Francis R Willett

Joined

May 2023

Names

Francis R Willett (Preferred)

Francis R. Willett

Emails

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****@stanford.edu (Confirmed)

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Career & Education History

Researcher

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2021 – 2023

Postdoc

Stanford University (stanford.edu)

2017 – 2021

PhD student

Case Western Reserve University (case.edu)

2012 – 2017

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Postdoc Advisor

Krishna Shenoy

2017 – 2023

PhD Advisor

Bolu Ajiboye

2012 – 2017

Expertise

brain-computer interfaces

2012 – 2023

motor cortex

2012 – 2023

computational neuroscience

2012 – 2023

Publications

A cross-species neural foundation model for end-to-end speech decoding
Yizi Zhang, Linyang He, Chaofei Fan, Tingkai Liu, Han Yu, Trung Le, Jingyuan Li, Scott Linderman, Lea Duncker, Francis R Willett, Nima Mesgarani, Liam Paninski
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
An Accurate and Rapidly Calibrating Speech Neuroprosthesis
Nicholas S. Card, Maitreyee Wairagkar, Carrina Iacobacci, Xianda Hou, Tyler Singer-Clark, Francis R Willett, Erin Kunz, Chaofei Fan, Maryam Vahdati Nia, Darrel Deo, Aparna Srinivasan, Eun Young Choi, Matthew Glasser, Leigh Hochberg, David Brandman
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
A high-performance speech neuroprosthesis
Chaofei Fan, Francis R Willett, Erin Kunz, Jaimie M. Henderson, Shaul Druckmann, Leigh Hochberg
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
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Decoding spoken English from intracortical electrode arrays in dorsal precentral gyrus
Guy H Wilson, Sergey Stavisky, Francis R Willett, Donald Avansino, jessica kelemen, Leigh Hochberg, Jaimie M. Henderson, shaul druckmann, Krishna V. Shenoy
- 13 May 2023
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Plug-and-Play Stability for Intracortical Brain-Computer Interfaces: A One-Year Demonstration of Seamless Brain-to-Text Communication
Chaofei Fan, Nick Hahn, Foram Kamdar, Donald Avansino, Guy H Wilson, Leigh Hochberg, Krishna V. Shenoy, Jaimie M. Henderson, Francis R Willett
- NeurIPS 2023 spotlight
- Readers: Everyone
Next-generation BCIs: Brain-to-text Communication via Attempted Handwriting
Francis R. Willett, Donald T. Avansino, Leigh R. Hochberg, Jaimie M. Henderson, Krishna V. Shenoy
- Published: 01 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- BCI 2022
- Readers: Everyone
Decoding Speech from Intracortical Multielectrode Arrays in Dorsal "Arm/Hand Areas" of Human Motor Cortex
Sergey D. Stavisky, Paymon Rezaii, Francis R. Willett, Leigh R. Hochberg, Krishna V. Shenoy, Jaimie M. Henderson
- Published: 01 Jan 2018, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- EMBC 2018
- Readers: Everyone
A Comparison of Intention Estimation Methods for Decoder Calibration in Intracortical Brain-Computer Interfaces
Francis R. Willett, Brian A. Murphy, Daniel Young, William D. Memberg, Christine H. Blabe, Chethan Pandarinath, Brian Franco, Jad Saab, Benjamin L. Walter, Jennifer A. Sweet, Jonathan P. Miller, Jaimie M. Henderson, Krishna V. Shenoy, John D. Simeral, Beata Jarosiewicz, Leigh R. Hochberg, Robert F. Kirsch, A. Bolu Ajiboye
- Published: 01 Jan 2018, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 2018
- Readers: Everyone
Relationship between microelectrode array impedance and chronic recording quality of single units and local field potentials
JingLe Jiang, Francis R. Willett, Dawn M. Taylor
- Published: 01 Jan 2014, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- EMBC 2014
- Readers: Everyone
Differences in motor cortical representations of kinematic variables between action observation and action execution and implications for brain-machine interfaces
Francis R. Willett, Aaron J. Suminski, Andrew H. Fagg, Nicholas G. Hatsopoulos
- Published: 01 Jan 2014, Last Modified: 12 May 2023
- EMBC 2014
- Readers: Everyone

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