Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering - Neural Engineering, Duke University (2024)
Dissertation: Quantifying spatio-temporal features of neural activity for human speech production
Advisors: Jonathan Viventi & Gregory Cogan
M.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering - Bioelectric & Bioimaging, University of Michigan (2016)
Thesis: Comparison of signal-decomposition techniques for the analysis of human cortical signals
Advisors: Parag G. Patil & Cynthia Chestek
B.E. in Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering, Anna University, Chennai, India (2015)
Thesis: Computational modeling of epidemiological dynamics using fractional-order calculus
Advisor: Kamalanand K
Duraivel, S., Rahimpour, S., Barth, K., Chiang, C.H., Wang, C., Harward, S., Lad, N., Sexton, D., Friedman, A., Southwell, D., Sinha, S., Vestal, M., Viventi, J., Cogan, G. (2024). "Neural mechanisms of the transition from planning to execution in speech production." bioRxiv.
Duraivel, S., Rahimpour, S., Chiang, C-H., Trumpis, M., Wang, C., Barth, K., Lad, S. P., Friedman, A.H., Southwell, D. G., Sinha, S.R., Harward, S., Viventi, J., Cogan, G. B. (2023). "High-resolution neural recordings improve the accuracy of speech decoding." Nature Communications. 14(1), 6938.
Barth, K.J., Sun, J., Chiang, C.H., Qiao, S., Wang, C., Rahimpour, S., Trumpis, M., Duraivel, S., Dubey, A., Wingel, K.E., Voinas, A.E., Friedman, A.H., Southwell, D.G., Sinha, S.R., Harward, S.C., Cogan, G.B., Viventi, J. (2023). "Flexible, high‐resolution cortical arrays with large coverage capture microscale high‐frequency oscillations in patients with epilepsy." Epilepsia. 64(7), 1910-1924.
Sun, J., Barth, K., Qiao, S., Chiang, C.H., Wang, C., Rahimpour, S., Trumpis, M., Duraivel, S., Dubey, A., Wingel, K.E., Rachinskiy, I., Friedman, A.H., Southwell, D.G., Sinha, S.R., Harward, S.C., Cogan, G.B., Viventi, J. (2022). "Intraoperative microseizure detection using a high-density micro-electrocorticography electrode array." Brain Communications. 4(3), fcac122.
Chiang, C.H., Wang, C., Barth, K., Rahimpour, S., Trumpis, M., Duraivel, S., Rachinskiy, I., Dubey, A., Wingel, K.E., Wong, M., Witham, N.S., Southwell, D.G., Friedman, A.H., Sinha, S.R., Harward, S.C., Cogan, G.B., Viventi, J. (2021). "Flexible, high-resolution thin-film electrodes for human and animal neural research." Journal of Neural Engineering. 18(4), 045009.
Duraivel, S., Rao, A.T., Lu, C.W., Bentley, J.N., Stacey, W.C., Chestek, C.A., Patil, P.G. (2020). "Comparison of signal decomposition techniques for analysis of human cortical signals." Journal of Neural Engineering. 17(5), 056014.