Draelos Lab @

University of Michigan

Recent Work

  1. Wu, P., Shankar, A., Chiu, A., Shahab, M., Burgess, C., Savier, E., & Draelos, A. (2026). Real-Time Bayesian Optimization for Efficient Multidimensional Neural Tuning Characterization. Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE) Abstracts. Abstract
  2. Cao, Y., Chukkapalli, Y., Canchi, S., Umashankar, V., Luquez, T., Janve, V., Hohman, T., Menon, Draelos, A., & Kaczorowski, C. (2025). Uncovering hidden factors of cognitive resilience in Alzheimer’s disease using a conditional-Gaussian mixture variational autoencoder. Nature Npj Dementia, 1. Paper
  3. Draelos, A., Nikitchenko, M., Sriworarat, C., Sprague, D., Loring, M. D., Pnevmatikakis, E., Giovannucci, A., Naumann, E. A., & Pearson, J. M. (2025). improv: A flexible software platform for adaptive neuroscience experiments. Nature Communications, 16. Paper
  4. Temmar, H., Wang, Y., Gill, N., Mellon, N., Liu, C., Cubillos, L., Parsons, R., Costello, J., Ceradini, M., Kelberman, M., Mender, M., Hite, A., Wallace, D., Nason-Tomaszewski, S., Patil, P., Willsey, M., Draelos, A., & Chestek, C. (2025). Long-term Intracortical Neural activity and Kinematics (LINK): An intracortical neural dataset for chronic brain-machine interfaces, neuroscience, and machine learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS). Paper
  5. Gedela, N., Radawiec, R., Salim, S., Richie, J., Chestek, C., Draelos, A., & Pelled, G. (2025). In vivo electrophysiology recordings and computational modeling can predict octopus arm movement. Bioelectronic Medicine, 11. Paper
  6. Cubillos, L., Revach, G., Mender, M., Costello, J., Temmar, H., Hite, A., Zutshi, D., Wallace, D., Ni, X., Kelberman, M., Willsey, M., Van Sloun, R., Shlezinger, N., Patil, P., Draelos, A., & Chestek, C. (2024). Exploring the trade-off between deep-learning and explainable models for brain-machine interfaces. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 37. Paper

Prior Work

  1. Draelos, A., Gupta, P., Jun, N. Y., Sriworarat, C., & Pearson, J. (2021). Bubblewrap: Online tiling and real-time flow prediction on neural manifolds. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 34. Paper
  2. Draelos, A., & Pearson, J. (2020). Online Neural Connectivity Estimation with Noisy Group Testing. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 33. Paper
  3. Draelos, A., Naumann, E. A., & Pearson, J. M. (2020). Online neural connectivity estimation with ensemble stimulation. ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2007.13911. Paper