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

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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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.

A Smarter Way to See Danger | The Robert Mehrabian College of Engineering - UC Santa Barbara

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@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

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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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

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...

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...

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!

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

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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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

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

ReVision Implant receives FDA breakthrough device designation for its Occular visual cortical prosthesis www.massdevice.com/revision-imp... #BionicVision #BCI #NeuroTech

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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🚨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

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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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

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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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

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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🎉 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

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

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...

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

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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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....

🚨 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

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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👁️🧠 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...

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...

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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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...

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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👁️⚡ 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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👁️🧠 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

🎙️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

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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👁️🧠🧪 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

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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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

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...