Position Title
Professor
Co-Director, Center for Neuroengineering & Medicine
- Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Department of Neurological Surgery
- Center for Neuroscience
- Center for Mind and Brain
In August 2025, Dr. Moxon was selected by her peers as a co-director of the Center for Neuroengineering and Medicine, according to the process described in the center's bylaws (linked on this page). She is returning to this role after serving on the center's Steering Committee (2023-2025). Dr. Moxon is one of the center's founding co-directors (2020-2023) and she co-led grass-roots efforts to establish the center (approximately 2018-2020) together with Dr. Sanjay Joshi and Dr. Carolynn Patten.
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Dr. Moxon has conducted groundbreaking research in neuroengineering, developing computational approaches to study the encoding of sensory and motor information. An important focus of her work is the impact of neural injury on the representation of information in the brain. Early in her career, she contributed to the first demonstration of a closed-loop, real-time brain-machine interface system in a rat model that was quickly translated to non-human primates and, more recently, to humans with neurological disorders. This work has spurred an entirely new discipline within neuroengineering that has had a global impact. Dr. Moxon maintains an active research program, combining signal processing and the development of neural interface devices with computational approaches to study how changes in neural encoding contribute to recovery of function after spinal cord injury.
Professor Moxon is a IEEE Senior Member.
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