Sanvi Pal

When I applied to Caltech, I applied because I was in awe of Professor Richard Andersen and the work he and his graduate students have done with brain machine interfaces (BMI) — devices that are able to both pick up neural activity and transmit signals to the brain. The Science Picture BMI systems can be open-loop or closed-loop. Open-loop means that there is a pre-programmed system output regardless of what the user is thinking. Closed-loop means that the subject is now integrated in the lo