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