Principal Investigator

Iahn Cajigas, MD, PhD

iahn.cajigas@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

A MD-PhD graduate of the joint Harvard-MIT program in health sciences and technology, Dr. Iahn Cajigas completed a residency in neurological surgery at the University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital followed by a postgraduate fellowship in epilepsy, functional and stereotactic neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Cajigas’ clinical expertise includes deep brain stimulation, focused ultrasound, and stereotactic radiosurgery for movement and psychiatric disorders, the surgical management of epilepsy, the management of refractory back pain with neuromodulation, and the surgical/radiosurgical treatment of trigeminal neuralgia.

Staff

Qasim Qureshi
Research Specialist
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Qasim Qureshi
Research Specialist
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Qasim graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College. His research focuses on brain-computer interfaces and neuromodulation, utilizing high-resolution electrode arrays to decode motor cortex activity and develop real-time movement prediction algorithms for patients with paralysis.
Pedro Borges
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Pedro Borges
Postdoctoral Researcher
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Pedro is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Neurosurgery. His research spans neuroscience, movement disorders, and rehabilitation, with a focus on understanding neural dynamics during deep brain stimulation and developing novel neuromodulatory approaches.
Jarl Haggerty
Software Engineer
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Jarl Haggerty
Software Engineer
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Jarl is the lead software engineer of Thalamus, the lab's open-source real-time multimodal data capture platform for neurosurgical environments. His work includes developing virtual reality interfaces, eye-movement tracking systems, and the distributed computing architecture that powers the lab's closed-loop experiments.

Graduate Students

Krishna Sargur
PhD Student
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Krishna Sargur
PhD Student
ksargur@seas.upenn.edu
Krishna is a PhD student in Bioengineering. His research focuses on designing real-time algorithms for continuous finger movement decoding from the human motor cortex and building next-generation brain-computer interfaces to help individuals with paralysis regain essential motor function.
Bowen Wang
Masters Student
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Bowen Wang
Masters Student
bowenw@seas.upenn.edu
Bowen is a Masters student in Bioengineering contributing to the lab's computational and engineering efforts in neural signal processing and brain-computer interface development.
Pierce Davis
Medical Student
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Pierce Davis
Medical Student
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Pierce is a medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine. His research examines motor cortex oscillatory dynamics during subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation in Parkinson's disease and the effects of motor imagery on tremor.
Ellie Gabriel
Medical Student
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Ellie Gabriel
Medical Student
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Ellie is a medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine. Her research includes preoperative prediction models for spinal tumor surgery outcomes and investigations into hospitalization patterns among patients with essential tremor.
Min Jae Kim
Medical Student
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Min Jae Kim
Medical Student
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Min Jae is an MD/PhD student and 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellow. He holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience from Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on optimizing neuromodulatory therapies across neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders, with over 18 published papers in journals including Biological Psychiatry, Epilepsia, and Brain Stimulation.

Undergraduate Students

Kyunghwan Lim
Undergraduate Researcher

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Kyunghwan Lim
Undergraduate Researcher
Kyunghwan is an undergraduate studying Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Penn. He conducts neuroengineering research in the lab, contributing to computational tools and data analysis pipelines.

Principal Investigator

Iahn Cajigas, MD, PhD

Staff

Qasim Qureshi

Pedro Borges

Jarl Haggerty

Graduate Students

Krishna Sargur

Bowen Wang

Pierce Davis

Ellie Gabriel

Min Jae Kim

Undergraduate Students

Kyunghwan Lim