Chethan Pandarinath, PhD
Emory University and Georgia Tech & Meta Reality Labs
Atlanta, Georgia, USAChethan Pandarinath is a tenured Associate Professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering and Neurosurgery at Emory University and Georgia Tech. He directs the Systems Neural Engineering Lab, whose research sits at the intersection of neural engineering, systems neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, with dual goals of better understanding the nervous system and designing assistive devices for people with paralysis.
Dr. Pandarinath received undergraduate degrees in Computer Engineering, Physics, and Science Policy from NC State. During his PhD in EE at Cornell, his research focused on the early visual system and creating novel retinal prosthetic approaches to restore vision. His postdoc at Stanford with Jaimie Henderson and Krishna Shenoy, as a part of the BrainGate clinical trial, focused on improving the performance of brain-computer interfaces to restore function to people with paralysis due to spinal cord injury and ALS. He is a 2019 Sloan Fellow and K12 Scholar in the NIH-NICHD Rehabilitation Engineering Career Development Program. He is also a recipient of the 2021 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (DP2). His work has been funded by the Neilsen Foundation, NSF, DARPA, Air Force, Burroughs Wellcome Fund, Simons Foundation, and NIH.
For Fall ‘24-Spr ‘25, Dr. Pandarinath is on sabbatical as a research scientist at Meta (Reality Labs), working on neuromotor interfaces. He has 20% time dedicated to managing his Emory/GA Tech team.
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