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Biography: Subra Suresh is the President-
Designate of Nanyang Technological
University Singapore. He has previously
served as the president of Carnegie Mellon
University and as the director of the National
Science Foundation, where he led the creation
of the NSF Innovation Corps and the Global Research Council.
Suresh has been elected to all three branches of the National
Academies (Sciences, Engineering and Medicine), the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National
Academy of Inventors, as well as science and/or engineering
academies in China, France, Germany, India, Spain and
Sweden. A recipient of 12 honorary doctorate degrees, Suresh
is the coauthor of more than 300 scholarly publications, three
books and 25 patents. He serves as an independent director
on the boards of HP Inc. and Battelle.
Track 13: Micro- and Nano- Engineering
Systems and Packaging
13-2-1: MEMS/NEMS TECHNOLOGY FOR BIOMEDICAL
APPLICATIONS PLENARY
Wednesday, November 8, 8:00am–9:45am
Room 5, Tampa Convention Center
Combining Microfabrication and Tissue-Engineering
Processes to Advance Nerve Interfaces for the Control of
Advanced Prosthetic Limbs
(IMECE2017-73550)
Jack W. Judy
University of Florida
Abstract: Microfabricated electrodes are often implanted into
the brain, spinal cord, or nerves in order to record or stimulate
neural activity. The goal of such work is typically to advance
neuroscientific understanding or to develop new therapies or
solutions for nervous-systems diseases or injuries. For
example, nerves are a promising target for neural interfaces
used to control sophisticated robotic limbs. However, to
provide rapid and precise prosthesis control and to elicit
high-resolution prosthesis-related sensory percepts, a nerve
interface needs many independent motor and sensory
channels. Unfortunately, all existing non-invasive and non-
regenerative nerve interfaces grossly under-sample the
heterogeneous population of efferent and afferent axons.
Although tissue engineering, nerve regeneration, and
implantable neural-electronic interfaces are individually well-
established fields, we believe that the scalability and reliability
challenges of nerve interfaces can be overcome by using a
technology that combines these fields. We call our novel
combinatorial approach tissue-engineered-electronic-nerve-
interface (TEENI) technology. In this presentation I will discuss
the challenges of neural interfaces, identify the limitations of
existing microfabricated approaches, and describe our
scalable TEENI technology.
Biography: Dr. Jack Judy is the Director of
the Nanoscience Institute for Medical and
Engineering Technology (NIMET) at the
University of Florida, holds the Intel
Nanotechnology Chair, and is also a professor
of Electrical and Computer Engineering and
Biomedical Engineering. The mission of NIMET is to bridge
engineering, scientific, and medical communities by revealing,
enabling, focusing, and coordinating related research and
educational activities. NIMET also provides world-class
centralized research facilities, technical support, and
equipment for the design, fabrication, and characterization of
innovative micro/nanotechnologies, as well as a dedicated
hands-on instructional laboratory for training students in the
use of micro/nanoscale fabrication tools and techniques.
Dr. Judy’s research involves the development of novel micro-
electro-mechanical systems, such as microscale and
nanoscale sensors, actuators, and systems, and their use in
impactful engineering, scientific, biological, and medical,
applications. A particular focus is in the field of neural-
interface technology and systems, with applications in
bi-directional prosthetic control, movement disorders, and the
autonomic nervous system. Previously, Dr. Judy was a
Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office
(MTO) of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA), where he created and managed the Reliable Neural-
Interface Technology Program (RE-NET) to address the
fundamental, and yet at the time largely overlooked, critical
reliability problem of chronic neural-recording interfaces.
Without successfully developing and translating to the clinic
high-performance neural-recording interfaces that function for
the life of the patient, many of the widely envisioned clinical
applications for brain-maGemstchine interfaces and other
neural-electronic technologies will not be realized. Dr. Judy
served at DARPA while on leave from his faculty position at the
time in the Electrical and Biomedical Engineering Departments
at UCLA, where he also served as Director of the
NeuroEngineering Program, the Nanoelectronics Research
Facility, and the Instructional Microfabrication Laboratory. He
has received the National Science Foundation Career Award,
the Okawa Foundation Award, and the Office of the Secretary
of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service.
Track 14: Safety Engineering and Risk
Analysis
14-6-1: SAFETY ENGINEERING AND RISK ANALYSIS
PLENARY
Wednesday, November 8, 8:00am–9:45am
Room 6, Tampa Convention Center
Uncertainty Quantification for Reliability Analysis and
Decision Making in Engineering Systems
(IMECE2017-73534)
Sankaran Mahadevan
Vanderbilt University
Abstract: This presentation will discuss current research on xxxv
uncertainty quantification and aggregation for reliability
assessment and decision-making in engineering systems.