Wayne State University
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wireless Neural Recording Microsystems: Implantable
Windows on the Brain
Amir M. Sodagar
Postdoc, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
1:30-3:00 Wednesday April 9th .
ENG 1200 (Hall of Fame)
Abstract:
Neural interfaces in the form of implantable microsystems are emerging as one of the most
important and rapidly growing technologies for neuroscience and neural prosthetics. Stateof-the-art applications include prosthetics aimed at suppressing the debilitating effects of
Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy, and also motor control of prosthetic limbs. In this talk, a
brief overview of implantable neural recording microsystems is presented. Then, the multichannel cortical recording microsystem recently developed at the University of Michigan is
introduced.
Bio:
Dr. Sodagar is in the field of Analog and Mixed-signal integrated circuit design, wireless
implantable Microsystems for Biomedical applications. He has his M.S. and Ph.D degrees all
in Electrical Engineering from Iran University of Science and Tech, in Tehran. Since 2002
he has been working at the University of Michigan EECS department as a postdoc.
All ECE GRAs and GTAs required to attend.