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Nick Card @NS_Card

Neuroengineer building speech BCIs | BWF CASI & A.P. Giannini Postdoctoral Fellow @UCDavis department of neurological surgery | Previously @PittBioE

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Nick Card@NS_Card
9 Jul 2025
Our new preprint describes a multimodal intracortical brain-computer interface that a man with ALS has used at home, independently, almost every day for >19 months. It decodes both speech and cursor control to enable him to communicate and use his computer. Here’s a quick tour👇
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San Francisco Chronicle
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Apr 27
In the research world, Casey Harrell is known by subject name T-15. He’s become a test case, and a point of hope, for people afflicted with ALS to have their voice restored. sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti…

ALS took his voice. A brain implant helped him speak to his daughter again

In the research world, Casey Harrell is known by subject name T-15. He’s become a test case, and a point of hope, for people afflicted with ALS to have their voice restored.

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Sergey Stavisky@SergeyStavisky
Apr 6
Want to work on intracortical speech and language brain-computer interfaces? We're hiring a Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant (CNRA)! Application link in next post. We'll start reviewing applicants after April 25th Please RT 🔁
Image with text (copied below) and a graphic schematic of a BCI. Neurotech job opportunity UCDavis Neuroprosthetics Lab The Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant (CNRA) leads the day-to-day interactions with our clinical trial participants, including going to their home to run brain-computer interface research sessions that our team has put together. For this crucial role we're looking for a highly organized individual with excellent interpersonal skills, who is tech savvy and comfortable learning how to operate our technology with instruction from the PIs and the rest of the research team. The CNRA will be a co-author on resulting publications and is welcome to get further involved in data analysis/experiment design/etc. as long as their core clinical trial responsibilities are met. This role may be of particular interest to someone considering going on to medical school, a PhD program, or a neurotechnology industry role after a couple of years.

ALT Image with text (copied below) and a graphic schematic of a BCI. Neurotech job opportunity UCDavis Neuroprosthetics Lab The Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant (CNRA) leads the day-to-day interactions with our clinical trial participants, including going to their home to run brain-computer interface research sessions that our team has put together. For this crucial role we're looking for a highly organized individual with excellent interpersonal skills, who is tech savvy and comfortable learning how to operate our technology with instruction from the PIs and the rest of the research team. The CNRA will be a co-author on resulting publications and is welcome to get further involved in data analysis/experiment design/etc. as long as their core clinical trial responsibilities are met. This role may be of particular interest to someone considering going on to medical school, a PhD program, or a neurotechnology industry role after a couple of years.

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Matthew Willsey
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Apr 2
We’re hiring: Research Lab Specialist in BCI research. Great fit for a recent BS/MS grad who is a go-getter, enjoys working with people, is flexible with travel/hours, and can start right away. Work includes recruitment, in-home BCI sessions, clinical/engineering research, and lab admin. Apply: careers.umich.edu/job_detail…

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I'm really happy to see "brain-to-text" begin crossing over from academia to industry, helping more and more people communicate along the way! And I'm proud that I was able to contribute to this tech during my time at Neuralink.
Neuralink
@neuralink
Mar 24
ALS has gradually taken away Kenneth’s ability to speak. Through Neuralink’s VOICE clinical trial, he’s exploring how a brain-computer interface designed to translate thought to speech could help restore autonomy in his daily life. Watch to learn more:
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Ebrahim Feghhi@ebrahim_feghhi
Mar 17
Excited to introduce LightBeam, a CTC decoder for speech neuroprostheses that drastically cuts memory load while achieving state-of-the art (SOTA) results Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.14002 Code: github.com/ebrahimfeghhi/bra… Co-authors: @hu_is_lionel @nrhadidi @JonathanCKao Thread 🧵

LightBeam: An Accurate and Memory-Efficient CTC Decoder for Speech...

A promising pathway for restoring communication in patients with dysarthria and anarthria is speech neuroprostheses, which directly decode speech from cortical neural activity. Two benchmarks,...

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Sergey Stavisky@SergeyStavisky
Mar 16
Another brain-computer interface record set in the published record: fastest communication based on hand movements (typing in this case): nature.com/articles/s41593-0… Congrats Justin and the rest of the @BrainGateTeam!

Restoring rapid natural bimanual typing with a neuroprosthesis after paralysis

Nature Neuroscience - Jude et al. present a communication intracortical brain–computer interface typing neuroprosthesis enabling familiar, high-speed, bimanual QWERTY keyboard functionality...

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Announcing the winners of the Brain-to-Text '25 challenge! 🥇 1st place: Zahra Jahanshiri, Masoud Farivar, Siavash Rezazadeh 🥈 2nd place: Jinhan Liu Mahsa Shoaran 🥉 3rd place: Yizi Zhang 🏆 Honorable mention: Tommaso Boccato, Moein Khajehnejad, Michal Olak, Matteo Ferrante
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We will be re-releasing the competition data in a non-normalized continuous format in the coming weeks. We'd also like to re-open the leaderboard so it can serve as a public benchmark for future studies, but have not quite decided how best to do that yet. Stay tuned.
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Finally, we plan to put out a whitepaper later in 2026 covering the decoding approaches used by the winning teams!
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Sergey Stavisky@SergeyStavisky
Mar 1
A new BBC story covers several different projects related to intracortical speech decoding from our @BrainGateTeam consortium and others’ non-invasive work: bbc.com/future/article/20260…

How AI can read our scrambled inner thoughts

The crackle of electricity inside your brain has long been too complex to decode. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

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Alisa Levin@alisadlevin
Jan 15
Excited to share our new work on cross-brain transfer of speech and handwriting BCIs! Some studies have required 10 days of training data for peak BCI performance. Can pooling neural data from other users speed things up? 1/6 biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
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Sergey Stavisky@SergeyStavisky
31 Dec 2025
Our speech brain-to-text neural decoding competition ends tonight! It's been really fun to see many very high accuracy submissions beating all the previously published SOTA baselines. Some last minute entries just came in...
Screenshot of leaderboard from https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/brain-to-text-25/leaderboard

ALT Screenshot of leaderboard from https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/brain-to-text-25/leaderboard

Nick Card@NS_Card
1 Dec 2025
There's just one month left for the Brain-to-Text '25 challenge! Submit your neural decoding approach and compete for $9,000 in prizes provided by @BlackrockNeuro_ kaggle.com/competitions/brai…
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Nick Card@NS_Card
1 Dec 2025
There's just one month left for the Brain-to-Text '25 challenge! Submit your neural decoding approach and compete for $9,000 in prizes provided by @BlackrockNeuro_ kaggle.com/competitions/brai…

Brain-to-text '25

Decode intracortical neural activity during attempted speech into words

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BrainGate Team@BrainGateTeam
29 Oct 2025
Congrats to @neuroleigh and our team at @ucdavis: @SergeyStavisky, @Maitreyee_W, @NS_Card, @DrDavidBrandman, et al., whose speech intracortical brain-computer interface has been recognized as a milestone in neurology by the American Neurological Association @TheNewANA1 !
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Marco Capogrosso@MCapogrosso
16 Oct 2025
POST-DOC JOB POST ALERT!!! 🔥 We are looking for a post-doc candidate to run our flagship clinical trial to restore arm and hand motor function in people with post-stroke hemiparesis using fully implantable spinal cord stimulation! Send your application to: my email :) #Neurotech
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Nick Card@NS_Card
4 Sep 2025
The Brain-to-text '25 challenge is heating up! Over 1,000 people have now joined the competition, and one team has already beaten all 3 benchmarks! There's still 4 months left to join & compete for $9,000 in cash prizes. kaggle.com/competitions/brai…
Nick Card@NS_Card
7 Jul 2025
We're excited to announce the Brain-to-Text '25 competition, with a new intracortical speech neuroscience dataset and $9,000 in prizes generously provided by @BlackrockNeuro_!. Can you do better than us at decoding speech-related neural activity into text? kaggle.com/competitions/brai…
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Nick Card@NS_Card
19 Aug 2025
Come work with us and help develop neurotechnologies to restore communication to the people who need it most!
Sergey Stavisky@SergeyStavisky
12 Aug 2025
We're hiring a Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant (CNRA)! Application link in next post. We'll start reviewing applicants after August 25th Please RT 🔁
The Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant (CNRA) leads the day-to-day interactions with our clinical trial participants, including going to their home to run brain-computer interface research sessions that our team has put together. For this crucial role we’re looking for a highly organized individual with excellent interpersonal skills, who is tech savvy and comfortable learning how to operate our technology with instruction from the PIs and the rest of the research team. The CNRA will be a co-author on resulting publications and is welcome to get further involved in data analysis/experiment design/etc. as long as their core clinical trial responsibilities are met. This role may be of particular interest to someone considering going on to medical school, a PhD program, or a neurotechnology industry role after a couple of years.

ALT The Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant (CNRA) leads the day-to-day interactions with our clinical trial participants, including going to their home to run brain-computer interface research sessions that our team has put together. For this crucial role we’re looking for a highly organized individual with excellent interpersonal skills, who is tech savvy and comfortable learning how to operate our technology with instruction from the PIs and the rest of the research team. The CNRA will be a co-author on resulting publications and is welcome to get further involved in data analysis/experiment design/etc. as long as their core clinical trial responsibilities are met. This role may be of particular interest to someone considering going on to medical school, a PhD program, or a neurotechnology industry role after a couple of years.

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IEEE Spectrum@IEEESpectrum
16 Aug 2025
Could your algorithm redefine speech BCIs? Compete in Brain-to-text '25 and see if you can lower the word error rate further. spectrum.ieee.org/speech-bci…

Machine Learning Experts Will Compete to Decode Brain Speech

A $5,000 prize awaits the best algorithm predicting speech from brain data.

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