ECE Calendar

Flexible Electronics for Neural Interfaces

📍 Location: EB2 1231 & Zoom Webinar (go.ncsu.edu/ece-seminar)
📅 Date & Time: April 11, 10:15 AM

📖 Description:
The current tools for interfacing with the brain face a fundamental trade-off between high-resolution sampling over small areas or low-resolution sampling over large areas. However, to fully understand how the brain works, we need high-resolution sampling over large areas, which is limited by the wiring bottleneck. Traditional electronics are too rigid and incompatible with the brain's soft surfaces, but flexible electronics offer a solution.

Dr. Jonathan Viventi will present his work on flexible electronics that overcome this wiring bottleneck by enabling high-density electrode arrays with thousands of electrodes, all connected with just a few wires. This breakthrough technology allows for unprecedented micro-electrocorticographic (µECoG) resolution for both recording and stimulating neural networks. He will discuss the development of this technology, share data from in vivo recordings, and explore its clinical translation for human use in diagnosing and treating neurological disorders.

👨‍🏫 Speaker:
Dr. Jonathan Viventi, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Duke University. Dr. Viventi holds a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.Eng. and B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University. His research focuses on developing flexible electronics, low power analog circuits, and machine learning to create new technologies for interfacing with the brain. Dr. Viventi’s work has been featured in prominent journals such as Science Translational Medicine and Nature Materials, and he has received numerous accolades, including the NSF CAREER Award and recognition on the MIT Technology Review’s Top 35 Innovators Under 35 list.

💻 Join the seminar on Zoom: go.ncsu.edu/ece-seminar