Department Chair: Jin Kang
Number of:
Faculty: 17
Undergraduate Students: 81
Graduate Students: 118
The Whiting School’s ECE department offers an incredible breadth of research opportunities and a rigorous educational experience that prepares students for further study and successful careers in a broad spectrum of industries—from aerospace and medical imaging to academia and computer security.
Teaching in ECE is characterized by close and frequent interactions between faculty and students and is focused in three primary areas:
Research conducted in ECE emphasizes both analytical and experimental aspects of the field and includes:
PhD student, Ndubuisi Ekekwe, has been invited by the African Union Commission to its December,2008 Congress in Yaounde, Cameroon. Mr. Ndubuisi will deliver a talk and will work with leading policy experts on various issues affecting the continent. This is partly in recognition of his work as the founder of www.neocircuit.org -an NGO he founded as a JHU student.
Dr. Jacob Vogelstein, an Assistant Research Professor in ECE and a member of the Senior Professional Staff at the JHU Applied Physics Lab, has developed a system that allows amputees to play "Guitar Hero" with no hands. The system uses pattern recognition algorithms to decode electrical signals generated by an amputee's residual muscles, and uses the output of those algorithms to control a modified Guitar Hero controller on the Nintendo Wii gaming platform. The goal of this work (conducted as part of DARPA's Revolutionizing Prosthetics 2009 program) is to provide a fun and effective way to facilitate the rehabilitation process, evaluate pattern classifiers, and provide metrics for upper-extremity neuroprostheses. A summary of this work was presented at last week's IEEE Symposium on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, and an article about the project is available on the IEEE Spectrum's website.
Francesco Tenore, who received his PhD from ECE in May 2008, received the Best "Ph.D. in a Nutshell" Award at the IEEE BioCAS 2008 Conference. His Ph.D. Thesis was titled "Biomoric Circuits and Systems: Control of Robotic and Prosthetic Limbs."
Profs Andreas Andreou and Ralph Etienne-Cummings were General Co-Chairs of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference which was held in Baltimore, MD, from November 20th - 22nd. There were approximately 140 registrants from around the globe. With an acceptance rate of ~40%, the BioCAS Conference is becoming one of the highest quality conferences sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. The ECE Department, ERC CISST and the LCSR were co-sponsors of the Conference.
Dr. Ralph Etienne-Cummings will deliver the Don P. Giddens Inaugural Professorial Lecture entitled "Learning from Nature to Make Machines See and Robots Walk" Wednesday, November 19, 2008 at 3:00 p.m., 110 Hodson Hall
Ralph Etienne-Cummings, a pioneer in the fields of neuromorphic and biomorphic engineering, develops biologically inspired computational and robotics systems that can "sense" their surroundings and even restore function after spinal cord injury. Etienne-Cummings creates mechanical and control systems that mimic essential components of biological systems. In his lecture, he will speak on the evolution of his research, including the development of robots for the study of legged locomotion, vision sensors that model the retina and visual cortex, silicon models of spinal neural circuits, and his latest work in brainmachine interfaces for neurally integrated prosthetic limbs.
A professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Computational Motor-Systems Lab at Johns Hopkins, Etienne-Cummings earned his master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He has received an NSF CAREER Award, and an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, and was named a Visiting African Fellow and Fulbright Fellowship grantee at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. Etienne-Cummings has published widely, including the book CMOS Imagers: From Phototransduction to Image Processing, and holds three patents. He has also been recognized for his work promoting the inclusion of women and minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Department Administrator: Candace Abel
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