Bijan Pesaran, PhD
Robert A. Groff, M.D. Professor of Teaching and Research in Neurosurgery II
Department: Neurosurgery
Contact information
Richards Medical Research Building
B704
Philadelphia, PA
B704
Philadelphia, PA
Graduate Group Affiliations
Education:
B.A.(Hons) (Physics and Theoretical Physics)
University of Cambridge, 1995.
PhD (Physics)
California Institute of Technology, 2002.
B.A.(Hons) (Physics and Theoretical Physics)
University of Cambridge, 1995.
PhD (Physics)
California Institute of Technology, 2002.
Post-Graduate Training
Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology, 2002-2005.
Permanent linkPostdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology, 2002-2005.
Description of Research Expertise
Systems neuroscienceSensory-motor integration
Neural Engineering
Brain-machine interfaces
Electrophysiology
Multiphoton microscopy
Neural data science
Selected Publications
Jha T, Sani OG, Pesaran B, Shanechi MM: Prioritized learning of cross-population neural dynamics. J Neural 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.
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 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.
Ahmadipour P, Sani OG, Pesaran B, Shanechi MM: Multimodal subspace identification for modeling discrete-continuous spiking and field potential population activity. J Neural Eng 2024.
Sadras N, Pesaran B, Shanechi MM.: Event detection and classification from multimodal time series with application to neural data. J Neural Eng 2024.
Stefanowicz J, Choi JS, Wingel K, Haggerty J, Charles AS, Pesaran B: Cellular-Resolution Image-Guided Localization in the Primate Brain. Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2024.
Vaz A, Wathen C, Miranda S, Thomas R, Darlington T, Jabarkheel R, Tomlinson S, Arena J, Bond K, Salwi S, Ajmera S, Bachschmid-Romano L, Gugger J, Sandsmark D, Diaz-Arrastia R, Schuster J, Ramayya AG, Cajigas I, Pesaran B, Chen HI, Petrov D: Return of intracranial beta oscillations and traveling waves with recovery from traumatic brain injury. bioRxiv 2024.
Sani OG, Pesaran B, Shanechi MM: Dissociative and prioritized modeling of behaviorally relevant neural dynamics using recurrent neural networks. Nature Neurosci 10 2024.
d. Nho YH, Rolle CE, Topalovic U, Shivacharan RS, Cunningham TN, Hiller S, Batista D, Feng A, Espil FM, Kratter IH, Bhati MT, Kellogg M, Raslan AM, Williams NR, Garnett J, Pesaran B, Oathes DJ, Suthana N, Barbosa DAN, Halpern CH: Responsive deep brain stimulation guided by ventral striatal electrophysiology of obsession durably ameliorates compulsion. Neuron 2024.