Cynthia Chestek, Ph.D.

Cynthia Chestek is a Research Associate in the Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Case Western Reserve University in 2003 and 2005, Summa Cum Laude. and her PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2010. She was awarded the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, as well as the William Hewlett Stanford Graduate Fellowship. Her PhD research focused on the stability of cortical neural recordings from chronically implanted electrode arrays, as well as wireless technology for neural prosthetic implants. Her current research interests are translating recent advances in neural interface technology into a real world, clinical system.

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