Pradeep Shenoy

486 Paul Allen Center,
Box 352350,University of Washington,
Seattle WA 98195
(206) 616 1518

I've moved! I am now a post-doctoral researcher working with Angela Yu in the Cognitive Science department at UC San Diego. My main area of research is computational modeling in neuroscience. More details to come!

I was a post-doctoral researcher working with Rajesh Rao, affiliated with the Neural Systems Laboratory. I am interested in theoretical neuroscience, machine learning and cognitive psychology (among other things). I received a Phd in 2008 from the University of Washington for my dissertation titled Brain-Computer Interfaces for Control and Computation. Some of my past activities include Human-aided Computing in collaboration with Desney Tan at Microsoft Research, the Brain-Controlled Humanoid Robot, and co-managing the Spring 2006 course CSE599e: Brain-Computer Interfaces.

Research

For my doctoral thesis, I worked on the topic of Brain-computer interfaces. The goal is to use the tiny electrical signals generated by the brain (measured via a variety of invasive and noninvasive methods) to directly communicate with the external world. In the course of my graduate career, I investigated various aspects of the brain-computer interface scenario: (1) the interpretation problem, consisting of signal processing, feature selection, classification and tracking to extract information from the brain, (2) the interface problem, where we consider a variety of ways to translate this information into an effective user interface for controlling devices or communicating information, and (3) the behavior modelling aspect, where we examine and exploit models describing the user's behavior (including learning and adaptation). For more information, see my publications.

Some Recent Papers

Control of a Humanoid Robot by a Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface in Humans (link)

C.J. Bell, P. Shenoy, R. Chalodhorn, R. Rao. J Neural Eng 5 (2008), 214-220.

Complementary Computing for Visual Tasks: Meshing Computer Vision with Human Visual Processing (link)

A. Kapoor, D. Tan, P. Shenoy, E. Horvitz. IEEE Intl Conf on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (2008).

Combining Brain-computer Interfaces With Vision for Object Categorization (link)

Ashish Kapoor, Pradeep Shenoy, Desney Tan. CVPR 2008.

Human-aided Computing: Utilizing Implicit Human Processing to Classify Images (link)

Pradeep Shenoy, Desney Tan. CHI 2008.

Feasibility and Pragmatics of Classifying Working Memory Load with an Electroencephalograph (link)

D. Grimes, D. Tan, S. Hudson, P. Shenoy, R. Rao. CHI 2008.

Finger Movement Classification for an Electrocorticographic BCI (link)

P. Shenoy, K.J. Miller, J. Ojemann, R. Rao. IEEE EMBS Conf. Neur Engg 2007.

Generalized Features for Electrocorticographic BCIs (link)

P. Shenoy, K.J. Miller, J. Ojemann, R. Rao. IEEE Trans Biomed Engg 55(1), 273-280, 2008.

Online Electromyographic Control of a Robotic Prosthesis (link)

P. Shenoy, K.J. Miller, B. Crawford, R. Rao . IEEE Trans. Biomed Engg 55(3), 1128-1135, 2008.

Real-time Functional Brain Mapping using Electrocorticography

K.J. Miller, M. denNijs, P. Shenoy, R. Rao, J. Ojemann. NeuroImage 37(2) 504-507, 2007.

Beyond the Gamma Band: The Role of High Frequency Features in Movement Classification

K.J. Miller, P. Shenoy, M. den Nijs, L.B. Sorensen, R. Rao, J. Ojemann. IEEE Trans. Biomed Engg 55(5) 1634-1637, 2008.

Towards Adaptive Classification for BCI (link)

P. Shenoy, M. Krauledat, B. Blankertz, R. Rao, K.-R. Mueller. J Neur Eng. 3 (2006).

Personal

I come from Bangalore, India. I received a Phd in Computer Science from the University of Washington in 2008. I graduated in 1999 with a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. In my copious spare time, I sing with the University Chorale Recital Choir Cascadian Chorale and the newly reconstituted CSE Band, also known as The Parody Bits.

What's New

• Feb 2010 Presenting a poster at COSYNE 2010! Another step towards being a neuroscientist.
• Jan 2010 New year, new job, new hopes and plans! I'm a postdoc in cognitive science at UCSD, working with Angela Yu. Here's to 2010 :)
• Oct 2009 My first ever talk at the annual Society for Neuroscience Meeting!
• Jul 2009 In San Diego for two months, visiting the Department of Cognitive Science.
• Apr 2009 Sitting in on two classes: NeuBeh503 (cognitive and systems neuroscience) and Quantitative Methods in Psychology. Also finally learning to swim!
• Mar 2009 Performed Ein Deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms with the Cascadian Chorale. A gorgeous piece of music. In other news, the Parody Bits (aka CSE Band) performed for the prospective grad students.