Neuroprosthetics Lab | Neurological Surgery | UC Davis Health

Sergey Stavisky, Ph.D., is a neuroscientist and neuroengineer and an assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Neurological Surgery. He works at the intersection of systems and computational neuroscience, neuroengineering, and machine learning. He seeks to understand how the brain controls movements and produces language, and to use this knowledge to build brain-computer interfaces that treat brain injury and disease.

Stavisky completed his undergraduate degree at Brown University, his Ph.D. in the Stanford Neurosciences Program in the group of Krishna Shenoy, Ph.D., and his postdoc in the Stanford Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory led by Jaimie Henderson, M.D. and Shenoy.

David Brandman, M.D., Ph.D., is a board-certified neurosurgeon-scientist interested in brain computer interfaces (BCIs) to help people living with motor impairments. Brandman completed my neurosurgical training at Dalhousie University. During residency, he joined the Clinical Investigator Program and started doctoral research at Brown University. He joined the BrainGate research group, with Leigh Hochberg, M.D., Ph.D. as his supervisor. His research focused on decoding algorithms for BCIs. After graduate school, he studied with John Simeral, Ph.D. while developing software platforms for real-time neural decoding in embedded systems. 

Brandman completed his stereotactic functional / epilepsy neurosurgical fellowship at Emory University. He specializes in using neuromodulation and minimally invasive procedures to help people living with movement disorders, chronic pain, spasticity, and epilepsy.