Our congratulations go to Unit D.Phil. student Fernando Rodriguez Plazas for successfully defending his doctoral thesis, entitled “Harnessing machine learning to decode LFPs for applications in adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation”, in his viva voce examination on 16th April 2025.

Fernando’s viva examiners were Dr Ahmar Shah (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Ashwini Oswal (University of Oxford).

Fernando was supervised by Professor Huiling Tan (MRC BNDU), Dr Shenghong He (MRC BNDU), and Professor Alex Green (Clinical Neurosciences, Oxford).