Neuroengineering Theme

Theme Co-Chairs
Bin He, Ph.D.
Kelvin Lim, Ph.D.
Image: Illustration of a novel noninvasive brain-computer interface that can control the flight of a virtual helicopter in 3-D virtual space of the University of Minnesota campus from "thoughts" sensed over the scalp of human subjects. Work published in PLoS ONE (Doud et al, 2011), and featured by ABC News.

Theme Description
People

The goal of the Neuroengineering Theme is to better understand mechanisms of neurological and psychiatric disorders and develop engineering solutions to sense, image, interface and modulate the disorders of the brain and nervous systems. One of the key challenges the theme group is addressing is to discover mechanisms of and seek solutions to brain disorders at systems level. University of Minnesota faculty has been at the forefront of development of systems neuroengineering, with particular strengths in neural decoding and imaging, neural interfacing and neuromodulation.

PERSON	DEPARTMENT	EMAIL
Akkin, Taner	Biomedical Engineering	akkin@umn.edu
Ashe, James	Neuroscience	ashe@umn.edu
Baker, Kenneth	Neurology	kbbaker@umn.edu
Barocas, Victor	Biomedical Engineering	baroc001@umn.edu
Chen, Wei	Radiology - CMRR	chenx075@umn.edu
Cherkassky, Vladimir	Electrical & Computer Engineering	cherk001@umn.edu
Cureoglu, Sebahattin	Otolaryngology	cureo003@umn.edu
Durfee, William	Mechanical Engineering	wkdurfee@umn.edu
Ebner, Timothy	Neuroscience	ebner001@umn.edu
He, Bin	Biomedical Engineering	binhe@umn.edu
He, Sheng	Psychology	sheng@umn.edu
Iaizzo, Paul	Surgery	iaizz001@umn.edu
Johnson, Matthew	Biomedical Engineering	john5101@umn.edu
Lam, Cornelius	Neurosurgery	lamxx023@umn.edu
Lenglet, Christophe	Radiology - CMRR	clenglet@umn.edu
Letourneau, Paul	Neuroscience	letou001@umn.edu
Lim, Hubert	Biomedical Engineering	hlim@umn.edu
Lim, Kelvin	Psychiatry	kolim@umn.edu
Low, Walter	Neurosurgery	lowwalt@umn.edu
Netoff, Tay	Biomedical Engineering	tnetoff@umn.edu
Parhi, Keshab	Electrical & Computer Engineering	parhi@umn.edu
Pierre, Valerie	Chemistry	pierre@umn.edu
Pluhar, G. Elizabeth	Veterinary Clinical Sciences	pluha006@umn.edu
Redish, David	Neuroscience	redish@umn.edu
Sachs, Jonathan	Biomedical Engineering	jnsachs@umn.edu
Schiffer, Wynne	Neurology	schiffer@umn.edu
Shekhar, Shashi	Computer Science & Engineering	shekhar@umn.edu
Steer, Clifford	Medicine	steer001@umn.edu
Ugurbil, Kamil	Radiology - CMRR	kamil@cmrr.umn.edu
Wang, Jian-Ping	Electrical & Computer Engineering	jpwang@umn.edu
Ziegler, Richard	Pediatrics	ziegl002@umn.edu