Mar 2023
Host: KAUST Smart-Health Initiative (KSHI) - Professor Atif Shamim
Abstract:
Although
technical challenges are still daunting, the clinical utility of
neuroprosthetics has increased dramatically over the past few years.
This has been accomplished through the convergence of numerous
disciplines, which have individually added fundamental
understanding/capabilities to systems that interface with the human body
to restore senses and movement; or treat prevalent diseases that have
currently no foreseeable cure. Among these, predictive multiscale
computational modeling methods have greatly aided in the design of
neuroprosthetics by embracing the complexity of the nervous system,
which span multiple spatial scales, temporal scales, and disciplines. In
this talk, we will cover some of the recent advances in
bioelectromagnetic systems for healthcare, with a particular focus on
visual and hippocampal prosthesis, peripheral neuroprosthetics, and
sensors.
Bio:
Gianluca
Lazzi, PhD MBA is a Provost Professor of Ophthalmology, Electrical
Engineering, Clinical Entrepreneurship and Biomedical Engineering at the
University of Southern California (USC) where he is also the holder of
the Fred H. Cole Professorship and the Director of the Institute for
Technology and Medical Systems (ITEMS), a joint initiative of the Keck
School of Medicine and the Viterbi School of Engineering. His expertise
is in antenna design, medical applications of electromagnetics,
implantable devices, neuroengineering, wireless telemetry, and liquid
metal sensors. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the American
Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and a Fellow
of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He co-founded Teveri, Inc,
which is focused on the commercialization of stretchable conductive
liquid metal-based fibers knitted in clothing and athletic apparel to
bring seamless biometric, sensing and illumination solutions to smart
clothing as well as stretchable electronic systems for medical,
consumer, and military applications. He was the 2022 President of the
IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society.