Lee Miller, PhD

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My Lab

We are working to understand the nature of the somatosensory and motor signals within the brain that control our movements.

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About Me

Dr. Miller is a neuroscientist who studies the use of a neurally controlled implantable functional electrical stimulation (FES) prosthesis to regain upper extremity function in spinal cord injury.

Location

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

355 East Erie

Chicago, IL 60611

Education & Training

Education

1976 – 1980

Physics, Goshen College

1990

Ph.D., Physiology, Northwestern University

1984

Master of Science, Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University

1980

Bachelor of the Arts, Physics, Goshen College
Fellowship

1992 – 1993

Research Associate, Physiology Department, Northwestern University

1990 – 1992

Post-Doctoral Research, Department of Biophysics and Medical Physics, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Featured Research

Restoration of grasp following paralysis through brain-controlled stimulation of muscles.

Nature

doi: 10.1038/nature10987

Ethier C,
Oby ER,
Bauman MJ,
Miller LE

Recent Publications

Premotor and Motor Cortices Encode Reward.

Ramkumar P, Dekleva B, Cooler S, Miller L, Kording K

PloS one

doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0160851

Uncertainty leads to persistent effects on reach representations in dorsal premotor cortex.

Dekleva BM, Ramkumar P, Wanda PA, Kording KP, Miller LE

eLife

pii: e14316. doi: 10.7554/eLife.14316

Adaptive neuron-to-EMG decoder training for FES neuroprostheses.

Ethier C, Acuna D, Solla SA, Miller LE

Journal of neural engineering

doi: 10.1088/1741-2560/13/4/046009

Honors & Awards

Elected fellow in the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
2016
Elected president of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement
2015
Elected development officer of the Society for the Neural Control of Movement
2013

Work History

2009
Professor, Physiology, PM&R, Biomedical Engineering (NU)
2008
Associate Professor, PM&R, (NU)
2006
Affiliated faculty member, Biomedical Engineering Dept. (NU)
2003
Associate Professor (tenured), Physiology Department (NU)
2002 - 2007
Appointed to the faculty of the NU IGERT program in the Dynamics of Complex Systems
1999
Appointed to the Graduate School
1997
Appointed to the faculty of the Northwestern University Institute for Neuroscience
1995 - 2003
Assistant Professor, Physiology Department (NU)
1993 - 1995
Research Assistant Professor, Physiology Department (NU)