Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Affiliated Faculty, Bioengineering Director, W.M. Keck Laboratory for Integrated Ferroics

Dr. Sun’s research has been on integrated magnetics and multiferroics for sensing, memory, power, RF and microwave electronics. He has over 150 publications, and more than 20 patents and patent disclosures. One of their papers was selected as “the 10 most outstanding full papers in the past ten years (2001~2010) in Advanced Functional Materials”.

Web Information

Department webpage: ece.neu.edu/people/sun-nian-xiang

Sun Lab webpage:  northeastern.edu/sunlab/

Keck Lab: northeastern.edu/kecklab/

Google Scholar profile: scholar.google.ca/citations?user=kHMQZZ0AAAAJ&hl=en

Contact Information

Email: nian@ece.neu.edu

Phone: 617) 373-3351

Address: 417 Dana Research Center 360 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115

Biography

Nian Sun is professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and Director of the W.M. Keck Laboratory for Integrated Ferroics, Northeastern University. He received his Ph.D. degree from Stanford University. Prior to joining Northeastern University, he was a reserach scientist at IBM and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Dr. Sun was the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, Søren Buus Outstanding Research Award, USAF Summer Faculty Fellowship, and the first prize IDEMA Fellowship. His research has been on integrated magnetics and multiferroics for sensing, memory, power, RF and microwave electronics. He has over 180 publications, and ...

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School Assistant in Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital Principal Investigator, Cortical Physiology Lab

Dr. Cash’s lab’s research is, broadly speaking, dedicated to trying to understand normal and abnormal brain activity, particularly oscillations, using multi-modal and multi-scalar approaches with long term goals of improving therapies for patients with epilepsy.

Web Information

Mass General webpage: massgeneral.org/neurology/researcher_profiles/cash_syd.aspx

Cortical Physiology Lab webpage:  massgeneral.org/research/researchlab.aspx?id=1100

Harvard Catalyst: connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/24483

Contact Information

Email: scash@partners.org

Phone: 617/726-3311

Address: Massachusetts General Hospital Wacc-730. 55 Fruit St Boston MA 02114

Research

Current research in the lab is, broadly speaking, dedicated to trying to understand normal and abnormal brain activity, particularly oscillations, using multi-modal and multi-scalar approaches. Specifically, we are combining novel microelectrode approaches with non-invasive techniques such as electroencephalography and magnetoencephalography to record directly from both human and animal cortex and subcortical structures. One part of the lab studies the neurophysiology of epilepsy; trying to understand how seizures start and stop and how they might be predicted and terminated. These questions overlap with investigations into the mechanisms of sleep, normal language, auditory, and other cognitive processing.

All of these projects are built on a foundation of combined microelectrode, macroelectrode and non-invasive recording techniques that span information from the level of single action potentials to aggregate activity of millions of neurons. Intensive signal processing and computational ...

James G. Boswell Professor of Neuroscience, California Institute of Technology

Dr. Andersen studies the neurobiological underpinnings of brain processes including the senses of sight, hearing, balance and touch, the neural mechanisms of action, and the development of neural prosthetics. He has trained 60 postdoctoral and doctoral students who now work in academia and industry; 35 currently hold tenure or tenure track faculty positions at major research universities throughout the world. He has published approximately 140 technical articles and edited two books.

Web Information

Department webpage: bbe.caltech.edu/content/richard-andersen

Andersen Lab website: is.caltech.edu/research

Wikipedia entry: google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=Richard+Andersen+caltech

Caltech Neuroscience: brain2015.onair.cc/neuroscience-caltech/

Contact Information

Email: andersen@vis.caltech.edu

Address: ANDERSEN LAB 1200 E CALIFORNIA BLVD PASADENA CA 91125

Biography

Professor Andersen studies the neurobiological underpinnings of brain processes including the senses of sight, hearing, balance and touch, the neural mechanisms of action, and the development of neural prosthetics. He has trained 60 postdoctoral and doctoral students who now work in academia and industry; 35 currently hold tenure or tenure track faculty positions at major research universities throughout the world. He has published approximately 140 technical articles and edited two books.

Education. Andersen obtained a Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of California, San Francisco with thesis advisor Michael Merzenich, and was a ...

Professor of Neurological Surgery and Neurology, Keck School of Medicine Director, USC Neurorestoration Center Surgical Director, USC Comprehensive Epilepsy Program

Dr. Liu also serves as associate chief medical officer and chair of neurosurgery and spine at Rancho Los Amigos National Rehabilitation Medical Center. Dr. Liu has had a long-standing collaboration with scientists at the California Institute of Technology where he is a visiting associate in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering. His principal research interests relate to developing advanced treatment strategies for restoring function to the damaged nervous system through engineering and technology.

Web Information

Keck Medicine webpage:  keckmedicine.org/doctor/charles-yu-liu/

USC Neuroscience: brain2015.onair.cc/usc-neuroscience-educational-and-research-programs/

Contact Information

Phone: (800-872-2273)

Biography

Dr. Liu completed his undergraduate education in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and went on to receive his PhD in Chemical/Biomedical Engineering at Rice University. He then attended the Yale University School of Medicine, receiving his MD degree. He trained in neurosurgery at the University of Southern California Affiliated Hospitals.

He is presently professor of neurosurgery and neurology and holds the Apuzzo Professorship for Advanced Neurosurgery. He is also Director of the USC Center for Neurorestoration, which functions to bring scientific advances in the laboratory and engineers new ...

Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, Dept. of  Bioengineering Principal Investigator, Qutub Lab

Amina Qutub’s research at Rice University integrates biological systems theory and design to characterize hypoxic response signaling and neurovascular dynamics. Her basic and translational research has applications in leukemia and brain cancer therapy; treatments for brain ischemia and Alzheimer’s disease; and increased understanding of cellular and sub-cellular organization in vascular biology.

Web Information

Department webpage: bioengineering.rice.edu/faculty/Amina_Qutub.aspx

Qutub Lab website: qutublab.rice.edu/index.html

Rice Neuroscience: brain2015.onair.cc/rice-neuroscience/

Contact Information

Email: amina@rice.edu

Phone: (713) 348-8089

Address: Department of Bioengineering 6500 Main Street, Suite 135 Houston, Texas 77030

Biography

Qutub is a principal investigator on a National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) grant with Rice bioengineering collaborators to build multiscale computer models of blood vessel growth from image-based molecular analyses. Also, through a 2011 Hamill Innovation Award from Rice’s Institute for Biosciences and Bioengineering, she is furthering this work through joint research that characterizes the coupling between angiogenic signaling and cyto-mechanical responses. Qutub earned a 2012 NSF Early Career Development (CAREER) award to study neurovasculature formation, integrating computation with experiments to measure and predict patterns in individual cell behavior during angiogenesis. The research, which focuses on cellular developments in the blood-brain barrier, will address unanswered questions about how cell-cell and cell-protein interactions ...

J.S. Abercrombie Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University Director, Rice Center for Neuroengineering Founding Director, Center for Multimedia Communication

Dr. Aazhang focuses on communication theory, information theory, and their applications to wireless communication with a focus on the interplay of communication systems and networks; including network coding, user cooperation, spectrum sharing, and opportunistic access.

Web Information

Department webpage: ece.rice.edu/aaz.aspx

Center for Neuroengineering website:  neuroengineering.rice.edu/

Wikipedia entry: wikipedia.org/wiki/Behnaam_Aazhang

Contact Information

Email: aaz@rice.edu

Phone: 713-348-4749

Address: Duncan Hall 2017

Biography

Behnaam Aazhang received his B.S. (with highest honors), M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1981, 1983, and 1986, respectively.

From 1981-1985, he was a Research Assistant in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois.  In August 1985, he joined the faculty of Rice University, Houston, Texas, where he is now the J.S. Abercrombie Professor and Director of the Cluster on Neuroengineering within the Gulf Coast Consortium, a multi-university research center in Houston, Texas. In addition, he holds an Academy of Finland Distinguished Visiting Professorship appointment (FiDiPro) at the Center for Wireless Communication (CWC) in the University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland. He served as the Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2004-2014. His research interests are ...

Arthur and Janet Ross Professor, Laboratory of Neurobiology

Dr. Gilbert studies the mechanisms underlying visual perception, including the specific role of the brain’s primary visual cortex in analyzing visual images and in perceptual learning. To this end, his laboratory investigates the circuitry of the brain and how the interactions between groups of neurons contribute to perception, learning and memory.

Web Information

Rockefeller webpage: rockefeller.edu/research/faculty/labheads/CharlesGilbert/

Lab webpage: lab.rockefeller.edu/gilbert/

Rockefeller neuroscience: brain2015.onair.cc/rockefeller-university/

Contact Information

Email: Charles.Gilbert@rockefeller.edu

Phone: (212) 327-8000

Address: The Rockefeller University 1230 York Avenue New York, NY 10065

Biography

Dr. Gilbert received his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard Medical School in 1977, where he held an academic appointment until he joined Rockefeller in 1983 as assistant professor and head of laboratory. He became associate professor in 1985 and professor in 1991 and in 2004 was named Arthur and Janet Ross Professor.

A member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has received numerous awards, including the W. Alden Spencer Award from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.

Dr. Gilbert is a faculty member in the David Rockefeller Graduate Program and the Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. Program.

Research

Dr. Gilbert studies the mechanisms underlying visual perception, including the specific role of the brain’s primary visual cortex in analyzing visual images and ...

USTAR Assistant Professor, Elect & Computer Engineering, University of Utah Associate Professor, Elect & Computer Engineering, University of Utah

Dr. Menon’s research lies at the intersection of optics and nanotechnology, with special foci on extending the spatial resolution of optics to the nanoscale, and applications of optics in energy. In addition to gaining a deep understanding of the basic physics of the behavior of light and matter at the nanoscale, our research is driven by many exciting applications.

Web Information

Utah webpage: faculty.utah.edu/u0676529-Rajesh_Menon/research/index.hml

Nano Institute of Utah page: nanoinstitute.utah.edu/profiles/menon.php

University of Utah Neuroscience Initiative: http://brain2015.onair.cc/university-of-utah-neuroscience-initiative/

Contact Information

Email: rmenon@eng.utah.edu

Phone: 801-585-1058

Address: The University of Utah 50 S. Central Campus Dr. Rm 3280 Joseph F. Merrill Engineering Building Salt Lake City, UT 84112

Biography

Education

Honors & Awards

Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Principal Investigator, Computation Perception & Cognition Lab

Dr. Oliva’s research program is in the field of Computational Visual Cognition, a framework that strives to identify the substrates of complex visual recognition tasks and to develop models inspired by human perception and cognition. The natural visual environment is composed of three-dimensional objects, with textures, colors, and materials, embedded in an explicit spatial layout.

Web Information

MIT webpage: http://bcs.mit.edu/people/oliva.html

Lab website: http://cvcl.mit.edu/aude.htm

MIT Neuroscience: http://brain2015.onair.cc/mit-neuroscience/

Contact Information

Email: oliva@mit.edu

Address: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Building: 46-4065

Research

My research program is in the field of Computational Visual Cognition, a framework that strives to identify the substrates of complex visual recognition tasks and to develop models inspired by human perception and cognition. The natural visual environment is composed of three-dimensional objects, with textures, colors, and materials, embedded in an explicit spatial layout. Yet, the human brain understands scenes, places and events quickly and effortlessly, outperforming the most advanced artificial vision system. In the lab, we use multi-disciplinary techniques from behavioral sciences, cognitive neuroscience and computational vision, to identify key principles of human object, scene and space understanding and evaluate the capacity and fidelity of human memory systems for guiding ...

Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Chair for Engineering in Medicine; Director, Institute for Engineering in Medicine; and Director, Center for Neuroengineering Member of Multi-Council Working Group (NCCAM council)

Bin He’s major research interests are in the field of neuroengineering and biomedical imaging. Together with his co-workers, he has made significant contributions to the development of electrophysiological functional imaging, multimodal imaging, cardiac electric imaging, and neuroengineering.

Web Information

Department Webpage: bme.umn.edu/people/faculty/he

Lab website: Biomedical Functional Imaging and Neuroengineering Lab

Contact Information

Email: binhe@umn.edu

Phone: 612-626-1115

Address: 6-124 Nils Hasselmo Hall 312 Church St. SE Minneapolis, MN 55455

Biomedical Imaging and Neuroengineering

Functional Neuroimaging

Brain activation is a spatio-temporally-distributed process. Recent advances in medical imaging technology, especially functional MRI, have greatly increased our ability to image brain functions with high spatial resolution but with limited temporal resolution. Electrophysiological recordings such as EEG, on the other hand, offer millisecond temporal resolution in detecting and characterizing brain activity. Our approach is to achieve high resolution spatio-temporal functional neuroimaging by solving the “inverse” problem of the brain from scalp recorded EEG with the aid of MR images. Innovation in engineering methods has led to greatly enhanced spatial resolution of brain electrical imaging, which has been applied to aid presurgical planning in epilepsy patients. Furthermore, we are developing multimodal neuroimaging methods ...