School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

© 2009 Maysam Ghovanloo

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

 

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

 

 

 

 

Contact Information:

E-mail:  mgh at gatech dot edu

Office Address:

85 Fifth Street NW, Room TSRB-419
Atlanta, GA 30308

Office: 404-385-7048

Fax: 404-894-4701 

Lab: 404-385-6427

· 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, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 339-347, Oct. 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., vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 354-363, Aug. 2009.

· 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.

· G. Bawa and M. Ghovanloo, “Analysis, design and implementation of a high efficiency fullwave rectifier in standard CMOS technology,” Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 60, pp. 71-81, Aug. 2009.

· S.B. Lee, Hyung-Min Lee, Mehdi Kiani, Uei-Ming Jow, and M. Ghovanloo, “An Inductively Powered Scalable 32-ch Wireless Neural Recording System-on-a-Chip with Power Scheduling for Neuroscience Applications,” To be presented at the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Conf., San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2010.