Kai Miller, MD, PhD
Kai grew up in both Northern and Southern California. He attended college at UC San Diego where he studied physics and biology and played intercollegiate tennis. He moved to Seattle and attended graduate school at the University of Washington, studying Medicine, Physics, and Neurobiology, while researching large-scale brain dynamics. He has intermittently been a researcher at Johnson Space Center in Houston as a NASA graduate fellow. Outside of Neurosurgery, Kai enjoys literature, science fiction, surfing, tennis, scuba diving, and travel.
Education:
| 2011-present | Neurosurgery Residency, Stanford University |
| 2000-2011 | M.D., University of Washington; Ph.D. Physics and Neurobiology |
| 1996-2000 | B.S. Physics and Biology, University of California, San Diego |
Research Interests: Motifs in electrocorticographic power spectral change; Brain computer interfaces (BCIs) and cortical plasticity; Category-specific visual processing; Methodological development for electrocorticographic research
Program Completion: 2018
Honors/Awards:
| 2000-2011 | NIH Medical Scientist Training Program |
| 2009-2011 | NASA GSRP Fellow |
| 2006 | Neurological Surgery Training Grant |
| 2004- 2007 | Poncin Award |
| 2000-2001 | Balfour Fellow |
| 1996-2000 | National Merit Scholar |
| 1996-2000 | University of California Regent Scholar |
| 1999 | NASA Research Fellow, Johnson Space Center |
| 1998 | University of California, San Diego Provost’s Scholar |
Publications:
- Miller, K.J., Leuthardt, E.C., Schalk, G., Anderson, N., Rao, R.P.N., Moran, D., Ojemann, J.G., 2007. Spectral Changes in Cortical Surface Potentials during Motor Movement , Journal of Neuroscience, 27(9):2424–2432
- Miller, K.J., Makeig, S., Hebb, A.O., Rajesh P.N. Rao, R.P.N., denNijs, M., Ojemann, J.G., 2007, Cortical Electrode Localization from X-Rays and Simple Mapping for Electrocorticographic Research: The “Location On Cortex” (LOC) package for Matlab . J Neurosci Meth, 162; 303–308
- Miller, K.J., Schalk, G., Leuthardt, E.C., Shenoy, P., Rao, R.P.N., Ojemann, J.G. 2007 Correlation in Paired One-Dimensional, Closed Loop, Overt, Motor Controlled BCI Journal of Technical University of Graz, Special Issue: Brain Computer Interfaces, 2007
- Miller, KJ, denNijs, Marcel, Shenoy, Pradeep, Miller, John W., Rao, Rajesh P.N., Ojemann, Jeffrey G., 2007, Real-time functional brain mapping using electrocorticography , NeuroImage 37 (2007) 504–507
- Miller, K.J., Rao, R.P.N., and Ojemann, J.G., 2007 The Behavioral Split in the Gamma Band Neural Engineering, CNE '07. 3rd International IEEE/EMBS Conference on; p 465-468;
- Miller, K.J.; Sorensen, L.B.; Ojemann, J.G.; den Nijs, M, 2008, ECoG observations of power-law scaling in the human cortex . Arxiv preprint arXiv:07120846.
- Miller, K.J.; Hebb, A.O.; Ojemann, J.G.; Rao, R.P.N; den Nijs, M, 2007, Task-Related Principal Component Analysis: Formalism and Illustration IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2007: 5469-72.
- Miller, K.J.; Shenoy, P,; den Nijs, M; Sorensen, L.B.; Rao, R.P.N.; Ojemann, J.G., 2008, Beyond the Gamma Band: The Role of High Frequency Features in Movement Classification , IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 55(5): p. 1634-1637.
- Miller, K.J., Blakeley, T., Schalk, G.S., denNijs, M., Ojemann, J.G., Rao, R.P.N., 2008, Three Cases of Feature Correlation in an Electrocorticographic BCI . IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2008: 5318-21
- Miller, K.J., S. Zanos, E.E. Fetz, M. den Nijs, and J.G. Ojemann, 2009, Decoupling the Cortical Power Spectrum Reveals Real-Time Representation of Individual Finger Movements in Humans . Journal of Neuroscience, 2009. 29(10): p. 3132.
- Miller, K.J.; Sorensen, L.B.; Ojemann, J.G.; den Nijs, M, 2009, Power-Law Scaling in the Brain Surface Electric Potential . PLOS Computational Biology, 5(12): e1000609.
- Miller, K.J., Weaver, K.E., Ojemann, J.G., 2009, Direct electrophysiological measurement of human default network areas , PNAS 106(29):12174.
- Miller KJ, Hermes D, Schalk G, Ramsey NF, Jagadeesh B, den Nijs, M, Ojemann, JG. Rao, RP.N.. (2009) Detection of spontaneous class-specific visual stimuli with high temporal accuracy in human electrocorticography . IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2009, 6465-6468
- Miller, K.J. and Ojemann, J.G., 2010, A Simple, Spectral-Change Based, Electrocorticographic Brain-Computer Interface (In Print, Book Chapter, edited by Graimann, B., Allison, B, and Pfurtscheller, G)
- Miller, K.J., Schalk, G.S., Fetz,E.E., den Nijs, M., Ojemann, J.G., Rao, R.P.N. 2010 Cortical Activity During Motor Movement, Motor Imagery, and Imagery-Based Online Feedback , PNAS 107(9 )4430-4435
- Miller, K.J. 2010 Broadband spectral change: evidence for a macroscale correlate of population firing rate? Journal of Neuroscience, 30(19):6477– 6479
- Miller, K.J., Hebb, A.O, Hermes, D. den Nijs, M., Ojemann, J.G., Rao, R.P.N. 2010 Brain surface electrode co-registration using MRI and x-ray IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010, In print
- Miller, K.J., Schalk, G. 2010 BCI Competition IV Dataset 4: Finger Movements in ECoG (In Print, Book Chapter, edited by Blankertz, B)
- Miller,K.J., Hermes, D., Honey, C.J., Sharma, M., Rao, R.P.N., den Nijs, M., Gernhardt, M.L., Fetz, E.E., Sejnowski, T.J., Hebb, A.O., Ojemann, J.G., Makeig, S., Leuthardt, E.C., 2010, Dynamic modulation of local population activity by rhythm phase in human occipital cortex during a visual search task , Front. Hum. Neurosci. 4:197.
- Miller, K.J., Abel, T.J., Hebb, A.O., Ojemann, J.G., 2010, The reorganization of large scale physiology in hand motor cortex following hemispheric stroke, Neurology, In print
- Miller, K.J., Abel, T.J., Hebb, A.O., Ojemann, J.G., 2010, Real-time language mapping with electrocorticography, In submission
- Abel*, T.J., Miller*, K.J., Blakeley, T.M., Edwards, E., Masahiro, C.S.M., Ojemann, J.G., 2009, Clinical localization of speech production areas from spectral changes in cortical surface potentials. In submission
- Blakeley*, T., Miller*, K.J., Rao, R.P.N., Ojemann, J.G., 2008, Localization and classification of phonemes using high spatial resolution ECoG grids IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2008: 4964-67
- Blakeley, T., Miller, K.J., Zanos, S., Rao, R.P.N., Ojemann, J.G., 2009, Robust long term control of an electrocorticographic brain computer interface with fixed parameters. Neurosurg Focus 27 (1):E13,
- Crawford, B., Kai Miller, Pradeep Shenoy, Rajesh Rao Real-Time Classification of Electromyographic Signals for Robotic Control Proc. 2006 AAAI conference
- Darvas, F., Miller, K.J., Rao, R.P.N., Ojemann, J.G., 2008, Non-linear phase-phase coupling mediates communication between distant sites in human neocortex Journal of Neuroscience 29(2):426–435
- Darvas F, Scherer R, Ojemann JG, Rao RP, Miller KJ, Sorensen LB, 2010, High gamma mapping using EEG. Neuroimage 49:930–938.
- Hebb AO, Miller KJ, 2010, Semi-Automatic Stereotactic Coordinate Identification Algorithm for Routine Localization of Deep Brain Stimulation Electrodes Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 15;187(1):114-9
- Hermes, D, K. J. Miller, H. J. Noordmans, M. J. Vansteensel, N. F. Ramsey, 2010, Localizing Electrodes on an Individual MRI for ECoG Research, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 185, (2): 293-298
- Hermes, D, K. J. Miller, M. J. Vansteensel, E.J. Aarnoutse, F.S.S. Leijten, N. F. Ramsey, 2010, Neurophysiologic correlates of fMRI in human motor cortex (In submission)
- Holmes, M.D., Micah Brown, Don M. Tucker, Russell P. Saneto, Kai J. Miller, Gagandeep S. Wig, Jeffrey G. Ojemann 2008 Localization of Extratemporal Seizure with Noninvasive Dense-Array EEG, Journal of Pediatric Neurosurgery, 44: 474-479
- Kellis, S., K. Miller, K. Thomson, R. Brown, P. House, B. Greger, 2010, Decoding spoken words using local field potentials recorded from the cortical surface, Journal of Neural Engineering, In Print
- Kellis S, Miller K, Thomson K, Brown R, House P, Greger B, 2010, Classification of spoken words using surface local field potentials IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc 2010, In print
- Kim W, Miller JW, Ojemann JG, Miller KJ (2009) Ictal Localization by Invasive Recording of Infraslow Activity with DC-Coupled Amplifiers. Journal of Clinical Neurophysiology 26: 135.
- Dean J. Krusienski, DJ, Grosse-Wentrup, M, Gal ́an, F, Coyle, D, Miller, KJ, Forney, E, Anderson, CW, 2010, Fourth International BCI Meeting 2010: Workshop on Feature Extraction and Translation of Field Potentials, Journal of Neural Engineering, In Print
- Kubanek, J., Miller, K.J., Ojemann, J.G., Schalk, G., 2009, Decoding Flexion of Individual Fingers Using Electrocorticographic Signals in Humans, Journal of Neural Engineering 6:066001.
- Leuthardt, E.C., Miller, K.J., Anderson, N., Schalk, G., Dowling, J., Moran, D., Ojemann, J.G., 2007 Electrocorticographic Frequency Alteration Mapping (EFAM), A Novel Clinical Technique for Mapping Motor Cortex Neurosurgery 60: ONS-260–ONS-271, 2007
- Leuthardt, E.C., Miller, K.J., Schalk, G., Rao, R.P.N., Ojemann, J.G., Electrocorticography-based brain computer interface--the Seattle experience., IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2006 Jun;14(2):194-8
- Ogino M, Edwards E, Blakely TM, Abel TJ, Miller KJ, Giussani G, Kershenovich A, Hebb AO, Hakimian S, Darvas F, Scherer R, Ojemann JG, 2009, Electrocorticographical (ECoG) mapping with high frequency band oscillation; an overview from the clinical point of view, In Submission
- Ojemann, J.G.; Leuthardt, E.C.; Miller, K.J., 2007, Brain-Machine Interface: Restoring Neurological Function through Bioengineering,Clin Neurosurg 54; 28
- Penny, W., Duzel, E., Miller, K.J., Ojemann, J.G., 2008, Testing for Nested Oscillation, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 174: 50–61
- Roland, J., K. Miller, Z. Freudenburg, M. Sharma, M. Smyth, C. Gaona, J. Breshears, M. Corbetta, E. Leuthardt, 2010, The Effect of Age on Human Motor Cortical Electrophysiology, (in submission)
- Schalk, G., K.J. Miller; N.R. Anderson; J.A. Wilson; M.D. Smyth, J.G. Ojemann; D.W. Moran; J.R. Wolpaw; E.C. Leuthardt, 2008, Two-Dimensional Movement Control Using Electrocorticographic Signals in Humans J Neural Eng. 5(1): p. 75-84.
- Schalk, G., Leuthardt, E.C., Moran, D., Miller, K.J., Ojemann, J., Wolpaw, J.R. 2006 Towards two-dimensional cursor control using electrocorticographic signals. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
- Schalk, G., J. Kub´anek, K.J. Miller, N. Anderson, E.C. Leuthardt, J.G. Ojemann, D. Limbrick, D. Moran, L.A. Gerhardt, J.R. Wolpaw 2007 Decoding Two-Dimensional Movement Trajectories Using Electrocorticographic Signals in Humans, J. Neural Eng. 4 264–275
- Scherer, R, Zanos, SP, Miller, KJ, Rao, RPN Ojemann, JG, 2009, Classification of contralateral and ipsilateral finger movements for electrocorticographic brain- computer interfaces Neurosurg Focus 26 (6):E12, 2009
- Shenoy, P., K.J. Miller, J.G. Ojemann, R.P.N. Rao Two class robust classification of ECoG signals during repeated motor movement Journal of Technical University of Graz, Special Issue: Brain Computer Interfaces, 2007
- Shenoy, P., Miller, K.J., Ojemann, J.G., Schalk, G., Rao, R.P.N. 2007 Generalizable Features for Electrocorticographic BCIs IEEE Trans Biomed Eng, 2008. 55(1): p. 273-80.
- Shenoy, P., Miller, K.J., Crawford, B., Rao, R.P.N. 2008 Online Electromyographic Control of a Robotic Prosthesis IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 55(3), 1128-1135
- Shenoy, P.; Miller, K.J.; Ojemann, J.G.; Rao, R.P.N., 2007, Finger Movement Classification for an Electrocorticographic BCI, Neural Engineering, CNE '07. 3rd International IEEE/EMBS Conference on, pp192-195, doi:10.1109/CNE.2007.369644
- Shon, A., Miller, K.J., Ojemann, J.G., Holmes, M.D., Rao, R.P.N. 2007 Predicting Cortical Potentials using Simultaneous Transcranial Recordings, (In submission)
- Wang, Z., G. Schalk, K.J. Miller, J. Qiang, 2010, Decoding Finger Flexion from Electrocorticographic Signals Using a Sparse Gaussian Process, (In submission)
- Zanos, S, Miller, K.J., Ojemann, J.G., 2008 Electrocorticographic spectral changes associated with ipsilateral individual finger and whole hand movement IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2008: 5939-4
Contact Info: Kai Miller [kai.miller]