Abraham Betancourt

Excited to co-found @Merge Labs! TLDR: We’re developing a new paradigm for BCI using molecules instead of electrodes. If you’re excited about this and want to contribute in protein engineering, synbio, delivery, immunology, ultrasound, devices, neuroscience, or data/ML/AI, we’d love to hear from you. merge.io/blog merge.io/careers 🧵

🧠Excited to share our latest ultrasound & neurotech paper on @NatureComms 🦾 Our previous papers demonstrated the HOW of an ultrasonic brain-machine interface in monkeys and humans. This paper highlights WHY it works.

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Build the next generation of communication BCIs with us—now hiring a new postdoc! Application here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1IWbGv…

I'm thrilled to announce that our work to develop the Neuropixels-NHP 1.0 neural recording probe is now out in print in Nature Neuroscience. nature.com/articles/s4159…

A man with a severe speech disability is able to speak expressively and sing using a brain implant that translates his neural activity into words almost instantly. go.nature.com/4mXv8yM

🎉📢Northwestern BME has two open assistant professor positions this year…TWO! One in regenerative engineering and one open to all areas of biomedical engineering. Check it out if you are on the market or know someone who is: mccormick.northwestern.edu/biomedical/car… 2️⃣ @NorthwesternEng

We are excited to share our new method, SNOPS (Spiking Network Optimization using Population Statistics), published in @NatComputSci. It was led by @Shenghao_W, with @cc_huang11, Adam Snyder, @SmithLabNeuro, and @BrentDoiron. nature.com/articles/s4358… (1/n)

BREAKING: BlackRock and Microsoft set to launch a $30 billion artificial intelligence investment fund

5 years ago, I shifted my research from restoring reach and grasp to restoring speech. My hunch was that with intracortical electrodes — which previously enabled fast cursor/arm control — we could accurately decode attempted speech. Today we've delivered. So proud of our team! 👇

Hola @EnesJuriquilla podrías apoyarme con un trámite que desde hace 3 meses he tratado con la Secretaría Administrativa pero aún no me dan una respuesta clara?

"The reason so many people felt shaking is because there were a lot of people on top of this earthquake." --Lucy Jones at a press conference today on campus caltech.edu/about/news/ear…

Commencement @caltech today with #JensenHuang @nvidia - thank you for an inspiring speech! Infinite dedication, wisdom and common sense, never giving up in the face of challenges, stay humble and available to others

Congratulations to alumna Doris Tsao (BS '96) on receiving the 2024 Kavli Prize in Neuroscience! caltech.edu/about/news/alu…

@AIforGood @ITU @TarynSouthern @SumnerLN @ForestNeurotech @CICG_Geneva @Caltech

📣Happening now at the @ITU #AIforGood Global Summit 2024 🎤Revolutionizing #accessibility: Next-gen #BMI unveiled 🗣️ @TarynSouthern, Jorge A. Gomez de Leon from Caltech & James Johnson, moderated by @SumnerLN from @ForestNeurotech 🇺🇳 #SDG3 #SDG11 📍Center Stage, @CICG_Geneva

.@sarah_wandelt et al. introduce a brain-machine interface that can translate intracortical neural activity during inner speech (no movement, no sound) into text in real time. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Read more about Richard Andersen, Leadership Chair and Director of the T&C Chen Brain-Machine Interface Center.

Tokenization (aka the root of suffering, iykyk) has gotten a terrible rap this past week😅 but in nascent fields this rap is wack🌶️ I am ecstatic to share➡️TOTEM: TOkenized Time Series EMbeddings for General Time Series Analysis TOTEM learns discrete time tokens (not patches!!)

In this #podcast, @EETimes regular Sunny Bains talks to Dr. Tobi Delbrück, one of the original @neuromorphicengineers from Carver Mead’s team at @Caltech. 🎙 Listen now: arw.li/6010pQYLY