Bijan Pesaran, PhD
Robert A. Groff, M.D. Professor of Teaching and Research in Neurosurgery II
Department: Neurosurgery
Graduate Group Affiliations
Contact information
Richards Medical Research Building
B704
Philadelphia, PA
B704
Philadelphia, PA
Education
B.A.(Hons) (Physics and Theoretical Physics)
University of Cambridge, 1995.
PhD (Physics)
California Institute of Technology, 2002.
Permanent linkB.A.(Hons) (Physics and Theoretical Physics)
University of Cambridge, 1995.
PhD (Physics)
California Institute of Technology, 2002.
Description of Research Expertise
Systems neuroscienceSensory-motor integration
Neural Engineering
Brain-machine interfaces
Electrophysiology
Multiphoton microscopy
Neural data science
Selected Publications
Seilheimer RL, Qiu L, Rocchio G, Nho YH, Campos G, Horn A, Rolle CE, Buch VP, Ganguly TM, Cristancho M, Oathes DJ, Brown L, Pesaran B, Krystal AD, Chang EF, Lee MA, Miller KJ, Barbosa DAN, Williams NR, Halpern CH, Scangos KW.: Stereo-encephalography-guided multi-lead deep brain stimulation for treatment-refractory obsessive compulsive disorder - Study design and individualized surgical targeting approach. J Affect Disord 402: 121349, Jun 2026.Borges PGLB, Qureshi Q, Davis P, Wang Z, Sargur K, Haggerty J, Wingel K, Kim MJ, Pisano TJ, Ho E, Barth K, Byun YW, Miller JS, Dister J, Anushiravani R, Murphy M, Poole AJ, Strauss J, Mermel CH, Qiu L, Halpern CH, Yoshor D, Beauchamp M, Pesaran B, Rapoport BI, Cajigas I.: Microscale organization and separability of upper extremity representations in the human motor homunculus. Res Sq April 2026.
Haggerty J, Qureshi Q, Gabriel ED, Borges PG, Davis P, Wingel K, Cai J, Sargur K, Kim MJ, Dubey A, Garwood I, Vaz A, Richardson AG, Chen HI, Hammer LH, Gold J, Litt B, Yoshor D, Beauchamp M, Halpern C, Pesaran B, Cajigas I.: Thalamus: a real-time system for synchronized, closed-loop multimodal behavioral and electrophysiological data capture. Commun Eng Mar 2026.
Barth KJ, Rachinskiy I, Duraivel S, Sun J, Chiang CH, Wang C, Rahimpour S, Haglund MM, Vestal M, Harward SC, Devore S, Friedman D, Pesaran B, Sinha SR, Southwell DG, Frauscher B, Cogan GB, Blanco J, Viventi J.: Mapping intraoperative interictal epileptiform discharges using high-resolution, thin-film cortical arrays. Epilepsia Feb 2026.
Seilheimer RL, Qiu L, Rocchio G, Nho YH, Campos G, Horn A, Rolle CE, Buch VP, Ganguly TM, Cristancho M, Oathes DJ, Brown L, Pesaran B, Krystal AD, Chang EF, Lee MA, Miller KJ, Barbosa DAN, Williams NR, Halpern CH, Scangos KW.: Stereo-encephalography-guided multi-lead deep brain stimulation for treatment-refractory obsessive compulsive disorder - Study design and individualized surgical targeting approach. J Affect Disord Feb 2026.
Nho YH, Qiu L, Seilheimer RL, Campos G, Chang A, Wang Z, Magnotti JF, Beauchamp MS, Barbosa DAN, Horn A, Williams NR, Brown LA, Ganguly TM, Cristancho M, Pesaran B, Oathes DJ, Miller KJ, Scangos KW, Halpern CH.: Human orbitofrontal neural activity is linked to obsessive-compulsive behavioral dynamics. Cell 189: 739-747, Feb 2026.
Qiu L, Nho YH, Seilheimer RL, Kim MJ, Tufanoglu A, Williams NR, Wexler A, Oslin DW, Millet B, Scangos KW, Pesaran B, Evins AE, Richardson RM, Childress AR, Halpern CH.: Electrographic cue-reactivity co-localizes with accumbens deep brain stimulation in a case of opioid use disorder. Nat Commun 17: 1708, Jan 2026.
Barth KJ, Rachinskiy I, Duraivel S, Sun J, Chiang CH, Wang C, Rahimpour S, Haglund MM, Vestal M, Harward SC, Devore S, Friedman D, Pesaran B, Sinha SR, Southwell DG, Frauscher B, Cogan GB, Blanco J, Viventi J.: Mapping intraoperative interictal epileptiform discharges using high-resolution, thin-film cortical arrays. Epilepsia 2026.
Jung T, Zeng N, Fabbri JD, Eichler G, Li Z, Zabeh E, Das A, Willeke K, Wingel KE, Dubey A, Huq R, Sharma M, Hu Y, Ramakrishnan G, Tien K, Mantovani P, Parihar A, Yin H, Oswalt D, Misdorp A, Uguz I, Shinn T, Rodriguez GJ, Nealley C, van der Molen T, Sanborn S, Gonzales I, Roukes M, Knecht J, Kosik KS, Yoshor D, Canoll P, Spinazzi E, Carloni LP, Pesaran B, Patel S, Jacobs J, Youngerman B, Cotton RJ, Tolias A, Shepard KL: A wireless subdural-contained brain-computer interface with 65,536 electrodes and 1,024 channels. Nat Electron Dec 2025.
Jha T, Sani OG, Pesaran B, Shanechi MM: Prioritized learning of cross-population neural dynamics. J Neural Eng 22: 046040, Aug 2025.