Krishna V. Shenoy (1968-2023) was an American

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and neuroengineer at Stanford University. Shenoy focused on motor and

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, brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and

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. Throughout his lifetime, he published over 140 journal articles. On 21 January 2023, he passed away after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

Research

Shenoy obtained a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from

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(1987-1990) and a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from

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(1990-1995). He was then a postdoctoral fellow in Neurobiology at

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(1995-2001)

In 2001, Shenoy joined th
Department of Electrical Engineering
at Stanford University as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 and to Full Professor in 2012. In 2017 he was appointed as the inaugural Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim (endowed chair) Professor. He also held courtesy appointments in the departments of Bioengineering, Neurobiology and Neurosurgery. At Stanford, Shenoy was a member of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and the Bio-X Institute. He was the Director of Stanford's Neural Prosthetic Systems Laboratory and the co-director of th
Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory
at Stanford University. In 2015 Shenoy became an investigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). In 2022 Shenoy was elected member of the

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“''For making seminal contributions both to basic neuroscience and to translational and clinical research. His work has shown how networks of motor cortical neurons operate as dynamical systems, and he has developed new technologies to provide new means of restoring movement and communication to people with paralysis.''” In 2022 he was also elected as a Fellow of the

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“''For contributions to cortical control of movement and brain-computer interfaces.”''

Patents

* Brain machine interfaces incorporating neural population dynamics. US9095455B2. Jonathan C. Kao, Paul Nuyujukian, Mark M. Churchland, John P. Cunningham, Krishna V. Shenoy. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9095455?oq=krishna+shenoy * Brain machine interface utilizing a discrete action state decoder in parallel with a continuous decoder for a neural prosthetic device. US9373088B2. Paul Nuyujukian, Jonathan C. Kao, Krishna V Shenoy. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9373088?oq=krishna+shenoy * Brain machine interface. US8792976B2. Vikash Gilja, Paul Nuyujukian, Cynthia A Chestek, John P Cunningham, Byron M. Yu, Stephen I Ryu, Krishna V. Shenoy. https://patents.google.com/patent/US8792976?oq=krishna+shenoy * Brain-Machine Interface Utilizing Interventions to Emphasize Aspects of Neural Variance and Decode Speed and Angle. US20150245928A1. Jonathan C. Kao, Chethan Pandarinath, Paul Nuyujukian, Krishna V. Shenoy. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150245928?oq=krishna+shenoy * Decoding of neural signals for movement control. US7058445B2. Caleb T. Kemere, Gopal Santhanam, Byron M. Yu, Teresa H. Meng, Krishna V. Shenoy. https://patents.google.com/patent/US7058445?oq=krishna+shenoy * Cognitive state machine for prosthetic systems. WO2003005934A3. Richard A Andersen, Joel W Burdick, Shiyan Cao, Daniella Meeker, Partha Mitra, Bijan Pesaran, Krishna V Shenoy. https://patents.google.com/patent/WO2003005934A3/en?oq=krishna+shenoy * Cognitive state machine for prosthetic systems. US20030023319A1. Richard Andersen, Bijan Pesaran, Partha Mitra, Daniella Meeker, Krishna Shenoy, Shiyan Cao, Joel Burdick. https://patents.google.com/patent/US20030023319?oq=krishna+shenoy * Processed neural signals and methods for generating and using them. US6609017B1. Krishna V. Shenoy, Richard A. Andersen, Sohaib A. Kureshi. https://patents.google.com/patent/US6609017?oq=krishna+shenoy

Links

Krishna Shenoy
from Stanford Engineering * Google Scholar
Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory
at Stanford University

References

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