An international symposium on Frontiers of Neural Engineering opened at Tsinghua on Aug. 30, bringing together more than 120 experts from 10 countries to review recent progress in major international neural engineering fields and discuss the prospects for the future.
The two-day event is a satellite symposium of the 27th Annual International Conference of the IEEE-EMBS (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society), to be held Sept. 1-4 in Shanghai.
The symposium was co-organized by the Neuroengineering Center at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in the U.S., and the Institute of Neural Engineering, School of Medicine at Tsinghua University, with technical support and sponsorship from IEEE-EMBS.
Tsinghua’s Institute of Neural Engineering has received widespread recognition from international counterparts for its work in the field information processing of briain computer interface.
Ten of the symposium’s distinguished participants will give lectures covering three areas: Brain Computer/Machine Interface, Micro/Nano Neural Interface Technology and Neural Prosthesis. One of the keynote speakers is Dr. Gerhard Friehs, a neurosurgeon and neuroscientist from Brown University in the U.S. Dr. Friehs was the leading researcher of the world’s first experiment in human brain implant for direct neural control.
Present at the opening ceremony for the symposium were Tang Xiaowei, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Tsinghua Vice President Gong Ke.
The annual international conference of the IEEE-EMBS is the largest gathering of the biomedical engineering circle. 2005 marks the first year the 50-year-old IEEE-EMBS has held its yearly conference in mainland China.
Nobel Prize winner Dr. Zhu Liwen is one of the scheduled speakers for the prestigious conference. Over 1,500 experts, scholars and entrepreneurs in the biomedical engineering field, from both home and abroad, will attend.
(School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Reports)
