Antennas and Electromagnetics Group seminar – 30th April 2025

When: Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - Monday, April 28, 2025, 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM
Where: In-person: Graduate Centre GC601 Montagu LT + Online

Speaker: Gianluca Lazzi

On the 30th of April we will have a talk from Professor Gianluca Lazzi. The title of Professor Gianluca Lazzi’s talk is: “Interfacing Electromagnetics With Life Sciences and Medicine: Bioelectromagnetics and brain-machine interfaces for the treatment of cognitive conditions, glaucoma, and disorders of the retina”.

Although technical challenges are still daunting, the clinical utility of neuroprosthetics has increased dramatically over the past few years. This has been accomplished through the convergence of numerous disciplines, which have individually added fundamental understanding/capabilities to systems that interface with the human body to restore senses and movement, or treat prevalent diseases that have currently no foreseeable cure. In this talk, we will cover recent advances in bioelectromagnetic systems for healthcare, with a particular focus on visual and hippocampal prostheses, peripheral neuroprosthetics, and new technologies. 

Speaker bio: Gianluca Lazzi, PhD MBA is a Provost Professor of Ophthalmology, Electrical Engineering, Clinical Entrepreneurship and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC) where he is also the holder of the Fred H. Cole Professorship and the Director of the Institute for Technology and Medical Systems (ITEMS), a joint initiative of the Keck School of Medicine and the Viterbi School of Engineering. His expertise is in antenna design, medical applications of electromagnetics, implantable devices, neuroengineering, wireless telemetry, and liquid metal sensors. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He served as the 2022 President of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society; the EiC of the IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters; the Chair of the Fellow Committee of the IEEE EMB Society; and the Chair of the Fellow Committee of the IEEE Sensors Council. Presently, he is the Chair of the 
Awards Committee of the IEEE AP Society, and a member of the selection committee of the IEEE Zadeh Award for emerging technologies. He is also the cofounder of Teveri, Inc, a company focused on the commercialization of stretchable conductive liquid metal-based fibers knitted in clothing and athletic apparel to bring seamless biometric, sensing and illumination solutions to smart clothing as well as stretchable electronic systems for medical, consumer, and military applications.

Hybrid mode: In-person: Graduate Centre GC601 Montagu LT + Online (Click here to join the meeting)

Key contact: James Kelly.