Download Engineering the Brain Machine Interface

Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
Distinguished Lecturer Series 2007
IEEE Dallas Chapter of Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
and IEEE Dallas Chapter of Signal Processing Society
Professor Jose Principe
Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
Director of Computational NeuroEngineering Laboratory
University of Florida, Gainesville
Engineering the Brain Machine Interface
Neurotechnology is enabling a different communication channel between the brain and the
external world. This talk will review briefly the neurophysiology, the challenges, the present
trends and the state of the art in neurotechnology. An outlook of what is next will also be
briefly discussed.
Date: Friday, Nov. 2, 2007
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Place: Engineering and
Computer Science Complex
UTD Campus
TI Auditorium ECSS 2.102
Jose C. Principe is Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at
the University of Florida since 2002. Dr. Principe interests lie in nonlinear non-Gaussian
optimal signal processing and modeling and in biomedical engineering. Dr. Principe is a
Fellow of the IEEE, Fellow of the AIMBE, past President of the International Neural
Network Society, and Past Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions of Biomedical
Engineering, as well as a former member of the Advisory Science Board of the FDA.
He received the Gabor Award from the International Neural Network Society in 2006 and
the Career Achievement Award from the IEEE Biomedical Engineering Society in 2007.
He holds 5 patents and has submitted seven more. Dr. Principe was supervisory
committee chair of 50 PhD and 61 Master students, and is author of more than 400
refereed publications.
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas
2601 N. Floyd Road
Richardson, TX 75083
For more information:
Phone: 972-883-2974
www.utdallas.edu