Introducing our second guest for Neuromania: Dean Krusienski!

Dean Krusienski is a Professor and Graduate Program Director of Biomedical Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, where he also directs the Advanced Signal Processing in Engineering and Neuroscience (ASPEN) Laboratory. He received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA and conducted postdoctoral research at the Brain-Computer Interfaces Laboratory of the New York State Department of Health.

He has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications related to advancing brain-computer interface and neural signal analysis techniques, which have collectively received over 11,000 citations. His lab's work has been funded by NSF, NIH, NASA/NIA and DoD, including current projects on intracranial speech decoding and synthesis, closed-loop DBS, biomarkers of hippocampal and sleep pathologies, user-state estimation, visual and auditory processing, and virtual reality applications.