Seminar & Colloquium
[세미나: 11월 21일(목), 오전 9시] Prof. Shriya Srinivasan, Harvard University
Title
Neural Interfacing for Sensory Feedback and Neuroprosthetic Control
Speaker
Prof. Shriya Srinivasan, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
* Biography
Dr. Shriya Srinivasan is an assistant professor of bioengineering at Harvard University where she directs the Harvard Biohybrid Organs and Neuroprosthetics (BIONICS) lab. The lab focuses on the development of surgical reconstruction techniques in consort with bidirectional neural implants for improved sensorimotor control.
Shriya graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a BS in biomedical engineering, with a concentration in biomaterials. She then received her doctoral degree in medical engineering and medical physics through the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology program in January 2020. Her doctoral research focused on the development of novel neural interfaces utilizing tissue engineering to better interface human limbs with prostheses, in the context of amputation and paralysis. She developed the Regenerative Agonist-antagonist Myoneural Interface (AMI) that enables patients to control their prosthesis with native neural signals. She also explored optogenetic techniques to create novel strategies to accelerate and improve neural control.
As a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and Schmidt Science Fellow, Shriya worked in the labs of Dr. Giovanni Traverso and Dr. Robert Langer, designing ingestible bioelectronics for gastrointestinal neuromodulation.
Shriya has been awarded the Delsys Prize, the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for her innovative work, and recognized by Forbes and the MIT Technology Review as one of 30 innovators under 30. Shriya was a former director of MIT Hacking Medicine, where she led educational and programmatic initiatives for design thinking education and medtech innovation - interfacing with various governmental and corporate entities. She also founded Project Prana, a nonprofit devoted to affordable medical technology innovation- which commercialized a ventilator multiplexer to market during the pandemic. In her spare time, Shriya performs Indian classical dance with the Anubhava Dance Company.
| Date | Thursday, November 21st, 2024
| Time | 09:00 ~ 11:00
| Venue | 온라인 ZOOM(https://snu-ac-kr.zoom.us/j/87085596014?pwd=VJJKbnCnpFFETo0MG9rPutQaSuNMfB.1)
ID: 870 8559 6014
Password: 1010
[Abstract]
Despite immense technological and scientific advancements in prosthetic technologies, patients rarely use advanced prosthetic devices, as communicating to these devices is cumbersome and frustrating. This talk will elucidate new strategies in reconstructive surgical design and neural interfacing that enable amputees to better communicate prostheses as well as receive proprioceptive and cutaneous sensory feedback, by rewiring mechanoreceptors in the peripheral limbs. Through preclinical and clinical validation, these interfaces demonstrate restored afferent feedback in the peripheral and central nervous systems, improved phantom limb sensations, decreased phantom limb pain and enhanced motor control.
Beyond the peripheral limbs, this talk will explore the neural interfacing of gastric mechanoreceptors through ingestible electronics. These approaches give way to a new design framework that can optimize and eventually dissolve the interface between the human body and devices.
| Host | 강승균 교수(02-880-5756)