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SUMMARY:Neural Dust and Neural Interfaces
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DESCRIPTION:Prof M. Maharbiz\, University of California\, Berkeley\, USA.
 \nA major hurdle in brain-machine interfaces (BMI) is the lack of an impla
 ntable neural interface system that remains viable for a lifetime. I will 
 discuss Neural Dust\, a concept developed with Elad Alon\, Jose Carmena an
 d Jan Rabaey\, which explores the fundamental system design trade-offs and
  ultimate size\, power\, and bandwidth scaling limits of neural recording 
 systems built from low-power CMOS circuitry coupled with ultrasonic power 
 delivery and backscatter communication. In particular\, we propose an ultr
 a-miniature as well as extremely compliant system that enables massive sca
 ling in the number of neural recordings from the brain while providing a p
 ath towards truly chronic BMI. These goals are achieved via two fundamenta
 l technology innovations: 1)  10 - 100 micron scale\, free-floating\, ind
 ependent sensor nodes\, or neural dust\, that detect and report local extr
 acellular electrophysiological data\, and 2) a sub-cranial interrogator th
 at establishes power and communication links with the neural dust.\nBio: M
 ichel M. Maharbiz is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electri
 cal Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California\, Ber
 keley. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkele
 y under Professor Roger T. Howe (EECS) and Professor Jay D. Keasling (Chem
 E)\; his work led to the foundation of Microreactor Technologies\, Inc. wh
 ich was acquired in 2009 by Pall Corporation. From 2003 to 2007\, Michel M
 aharbiz was an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arb
 or.  He is the co-founder of Tweedle Technologies\, Cortera Neurotech and
  served as vice-president for product development at Quswami\, Inc. from J
 uly 2010 to June 2011.\nProf. Maharbiz is a Bakar Fellow and was the recip
 ient of a 2009 NSF Career Award for research into developing microfabricat
 ed interfaces for synthetic biology. His group is also known for developin
 g the world’s first remotely radio-controlled cyborg beetles. This was n
 amed one of the top ten emerging technologies of 2009 by MIT’s Technolog
 y Review (TR10) and was in Time Magazine’s Top 50 Inventions of 2009. Dr
 . Maharbiz has been a GE Scholar and an Intel IMAP Fellow. Professor Mahar
 biz’s current research interests include building micro/nano interfaces 
 to cells and organisms and exploring bio-derived fabrication methods.  Mi
 chel’s long term goal is understanding developmental mechanisms as a way
  to engineer and fabricate machines.
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