
From Nature, Machines
Article in the Johns Hopkins Magazine featuring Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings
Fopefolu Folowosele has been selected to receive a 2009
UNCF-Merck Graduate Science Dissertation Fellowship.
The fellowship awarded jointly by the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and Merck seeks to expand the pool of world-class
African-American biomedical scientists and engineers in the United States. In addition to a stipend, the fellowship offers a
research grant to support the research needs of the fellow.
Dr. Ndubuisi Ekekwe presented his dissertation defense entitled "Reconfigurable Application-Specific Instrumentation and
Control Integrated Systems" on Wednesday March 18, 2009
IEEE BioCAS 2009 Conference will be held in Beijing from November 25-27, 2009
Ndubuisi Ekekwe has been invited by the African Union Commission
to its December 2008 congress in Yaounde, Cameroon. Ndubuisi will deliver a talk and will work with leading policy
experts on various issues affecting the continent. Click here for related articles
Dr. Jacob Vogelstein has developed a system that allows amputees to play "Guitar Hero" with no hands. The system uses
pattern recognition algorithms to decode electrical signals generated by an amputee's residual muscles, and uses the output of those algorithms
to control a modified Guitar Hero controller on the Nintendo Wii gaming platform.
Check out the
article and
video on this project by IEEE Spectrum
Dr. Francesco Tenore received the Best "Ph.D. in a Nutshell" Award at the
IEEE BioCAS 2008 Conference. His Ph.D. Thesis was titled
"Biomorphic Circuits and Systems: Control of Robotic and Prosthetic Limbs."
Click here for the award winning poster
Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings was one of the General Co-Chairs of the
IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference which was held in Baltimore from
November 20th - 22th, 2008.
Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings delivered the Don P. Giddens Inaugural Professorial Lecture. His talk was entitled
"Learning from Nature to Make Machines See and Robots Walk"
Prof. Ralph Etienne-Cummings is selected as a
National Academies of Science Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow,
November 8 - 11th, 2007.