Darrel Deo

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Neurosurgery
Affiliation:
Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Scholars
Profile

Darrel Deo is a neural engineer developing prosthetic devices to help restore movement and communication to people with paralysis via brain-computer interfaces. Darrel received his B.S. degree in Robotics Engineering from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2013. He then received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2015 and 2020, respectively, with Professors Allison Okamura, Krishna Shenoy, and Jaimie Henderson. Darrel is now a postdoctoral fellow in Stanford’s Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory, designing and developing brain-computer interface technology to re-enable motion of the entire body for individuals with paralysis.

Related Projects

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Interdisciplinary Scholar Award
2022
Restoring multi-limb motion in people with paralysis via brain-computer interface

Intracortical brain-computer interfaces (iBCIs) can restore lost communication and motor function for people with severe speech and motor impairment due to neurological injury or disease. iBCIs measure neural activity from the brain, decode this activity into control signals, and use these signals to guide prosthetic devices such as computer cursors and prosthetic arms.