Building neural interfaces for vision restoration.

I develop AI driven cortical visual interfaces and open-source tools that bridge NHP electrophysiology to first-in-human clinical trials.

Cortical Visual Prostheses Intracortical Microstimulation Computer Vision / Deep Learning Large scale implant planning / mapping Neural Encoding / Decoding
Antonio Lozano

Currently

  • Postdoctoral Researcher @ UMH
  • Senior Scientific Consultant @ Ruten
1024-ch
NHP RECORDINGS
1 human
CLINICAL TRIALS
2
PATENTS
5+
OPEN-SOURCE TOOLS

Explore

Research directions, open-source tools, publications, and collaborators.

Phosphene Processing

Selected Work

Systems I've built or led with great teams.

Clinical Stimulation Software

Core team, CORTIVIS Trial (NCT02983370)

Built the complete neurostimulation and recording stack for a Utah array visual prosthesis trial. Designed psychophysics experiments, calibrated ICMS parameters, and developed real-time stimulation control through Blackrock hardware.

Python Blackrock Neurotech Psychophysics

Neurolight

Real-time DL neural interface

End-to-end system connecting computer vision models to cortical microstimulation. Runs object detection and segmentation on edge hardware (Jetson, Intel NCS) with gaze tracking, driving amplitude/frequency-modulated stimulation at 20+ FPS.

Tensorflow / Keras TensorRT / ONNX Edge Computing

Dynaphos

Differentiable phosphene simulator

PyTorch-based phosphene simulation with cortical magnification, temporal dynamics, and user-specific maps. Enables end-to-end optimization of stimulation encoding. Runs at 100+ FPS on consumer GPUs.

PyTorch Differentiable Open Source

NEUmap

Large-scale electrode mapping

Semi-automatic method to infer phosphene maps from seconds of resting-state neural data. Validated on 300-700 NHP electrodes and 73-91 human electrodes with correlations up to 0.93.

Dimensionality Reduction LFP/MUA Brain Stimulation

vimplant

Implant placement optimization

Bayesian optimization pipeline for electrode array placement using fMRI retinotopy. Validated on 362 brain hemispheres with safety-aware constraints for blood vessel avoidance.

Bayesian Opt fMRI Open Source

1024-ch NHP Experiments

Vision & Cognition Lab, NIN Amsterdam

Large-scale electrophysiology with 16 Utah arrays across V1, V4, IT. Designed experiments for RF mapping, microstimulation propagation, and closed-loop neural recordings. Analyzed TB-scale datasets.

Electrophysiology Microstimulation NHP

Technical Skills

Neural Interfaces

  • Intracortical microstimulation
  • High-channel recordings (1024-ch)
  • Blackrock Neurotech / Ripple Neuro
  • Closed-loop BCI
  • Psychophysics protocols

Machine Learning

  • PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras
  • TensorRT, ONNX optimization
  • Neural encoding/decoding
  • Computer vision (detection, segmentation)
  • Dimensionality reduction

Neuroscience

  • NHP behavioral training
  • RF mapping, retinotopy
  • LFP/MUA signal processing
  • Visual cortex (V1, V4, IT)
  • Human clinical trials

Engineering

  • Python, MATLAB
  • Edge computing (Jetson, Intel NCS)
  • 3D Slicer, FreeSurfer, BrainVoyager
  • Real-time experiment software
  • Git, collaborative development

PhD Thesis

PhD Thesis: Towards an AI endowed visual neuroprosthesis for the blind

Towards an AI endowed visual neuroprosthesis for the blind: development and first-in-human implementation of a deep learning intracortical neural interface

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