About the speaker
Dante G. Muratore received a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico of Turin, Italy in 2012 and 2013, respectively. He received a Ph.D. degree in Microelectronics from the University of Pavia, Italy in 2017 in the Integrated Microsystems Lab. From 2015 to 2016, he was a Visiting Scholar at Microsystems Technology labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. From 2016 to 2020, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University, USA. He is the recipient of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute Interdisciplinary Scholar Award. Since 2020, he is an assistant professor in the Bioelectronics Section at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, where he leads the Smart Brain Interfaces group. His group investigates hardware and system solutions for high-bandwidth brain-machine interfaces that can interact with the nervous system at natural resolution. They contribute solutions for massively parallel bidirectional interfaces, on-chip neural signal processing, and wireless power and data transfer.
Abstract
Electronic interfaces to the retina represent an exciting opportunity to restore or even enhance vision. Although proof of principle devices have been demonstrated, they provide limited visual function. This is because they only provide coarse control over the targeted neural circuitry and fail to respect its cellular and cell-type specificity. To achieve better results, future devices should be able to control a large population of neurons with cellular resolution. In this talk, I will present the design of a wireless bidirectional neural interface and discuss on the circuit and system challenges associated with the design of its implantable electronics.