Payton Bechefsky

Payton Bechefsky

Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant (next: PhD, Prat-Ortega Lab, Pittsburgh)

Emory University

Bio

Payton Bechefsky is a Clinical Neurotechnology Research Assistant (CNRA) at Emory University. She helps prepare for and execute research sessions to facilitate the use of the BrainGate system to collect neural signal data.

Interests
  • Neuroprosthetics
  • Brain Computer Interfaces
  • Neuroimaging
  • Neural Signal Analysis
Education

  • BS in Bioengineering, 2023

    University of California, Los Angeles

Publications

Neural decoding of speech using deep neural ensembles

bioRxiv (2026)

Seonghyun Yoon, Donald T. Avansino, Sasidhar Madugula, Alisa D. Levin, Chaofei Fan, Benyamin Abramovich Krasa, Akansha Singh, Christina Vo, Nick v. Hahn, Nicholas S. Card, Zachery Fogg, Maitreyee Wairagkar, Samuel R. Nason-Tomaszewski, Brandon G. Jacques, Payton H. Bechefsky, Carrina Iacobacci, Darrel R. Deo, Leigh R. Hochberg, David M. Brandman, Sergey D. Stavisky, Nicholas Au Yong, Chethan Pandarinath, Jaimie M. Henderson, Francis R. Willett
PDF DOI
Neural decoding of speech using deep neural ensembles

Cross-brain transfer of high-performance intracortical speech and handwriting BCIs

bioRxiv (2026)

Alisa D. Levin, Donald T. Avansino, Foram B. Kamdar, Nicholas S. Card, Maitreyee Wairagkar, Brandon G. Jacques, Justin J. Jude, Carrina Iacobacci, Bayardo E. Lacayo, Payton H. Bechefsky, Samuel R. Nason-Tomaszewski, Darrel R. Deo, Leigh R. Hochberg, Daniel B. Rubin, Ziv M. Williams, David M. Brandman, Sergey D. Stavisky, Nicholas AuYong, Chethan Pandarinath, Scott W. Linderman, Jaimie M. Henderson, Francis R. Willett
PDF DOI
Cross-brain transfer of high-performance intracortical speech and handwriting BCIs

A generalizable speech neuroprosthesis

bioRxiv (2026)

Zachery M. Fogg, Nicholas S. Card, Maitreyee Wairagkar, Aparna Srinivasan, Tyler Singer-Clark, Xianda Hou, Elizaveta Okorokova, Hamza Peracha, Carrina Iacobacci, Tiffany Brailow, Justin Jude, Hadar Levi-Aharoni, Trung Le, Domenick Mifsud, Pranav I. Deevi, Samuel R. Nason-Tomaszewski, Anna L. Pritchard, Yunnuo Zhang, Brice Richards, Payton Bechefsky, Leigh R. Hochberg, Ziv Williams, Kiarash Shahlaie, Nicholas AuYong, Daniel B. Rubin, Chethan Pandarinath, David M. Brandman, Sergey D. Stavisky
PDF DOI
A generalizable speech neuroprosthesis

Inner speech in motor cortex and implications for speech neuroprostheses

Cell (2025)

Erin M. Kunz, Benyamin Abramovich Krasa, Foram Kamdar, Donald T. Avansino, Nick Hahn, Seonghyun Yoon, Akansha Singh, Samuel R. Nason-Tomaszewski, Nicholas S. Card, Justin J. Jude, Brandon G. Jacques, Payton H. Bechefsky, Carrina Iacobacci, Leigh R. Hochberg, Daniel B. Rubin, Ziv M. Williams, David M. Brandman, Sergey D. Stavisky, Nicholas AuYong, Chethan Pandarinath, Shaul Druckmann, Jaimie M. Henderson, Francis R. Willett
PDF DOI
Inner speech in motor cortex and implications for speech neuroprostheses