Inaugural Minnesota NeuroSpin Initiative Brings Together a Unique Group of Engineering and Medical Experts
On Tuesday, December 7th a diverse group of neurologists, neuroscientists, and engineers came together for the inaugural Minnesota NeuroSpin Initiative Workshop. While many participated in the festivities and presentations remotely, several were able to get together in Minneapolis to collaborate and share their work.
Kendall Lee
Mayo Clinic
Research interests are to develop deep brain stimulation (DBS) for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, tremor, depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder and epilepsy. and with the possibility of combining sophisticated electrophysiological recordings with miniaturized analytical elements (microprocessors) to augment or repair disrupted function of the brain
Sachin Sapatnekar
Research is primarily in the area of computer-aided design (CAD) of VLSI systems. Advances in integrated circuit technologies allow us to build progressively larger systems, with increasing numbers of transistors.
Ulya Karpuzcu
Research interests span physics of computing, energy-efficient computing, application-domain specialized architectures, hardware security and reliability, approximate computing. Our group focuses on how to improve the energy-efficiency of computing and how to sustain the illusion of performance scaling in the face of process-technology induced limitations.
Lucy Vulchanova
Research is focused on mechanisms underlying persistent pain. Our long-term goal is to contribute to the development of novel non-addictive chronic pain treatments. We are interested in elucidating the spinal circuits that mediate pain signaling, and in the discovery of novel signaling pathways involved in the development and maintenance of chronic pain.
