Steve Chase

Steve Chase is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, affiliated with the Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Neuroscience Institute, and Robotics Institute departments. His research spans Computational Neuroscience, Neural Engineering, and Systems Neuroscience, with a focus on neural circuits, motor control, and brain-computer interfaces (BCI).

• Research Areas: Sensation & Perception, Methods Development, Diseases & Disorders, Physiological & Anatomical Methods.
• Lab Highlights: Development of the RotaWheel, memory trace studies in the motor cortex, and investigations into BCI stabilization and learning dynamics.

Scientific Contributions: His lab has published extensively in journals like Neuron, Nature Computational Science, eLife, and PNAS, with notable works on neural activity patterns, dimensionality reduction in calcium imaging, and sensory constraints on motor cortex modulation. Students and postdocs in his lab have received awards, including the CNBC best paper award.