Why is Neurobiology like Photonic Engineering: Report of an Engineer Crossing Scientific Barriers
Event details
Date | 04.06.2018 |
Hour | 10:15 › 11:00 |
Speaker | Dr. Yurii Vlasov |
Location | |
Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Institute of Microengineering - Distinguished Lecture
Abstract: I will discuss the challenges and excitement of building large interdisciplinary programs with potentially high impact. I will start with the Silicon Nanophotonics project I started at IBM almost two decades ago and developed it from early fundamental research stage to commercial manufacturing technology, I will focus then on my current effort in neurotechnology aimed at reverse-engineering the brain circuits and developing advanced brain-machine interfaces. Development of implantable silicon neuroprobes, neurobiology experiments in virtual reality, and AI-based neuroinformatics will be discussed.
Bio: Dr. Yurii Vlasov is a Grainger Engineering Breakthroughs Initiative (GEBI) Founder Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is tenured with the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, 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 interrogate brain circuits with the neurobiology experiments in virtual reality with the goal to reverse-engineer the brain circuits.
Prior to joining 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-wide efforts in integrated silicon nanophotonics and more recently in neuromorphic computing architectures. He initiated the Silicon Nanophotonics project in 2001 and managed it for over 15 years from its early fundamental research stage up to commercial manufacturing of optical transceivers for large-scale datacenters and supercomputers. Technology is currently deployed by GlobalFoundries for commercial manufacturing.
Prior to IBM, Dr. Vlasov developed semiconductor nanophotonics at the N.E.C. Research Institute 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 Institute of Physics and Technology in St. Petersburg, Russia working on optics of nanostructured semiconductors. He received his M.S. from the University of St. Petersburg (1988) and Ph.D from the Ioffe Institute (1994), both in physics.
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