Opportunities in Neural Engineering

Room ENG 460, Ryerson University, 245 Church Street, Toronto

Friday Nov 23, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. Signal Analysis Research (SAR) Group, Ryerson University and IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society will be hosting the “Opportunities in Neural Engineering” event. Day & Time: Friday November 23rd, 2018 9:00 a.m. ‐ 1:30 p.m. Organizers: Signal Analysis Research (SAR) Group Ryerson University IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Location: Room ENG 460, Ryerson University 245 Church Street, Toronto Contact: Filip Boskovic Agenda: Each talk will be for 20 minutes plus 5 minutes of discussions. Session 1 – Neural Engineering framework 1) Overview of the event – Sri Krishnan, Associate Dean (Research), Ryerson University 2) Neural signal processing and machine learning – Sri Krishnan 3) Assistive Technologies – Teodiano Bastos, Federal Univ. Espirito Santo, Brazil 4) Parkinsons’ Disease Voice Analysis – Alice Rueda, Intel Student Ambassador and PhD student Session 2 – Applications in Neural Engineering 5) Brain-computer Interfaces – Dharmendra Gurve, Ryerson University 6) Rehabilitation facilities and framework for collaborative work – Jeevan Pant, Ryerson University 7) Assistive Living – Robson Cruz and Yuri Silva, Federal Univ. Manuas, Brazil 8) Emerging opportunities – Sri Krishnan and Teodiano Bastos