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SUMMARY:Why is Neurobiology like Photonic Engineering: Report of an Engine
 er Crossing Scientific Barriers
DTSTART:20180604T101500
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Yurii Vlasov\nInstitute of Microengineering - Distinguishe
 d Lecture\n\nAbstract: I will discuss the challenges and excitement of bui
 lding large interdisciplinary programs with potentially high impact. I wil
 l start with the Silicon Nanophotonics project I started at IBM almost two
  decades ago and developed it from early fundamental research stage to com
 mercial manufacturing technology\, I will focus then on my current effort 
 in neurotechnology aimed at reverse-engineering the brain circuits and dev
 eloping advanced brain-machine interfaces. Development of implantable sili
 con neuroprobes\, neurobiology experiments in virtual reality\, and AI-bas
 ed neuroinformatics will be discussed.\n\nBio: Dr. Yurii Vlasov is a Grain
 ger Engineering Breakthroughs Initiative (GEBI) Founder Professor at the U
 niversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is tenured with the departme
 nts of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, Materials Science and Enginee
 ring\, and Bio-Engineering\, as well as Carle Illinois College of Medicine
 . At the UIUC he established Integrated Neurotechnology lab that combines 
 nanofabrication of electrical/optical/microfluidic neural probes to interr
 ogate brain circuits with the neurobiology experiments in virtual reality 
 with the goal to reverse-engineer the brain circuits.\n \nPrior to joinin
 g the UIUC\, Dr. Vlasov held various research and managerial positions at 
 the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in N.Y. where he led broad company-wid
 e efforts in integrated silicon nanophotonics and more recently in neuromo
 rphic computing architectures. He initiated the Silicon Nanophotonics proj
 ect in 2001 and managed it for over 15 years from its early fundamental re
 search stage up to commercial manufacturing of optical transceivers for la
 rge-scale datacenters and supercomputers. Technology is currently deployed
  by GlobalFoundries for commercial manufacturing. \n \nPrior to IBM\, Dr
 . Vlasov developed semiconductor nanophotonics at the N.E.C. Research Inst
 itute in Princeton\, N.J. and at the Strasbourg IPCMS Institute in France.
  For over a decade\, he was also a Research Scientist with the Ioffe Insti
 tute of Physics and Technology in St. Petersburg\, Russia working on optic
 s of nanostructured semiconductors. He received his M.S. from the Universi
 ty of St. Petersburg (1988) and Ph.D from the Ioffe Institute (1994)\, bot
 h in physics.
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