Jonathan Kao

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420 Westwood Plaza (Box 951594)
56-147H Engineering IV Building
Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1594
T: (310) 983-3068

Jonathan received his BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. His PhD and postdoc were under the supervision of Prof. Krishna Shenoy. Since 2017, he has been an Assistant Professor at UCLA in Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he directs the Neural Computation and Engineering Lab. He is the recipient of the NIH Director's New Innovator Award, a NSF CAREER Award, a Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator Grant, and a Hellman Fellowship

Honors and Awards

2020
2020
2020
 
2019

NIH Director's New Innovator Award
NSF CAREER Award
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation Young Investigator
  (Research Partners Program, P&S Fund Investigator)
Hellman Fellow

Biosketch

2023 - present

Associate Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
  Electrical and Computer Engineering
  Neurosciences Interdepartmental Program
Director, Neural Computation and Engineering Laboratory

 

2017 - 2023

Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

 

2016 - 2017

Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
  Neural Prosthetics Systems Laboratory
  Advisor: Prof. Krishna V. Shenoy

 

2010 - 2016

PhD, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
  Neural Prosthetics Systems Laboratory
  Advisor: Prof. Krishna V. Shenoy
  Dissertation: Decoder algorithm design for high-performance and robust neural prostheses

 

2009 - 2010

MS, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

 

2006 - 2010

BS with distinction, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  Frederick E. Terman Award for Scholastic Achievement in Engineering

Teaching

At UCLA, Jonathan has taught Signals & Systems (ECE 102, Autumn 2018-2020), the undergraduate Advanced Honors Seminar (ECE 189, Autumn 2018-2020), Neural Networks and Deep Learning (Winter 2018-2020), and Neural Signal Processing (Spring 2017-2020).