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Aviad Hai

Aviad Hai

Vilas Early Career Associate Professor

Our lab focuses on engineering minimally invasive tools to access the nervous system for neurobiological studies of brain function. We develop electrical, magnetic and electromagnetic sensors for electrophysiology, and for wireless modalities such as functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, magnetometry and more. For this, we employ nanofabrication, nanolithography, and surface chemistry techniques, and combine them with in vitro and in vivo neuroscience towards a broader understanding of the principles underlying neural network activity.

Department

Biomedical Engineering

Contact

2112, Engineering Centers Building
1550 Engineering Dr
Madison, WI

Aviad Hai on probes for directly recording neural activity | ApplySci @ Stanford

  • PhD 2011, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • MS 2006, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • BS 2002, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Neural engineering
  • Neuroscience
  • Neuroimaging
  • Nanoelectronics & Nanofabrication
  • Brain Machine Interfaces

Affiliated Departments

  • 2023 Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Vilas Faculty Early Career Investigator Award
  • 2020 National Institutes of Health, Director’s New Innovator Award
  • 2019 College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Grainger Institute for Engineering Fellowship
  • 2019 National Institutes of Health, Mentored Research Scientist Award
  • 2012 Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences, Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences Fellowship
  • 2011 European Molecular Biology Organization, European Molecular Biology Organization Long term Fellowship
  • 2010 Aharon Katzir Award
  • 2010 Harvey M. Kruger Family , Harvey M. Kruger Family Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Award
  • 2010 Kaye Foundation , Kaye Foundation Innovation Award
  • 2010 Nitza Ilan Award for Excellence in Electrophysiology
  • 2006 Council for Higher Education , Integrated Technologies Doctoral Fellow

  • Vareberg, A. D., Bok, I., Eizadi, J., Ren, X., & Hai, A. (2024). Inference of network connectivity from temporally binned spike trains. J Neurosci Methods, 404, 110073.
  • Bok, I., Rauch, B., Ashtiani, A., & Hai, A. (2024). Direct observation of NMR transverse relaxation in nanopatterned clusters of iron oxide particles. Magn Reson Med, 91(2), 687-698.
  • Bok, I., Ashtiani, A., Gokhale, Y., Phillips, J., Zhu, T., & Hai, A. (2024). Nanofabricated high turn-density spiral coils for on-chip electromagneto-optical conversion. Microsyst Nanoeng, 10, 44.
  • Bok, I., Vareberg, A., Gokhale, Y., Bhatt, S., Masterson, E., Phillips, J., Zhu, T., Ren, X., & Hai, A. (2023). Wireless agents for brain recording and stimulation modalities. Bioelectron Med, 9(1), 20.
  • Ren, X., Bok, I., Vareberg, A., & Hai, A. (2023). Stimulation-mediated reverse engineering of silent neural networks. J Neurophysiol, 129(6), 1505-1514.
  • Bhatt, S., Masterson, E., Zhu, T., Eizadi, J., George, J., Graupe, N., Vareberg, A., Phillips, J., Bok, I., Dwyer, M., Ashtiani, A., & Hai, A. (2023). Recording of Cortical Activity by an Ion-Sensitive Field Effect Transistor. Sens Actuators B Chem, 382.
  • Phillips, J., Glodowski, M., Gokhale, Y., Dwyer, M., Ashtiani, A., & Hai, A. (2022). Enhanced magnetic transduction of neuronal activity by nanofabricated inductors quantified via finite element analysis. J Neural Eng, 19(4).
  • Bok, I., Haber, I., Qu, X., & Hai, A. (2022). In silico assessment of electrophysiological neuronal recordings mediated by magnetoelectric nanoparticles. Sci Rep, 12(1), 8386.
  • Bricault, S., Barandov, A., Harvey, P., DeTienne, E., Hai, A., & Jasanoff, A. (2020). Image-guided neural activity manipulation with a paramagnetic drug. Nat Commun, 11(1), 136.
  • Hai, A., Spanoudaki, V. C., Bartelle, B. B., & Jasanoff, A. (2019). Wireless resonant circuits for the minimally invasive sensing of biophysical processes in magnetic resonance imaging. Nat Biomed Eng, 3(1), 69-78.

  • BME 399 - Independent Study (Fall 2025)
  • BME 550 - Introduction to Biological and Medical Microsystems (Fall 2025)
  • BME 790 - Master's Research and Thesis (Fall 2025)
  • BME 799 - Advanced Independent Study (Fall 2025)
  • BME 890 - Pre-dissertation Research (Fall 2025)
  • BME 990 - Research and Thesis (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 399 - Independent Study (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2025)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Fall 2025)
  • BME 399 - Independent Study (Summer 2025)
  • BME 790 - Master's Research and Thesis (Summer 2025)
  • BME 799 - Advanced Independent Study (Summer 2025)
  • BME 890 - Pre-dissertation Research (Summer 2025)
  • BME 990 - Research and Thesis (Summer 2025)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2025)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Summer 2025)
  • BME 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2025)
  • BME 603 - Special Topics in Bioinstrumentation and Medical Devices (Spring 2025)
  • BME 799 - Advanced Independent Study (Spring 2025)
  • BME 890 - Pre-dissertation Research (Spring 2025)
  • BME 990 - Research and Thesis (Spring 2025)
  • ECE 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2025)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Spring 2025)
  • NTP 675 - Special Topics (Spring 2025)
  • BME 550 - Introduction to Biological and Medical Microsystems (Fall 2024)
  • BME 701 - Seminar in Biomedical Engineering (Fall 2024)
  • BME 890 - Pre-dissertation Research (Fall 2024)
  • BME 990 - Research and Thesis (Fall 2024)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Fall 2024)
  • BME 890 - Pre-dissertation Research (Summer 2024)
  • BME 990 - Research and Thesis (Summer 2024)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Summer 2024)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Summer 2024)
  • BME 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2024)
  • BME 603 - Special Topics in Bioinstrumentation and Medical Devices (Spring 2024)
  • BME 890 - Pre-dissertation Research (Spring 2024)
  • BME 990 - Research and Thesis (Spring 2024)
  • ECE 399 - Independent Study (Spring 2024)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Spring 2024)
  • NTP 675 - Special Topics (Spring 2024)
  • BME 399 - Independent Study (Fall 2023)
  • BME 550 - Introduction to Biological and Medical Microsystems (Fall 2023)
  • BME 799 - Advanced Independent Study (Fall 2023)
  • BME 890 - Pre-dissertation Research (Fall 2023)
  • BME 990 - Research and Thesis (Fall 2023)
  • ECE 399 - Independent Study (Fall 2023)
  • ECE 890 - Pre-Dissertator's Research (Fall 2023)
  • ECE 990 - Dissertator's Research (Fall 2023)