Epilepsy Research Faculty | NYU Langone Health

William B. Barr, PhD

Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: epilepsy, concussion, memory disorders, traumatic brain injury and dementia, and chronic traumatic encephalopathy
Methodological skills: neuropsychologic testing, cognitive assessment, and behavior and mood assessment

Orrin Devinsky, MD

Director, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center
Professor, Departments of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry
Expertise: epilepsy, neurogenetics, molecular biology therapies, cannabidiol, and electrophysiology
Methodological skills: epilepsy genetics, treatment-resistant epilepsy, generalized epilepsy

Adeen Flinker, PhD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: speech and language electrophysiology
Methodological skills: signal processing, machine learning, electrocorticography, electroencephalography, magnetoencephalography, nonparametric statistical analysis

Jacqueline A. French, MD

Co-Director, Epilepsy Clinical Trials
Chief Medical Officer, Epilepsy Foundation
Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: epilepsy clinical trials and outcomes research
Methodological skills: clinical trial methodology

Daniel Friedman, MD

Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: epilepsy and EEG
Methodological skills: epidemiology, EEG, and human neurophysiology

Biyu J. He, PhD

Assistant Professor, Departments of Neurology, Neuroscience and Physiology, and Radiology
Expertise: perceptual, cognitive, and computational neuroscience
Methodological skills: multimodal human brain imaging, including 3T/7T fMRI, EEG/MEG, and intracranial electrophysiology

Anli A. Liu, MD

Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: epilepsy, memory, and neuromodulation
Methodological skills: EEG signal analysis, statistics, and eye tracking

Andrew J. Michalak, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: epilepsy, EEG, and epilepsy surgery
Methodological skills: neural signal processing, machine learning, and epidemiology

Daniel K. Miles, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: pediatric epilepsy
Methodological skills: electrophysiology and new antiseizure medication trials

Rebecca J. Scott, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Psychologist, NYU Allied Health/Medical and Dental Staff
Expertise: sleep disorders medicine and behavioral sleep medicine; specializing in the treatment of insomnia and circadian rhythm disorders
Methodological skills: polysomnography

Claude Steriade, MD

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Expertise: epilepsy, neuroinflammation, and autoimmune neurology
Methodological skills: neuroimaging, clinical trials, microbiome, and predictive modeling