McKelvey School

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• Conducts brain-computer interface research to rewire brains & recover lost function from stroke

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• Impact, vibration, wave motion, and instability in mechanical and biomedical systems
• Mechanics of brain injury and brain development
• Nonlinear dynamic phenomena that underlie oscillatory movements of cells and microorganisms

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• Exploring neuromorphic architectures using silicon and biological neurons.
• Wireless and self-powered neural recording systems.
• Ultra-low-power integrated circuits and instrumentation.

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• Combines biology, engineering, and medicine to develop ultrasound techniques for noninvasive, targeted, and personalized cancer treatment

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• Dynamics and Control of Neural Systems
• Active Inference of Brain and Large-Scale Networks
• Methods for Closed-Loop Neuroactive Drug Delivery

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• Molecular basis of electrical signaling in normal and diseased cardiovascular and nervous systems
• Design ultrasound protocols for drug & gene delivery

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• Biophysics of polymers for controlling gene regulation

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• Interfaces and adhesion in nature, physiology, and engineering

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• Photoacoustic technologies for high-resolution hemodynamic and metabolic imaging in the awake behaving brain

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Biological or biomedical applications of:

• Microscopy
• Biophotonics
• Computational imaging
• Nano-optics

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• Computational Biology and Neuroscience
• Neural Engineering and Control

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• Voluntary motor control
• Neuroprostheses
• Conrol signals for brain-computer interfaces

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• Mechanisms of aggregation and neurodegeneration in polyglutamine expansion disorders, specifically Huntington’s disease

Keywords: Understanding the design and computing principles of biological sensory systems using the relatively simple invertebrate olfactory system

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• Advances bioelectronics using materials and fabrication-based approaches

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• Develops tools for neuroprosthetics and rehabilitation

 

 

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• Combines methods of engineering & biology to regulate disc and cartilage health and healing

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• Predicting how changes in ion channel nano-conformations affect cell and organ electrophysiology

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• Plasmonic nanostructures for chemical and biological sensors and nanomedicine

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• Biophotonics
• Neuroimaging
• Cerebral hemodynamics
• Optical coherence tomography