Bolu Ajiboye

Elmer L. Lindseth Associate Professor of Engineering

Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Office: 109 Wickenden

Phone Number: (216) 368-6814

Email: drbolu@case.edu

Education

Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2007

M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, 2003

B.S., Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, Duke University, 2000

Research Interests

- Development and control of brain-computer-interface (BCI) technologies for restoring function to individuals who have experienced severely debilitating injuries to the nervous system, such as spinal cord injury and stroke. - Understanding the neuroscience underlying how cortical and muscular circuits give rise to natural movements. - End goal is to develop BCI systems that allow for more natural interactions with one’s surrounding environment, and more natural control of neuroprostheses.

Teaching Interests

• Movement Biomechanics and Rehabilitation / Prosthetics Systems • Biomedical Signals and Systems • Modeling of Biomedical Systems

Publications

Rastogi, A., Vargas-Irwin, C., Willett, F., Abreu, J., Crowder, D., Murphy, B., ... Ajiboye, B. B. (2020). Neural Representation of Observed, Imagined, and Attempted Grasping Force in Motor Cortex of Individuals with Chronic Tetraplegia.. Scientific reports, 10 (1), 1429.

Stavisky, S., Willett, F., Wilson, C., Murphy, B., Rezaii, P., Avansino, D., ... Henderson, J. (2019). Neural ensemble dynamics in dorsal motor cortex during speech in people with paralysis.. eLife, 8 ().

Kirsch, B. F., Ajiboye, B. B., & Miller, J. (2019). The Reconnecting the Hand and Arm with Brain (ReHAB) Commentary on "An Integrated Brain-Machine Interface Platform With Thousands of Channels".. Journal of medical Internet research, 21 (10), e16339.

Cole, N., & Ajiboye, B. B. (2019). Muscle synergies for predicting non-isometric complex hand function for commanding FES neuroprosthetic hand systems. Journal of Neural Engineering, ().

Young, D., Willett, F., Memberg, W., Murphy, B., Rezaii, P., Walter, B., ... Ajiboye, B. B. (2019). Closed-loop cortical control of virtual reach and posture using cartesian and joint velocity commands. Journal of Neural Engineering, 16 (2).

Anderson, K., Ajiboye, B. B., Denison, T., French, J., Gustafson, K. J., Kilgore, K., ... Tyler, D. J. (2018). Proceedings of the second biennial Cleveland Neural Engineering Workshop 2013. Bioelectronic Medicine, 4 (1).

Willett, F., Murphy, B., Young, D., Memberg, W., Blabe, C., Pandarinath, C., ... Ajiboye, B. B. (2018). A Comparison of Intention Estimation Methods for Decoder Calibration in Intracortical Brain�Computer Interfaces. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 65 (9), 2066-2078.

Young, D., Willett, F., Memberg, W., Murphy, B., Walter, B., Sweet, J., ... Ajiboye, B. B. (2018). Signal processing methods for reducing artifacts in microelectrode brain recordings caused by functional electrical stimulation. Journal of Neural Engineering, 15 (2).

Willett, F., Murphy, B., Memberg, W., Blabe, C., Pandarinath, C., Walter, B., ... Ajiboye, B. B. (2017). Signal-independent noise in intracortical brain-computer interfaces causes movement time properties inconsistent with Fitts' law.. Journal of neural engineering, 14 (2), 026010.

Ajiboye, B. B., Willett, F., Young, D., Memberg, W., Murphy, B., Miller, J., ... Kirsch, B. F. (2017). Restoration of reaching and grasping movements through brain-controlled muscle stimulation in a person with tetraplegia: a proof-of-concept demonstration.. Lancet (London, England), ().

Willett, F., Pandarinath, C., Jarosiewicz, B., Murphy, B., Memberg, W., Blabe, C., ... Ajiboye, B. B. (2017). Feedback control policies employed by people using intracortical brain-computer interfaces.. Journal of neural engineering, 14 (1), 016001.

Murphy, B., Miller, J., Gunalan, K., & Ajiboye, B. B. (2016). Contributions of Subsurface Cortical Modulations to Discrimination of Executed and Imagined Grasp Forces through Stereoelectroencephalography. PLoS ONE [19326203], 11 (3).

Ajiboye, B. B., Simeral, J., Donoghue, J., Hochberg, L., & Kirsch, B. F. (2012). Prediction of Imagined Single-Joint Movements in a Person with High Level Tetraplegia. IEEE, ().

Ajiboye, B. B., & Weir, R. (2005). A heuristic fuzzy logic approach to EMG pattern recognition for multifunctional prosthesis control. Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, IEEE Transactions on, 13 (3), 280–291.

Ajiboye, B. B., Weir, R., Heckathorne, C., & Childress, D. (2002). Neurofuzzy Logic as a Control Algorithm for an Externally Powered Multifunctional Hand Prosthesis. Myoelectric Symposium, ().

News About Bolu Ajiboye

Jan. 31, 2024

Anonymous donor commits $4.5 million to biomedical engineering research

Last spring, CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley led viewers of the popular 60 Minutes program to a place where biomedical engineering pioneers are expanding the possibilities of human movement and touch: Case Western Reserve University. The roughly 13-minute segment featured A. Bolu Ajiboye, among other university researchers, who explained how his team is using neuroprosthetics to restore movement and a renewed sense of touch to people with paralysis. Of the millions of viewers who watched, one family was especially inspired—and put that inspiration to action.

Jul. 14, 2023

CWRU on 60 Minutes—worth watching twice

History’s most successful broadcast newsmagazine is re-running a spring segment featuring Case Western Reserve University researchers at 7 p.m. this Sunday, July 16. The piece highlights advances by biomedical engineering professors Dustin Tyler and A. Bolu Ajiboye and their teams in restoring movement and the sense of touch for individuals who have become paralyzed or lost a limb.

Bolu Ajiboye In the News

Doctors concerned about Neuralink's first patient

Feel again: Advancements in prosthetics limb technology allow feeling, control

Dustin Tyler, the Kent H. Smith II Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case School of Engineering, and A. Bolu Ajiboye, the Elmer Lincoln Lindseth Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and bioengineer at the Functional Electrical Stimulation Center, discussed how they are developing devices that work with the brain to pick up electrical surges generated in patients’ brains.

Feel again: Advancements in prosthetics limb technology allow feeling, control

Dustin Tyler, the Kent H. Smith II Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case School of Engineering, and Bolu Ajiboye, the Elmer Lincoln Lindseth Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and bioengineer at the Functional Electrical Stimulation Center, discussed how they are developing devices that work with the brain to pick up electrical surges generated in patients’ brains.

Developing devices that work with the brain to reverse paralysis

Bolu Ajiboye, the Elmer Lincoln Lindseth Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and bioengineer in the Functional Electrical Stimulation Center at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, discussed how researchers are developing devices that work with the brain to reverse paralysis. In Ohio, one device in use is implanted in the brain and picks up electrical surges patients generate.