Journal and conference papers.

2022

GABAergic CA1 neurons are more stable following context changes than glutamatergic cells   pdf:
Scientific Reports

Schuette PJ*, Ikebara JM*, Maesta-Pereira S, Torossian A, Sethi E, Kihara AH, Kao JC, Reis FMCV, Adhikari A

2021

Learning rule influences recurrent network representations but not attractor structure in decision-making tasks   pdf:   supp:   code:
NeurIPS

McMahan B, Kleinman M, Kao JC

A mechanistic multi-area recurrent network model of decision-making   pdf:   supp:
NeurIPS

Kleinman M, Chandrasekaran C*, Kao JC*

Dorsal premammillary projection to periaqueductal gray controls escape vigor from innate and conditioned threats.   pdf:
eLife

Wang W*, Schuette PJ*, La-Vu MQ, Torossian A, Tobias BC, Ceko M, Kragel P, Reis FMCV, Ji S, Sehgal M, Maesta-Pereira S, Chakerian M, Silva AJ, Canteras NS, Wager T, Kao JC, Adhikari A

Redundant information neural estimation   pdf:
Entropy

Kleinman M, Achille A, Soatto S, Kao JC

Dorsal periaqueductal gray ensembles represent approach and avoidance states   pdf:
eLife

Reis FMCV*, Lee JY*, Maesta-Pereira S, Schuette PJ, Chakerian M, Liu J, La-Vu MQ, Tobias BC, Ikebara JM, Kihara AH, Canteras NS, Kao JC**, Adhikari A**

An artificial intelligence that increases simulated brain-computer interface performance   pdf:   supp:
Journal of Neural Engineering

Olsen S*, Zhang J*, Liang K, Lam M, Riaz U, Kao JC

Shared dorsal periaqueductal gray activation patterns during exposure to innate and conditioned threats   pdf:
The Journal of Neuroscience

Reis FMCV*, Liu J*, Schuette PJ, Lee JY, Maesta-Pereira S, Chakerian M, Wang W, Canteras NS, Kao JC**, Adhikari A**

Coordination of escape and spatial navigation circuits orchestrates versatile flight from threats   pdf:   supp:
Neuron

Wang W*, Schuette PJ*, Nagai J, Tobias BC, Reis FMCV, Ji S, de Lima MAX, La-Vu MQ, Maesta-Pereira S, Chakerian M, Leonard SJ, Lin L, Severino AL, Cahill CM, Canteras NS, Khakh BS, Kao JC, Adhikari A

Measurement, manipulation and modeling of brain-wide neural population dynamics   pdf:
Nature Communications

Shenoy KV, Kao JC

Usable information and evolution of optimal representations during training
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)

Kleinman M, Achille A, Idnani D, Kao JC

Redundant Information Neural Estimation
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) Workshop on Neural Compressions

Kleinman M, Achille A, Soatto S, Kao JC

2020

Long-term characterization of hippocampal remapping during contextual fear acquisition and extinction   pdf:
The Journal of Neuroscience

Schuette PJ*, Reis FMCV*, Maesta-Pereira S, Chakerian M, Torossian A, Blair GJ, Wang W, Blair HT, Fanselow MS, Kao JC**, Adhikari A**

Structure in neural activity during observed and executed movements is shared at the neural population level, not in single neurons   pdf:   supp:   code:
Cell Reports

Jiang X, Saggar H, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV, Kao JC

A low-power band of neuronal spiking activity dominated by local single units improves the performance of brain–machine interfaces   pdf:   supp:
Nature Biomedical Engineering

Nason SR, Vaskov AK, Willsey MS, Welle EJ, An H, Vu PP, Bullard AJ, Nu CS, Kao JC, Shenoy KV, Jang T, Kim H-S, Blaauw D, Patil PG, Chestek CA

Usable information and evolution of optimal representations during training   pdf:
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) workshop SRVHM

Kleinman M, Idnani D, Achille A, Kao JC

Learning robust representations with score invariant learning   pdf:
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) workshops UDL and BIG

Idnani D, Kao JC

2019

Deep learning neural encoders for motor cortex   pdf:   supp:
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Liang K, Kao JC

Considerations for using recurrent neural networks to probe neural dynamics   pdf:
Journal of Neurophysiology

Kao JC

A multi-stage recurrent neural network better describes decision-related activity in dorsal premotor cortex   pdf:
Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (Berlin, Germany)

Kleinman MJ, Chandramouli C, Kao JC

2018

Latent factors and dynamics in motor cortex and their application to brain-machine interfaces   pdf:
The Journal of Neuroscience

Pandarinath C, Ames KC, Russo AA, Farshchian A, Miller LE, Dyer EL, Kao, JC

Single neuron firing rate statistics in motor cortex during execution and observation of movement   pdf:
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Jiang X, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV, Kao JC

Pre-UCLA (PhD/postdoc) work

Decoding and perturbing decision states in real time
Nature, 2021.

Peixoto D*, Verhein JR*, Kiani R, Kao JC, Nuyujukian P, Chandrasekaran C, Brown J, Fong S, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV, Newsome WT

Inferring single-trial neural population dynamics using sequential auto-encoders
Nature Methods, 2018.

Pandarinath C, O’Shea DJ, Collins J, Jozefowicz R, Stavisky SD, Kao JC, Trautmann EM, Kaufman MT, Ryu SI, Hochberg LR, Henderson JM, Shenoy KV, Abbott LF, Sussillo D

Augmenting intracortical brain-machine interface with neurally driven error detectors
Journal of Neural Engineering, 2017.

Even-Chen N, Stavisky SD, Kao JC, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

Leveraging neural dynamics to extend functional lifetime of brain-machine interfaces
Scientific Reports, 2017.

Kao JC, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

Motor cortical visuomotor feedback activity is initially isolated from downstream targets in output-null neural state space dimensions
Neuron, 2017.

Stavisky SD, Kao JC, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

A high-performance neural prosthesis incorporating discrete state selection with hidden Markov models
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2017.

Kao JC*, Nuyujukian P*, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

Trial-by-trial motor cortical correlates of a rapidly adapting visuomotor internal model
Journal of Neuroscience, 2017.

Stavisky SD, Kao JC, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

A non-human primate brain computer typing interface
Proceedings of the IEEE, 2017.

Nuyujukian P, Kao JC, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

The need for calcium-based imaging in nonhuman primates; new neuroscience and brain-machine interfaces
Experimental Neurology, 2017.

O'Shea DJ, Trautmann E, Stavisky SD, Kao JC, Sahani M, Ryu SI, Deisseroth K, Shenoy KV

Feasibility analysis of genetically-encoded calcium indicators as a neural signal source for all-optical brain-machine interfaces
IEEE Neural Engineering (NER) (Shanghai, China), 2017.

Sun X, Kao JC, Marshel JH, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

Making brain-machine interfaces robust to future neural variability
Nature Communications, 2016.

Sussillo D*, Stavisky SD*, Kao JC* (*co-first author), Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

Single-trial dynamics of motor cortex and their applications to brain-machine interfaces
Nature Communications, 2015.

Kao JC, Nuyujukian P, Ryu SI, Churchland MM, Cunningham JP, Shenoy KV

A high performing brain-machine interface driven by low-frequency local field potentials alone and together with spikes
Journal of Neural Engineering, 2015.

Stavisky SD, Kao JC, Nuyujukian P, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

A high-performance keyboard neural prosthesis enabled by task optimization
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2015.

Nuyujukian P, Fan JM, Kao JC, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

Leveraging historical knowledge of neural dynamics to rescue decoder performance as neural channels are lost; decoder hysteresis
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) (Milan, Italy), 2015.

Kao JC, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

An auto-correcting brain machine interface; error detection using spiking neuronal activity in the motor cortex
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) (Milan, Italy), 2015.

Even-Chen N, Stavisky S, Kao JC, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

System identification of brain-machine interface control using a cursor jump perturbation
IEEE Neural Engineering (NER) (Montpellier, France), 2015.

Stavisky SD*, Kao JC*, Sorokin J, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

Performance sustaining intracortical neural prostheses
Journal of Neural Engineering, 2014.

Nuyujukian P, Kao JC, Fan JM, Stavisky S, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

Information systems opportunities in brain-machine interface decoders
Proceedings of the IEEE, 2014.

Kao JC, Stavisky SD, Sussillo D, Nuyujukian P, Shenoy KV

Intention estimation in brain machine interfaces
Journal of Neural Engineering, 2014.

Fan JM, Nuyujukian P, Kao JC, Chestek CA, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

Hybrid decoding of both spike and low-frequency local field potentials for brain-machine interfaces
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) (Chicago, Illinois), 2014.

Stavisky SD, Kao JC, Nuyujukian P, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

Investigating the role of firing-rate normalization and dimensionality reduction on brain-machine interface robustness
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) (Osaka, Japan), 2013.

Kao JC, Nuyujukian P, Stavisky SD, Ryu SI, Ganguli S, Shenoy KV

A high-performance neural prosthesis enabled by control algorithm design
Nature Neuroscience, 2012.

Gilja V*, Nuyujukian P*, Chestek CA, Cunningham JP, Yu BM, Fan JM, Churchland MM, Kaufman MT, Kao JC, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV

A recurrent neural network for closed-loop intracortical brain-machine interface decoders
Journal of Neural Engineering, 2012.

Sussillo D, Nuyujukian P, Fan JM, Kao JC, Stavisky SD, Ryu SI, Shenoy KV