Category: Engage and Enable Blog

Aleenah Ansari CNT researchers at San Diego State University have found a way to efficiently compress neural data moving through a brain-computer interface by using autoencoders, a special type of artificial neural network. Jameson Thies is currently a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis, but his interest in neurotechnology…

Aleenah Ansari Jeffrey Herron began his affiliation with the center as a student in the lab of CNT member, Howard Chizeck. After graduation, he went to work at the center’s industry affiliate, Medtronic, developing research devices. Now, he has come full-circle, returning to the University of Washington in January 2019. Learn more about Herron’s academic…

Aleenah Ansari Former CNT summer program participant, Hannah Werbel, and CNT undergraduate research assistant, Hannah Martens (not pictured), both received the UW College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Medal this year. In this article, learn more about Werbel, her educational background and how her experience at the CNT sparked her interest in computer science. Hannah…

Aleenah Ansari On May 29, 2019, graduate students were challenged in a competition at the CNT to explain their research in 90 seconds using only the thousand most common words in the English language. Researchers are often asked to formulate questions, design experiments, and solve problems while considering limitations in data, funding, or other resources.…

In 2018, Amy Orsborn joined the University of Washington (UW) as a CNT-affiliated faculty member and Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and the Department of Bioengineering. She has worked on a range of research projects studying brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), but her interest in neurotechnology began in 2006 after attending a lecture by Eberhard Fetz, a CNT…

A new paper by CNT Co-Director, Rajesh Rao, proposes an innovative conceptual framework based on artificial neural networks for bi-directional brain-computer interfaces (BBCIs). This new way of thinking about BBCI development points a viable way toward moving neural devices out of the laboratory and into real-world settings. A brain-computer interface is a type of neurotechnology…

This two-day event, held at the CNT and the University of Washington Husky Union Building, brought students and world-class neural engineering researchers together to listen to, engage with and learn from each other. In its eighth run, the Neural Computation and Engineering Connection, a two-day event from Jan. 24 to Jan. 25, did exactly what…

The CNT will be participating in the Bill & Melinda Gates Center Open House from 2:00–5:00 p.m. on Friday, March 1, 2019. Join us to see the center’s new headquarters, interact with CNT demonstrations and hear from CNT leadership.  An RSVP is recommended, but not required (it’s fine to drop-in). The Center for Neurotechnology (CNT) is known…