo hopes to work toward this goal as well as to help build interfaces which people with disabilities can use to enhance their mobility. His current research projects include using MEG data to investigate the influence of somatosensory input in motor cortex activity. He also works on a database and tools to manage the information used at RNEL; he also uses information theory measures to compare neural data in representing kinematics of movement.
Joost Wagenaar
James Hokanson
Jim earned two bachelor's degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis in 2006. While at Wash. U. Jim worked in Dr. Daniel Moran's lab studying ECoG. He is currently studying microstimulation of primary afferents as a method of restoring sensation in amputee patients. In addition he is developing a sensory neuron model for examing the effects of stimulation in the peripheral nervous system as well as conducting experiments to support and verify the model.
Gustavo Sudre
Gustavo Sudre earned his BS degree in Computer Science at the University of Kansas in 2006. During his 4 years there, he performed research on artificial intelligence and published works in data mining and knowledge representation. One of his research goals is to build truly intelligent machines and, in the Fall of 2006, Gustavo started his PhD studies in Bioengineering (Neuroengineering track) at the University of Pittsburgh in order to study how the human brain works. Working at the RNEL, Gustavo hopes to work toward this goal as well as to help build interfaces which people with disabilities can use to enhance their mobility. His current research projects include using MEG data to investigate the influence of somatosensory input in motor cortex activity. He also works on a database and tools to manage the information used at RNEL; he also uses information theory measures to compare neural data in representing kinematics of movement.
Joost Wagenaar