School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Text Box: Text Box: News:

© 2012 Maysam Ghovanloo

Text Box: Maysam Ghovanloo, Ph.D.
Director GT-Bionics Lab
Associate Professor
Associate Editor IEEE Trans. Biomed Engineering
Associate Editor IEEE Trans. Biomed Circuits & Systems 
Text Box: RESEARCH INTERESTS:  
Implantable Microelectronic Devices 
Wireless Neural Interfacing/Neuroprostheses
Assistive Technologies and Rehabilitation Engineering
Smart Health and Wellbeing
Bio-inspired Microsystems
Low-power analog/digital/mixed-mode integrated circuits
Text Box: Recently Published/Accepted Papers:

· H. Park, M. Kiani, H.M. Lee, J. Kim, B. Gosselin, and M. Ghovanloo, “A wireless magnetoresistive sensing system for an intraoral tongue-computer interface,” Accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, Oct. 2012.

· H.M. Lee and M. Ghovanloo, “A high frequency active voltage doubler in standard CMOS using offset-controlled comparators for inductive power transmission,” Accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems

· M. Kiani and M. Ghovanloo “The circuit theory behind coupled-mode magnetic resonance based wireless power transmission,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-I, vol. 59, no. 9, pp. 2065-2074, Sep. 2012.

· H.M. Lee and M. Ghovanloo, “An adaptive reconfigurable active voltage doubler/rectifier for extended-range inductive power transmission,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 59, no. 8, pp. 481-485, Aug. 2012.

· U. Jow, M. Kiani, X. Huo, and M. Ghovanloo, “Towards a smart experimental arena for long-term electrophysiology experiments,” Accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems.

e-mail: mgh at gatech dot edu

Office: 404-385-7048

Lab: 404-385-6427

Fax: 404-894-4701

Skype/Twitter: mghovan

To contact me:

Nov 2, 2012:

I will be speaking at TEDx Peachtree on the Tongue Drive System, and Jeonghee will do a live demonstration.

Aug 21, 2012:

GT-Bionics Lab will participate in the 34th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS’12) with 6 papers.

February 20, 2012:

Intra Tongue Drive System featured on Georgia Tech research NEWS website:

Tongue Drive System Goes Inside the Mouth to Improve Performance and User Comfort

November 2, 2011:

Tongue Drive featured in Ivanhoe’s Medical Breakthroughs:

Medical Advances: Bionic Breakthroughs

Summer, 2011:

Tongue Drive featured in Spinal Column magazine:

Powered by the Tongue

August 11, 2011:

Tongue Drive featured in the WGN-TV Medical Watch:

Tongue-Drive System

July 10, 2011:

Tongue Drive featured in the WSB-TV:

New device may give new freedom to those in wheelchairs

June 6, 2011:

Tongue Drive featured in the New York Times:

Piercing a Tongue, in the Name of Mobility

January 10, 2011:

MagneTrace System was featured in LA Times:

Pills with a mind of their own

September 30, 2010:

Tongue Drive System won the “Leo” People’s Choice Award at the 2010 da Vinci Awards ceremony!

August 27, 2010:

Tongue Drive featured in 11Alive:

Piercing Tongues To Achieve Self Sufficiency

May 26, 2010:

Tongue Drive featured in e-Advances, the NIH-NIBIB online magazine:

Tongue-Operated Devices Help Paralyzed People

May 26, 2010:

GT-Bionics Lab receives the 2010 Galaxy of Stars Award in the category of Barrier Breaker for Innovation from Tommy Nobis Center

March 1, 2010:

Maysam Ghovanloo receives the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to work on

Brain-Tongue-Computer Interfacing   

January 25, 2010:

Tongue Drive featured in CNN Health Minute:

Wheelchair Mobility at the Tip of the Tongue 

November 12, 2009:

Maysam Ghovanloo was named the “2009 Faculty Communicator of the Year” and received a Gold Tower Award from the Georgia Tech President.

October 10, 2009:

Tongue Drive featured on Science Nation (the NSF online Magazine):  Tongue Driver

October 1, 2009:

GT-Bionics lab receives an NIH Challenge Grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering to evaluate the Tongue Drive System in a multi-center clinical trial.

July 6, 2009:

Tongue Drive on Georgia Tech research NEWS website:

Clinical Trial Shows That Quadriplegics Can Use Tongue Drive System

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)