Dr Shy Shoham will be presenting "Holographic patterned neuro-stimulation for vision restoration" at a special lecture on June 13 at 2 pm in BST3 Room 6014. Dr Shoham is an Associate Professor  at the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Technion - Israel  Institute of Technology. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Physics  from  Tel  Aviv University and conducted  his  Ph.D.  research  in  Bioengineering with Richard Normann  at  the University of Utah,  working on  Brain  Machine Interfaces. He was a Lewis-Thomas postdoctoral fellow working with Sam Wang at the department of  Molecular  Biology,  Princeton  University.  In  March  2005  he  joined  the  Technion's faculty  of   Biomedical   Engineering,   where   he   established  the  Neural   Interface Engineering laboratory. He is a  member  of  the editorial  board of  the Journal  of Neural Engineering.

This lecture is sponsored by the CNBC Program in Neural Computation