Congratulations, Bolu Ajiboye, PhD and Robert Kirsch, PhD. First Place - 2018 International Annual BCI-Research Award More

Neural Engineering Center professors featured in a Nature review article on the future of Medicine

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2018 NYC Neuromodulation Conference & NANS Summer Series, August More

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
4th Annual STEM Faculty Launch workshop
October 4-5, 2018 More

Friday August 24, 2018
NEC seminar CANCELED

Friday August 17, 2018
NEC seminar CANCELED

Friday August 10, 2018
NEC seminar
Nord 400, 9:00 AM
Speaker: Hendrik Dewald
Advisor: Prof. Kirsch
Title: Impact of Peripheral Nerve Block on Flexion Synergy Expression at the Wrist and Hand in Stroke More

Friday July 27, 2018
NEC seminar
Nord 400, 9:00 AM
Speaker: Alistair McEwan
The University of Sydney
Title: Neural interfaces for cerebral palsy More

Friday July 20, 2018
NEC seminar
Nord 400, 9:00 AM
Speaker: Elizabeth Heald
Advisors: Prof. Peckham
Title: Utilizing Muscle Activity from Below the Spinal Cord Injury Level for Neuroprosthetic Control More

Friday July 14, 2018
NEC seminar
Nord 400, 9:00 AM
Speaker: Dr. Brooke Odle
Advisors: Drs. Ron Triolo and Musa Audu
Title: Estimating the Interaction Forces of the Upper Extremities and Support Devices More

NO NEC Seminar Friday July 6

Friday June 29
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, Nord 400
Speaker: Jessica De Abreu
Advisor: Prof. Kirsch
Title: Virtual reality models for studying object interaction effects in BCI-controlled reaching tasks More

Friday, June 22, 2018
NEC Seminar Canceled

Friday, June 22, 2108
NP Seminar
Noon, BRB 105
Speaker: Peter Kirkwood,PhD
University College, London
Title: Following Sherrington: Integration in Intercostal Motoneurons More

Friday, June 15, 2018
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, Nord 400
Speaker: Ryan Reyes
Advisor: Prof. Ron Triolo
Title: Development and Metabolic Testing of a Hybrid Neuroprosthesis for Walking After Paraplegia More

Friday, June 8, 2018
NP Seminar
8:30 am, Linsalata Alumni Center, Foster Castele Great Hall
Case Western Reserve University
Speaker: Tim Denison, PhD
Vice President of Research and Core Technology, Medtronic
Title: Designing for Value: One Positive and One Disastrous Case Study More

Friday, June 1, 2018
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, Nord 400
Speaker: Kelsey Bower
Advisor: Prof. McIntyre
Title: Modeling deep brain stimulation of afferent axon terminals: the role of axon morphology and head model complexity More

Friday, May 25, 2018
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, Nord 400
Speaker: Joseph Marmerstein, Ph.D. Candidate, Biomedical Engineering
Advisor: Prof. Durand
Title: Chronic Recording of Rat Vagal Tone with Carbon Nanotube Yarn Electrodes More

Friday, May 18, 2018
No Seminar

Friday, May 11, 2018
No Seminar

Friday, May 4, 2018
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, Nord 400
Speaker: Brian Sanner, Ph.D Candidate
Advisor: Prof. Tyler
Title: Verification Testing of an Inline High Density Connector for Implanted Functional Electrical Stimulation More

Friday, April 27, 2018
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, Nord 400
Speaker: Prof. Mortimer
Topic: Authorship More

April 25, 2018
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
12:00pm, Rockefeller Building - Room 303
Student: John Hermann
Advisor: Jeffrey Capadona, Ph.D.
Title: "The Role of Innate Immunity in the Response to Intracortical Microelectrode" More

April 20, 2018
Ph.D. Dissertation Defense
9:00am, NORD 400
Student: Daniel Young
Advisor: A. Bolu Ajiboye, Ph.D.
Title: "Restoring Brain-Controlled Movements after Paralysis: Developing Brain Computer Interfaces for Control of Reaching Using Functional Electrical Stimulation" More

Friday, April 13, 2018
APTC Distinguished Lecture Series
11am-12pm, Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Room NE1-205
Speaker: Shelley Fried, PhD
Title: Restoring function with neural prostheses: work towards the development of more effective stimulation strategies More

Friday, April 13, 2018
NP Seminar
8:30am, BRB 105
Speaker: Sliman Bensmaia, PhD
Title: Biological and Bionic Hands: Natural Neural Coding and Artificial Perception More

Friday, April 6, 2018
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, Nord 400
Speaker: Grant McCallum, PhD
PI: Prof. Durand
Title: "Neural activity within solid breast tumors and the implications on metastasis" More

Friday, March 29, 2018
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, Nord 400
Speaker: Ivana Cuberovic
Advisor: Prof. Dustin Tyler
Title: "Cognitive Factors Driving Perception of Sensory Location" More

Friday, March 23, 2018
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, Nord 400
Speaker: Platon Lukyanenko
Advisor: Prof. Dustin Tyler
Title: "A muscle synergy basis for a continuous, proportional, simultaneous prosthetic hand controller allows reduced training time without performance degradation." More

Friday, March 16, 2018
NP Seminar
8:30 AM, Wolstein Research Building Room 1413
Title: Interfacing with Autonomic Nerves
Speaker: Dominique Durand, PhD

Friday, March 9, 2018
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, Nord 400
Speaker: Natalie Cole
Advisor: Prof. Bolu Ajiboye
Title: "Reducing the dimensionality of time-varying hand function with muscle synergies" More

Friday, March 2, 2018
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, Nord 400
Speaker: Breanne Christie
Advisors: Drs. Ronald Triolo and Dustin Tyler
Title: Evaluating the functional performance and cognitive burden of lower limb sensory neuroprostheses More

Friday, February 23, 2018
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, Nord 400
Speaker: Nicholas Couturier
Advisor: Prof. Durand
Title: Low-frequency fiber tract stimulation for seizure suppression in cortical epilepsies More

Friday, February 16, 2018
NP Seminar
8:30 AM, Wolstein Research Building Room 1413
Speaker: Julius DeWald, PhD More

NEC Seminar
Friday, February 9, 2018
CANCELED

Friday, February 2, 2018
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, Nord 400
Speaker: Cale Crowder
Advisor: Robert Kirsch, PhD
Title: Applications of deep learning in brain-computer interfaces More

Friday, January 26, 2018
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, Nord 400
Speaker: Rajat Shivacharan
Advisor: Prof. Durand
Title: Spontaneous neural activity can propagate non-synaptically More

January 25, 2018
M.S. Dissertation Defense
9:00am, Wickenden 420
Student: Nathan Kostick
Title: Novel Carbon-Nanotube Based Neural Interface for Chronic Recording of Glossopharyngeal Nerve Activity More

Friday, January 19, 2018
NP Seminar
8:30 AM, Wolstein Research Building Room 1413

Speaker: Aaron Batista, PhD
Associate Professor, Bioengineering
Principal Investigator, Sensory Motor Integration Laboratory and Engineering
University of Pittsburgh

Title: How does the brain change when we learn? more

NEC Seminar canceled for Friday, January 12.

Friday, Decenber 15, 2017
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, Nord 400
Speaker: Kristen Gelenitis
Advisor: Prof. Triolo
Title: Exploiting C-FINE Selectivity to Prolong Moment Output with Neural Stimulation More

Friday, Decenber 8, 2017
NP Seminar
8:30 AM, Wolstein Research Building Room 1413
Speaker: Parag G. Patil, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
University of Michigan
Title: Vive La Difference: Managing Structural and Functional Diversity in DBS for Movement Disorders More...

Friday, December 1, 2017
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, NORD 400
Speaker: Hillary Bedell
Advisor: Prof. Capadona
Title: The effects of dual targeting of an innate immune receptor pathway and mechanical mismatch of the tissue-electrode interface on the neuroinflammatory response to intracortical microelectrodes More

Thursday, November 30, 2017
Spreading the Light: Infrared Neuromodulation Symposium
Linsalata Alumni Center

Friday, November 17, 2017 CANCELED
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, NORD 400
Speaker: Platon Lukyanenko
Advisor: Prof. Tyler
Title: Towards an Independent 4-Degree-Of-Freedom Prosthetic Hand Controller More

Friday, November 10, 2017
NEC Seminar
9:00 AM, NORD 400
Speaker: Hedrik Dewald
Advisor: Prof. Kirsch
Title: Simultaneous and Independent Control of a Virtual Three-Degree of Freedom Prosthetic Hand using Implanted Intramuscular Electrodes More

Friday, November 3, 2017
NP Seminar
8:30 AM, BRB 105
Speaker: Sherif M Elbasiouny, PhD, PE, PEng
Title: Neuroengineering Approaches in Neuroprosthetics and Neurodegeneration More