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.

Recent Publications

• R. Jacob Vogelstein, Francesco Tenore, Lisa Guevremont, Ralph Etienne-Cummings, and Vivian K. Mushahwar, “A Silicon Central Pattern Generator Controls Locomotion in vivo,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 212-222, 2008
• F. Tenore, S. Acharya, V. Aggarwal, R. Etienne-Cummings, N.V. Thakor, “Decoding Individuated Finger Movements Using Volume-Constrained Neuronal Ensembles in the M1 Hand,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 15-23, 2008
• N. Ekekwe and R. Etienne-Cummings, “Adaptive and Reconfigurable Integrated Motion Controller” ISSCC, Student Forum 2009.
• F. Folowosele, R.J. Vogelstein, and R. Etienne-Cummings, “Real-Time Silicon Implementation of V1 in Hierarchical Visual Informaiton Processing,” Proceedings of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Baltimore, Maryland, Nov. 2008.
• P. Pouliquen, R.J. Vogelstein, and R. Etienne-Cummings, Practical Considerations for the Use of a Howland Current Source for Neuro-Stimulation,” Proceedings of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Baltimore, Maryland, Nov. 2008
• A. Russell, F. Tenore, G. Singhal, N. Thakor, R. Etienne-Cummings, “Towards Control of Dexterous Hand Manipulations Using a Silicon Pattern Generator,” Proc. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Aug. 2008.