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.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.
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.
Jha T, Sani OG, Pesaran B, Shanechi MM: Prioritized learning of cross-population neural dynamics. J Neural Eng 22: 046040, Aug 2025.
Seilheimer RL, Qiu L, Rocchio G, Nho YH, Campos G, Pesaran B, Williams NR, Rolle CE, Buch VP, Ganguly TM, Miller KJ, Cristancho M, Oathes DJ, Brown L, Scangos KW, Barbosa DAN, Halpern CH: Stereo-encephalography-guided multi-lead deep brain stimulation for treatment-refractory obsessive compulsive disorder - study design and individualized surgical targeting approach. medRxiv Jul 2025.
Qiu L, Nho Y, Seilheimer RL, Kim MJ, Tufanoglu A, Williams N, Wexler A, David O, Millet B, Katherine SW, Pesaran B, Evins AE, Richardson M, Childress AR, Halpern CH.: Localizing electrophysiologic cue-reactivity within the nucleus accumbens guides deep brain stimulation for opioid use disorder. bioRxiv Feb 2025.
Schmitz C, Smith JE, Rachinskiy I, Pesaran B, Vitale F, Sommer M, Viventi J.: Supracortical Microstimulation: Advances in Microelectrode Design and In Vivo Validation. Annu Rev Biomed Eng 2025.
Qiu L, Nho Y, Seilheimer RL, Kim MJ, Tufanoglu A, Williams N, Wexler A, David O, Millet B, Katherine SW, Pesaran B, Evins AE, Richardson M, Childress AR, Halpern CH.: Localizing electrophysiologic cue-reactivity within the nucleus accumbens guides deep brain stimulation for opioid use disorder. Biorxiv 2025.