R. Jacob Vogelstein Lawrence Hafstad Fellow and Assistant Research Professor Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Senior Professional Staff Biomedical Engineering Group, JHU Applied Physics Laboratory jacob DOT vogelstein AT jhuapl DOT edu curriculum vitae

My primary research interests are in neuroprostheses and neuromorphic engineering. I am currently involved in a few different research projects: Neuromorphic engineering: Making microchips that work like the brain Integrate and Fire Array Transceiver (IFAT) Neuroprostheses: Making microchips that interface with the brain Bidirectional Spinal Neuroprosthesis Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009

 

Courses taught: ECE520.427 -- Product Design Lab

 

Selected publications (see CV for complete list): W. Bishop, R. Armiger, J. Burck, M. Bridges, M. Hauschild, K. Englehart, E. Scheme, R. J. Vogelstein, J. Beaty, and S. Harshbarger. A real-time virtual integration environment for the design and development of neural prosthetic systems.  Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Seattle, WA, August 2008. F. O. Folowosele, R. J. Vogelstein, R. Etienne-Cummings.  Spike-Based MAX Networks for Nonlinear Pooling in Hierarchical Vision Processing.  Proceedings of 2007 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference , Montreal, Canada, November 2007. (PDF) R. J. Vogelstein, U. Mallik, E. Culurciello, G. Cauwenberghs, R. Etienne-Cummings.  A Multi-Chip Neuromorphic System for Spike-Based Visual Information Processing.  Neural Computation, 19: 2281-2300, 2007. (PDF) R. J. Vogelstein. Towards a Spinal Neuroprosthesis: Restoring Locomotion After Spinal Cord Injury.  Ph.D. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biomedical Engineering, May 2007. (PDF) R. J. Vogelstein, U. Mallik, J. T. Vogelstein, G. Cauwenberghs.  Dynamically Reconfigurable Silicon Array of Spiking Neurons with Conductance-Based Synapses.  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 18(1):253-265, 2007. (PDF) R. J. Vogelstein, R. Etienne-Cummings, N. V. Thakor, A. H. Cohen.  Dynamically Control of the Central Pattern Generator for Locomotion.  Biological Cybernetics, 95(6):555-566, 2006. (PDF) R. J. Vogelstein, R. Etienne-Cummings, N. V. Thakor, A. H. Cohen.  Phase-Dependent Effects of Spinal Cord Stimulation on Locomotor Activity.  IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 14(3):257-265, 2006. (PDF) R. J. Vogelstein, R. Etienne-Cummings, N. V. Thakor, A. H. Cohen.  Dynamic Control of Spinal Locomotion Circuits.  Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kos, Greece, May 2006. (PDF) F. Tenore, R. J. Vogelstein, R. Etienne-Cummings, G. Cauwenberghs, P. Hasler.  A Floating-Gate Programmable Array of Silicon Neurons for Central Pattern Generating Networks.  Proceedings of 2006 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kos, Greece, May 2006. (PDF) F. Tenore, R. J. Vogelstein, R. Etienne-Cummings, M. A. Lewis, P. Hasler.  A Spiking Silicon Central Pattern Generator with Floating Gate Synapses.  Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kobe, Japan, May 2005. (PDF) U. Mallik, R. J. Vogelstein, E. Culurciello, R. Etienne-Cummings, and G. Cauwenberghs. A Real-Time Spike-Domain Sensory Information Processing System.  Proceedings of 2005 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Kobe, Japan, May 2005. (PDF) R. J. Vogelstein, N. V. Thakor, R. Etienne-Cummings, A. H. Cohen.  Electrical Stimulation of a Spinal Central Pattern Generator for Locomotion.  Proceedings of the 2nd International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, Arlington, Virginia, March 2005. (PDF) R. J. Vogelstein, U. Mallik, G. Cauwenberghs, E. Culurciello, and R. Etienne-Cummings. Saliency-Driven Image Acuity Modulation on a Reconfigurable Silicon Array of Spiking Neurons. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16, 2005. (PDF) R. J. Vogelstein, U. Mallik, E. Culurciello, G. Cauwenbergs, and R. Etienne-Cummings. Spatial Acuity Modulation of an Address-Event Imager.  Proceedings of 11th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Tel Aviv, Israel, December 2004. (PDF) R. J. Vogelstein, K. Murari, P. H. Thakur, C. Diehl, S. Chakrabartty, and G. Cauwenberghs. Spike sorting with support vector machines.  Proceedings of 26th Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Francisco, CA, September 2004. (PDF) R. J. Vogelstein, U. Mallik, and G. Cauwenberghs. Beyond address-event communication: dynamically-reconfigurable spiking neural systems. The Neuromorphic Engineer, 1(1), 2004. (PDF) R. J. Vogelstein, U. Mallik, and G. Cauwenberghs. Silicon spike-based synaptic array and address-event transceiver. Proceedings of 2004 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2004. (PDF) R. J. Vogelstein, F. Tenore, R. Philipp, M. S. Adlerstein, D. H. Goldberg, and G. Cauwenberghs. Spike timing-dependent plasticity in the address domain. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15 (S. Becker, S. Thrun and K. Obermayer, eds), pp. 1147-1154. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. (PDF) G. Dagnelie and J. Vogelstein. Phosphene mapping procedures for prosthetic vision. Vision Science and its Applications: OSA Technical Digest, pp. 294-297. Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 1999. J. T. Vogelstein, J. Vogelstein, and B. Vogelstein. Testing the effects of genetic variations using MINIME technology. Science, 286:2300-2301, 1999. (Essay). V. Velculescu, L. Zhang, W. Zhou, J. Vogelstein, M. A. Basrai, D. E. Bassett Jr, P. Heiter, B. Vogelstein, and K. W. Kinzler. Characterization of the yeast transcriptome. Cell, 88:243-251, 1997.  (PDF)

 

Posters, Abstracts, and PowerPoint Presentations: R. J. Vogelstein, L. Guevremont, F. Tenore, V. K. Mushahwar, R. Etienne-Cummings.  A Silicon Central Pattern Generator Controls Locomotion in vivo  Neural Interfaces Workshop, Bethesda, MD, 2006. (Poster) R. J. Vogelstein, N. V. Thakor, R. Etienne-Cummings, A. H. Cohen.  Electrical Stimulation of a Spinal Central Pattern Generator for Locomotion.  Neural Interfaces Workshop, Bethesda, MD, 2004. (Poster) R. J. Vogelstein, U. Mallik, G. Cauwenberghs. Silicon Hardware for Rapid Prototyping of Spiking Neural Networks Spike-Based Learning Rules.  2003 NIPS Workshops, Whistler, BC, Canada, 2003. (PowerPoint) R. J. Vogelstein, F. Tenore, R. Philipp, M. S. Adlerstein, D. H. Goldberg, and G. Cauwenberghs. A Scalable Neuromorphic Architecture for Spike-Timing-Based Learning in Silicon.  7th International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS), Boston, MA, 2003. Boston University. (PowerPoint) J. Vogelstein and G. Dagnelie. Phosphene mapping strategies for a cortical visual prosthesis.  29th Neural Prosthesis Workshop, Bethesda, MD, 1998. (Poster)

 

Unpublished Work: Hearing Aid Research Cerebellar Neuroscience Research USB Device Design Visual Neuroscience Research Cortical Visual Prosthesis Project Floating-Gate Programmable Array (FGPA)

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