Professor Dr. Amy Orsborn

Biography

Amy Orsborn joined the University of Washington in 2018 as the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering. Her research focuses on the intersection of engineering and neuroscience, specifically in developing therapeutic neural interfaces. She completed her PhD through the UC Berkeley/UCSF Joint Graduate Program in Bioengineering, where she developed co-adaptive strategies for brain-machine interfaces and studied machine-learning neural adaptation to improve system performance. Prior to her academic appointment, she underwent postdoctoral training at NYU’s Center for Neural Science, where she worked on novel neural implants for monitoring neural circuits in non-human primates. These implants contribute to understanding the neural mechanisms of learning within large-scale networks. Her lab investigates neural interfaces and adaptive closed-loop systems while leveraging neural plasticity for system performance enhancement. Moreover, her work encompasses advancing neurotechnologies to examine neural circuits both in awake primates and for human translation.

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