Frank Willett
Assistant Professor at Stanford University
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolFrank Willett is an Assistant Professor at Stanford and co-director of the Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory, bringing over a decade of hands-on research translating brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) into clinical impact. He led landmark projects that produced record-setting handwriting and speech BCIs enabling fluent communication for people with paralysis, and earlier work helped restore reaching and grasping via combined BCI and muscle stimulation. Trained in biomedical engineering (PhD) and psychology, he blends computational decoding, neural signal interpretation, and human clinical trials to bridge basic neuroscience and translational devices. Based in Menlo Park, his work repeatedly uncovers surprising neural representations—such as widespread body coding in motor cortex—while pushing practical performance limits for real-world assistive technologies.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Biomedical/Medical Engineering at Case Western Reserve UniversityBachelor of Arts - BA, PSYCHOLOGY, Bachelor of Arts - BA, PSYCHOLOGY at University of Chicago
Github Skills (28)
leaderboard10
evaluation9
coveralls9
angularjs9
travis-ci8
codecov8
trend8
reproducible-research8
django7
python7
docker7
machine-learning6
artificial-intelligence6
ai5
deep-learning5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fwillett/cvVectorStats
Jun 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
fwillett/speechBCI
Jun 2023 - Dec 2024
Code for the paper "A high-performance speech neuroprosthesis"
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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