Cynthia Chestek
Professor, Robotics and Biomedical Engineering
Studies implantable brain-machine interfaces that decode neural activity to control prosthetic hands and other assistive devices.
Cynthia Chestek's lab at Michigan works on human-robot interaction & assistive robots, planning, control & multi-robot systems and neuroscience & brain-computer interfaces. 8 papers since 2023, 4 at top venues, mostly NeurIPS. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 2/ year
- at T1 venues
- 50%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 1 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 1 papers2025 · T1 1
- 3 papers2024 · T1 2
- 3 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: NeurIPS
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Neuroscience & brain-computer interfaces3 papers
- Planning, control & multi-robot systems1 paper
- prosthetic1 paper
- Human-robot interaction & assistive robots0 papers
- prosthetic hands0 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20261 paper
20251 paper
20243 papers
- IEEE J. Solid State CircuitsA Sub-mm3 Wireless Neural Stimulator IC for Visual Cortical Prosthesis With Optical Power Harvesting and 7.5-kb/s Data Telemetry (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Exploring the trade-off between deep-learning and explainable models for brain-machine interfaces (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Few-shot Algorithms for Consistent Neural Decoding (FALCON) Benchmark (opens in a new tab)
20233 papers
- VLSI Technology and CircuitsA Wireless Neural Stimulator IC for Cortical Visual Prosthesis (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Balancing memorization and generalization in RNNs for high performance brain-machine Interfaces (opens in a new tab)
- NERIntraretinal stimulation with high density carbon fiber microelectrodes (opens in a new tab)
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Apply to MichiganFall 2027
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