School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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© 2009 Maysam Ghovanloo
Text Box: July 6, 2009: Tongue Drive on Georgia Tech research NEWS website: Clinical Trial Shows That Quadriplegics Can Use Tongue Drive System June 10, 2009: GT-Bionics lab will participate in the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC'09) in Minneapolis, MN, in September with 5 papers. May 9, 2009: Dr. Ming Yin successfully graduated from NC State University with a Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Ming will continue his research on brain-computer interfacing as a post doctoral fellow at the Brawn University. ***September 17, 2008: Tongue Drive featured in President Bush’s Speech: President Bush Attends Iftaar Dinner Also see: Associated Press Coverage, Iran VNC video clip (English), Iran VNC video clip (Farsi) September 3, 2008: Tongue Drive featured in The Economist: Speaking in Tongues August 25, 2008: Tongue Drive featured in CNN: ‘Tongue Computing’ could help disabled Also see the Adelantos (Spanish) August 25, 2008: Tongue Drive featured in Atlanta Journal Constitution: Computing at the tip of the tongue August 25, 2008: Tongue Drive featured in CBS News: “Tongue Computing” May Help The Disabled August 25, 2008: Tongue Drive featured in TIME: Research aims to put tongues in control of devices August 24, 2008: Tongue Drive featured in LA Times: With tongue in cheek and elsewhere in the mouth disabled might someday control devices Text Box: Maysam Ghovanloo ON Semiconductor Junior Professor Director GT-Bionics Lab School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Text Box: RESEARCH INTERESTS: Implantable Microelectronic Devices Neural Interfacing Assistive Technologies and Rehabilitation Engineering Bio-inspired Microsystems Medical instrumentation Low-power analog/digital/mixed-mode integrated circuits.

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E-mail:  mgh at gatech dot edu

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Text Box: Recently Published/Accepted Papers: Text Box: U. Jow and M. Ghovanloo, “Modeling and optimization of printed spiral coils in air, saline, and muscle tissue environments,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, Accepted for publication, May 2009. M. Yin and M. Ghovanloo, “Using pulse width modulation for wireless transmission of neural signals in multichannel neural recording systems,” IEEE Trans. on Neural Sys. Rehab. Eng., in press. X. Huo and M. Ghovanloo, “Using unconstrained tongue motion as an alternative control surface for wheeled mobility,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Eng, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 1719-1726, June 2009. C. Cheng, X. Huo, and M. Ghovanloo, “Towards a magnetic localization system for 3-D tracking of tongue movements in speech-language therapy,” To be presented at the IEEE 31sth Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., Minneapolis, MN, Sep. 2009. M. Yin, S.B. Lee, and M. Ghovanloo, “In vivo testing of a low noise 32-channel wireless neural recording system,” To be presented at the IEEE 31sth Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., Minneapolis, MN, Sep. 2009.