Jake Joseph

Real-time systems for restoring hand movement.

PhD neuroengineer at the University of Michigan. I build markerless hand tracking, closed-loop stimulation and brain–computer interfaces.

[Demo video]

Freebie: live, markerless tracking of every joint in the hand.

Preprint, 2026

Freebie: A Multi-Camera System for Real-Time Markerless Hand Tracking in Non-Human Primates

A real-time system for tracking dexterous hand movement without markers, built for closed-loop brain–computer interface and stimulation experiments.

Read on bioRxiv

Current research

Self-tuning stimulation

Bayesian optimization that closes the loop between live hand tracking and functional electrical stimulation.

Brain-controlled stimulation

Decoding intended finger movement and driving stimulation to restore it, in free behavior.

Behavior paired with neural data

Recording and analyzing high-dimensional behavioral datasets with paired neural data.

Open to 2027 internships.

Brain–computer interfaces, neurostimulation and neuroprosthetics, robotics and dexterous manipulation.

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