NCTU/NYU-Poly Joint Workshop
活動時間：2012.06.11(一) 上午10:00-12:00
活動地點：國立交通大學光復校區 工程四館 824會議室
活動議程：詳情請進
Title of Talk 1：
Introduction of Medical Implants Research at NYU-Poly
Speaker：
H. Jonathan Chao
Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Abstract of Talk：
Medical implants have emerged to be one of the promising solutions to various diseases, providing a hope for the patients of epilepsy, and Parkinson's disease among many others. In order to deliver a successful implant design an accorded set of contributions from collaborating experts in a wide range of fields is crucial. An insight to fundamental physiological mechanisms in basic neuroscience and/or clinical studies identifying mitigation to a serious condition can flame a broad research effort to design a safe implant specific to the issue at hand. During this process, engineers often need to devise enabling technologies for sensing, processing and/or transmitting of physiological signals, and the biologically-friendly packaging of these implants with minimum impact on patient's health, while often under the tight constraints imposed by the harsh environment within the biological tissue. In this talk, I will cover the various aspects of research in implants and provide some highlights from such research at NYU, in particular at NYU-Poly, where research is ongoing at device, circuit and algorithm levels in collaboration with NYU Medical School.
Brief Biography of Speaker：
H. Jonathan Chao is Department Head and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York University, Brooklyn, NY, where he joined in January 1992. He has been doing research in the areas of network designs for data centers, terabit switches and routers, network security, networks on the chip, and medical implant devices. He holds 43 patents with 10 pending and has published more than 200 journal and conference papers. He coauthored three networking and switching books, all published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. He has served as a consultant for various companies, such as Huawei, Lucent, NEC, and Telcordia.
During 2000–2001, he was Co-Founder and CTO of Coree Networks, NJ, where he led a team to implement a multi-terabit MPLS (Multi-Protocol Label Switching) switch router with carrier-class reliability. From 1985 to 1992, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Telcordia, where he was involved in transport and switching system architecture designs and ASIC implementations. From 1977 to 1981, he was a Senior Engineer at Telecommunication Labs of Taiwan performing circuit designs for a digital telephone switching system.
He is a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to the architecture and application of VLSI circuits in high-speed packet networks. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, in 1977 and 1980, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University in 1985.
Title of Talk 2：
Design and Implementation of Medical Implants
Speaker：
N. Sertac Artan
Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Abstract of Talk：
As complex engineering systems, the medical implants often require the interaction between various subsystems and the biological tissue. An algorithm for extracting necessary information dictates the minimum requirements for the sensors and signal processing path to ensure the quality and integrity of the acquired physiological signals, as well as the bandwidth requirements of the telemetry subsystem. In return, the capabilities of the sensors and the signal processing path along with the tight power and space requirements dictate the features and limit the accuracy of these algorithms. Furthermore, a power subsystem is expected to deliver the needed power to the implant often transcutaneously without causing any discomfort to the patient due to tissue heating. This talk briefly summarizes our research on the design of some key medical device subsystems including an analog-to-digital converter optimized for extracellular recordings, and coils for transcutaneous power transfer.
Brief Biography of Speaker：
N. Sertac Artan is an Industry Assistant Professor at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, in Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly), Brooklyn, NY, since January, 2010. Prior to his current position, he was a Research Assistant Professor in 2009 and a Postdoctoral Researcher from 2007 to 2009 both in NYU-Poly. He got his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University, NY, in 2008 and his M.S. and B.S. degrees from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in 2001 and 1998 respectively. Between 1998 and 2002, he was an ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Design Engineer at ITU ETA ASIC Design Center, in Istanbul Turkey, where he designed integrated circuits for commercial, academic and military applications. His current research interests include high-speed network intrusion detection and prevention, networks-on-chip, and device and algorithm development for medical implants for epilepsy.