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Jonathan Viventi

Hawkins Family Associate Professor
Biomedical Engineering
1149 CIEMAS, Durham, NC 27708
1149 CIEMAS, Durham, NC 27708

Research Interests


Using flexible electronics to create new technology for interfacing with the brain at high resolution over large areas. These new tools can help diagnose and treat neurological disorders such as epilepsy, and help improve the performance of brain machine interfaces.

Selected Grants


Neurobiology Training Program

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · 2024 - 2029

The overlap of speech production and verbal working memory

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · 2023 - 2028

Long-term reliability of liquid crystal polymer encapsulated active electronics

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Blackrock Microsystems LLC · 2025 - 2027

A Wireless µECoG Prosthesis for Speech

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2026

A Fully Implantable Speech Neuroprosthesis

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of California - San Francisco · 2024 - 2026

Advancing Epilepsy Diagnosis with Flexible, High-Resolution Thin-Film Electrodes

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by NYU Langone Medical Center · 2022 - 2025

Neuro-CROWN:Optimized Ultra-Flexible CMOS Electrode Arrays for 3D, Low-Noise Neural Interfaces

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2021 - 2025

Next-Generation Wireless Intracranial Electrode Arrays for Post-traumatic Epilepsy

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity · 2021 - 2025

NINDS Research Education Programs for Residents and Fellows in Neurosurgery

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke · 2009 - 2025

CAREER: Resolving action potentials and high-density neural signals from the surface of the brain

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2024

Analysis and Design of µECoG Array Characteristics for Optimized Signal Acquisition

FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2020 - 2022

REU Site for Meeting the Grand Challenges in Engineering

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2017 - 2022

High resolution awake cortical recordings to analyze the role of spreading depolarizations during dynamic stroke evolution

ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2019 - 2021

Neural Sensing from the DRG and Spinal Cord

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by St. Jude Medical Inc. · 2018 - 2020

Optimizing flexible, active electrode arrays for chronic, large-scale recording and stimulation on the scale of 100,000 electrodes

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2016 - 2020

CIF:Medium:Collaborative Research:Scalable Learning of Nonlinear Models in Large Neural Populations

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2016 - 2020

An Implantable and High-Density, Multiplexed Micro-ECoG System

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Micro-Leads, Inc. · 2017 - 2019

Basic predoctoral training in neuroscience

Inst. Training Prgm or CMETraining Faculty · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 1992 - 2018

CIF:Small: High Resolution EEG Signal Analysis for Seizure Detection and Treatment

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by New York University · 2015 - 2018

The spatiotemporal resolution of cognitive signals revealed through high-density Micro-ECoG

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Pennsylvania · 2015 - 2018

High Density Capacitive Neural Interfaces Using Active Conformal Electronics (HDC)

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by MC10, Inc. · 2015 - 2015