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    Kai J. Miller, PhD, MD, PhD

    Professor
    Mayo Clinic
    Rochester, Minnesota, United States

    Kai Miller is a Professor of Neurosurgery at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, where he specializes in pediatrics, epilepsy, and movement disorders. He obtained a PhD in Physics, an MD, and a second PhD in Neuroscience. After completing his neurosurgery residency at Stanford, Kai was named as the 2018 Van Wagenen fellow, and he completed 3 clinical fellowships in epilepsy, deep-brain stimulation, and tumor resection in children and adults. In addition to his clinical practice, Dr. Miller studies basic human neurophysiology, cybernetics, and distributed circuitry from recordings in the neurosurgical setting with a particular emphasis on signal processing. His group, the Cybernetics and Motor Physiology Laboratory, is focused on the creation of new tools to 1) control cybernetic prostheses, 2) induce brain plasticity after injury, and 3) intervene with distributed circuits in neuropsychiatric disease and movement dysfunction. Kai is motivated by a desire to translate emerging understanding of circuitry from this device as a neuroscientific and diagnostic tool to immediately create new sense-and-stim therapies.

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