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- Rebecca received prestigious National Astronaut Foundation Scholarship as one of 17 students nationwide during 2009-2010. The scholarship is given to top engineering and science students who exhibit motivation, imagination and exceptional performance in their field of study. It is the highest monetary award given in the United States to science and engineering students at the undergraduate level based solely on merit.
- Lab brain scanning research had made progress in aiding epilepsy treatment. The video can be viewed at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=114899
- Han Yuan was awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School.
- Yunfeng Lu was awarded an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship from the Graduate School.
- Alex Doud was selected as a 2009 Frank Louk IT Merit Scholar at the University of Minnesota.
- Dr. Bin He was selected as one of this year's four Distinguished McKnight University Professors in the University. The purpose of the Professorship is to recognize and reward the University's most outstanding mid-career faculty. The awardees were chosen on the merit of their scholarly achievements and the potential for greater attainment in the field; the extent to which their achievements have brought distinction to the University of Minnesota; the quality of their teaching and advising; and their contributions to the wider community.
- Rebecca Szarkowski was selected as one of the four 2009 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars at the University of Minnesota. The federally endowed Goldwater Scholarships are awarded to outstanding sophomores and juniors who intend to pursue research-oriented careers in mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. Goldwater Scholars receive up to $7500 per year for one or two years of their undergraduate education.
- Dr. Bin He to chair EMBC'09 international conference to be held in Minneapolis from September 2-6, 2009.
- Christopher Wilke, Audrey Royer, and Keith Jamison awarded NIH training fellowships.
- Dr. Bin He spoke at the Grand Challenges in Neuroscience Workshop (http://www.iom.edu/CMS/3740/35684/54555/54558.aspx) of Institute of Medicine of National Academies.
- Lin Yang awarded the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship from the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota for research on translational neuroscience.
- NIH/NIBIB has recently awarded a 5-years T32 predoctoral training grant in integrative neuroimaging to the University of Minnesota. The fellows will be trained by over 20 faculty in engineering and neuroscience. Dr. He serves as the PI and Program Director in the NIH Training Grant.
- Dr. Bin He was recently elected as the President of the International Society for Functional Source Imaging.
- Chengzong Han, a Ph.D student in our lab, was awarded the American Heart Association Fellowship for the years of 2008-2009.
- Lab research on brain-computer interface, which has the potential to allow mind control of prosthetic devices, is being featured in TV spots on the Twin Cities major TV stations in October 2007. This is part of the University's "Driven to Discover" campaign to inform the public of exciting, high-impact research being performed at the University of Minnesota . This TV spot can be viewed at http://www.discover.umn.edu/viewCampaign/televisionNew.php and more details can be found at http://www.discover.umn.edu/featuredDiscoveries/harnessingBrainpower.php
- Han Yuan, a PhD student in the lab, was awarded the First Prize in the Student Paper Competition of the Joint Meeting of the 6 th International Symposium on Noninvasive Functional Source Imaging of the Brain and Heart and the International Conference on Functional Biomedical Imaging, with the paper entitled “Cortical Imaging of Sensorimotor Rhythm during On-line Control of Brain-Computer Interface.” Other co-authors of the paper are Alexander J Doud, Arvind Gururajan, and Bin He.
- “Magnetoacoustic Tomography with Magnetic Induction (MAT-MI) is a new imaging modality invented in our lab, which promises to provide mm spatial resolution in imaging electrical impedance of biological tissues. Recent lab research demonstrated the feasibility of imaging biological tissues with high spatial resolution. A paper entitled “ Magnetoacoustic tomographic imaging of electrical impedance with magnetic induction,” was published on Applied Physics Letters, 91, 083903, 2007 (Abstract, Full text). Copyright (2007) American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. This work was supported in part by NSF and NIH/NIBIB.”
- Dr. Bin He was recently elected as the President-elect of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) for 2008, and the President of EMBS for 2009-2010. IEEE-EMBS is a premier professional society in the field of biomedical engineering.
- Christopher Wilke was recently selected as the recipient of Neuroengineering Fellowship from the Center for Neuroengineering at the University of Minnesota for 2007-2008.
- Dr. Lei Ding accepted a tenure-tracked Assistant Professor position at the University of Oklahoma from Fall 2007. Dr. Lei Ding conducted his dissertation research in the lab and received his PhD in Biomedical Engineering in Spring 2007.
- The University of Minnesota is highly ranked by TheCenter for Measuring University Performance (report). Details can be seen in http://mup.asu.edu/research2006.pdf .
- Chenguang Liu, a PHD candidate in the lab, was awarded the Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota for the year of 2007-2008.
- Xu Li won the Scientific Poster Session Award in the Design of Medical Device Conference held in April 2007.
- The neuroengineering research in the Lab was featured on a KARE-TV News "Extra" report February 18th, 2007 on Channel 11. The KARE-11 story describes the work conducted in our lab on noninvasive brain-computer interface (which decodes a subject's "thought" noninvasively) to control the move of a computer cursor, which may have potential applications for direct neural control of various machines for both clinical applications and everyday life. Cameron Sheikholeslami, an undergraduate research assistant in the Lab served as the human subject in this video story. The experiment was carried out by Han Yuan, a PhD student in the Lab. Professor Apostolos Georgopoulos of the Minneapolis VA Medical Center and of the University of Minnesota Department of Neuroscience was also featured in this report. Online report
- A research article entitled "Classification of motor imagery by means of cortical current density estimation and Von Neumann entropy" published at the Journal of Neural Engineering (vol.4, 17-25, 2007) by the lab (Baharan Kamousi, Ali N. Amini and Bin He) was featured on medicalphysicsweb.org. In this work, a novel technique is reported to improve significantly the accuracy of EEG based Brain Computer Interface from motor imagery. The work is based on the MS thesis of Baharan Kamousi conducted in our laboratory. Baharan is currently a Visiting Student at Stanford University.
- Dr. Bin He was recently appointed as the Conference Chair of the Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) to be held from September 3-6, 2009, in Minneapolis. IEEE-EMBS is the largest member-based professional society in the field of biomedical engineering, with about 8000 members.
- Zhongming Liu was selected a Finalist in the Student Paper Competition at the 28th Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society to be held in New York City from Aug. 30 - Spet. 3, 2006.
- Chenguang Liu won the 2nd place of the Best Poster Award at the Design of Medical Device Conference held at Minneapolis in April 2006.
- Lea M. Lehtola recently received Scholarship Awards from the Tauno Tonning Foundation and Seppo Saynajakangas Foundation.
- Dr. Xiaoxiao Bai, a postdoctoral associate in the lab, was recently awarded a Research Scholarship from the Supercomputing Institute of the University of Minnesota, to pursue computational neuroimaging.
- Dr. He edited a new book entitled "Neural Engineering" covering the emerging field of neural engineering and technology.
- Zhongming Liu, a Ph.D student in our lab, was awarded the American Heart Association Fellowship for the years of 2006-2007.
- Han Yuan, a Ph.D student in our lab, was awarded an NIH Neuro-physical-computational Sciences (NPCS) Graduate Training Fellowhship.
- Lei Ding was selected a Finalist in the highly selective Student Paper Competition at the Annual International Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society to be held in Shanghai from Sep 1-4, 2005.
- Chenguang Liu, a Ph.D student in our lab, was awarded the American Heart Association Fellowship for the years of 2005-2007.
- Lab research on EEG sensing and Brain-Computer Interface was recently highlighted in NeuroTech Business Report.
- Lei Ding, a Ph.D student in our lab was awarded the University-wide Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) for the year of 2005-06.
- Zhongming Liu, a Ph.D student in our lab, was awared the 2nd Prize of Young Investigator Award at the Joint Meeting of 5th Bioelectromagnetism and 5th International Symposium on Noninvasive Functional Source Imaging within the Human Brain and Heart (BEM&NFSI) 2005.
- A recent research paper (full text) produced by the lab is among the top 25 hottest articles published in Clinical Neurophysiology, the official journal of the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology.
- Xu Li, a Ph.D student in our lab, was awarded an NIH Neuro-physical-computational Sciences (NPCS) Graduate Training Fellowhship.
- Dr. Chang-Hwan Im received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Korean Research Foundation and joined the lab as a Postdoctoral Associate. Dr. Im will conduct multimodal neuroimaging research in the lab.
- Dr. Bin He was recently elected and inducted a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering for significant contributions to electrophysiological imaging and source localization.
- Lab research suggested the feasibility to estimate intent of human subjects using an EEG-based Brain-Computer Interface. Click here for more details.
- Dr. He was elected VP for Publications and Technical Activities of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society.
- Dr. Bin He will serve as the General Chair of the Joint Meeting of the 5th International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism and the 5th International Symposium on Functional Source Imaging within the Human Brain and Heart, to be held in the Twin Cities, MN from May 12-15, 2005. The International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism is the official conference of the International Society of Bioelectromagnetism, in which Dr. He serves as the President. For further information, visit http://bemnfsi.umn.edu.
- Dr. Bin He was elected as an IEEE Fellow on the meeting of IEEE Board of Directors on November 16th, 2003, for his contributions to the development of electrophysiological neuroimaging and electrocardiographic imaging.
- Much attention has been received on our paper "High-resolution EEG: Cortical potential imaging of interictal spikes" published recently at Clinical Neurophysiology. Xin Zhang, a Ph.D student in our lab, was the first author of this paper. The editorial of this original work can be found here.
- The lab launches a new research direction in Brain Computer Interface and published the 1st paper (pdf) in BCI as the leading article at the newly launched Journal of Neural Engineering.
- Bobby Xu was selected as a Siemens Westinghouse Competition Regional Finalist for his project in EEG source localization conducted in the Lab. Bobby was a visiting student in the lab from 2002-2003. In December 2003, Bobby was granted early admission to Harvard University.
