Brain-Machine-Interfaces, Talk & Discussion

A few days ago Scientists at Elon Musk's Neuralink presented their impressive work on Brain-Machine-Interfaces. (Read the white paper https://bit.ly/2YoCset)

There are many labs and research groups all over the world working on Neural Interfaces. We're excited to welcome Antonio Lozano on July 31 for a talk at ELSI. With a group of researchers at UPCT Spain, collaborating with the Neuroengineering Biomedical Research Group at UMH, Antonio has been working on developing neuroprosthetic technology designed to interface with the visual cortex in order to restore a limited but useful visual sense to blind patients.

We look forward to an insightful talk and invite the audience to discuss progress, opportunities and limitations of Brain-Machine-Interfaces.

-- SCHEDULE --
7:00 pm Doors open
7:30 pm - 8:15 pm "Writing into the brain: Neuroengineering, deep learning and how to build a neural interface for the blind", Antonio Lozano
8:15 pm - 8:55 pm Q&A and discussion
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm Closing

-- ABSTRACT --
Neural engineering and AI are making rapid progress, and new opportunities for synergy arise. We are facing the challenge of creating neuroprosthesis designed to interface with the visual cortex in order to restore a limited but useful visual sense to these blind patients.

This talk will look at neural engineering, some of the advances that highly multidisciplinary teams of scientists and engineers are making in different parts of the world, including Neuralink's new brain interfaces, and some of the future challenges that we face in order to improve people's lives

Antonio will also introduce a new framework -NeuroLight- based on Convolutional Neural Networks, created to encode visual information and transmit this it in a meaningful way to the human brain through a neural prosthesis.

-- SPEAKER INFO --

ANTONIO LOZANO is an Industrial Engineer, and Intel's Software Innovator. He's pursuing a PhD in Information and Communications Engineering at UPCT, Spain, collaborating with the Neuroengineering Biomedical Research Group at UMH, towards the goal of creating a cortical visual neuroprosthesis for the blind. Recently, he visited Tokyo Institute of Technology as a visiting junior fellow researcher.

Development of a Cortical Visual Neuroprosthesis for the Blind (CORTIVIS project):
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02983370

Biomedical Neuroengineering Research Group, UMH, Spain
https://nbio.umh.es/

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A big Thank You goes out to the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) for co-hosting this event and providing the venue! ELSI's research mission is to elucidate how our planet was formed and how its early environment allowed for the rise of initial life and its subsequent evolution to complexity. www.elsi.jp/en

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Image: A robotic electrode inserter. Image source (Neuralink): https://bit.ly/2YoCset