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Krishna Vaughn Shenoy (1968–2023) was an American
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and
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at
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. Shenoy was the Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor in the
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. He focused on neuroscience topics, including
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such as brain-computer interfaces. On 21 January 2023, he died after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. According to
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, he amassed an ''h''-index of 79.


Research

Shenoy obtained a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from
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(1987–1990) and a
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in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from
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(1990–1995). He was then a postdoctoral fellow in Neurobiology at
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(1995–2001). In 2001, Shenoy joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at
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as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 2008, and then to full professor in 2012. In 2017 he was appointed as the inaugural Hong Seh and Vivian W. M. Lim Professor (
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). He also held courtesy appointments in the departments of Bioengineering, Neurobiology and Neurosurgery. At Stanford, Shenoy was a member of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and the Bio-X Institute. He was the Director of Stanford's Neural Prosthetic Systems Laboratory and the co-director of the Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory at Stanford University. Within these positions, he aimed to restore
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to
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individuals. In 2015 Shenoy became an investigator with the
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. Shenoy and his team made fundamental discoveries about how the brain encodes and executes motor commands, applying those insights to improving brain-computer interfaces. To this end, they developed a mathematical framework for analyzing neural activity called 'computation through dynamics'. In 2022 Shenoy was elected member of the
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"''For making seminal contributions both to basic neuroscience and to translational and clinical research. His work has shown how networks of motor cortical neurons operate as dynamical systems, and he has developed new technologies to provide new means of restoring movement and communication to people with paralysis.''" In 2022 he was also elected as a Fellow of the
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"''For contributions to cortical control of movement and brain-computer interfaces.''"


Patents

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Krishna Shenoy
Stanford Engineering
Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory
Stanford NPTL {{DEFAULTSORT:Shenoy, Krishna 1968 births 2023 deaths American electrical engineers Stanford University School of Engineering faculty Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering faculty People from Sabetha, Kansas Members of the National Academy of Medicine Deaths from pancreatic cancer in California American academics of Indian descent