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👁️🧠🖥️🧪🤖 What would the world look like with a bionic eye? Interdisciplinary research group at UC Santa Barbara. PI: @mbeyeler.bsky.social‬ #BionicVision #Blindness #NeuroTech #VisionScience #CompNeuro #NeuroAI

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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 27/08/2026
Exciting news from the lab: Emily Joyce has been named an inaugural UC Noyce Graduate Student Fellow, 1 of just 5 selected across the UC system. Her project asks a deceptively hard question: retinal implants can produce color, but can we predict and control it? ucnoyce.org/news/uc-noyc...
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UC Noyce Initiative Names Inaugural Class of Graduate Student Fellows
Five exceptional graduate students from across the University of California have been named the inaugural UC Noyce Graduate Student Fellows, launching a new program designed to support the next…
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UCSB Computer Science Department @ucsb-cs.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
A new study in Neuron, co-first authored by @jacobgranley.bsky.social from @bionicvisionlab.org, with @ethz.ch and @umh.es, is using AI to design smarter, more accurate stimulation for blind patients. www.cs.ucsb.edu/happenings/a... @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social #ComputerScience #Neurotech
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 09/08/2026
#UCSB news release: Deep learning refines how bionic eyes communicate with the brain news.ucsb.edu/2026/022739/...
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Deep learning refines how bionic eyes communicate with the brain
UCSB associate professor of computer science Michael Beyeler and his colleagues used a deep-learning model to design patterns of electrical stimulation for electrodes temporarily implanted in the visu...
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 08/08/2026
New in Neuron 👁️🧠🧪: Can AI help a cortical visual prosthesis control what the brain actually does after electrical stimulation? We used a bidirectional implant to model and shape stimulation-evoked activity in human visual cortex. doi.org/10.1016/j.ne... #UCSB #AI #BionicVision #Neurotechnology
Schematic comparing three methods for producing a target neural response with a cortical electrode array: direct 1-to-1 mapping, a learned inverse model, and gradient-based optimization. Each method generates a stimulation pattern that is passed through either a simulated forward model or tested in vivo. Resulting neural responses are shown as electrode-array heatmaps, illustrating how closely each approach reproduces the target pattern.
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 27/07/2026
At #IEEE #EMBC 2026? Come check out our presentations: Tu.1.8.2: NETWORK-ADAPTIVE CLOUD PROCESSING FOR VISUAL NEUROPROSTHESES bionicvisionlab.org/publications... Tuesday, 28 July, 08:30 - 10:00 Room 718A
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Network-adaptive cloud preprocessing for visual neuroprostheses | Bionic Vision Lab
We present a network-adaptive pipeline for cloud-assisted visual preprocessing of artificial vision, where real-time round-trip-time (RTT) feedback is used to dynamically modulate image resolution, co...
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 24/07/2026
Congratulations to Bionic Vision Lab postdoc @mariusschneider.bsky.social on receiving the 2026–27 UCSB Zaleski Discovery Award! His project explores event-based, neuromorphic safety technology for blind and low-vision travelers.
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A Smarter Way to See Danger | The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering - UC Santa Barbara
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bionic-vision.org @bionic-vision.org · 22/07/2026
@science.xyz has announced the European commercial launch of PRIMA, following CE marking under the EU Medical Device Regulation. 👁️🧠🧪 This marks a significant milestone for the bionic vision field after years of clinical development. science.xyz/news/ce-mark/ #BionicVision #NeuroTech #BCI
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Science Corp. Announces European Commercial Launch of PRIMA, the Only Treatment to Restore Functional Central Vision to Patients with Geographic Atrophy Caused by Age-Related Macular Degeneration, a L...
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 23/05/2026
What might #BionicVision actually look like? 👁️🧪 At the #SantaBarbara County Science Fair, high school students found out firsthand with our BionicVisionXR open-source VR simulator, built to study what how bionic eyes might restore real-world function. science.ucsb.edu/news/county-... #UCSB #STEM
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At county science fair, UC Santa Barbara mentors help young researchers see what’s possible | Division of Mathematical, Life and Physical Sciences
Local middle and high school students explored microscopy, virtual reality and bionic vision research through hands-on lab experiences with campus scientists.
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 05/05/2026
At #ARVO2026? Come find Poster #0523 • 10:15am - 12:00pm MT • May 6th We asked 100+ legally #blind adults: What shapes your attitude toward #BionicVision? • usefulness helped • barriers hurt • ease of use mattered, but less • age & vision level were not predictive eppro02.ativ.me/web/page.php...
Flyer advertising the poster. Text says: Catrina Coe. Behavioral Determinants of Bionic Vision Adoption in a U.S.-Based Cohort of Blind Adults Poster #0523 • 10:15am - 12:00pm MT • May 6th
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 03/05/2026
At #ARVO2026? Come find Poster #0978 • 8:30 - 10:15am MT • May 5th Argus II timing breaks sighted flicker-fusion assumptions: • temporal effect: fragmented percepts at 0 ms, cleaner 1-vs-2 percepts at 4+ ms • spatial effect: axon-map distance predicts separability eppro02.ativ.me/web/page.php...
Flyer advertising the two poster. Text says:  Lily Turkstra. Perceptual Integration Window in Argus II: Millisecond Timing and Axon-Bundle Geometry Determine Two-Point Perception. Poster #0978 • 8:30am - 10:15am MT • May 5th.
2. Catrina Coe. Behavioral Determinants of Bionic Vision Adoption in a U.S.-Based Cohort of Blind Adults Poster #0523 • 10:15am - 12:00pm MT • May 6th
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 01/05/2026
Two #BionicVision studies 👁️🧠 from our lab at #ARVO2026: 1. Argus II timing breaks sighted flicker-fusion assumptions: May 5, 8:30–10:15 AM 2. What shapes blind adults’ attitudes toward vision-restoration technology: May 6, 10:15 AM–12:00 PM Come find us in Denver!
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BIONIC VISION LAB @ ARVO 2026. Followed by
1. Lily Turkstra. Perceptual Integration Window in Argus II: Millisecond Timing and Axon-Bundle Geometry Determine Two-Point Perception. Poster #0978 • 8:30am - 10:15am MT • May 5th.
2. Catrina Coe. Behavioral Determinants of Bionic Vision Adoption in a U.S.-Based Cohort of Blind Adults Poster #0523 • 10:15am - 12:00pm MT • May 6th
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bionic-vision.org @bionic-vision.org · 30/04/2026
April 30 marks 100 years of Giles S. Brindley FRS. Pioneer of cortical implants & #BionicVision. 🧠⚡ Architect of modern erectile dysfunction therapy. Gave the most notorious live demo in scientific history. A century of impact. www.bionic-vision.org/people/giles... #Neuroscience #NeuroTech
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bionic-vision.org | People | Giles S. Brindley, MDFRS
Giles Skey Brindley FRS (b. 1926) is a British physiologist whose audacious experiments and engineering brilliance helped launch modern visual prosthetics, neuro-urology, and the science of color…
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 18/04/2026
Excited to share that two papers from the lab were accepted to #IEEE #EMBC2026 (@embs.org)! 🎉 1. Better symbol design for reading with (future) prosthetic vision 2. Cloud-adaptive preprocessing for visual neuroprostheses under real-world network constraints #BionicVision #NeuroTech
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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
En route to #Cosyne2026! 🧠🧪🇵🇹 @bionicvisionlab.org is represented with 2 projects: - control of electrically evoked activity in human V1 - predictive model of mouse V1 recovers cell- and state-dependent tuning Check out our posters on Thursday! #CompNeuroSky #NeuroSkyence
[1-213] Control of electrically evoked neural activity in human visual cortex using deep learning. Thursday, March 12, 20:30 - 23:30[1-132] Predictive models trained on natural behavior recover cell- and state-dependent tuning in mouse V1. Thursday, March 12, 20:30 - 23:30
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bionic-vision.org @bionic-vision.org · 10/03/2026
ReVision Implant receives FDA breakthrough device designation for its Occular visual cortical prosthesis www.massdevice.com/revision-imp... #BionicVision #BCI #NeuroTech
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ReVision Implant wins FDA breakthrough nod for vision-restoring BCI
ReVision Implant announced today that it received FDA breakthrough device designation for its Occular visual cortical prosthesis.
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 05/03/2026
🚨Fuzzing the brain - automated stress testing for ML-driven neurostimulation🚨 As #MachineLearning begins to control electrical stimulation in neural interfaces, how do we know these models are safe? Paper in Journal of Neural Engineering: bionicvisionlab.org/publications... #BCI #neuroskyence
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Fuzzing the brain: Automated stress testing for the safety of ML-driven neurostimulation | Bionic Vision Lab
We propose a systematic, quantitative approach to detect and characterize unsafe stimulation patterns in ML-driven neurostimulation systems.
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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
What if your strongest #ML model is brittle at one thing that really matters? Can it learn that behavior from a weaker but specialist model, even when they share no task, no data, and no architecture? My student Galen Pogoncheff explored this in our #ICLR2026 paper: 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2505.23933
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BIRD: Behavior Induction via Representation-structure Distillation
Human-aligned deep learning models exhibit behaviors consistent with human values, such as robustness, fairness, and honesty. Transferring these behavioral properties to models trained on different ta...
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TK (Takashi DY) Kozai @bioniclab.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Just out in @nature.com BME: Our Review unpacks intracortical microstimulation: axons, not somas, drive activation; direct + indirect pathways shape perception; parameters interact with neuron type, layer, and network; long-term use limited by neural depression & tissue response. 🧠⚡ rdcu.be/eZbTz
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Neural mechanisms underlying intracortical microstimulation for sensory restoration
Nature Biomedical Engineering - Intracortical microstimulation can elicit artificial sensations in persons who have lost sensation due to neurological injury or disease. This Review discusses...
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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
🎉 Mouse vs AI #NeurIPS2025 Challenge 2025 The first year was a great success: 🤖 290 submissions 👥 22 teams 🌎 7 countries robustforaging.github.io A huge thank you to all who participated!👏 This was our first attempt at a global competition built around real mouse behavior and visual robustness
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Robust Foraging Competition
Can your AI visually navigate better than a mouse?
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Antonio Lozano @lozaneuro.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Presenting “Human in the loop optimisation for efficient intracortical microstimulation temporal patterns in visual cortex” again this afternoon at #SfN!! Come discuss! An amazing collaboration between the Biomedical Neuroengineering group at UMH and @bionicvisionlab.org
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 16/11/2025
If you are into #VisionScience or #neuroengineering, come check out our first poster at #SfN2025 this afternoon! Emily Joyce is presenting new work on modeling the bipolar circuitry in the human fovea PSTR122.22 Nov 16 at 1:00 PM www.abstractsonline.com/pp8/#!/21171...
Simulated responses of a bipolar cell mosaic to simulated electrical stimulation and the corresponding decoded phosphenes. Small phosphenes appear focal and colored, whereas larger phosphenes most often appear with a white-ish, yellow-ish tint.
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bionic-vision.org @bionic-vision.org · 30/10/2025
What if retinal prostheses could speak the brain’s language? 👁️🧠🧪 Prof. Yossi Mandel and team built a hybrid implant that merges neurons and electrodes to restore high-acuity sight. New Data Drop interview ↓ www.bionic-vision.org/research-spo... #BionicVision #Neurotech #Blindness
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bionic-vision.org | Research Spotlights | Yossi Mandel
In a new Advanced Functional Materials paper, Prof. Yossi Mandel and colleagues unveiled a hybrid retinal prosthesis that fuses living neurons with a high-density electrode array. By nestling human st...
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bionic-vision.org @bionic-vision.org · 22/10/2025
Can Fruit Ninja train the #BionicEye? A new JoV paper finds that while participants improved with distorted “prosthetic” input, gaming-based training didn’t generalize to object recognition - hinting that rehab may need to stay task-specific. doi.org/10.1167/jov....
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bionic-vision.org @bionic-vision.org · 21/10/2025
🚨 Breakthrough alert: A new study in the NEJM reports that the PRIMA subretinal implant helped restore meaningful central vision in ~80% of participants with advanced geographic atrophy (an untreatable form of #AMD). www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/... #BionicVision #NeuroTech
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Subretinal Photovoltaic Implant to Restore Vision in Geographic Atrophy Due to AMD | NEJM
Geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the leading cause of irreversible blindness and affects more than 5 million persons worldwide. No therapies to restore vision in ...
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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
👁️🧠 New preprint: We demonstrate the first data-driven neural control framework for a visual cortical implant in a blind human! TL;DR Deep learning lets us synthesize efficient stimulation patterns that reliably evoke percepts, outperforming conventional calibration. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Diagram showing three ways to control brain activity with a visual prosthesis. The goal is to match a desired pattern of brain responses. One method uses a simple one-to-one mapping, another uses an inverse neural network, and a third uses gradient optimization. Each method produces a stimulation pattern, which is tested in both computer simulations and in the brain of a blind participant with an implant. The figure shows that the neural network and gradient methods reproduce the target brain activity more accurately than the simple mapping.
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 17/09/2025
As federal research funding faces steep cuts, UC scientists are pushing brain-computer interfaces forward: restoring speech after ALS, easing Parkinson’s symptoms, and improving bionic vision with AI (that’s us 👋 at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social). 🧠 www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/thrilli...
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Thrilling progress in brain-computer interfaces from UC labs
UC researchers and the patients they work with are showing the world what's possible when the human mind and advanced computers meet.
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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Excited to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at UCSB! Grateful to my mentors, students, and funders who shaped this journey and to @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social for giving the Bionic Vision Lab a home! Full post: www.linkedin.com/posts/michae...
Epic collage of Bionic Vision Lab activities. From top to bottom, left to right:
A) Up-to-date group picture
B) BVL at Dr. Beyeler's Plous Award celebration (2025)
C) BVL at The Eye & The Chip (2023)
D/F) Dr. Aiwen Xu and Justin Kasowski getting hooded at the UCSB commencement ceremony
E) BVL logo cake created by Tori LeVier
G) Dr. Beyeler with symposium speakers at Optica FVM (2023)
H, I, M, N) Students presenting conference posters/talks
J) Participant scanning a food item (ominous pizza study)
K) Galen Pogoncheff in VR
L) Argus II user drawing a phosphene
O) Prof. Beyeler demoing BionicVisionXR
P) First lab hike (ca. 2021)
Q) Statue for winner of the Mac'n'Cheese competition (ca. 2022)
R) BVL at Club Vision
S) Students drifting off into the sunset on a floating couch after a hard day's work
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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
At #EMBC2025? Come check out two talks from my lab in tomorrow’s Sensory Neuroprostheses session! 🗓️ Thurs July 17 · 8-10AM · Room B3 M3-4 🧠 Efficient threshold estimation 🧑🔬 Deep human-in-the-loop optimization 🔗 embc.embs.org/2025/program/ #BionicVision #NeuroTech #IEEE #EMBS
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 13/07/2025
👁️⚡ Headed to #EMBC2025? Catch two of our lab’s talks on optimizing retinal implants! 📍 Sensory Neuroprostheses 🗓️ Thurs July 17 · 8-10AM · Room B3 M3-4 🧠 Efficient threshold estimation 🧑🔬 Deep human-in-the-loop optimization 🔗 embc.embs.org/2025/program/ #BionicVision #NeuroTech #IEEE #EMBS #Retina
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 09/07/2025
👁️🧠 New paper alert! We show that checkerboard-style electrode activation improves perceptual clarity in simulated prosthetic vision—outperforming other patterns in both letter and motion tasks. Less bias, more function, same safety. 🔗 doi.org/10.1088/1741... #BionicVision #NeuroTech
Raster patterns in simulated prosthetic vision. On the left, a natural scene of a yellow car is shown, followed by its transformation into a prosthetic vision simulation using a 10×10 grid of electrodes (red dots). Below this, a zoomed-in example shows the resulting phosphene pattern. To comply with safety constraints, electrodes are divided into five spatial groups activated sequentially across ~220 milliseconds. Each row represents a different raster pattern: vertical (columns activated left to right), horizontal (rows top to bottom), checkerboard (spatially maximized separation), and random (reshuffled every five frames). For each pattern, five panels show how the scene is progressively built across the five raster groups. Vertical and horizontal patterns show strong directional streaking. Checkerboard shows more uniform activation and perceptual clarity. Random appears spatially noisy and inconsistent.
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 24/06/2025
🎙️Our very own Lily Turkstra was featured on WYPL-FM’s Eye on Vision podcast to discuss how blind individuals use assistive tech at home, from tactile labels to digital tools. 📻 Listen: eyeonvision.blogspot.com/2025/05/assi... 📰 Read: bionicvisionlab.org/publications... #BlindTech #Accessibility
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Assistive Technology Use In The Home and AI and Adaptive Optics Ophthalmoscopes
Lily Turkstra (University of California - Santa Barbara) Dr. Johnny Tam (National Eye Institute - Bethesda, MD) Lily Turkstra , PhD Student,...
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bionic-vision.org @bionic-vision.org · 12/06/2025
👁️🧠🧪 Next on the Horizon: Frederik Ceyssens from ReVision Implant on scaling bionic vision to the cortex with Occular, a high-res, deep-brain prosthesis. Why performance might beat invasiveness - and what comes next: www.bionic-vision.org/research-spo... #BionicVision #NeuroTech #BCI
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bionic-vision.org | Research Spotlights | Frederik Ceyssens, ReVision Implant
Frederik Ceyssens is Co-Founder and CEO of ReVision Implant, the company behind Occular: a next-generation cortical prosthesis designed to restore both central and peripheral vision through ultra-flex...
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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Last but not least is Lily Turkstra, whose poster is assessing the efficacy of visual augmentations for high-stress navigation: Tue, 2:45 - 6:45pm, Pavilion: Poster #56.472 www.visionsciences.org/presentation... 👁️🧪 #XR #VirtualReality #Unity3D #VSS2025
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VSS PresentationPresentation – Vision Sciences Society
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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Coming up: Jacob Granley on whether V1 maintains working memory via spiking activity. Prior evidence from fMRI and LFPs - now, rare intracortical recordings in a blind human offer a chance to test it directly. 👁️ #VSS2025 🕥 Sun 10:45pm · Talk Room 1 🧠 www.visionsciences.org/presentation...
Schematic illustrating the phosphenes elicited by an intracortical prosthesis. A 96-channel Utah array is shown, stimulated with biphasic pulse trains. An arrow points to drawings of visual percepts elicited by electrical stimulationJacob Granley headshot
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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Our @bionicvisionlab.org is at #VSS2025 with 2 talks and a poster! First up is PhD Candidate Byron A. Johnson: Fri, 4:30pm, Talk Room 1: Differential Effects of Peripheral and Central Vision Loss on Scene Perception and Eye Movement Patterns www.visionsciences.org/presentation...
Example stimulus from Byron's image dataset: an unobscured version (left) depicting a man on a bike approaching a woman trying to cross the bike lane; a simulation of peripheral vision loss (center), where the woman is clearly visible but the man on the bike is obscured; and a simulation of central vision loss (right), where the man on the bike is apparent but the woman is obscuredByron Johnson headshot
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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Not usually one to post personal pics, but let’s take a break from doomscrolling, yeah? Some joyful moments from the Plous Award Ceremony: Honored to give the lecture, receive the framed award & celebrate with the people who made it all possible! @bionicvisionlab.org @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social
Michael Beyeler smiles while receiving the framed Plous Award at UC Santa Barbara. College of Letters & Science's Dean Shelly Gable presents the award in front of a slide thanking collaborators and funders, with photos of colleagues and logos from NIH and the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies. The audience watches the moment from their seats.The lecture hall of Mosher Alumni House is packed as Prof. Beyeler gets started with his lecture titled "Learning to See Again: Building a Smarter Bionic Eye"Michael Beyeler stands with members of the Bionic Vision Lab in front of a congratulatory banner celebrating his 2024–25 UCSB Plous Award. Everyone is smiling, with some holding drinks, and Michael is holding his young son. The group is gathered outdoors under string lights, with tall eucalyptus trees in the background.
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The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering @ucsbengineering.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Check out his talk, "Learning to See Again: Building a Smarter Bionic Eye," on Monday, April 14th, 4pm-6pm at Mosher Alumni House.💡 For more info click here: www.campuscalendar.ucsb.edu/event/beyele...
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Michael Beyeler | 2024-2025 Plous Award Lecture
"Learning to See Again: Building a Smarter Bionic Eye" What does it mean to see with a bionic eye? While modern visual prosthetics can generate flashes of light, they don’t yet restore natural…
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The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering @ucsbengineering.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Modern visual prosthetics can generate flashes of light but don’t restore natural vision. What might bionic vision look like? In CS asst. prof Michael Beyeler's @bionicvisionlab.org his team explores how smarter, more adaptive tech could move toward a bionic eye that's functional & usable.👁️
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bionic-vision.org @bionic-vision.org · 23/01/2025
Virtual Human Retina: A simulation platform designed for studying human retinal degeneration and optimizing stimulation strategies for retinal implants 👁️🧠🧪 doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
Examples of discrete neuronal network models of the human retina, including the central (top) and peripheral retina (bottom). Photoreceptors, bipolar cells, and ganglion cells are shown.
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 17/12/2024
“Seeing the future”: More media coverage about @mbeyeler.bsky.social winning the 2024-25 Harold J. Plous Memorial Award @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social news.ucsb.edu/2024/021709/...
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Seeing the future: Michael Beyeler’s work in neurotechnology earns him top faculty award
Recognized for outstanding contributions in research, teaching and service, as well as “his dedication to innovation, excellence and student success," the researcher behind the "bionic eye" receives o...
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 13/12/2024
Our PI @mbeyeler.bsky.social has received the 2024-’25 Harold J. Plous Memorial Award by @ucsb.bsky.social, in recognition of his “outstanding contributions in research, teaching, and service.“ New article by @ucsbengineering.bsky.social: engineering.ucsb.edu/news/outstan...
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Outstanding Contributions
Assistant professor Michael Beyeler is selected for the highly regarded Harold J. Plous Memorial Award.
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David A. Markowitz @davidamarkowitz.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Please share: ARIA is offering £500k seed awards for neural interface projects. Apply by 13 Feb 2025. I've been impressed with ARIA's scientific team and overall execution so far. They deserve your best ideas! www.aria.org.uk/scalable-neu...
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Scalable Neural Interfaces – Opportunity seeds - ARIA
To support scientific and technological breakthroughs, outside of programmes, ARIA Programme Directors can award opportunity seeds to support ambitious research aligned to the opportunity spaces they’...
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Max Hodak @maxhodak.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I had an idea way back in college which I've long thought could be, in many ways, the ultimate BCI technology. What if instead of using electrodes, we used biological neurons embedded in electronics to communicate with the brain? Enter biohybrid neural interfaces: science.xyz/news/biohybr...
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Biohybrid neural interfaces: an old idea enabling a completely new space of possibilities | Science Corporation
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 21/11/2024
Aligning visual prosthetic development with implantee needs: Now out in TVST! #BionicVision #NeuroTech #BCI #Blindness #Accessibility
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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Starting your #PhD journey? Crafting a standout Statement of Purpose is key. Here's a guide with tips & common pitfalls to help you succeed (tailored to #CompSky at #UCSB, but much of it should apply to most depts): docs.google.com/document/d/1... #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #FirstGen #CSforALL
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The Road to a Successful PhD Application
The Road to a Successful PhD Application Disclaimer: This guide was written by Prof. Michael Beyeler, with input from faculty colleagues. It does not necessarily reflect the views of all CS faculty me...
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Michael Beyeler @mbeyeler.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Applying to the PhD program in #CompSky at #UCSB? It's not too late to get expert feedback on your application materials! 🧪 New deadline: Nov 22 Anywhere on Earth cs.ucsb.edu/education/gr... #Diversity #FirstGen #STEM #WomenInSTEM #CSforALL #AcademicSky
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bionic-vision.org @bionic-vision.org · 13/11/2024
New Bloomberg article putting recent developments in #BionicVision into perspective: www.bloomberg.com/news/article... with quotes from Max Hodak (Science), Xing Chen (Pitt), Yağmur Güçlütürk (Radboud), @mbeyeler.bsky.social (UCSB), others #NeuroTech #BCI #Neuralink #PRIMA #Phosphoenix #ReVision
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Startups Like Science and Musk's Neuralink Aim to Help Blind People See
Technological advances have spurred an "explosion of interest" in restoring vision.
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bionic-vision.org @bionic-vision.org · 12/11/2024
The 2nd Brain & The Chip is underway in Elche, Spain! Leading #BionicVision and #BCI researchers are gathering to discuss latest developments in intracortical neural interfaces. www.bionic-vision.org/events/brain...
Jacob Granley from the Bionic Vision Lab presenting at the podium as he presents his talk on control of electrically evoked neural activity via deep neural networks in human visual cortex
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Anuj Gupta @mettalrose.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Folks please do your best to include "alt text" for any images you post. When blind users use bluesky, this enables them to engage with the images you post. #Accessibility #AltText
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Bionic Vision Lab @bionicvisionlab.org · 12/11/2024
“When you say someone is disabled, there’s an assumption they’re not functional–which couldn’t be more wrong!” Our PhD student Lucas Nadolskis shares insights on #Accessibility, #Inclusion vs. #Integration, and reimagining cities for all: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDSn...
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What is accessibility and integration in urban futures? Lucas Gil Nadolskis (270I)
YouTube video by What is The Future for Cities?
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