REU Site: Neurotechnologies to Help the Body Move, Heal, and Feel Again

REU 网站：帮助身体移动、治愈和恢复感觉的神经技术

• 批准号: 1757949
• 负责人: Jose Contreras-Vidal
• 金额: $ 42.74万
• 依托单位: University of Houston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-01 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1757949&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Neurotechnologies; Help; Body

This new Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site award at the University of Houston (UH) will establish a REU Site focused on "Neurotechnologies to Help the Body Move, Heal, and Feel Again." This Site will inspire participants to pursue, with confidence, graduate education and future engineering careers with technical leadership. The REU site will pair 12 undergraduates per summer with faculty mentors from the multi-disciplinary Industry-University Collaborative Research Center for Building Reliable Advances and Innovations in Neurotechnology (IUCRC BRAIN) at the Cullen College of Engineering, for a 10-week research and educational experience in the field of neural, cognitive and rehabilitation engineering. The REU Site addresses society's current critical needs for the aging and disabled populations, leverages current research strengths in the IUCRC BRAIN, and is expected to resonate with undergraduate students and the general public, who have a rising awareness of healthcare and innovative health management devices and are interested in addressing the growing national need for effective management of chronic diseases in the aging population. Thus, this site will give students an opportunity to contribute to the development of safe, effective and affordable personalized neurotechnologies for diagnostics, restoration, enhancement, and rehabilitation of sensory, motor, affective, and cognitive functions. This goal will be pursued by supporting innovative interdisciplinary research across the multiple dimensions of brain function and behavior with the ultimate goal of improving the national health in an inclusive environment that promotes the active participation of underrepresented groups. The program is led by an outstanding group of nationally recognized faculty mentors from the University of Houston's Industry-University Collaborative Research Center for Building Reliable Advances and Innovations in Neurotechnology (IUCRC BRAIN) to guide undergraduates in addressing grand challenges in neural, cognitive, and rehabilitation engineering. The goal of the REU is to excite, inspire, train, and nurture future undergraduates and to provide research experiences in multidisciplinary projects with clear societal impact to students who might not otherwise have opportunities for research experiences at their own institutions. The site will actively recruit students underrepresented in STEM fields and from non-research institutions. At the end of their REU experience, students will understand the societal impact of engineering, develop research laboratory skills and good engineering practices, obtain hands-on training in research tools, cultivate soft skills, learn about innovation and entrepreneurship in engineering, and participate in social activities that promote a collegial and collaborative atmosphere among student participants, while learning about the community. Research areas will include device development, neural activity measurement, big data, neuromodulation, neurorehabilitation and assistive devices, device interoperability, and human subjects trials. The ultimate goal of this REU site is to advance the national health.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

休斯顿大学（UH）新的本科生研究体验（REU）网站奖将建立一个REU网站，专注于“神经技术帮助身体运动、愈合和再次感受”。该网站将激励参与者充满信心地追求研究生教育和未来具有技术领导力的工程职业。REU网站每年夏天将配对12名本科生与来自Cullen工程学院的多学科产学联合作研究中心（IUCRC BRAIN）的教师导师，在神经、认知和康复工程领域进行为期10周的研究和教育体验。REU网站解决了社会当前对老龄化和残疾人口的关键需求，利用了IUCRC BRAIN目前的研究优势，并有望与本科生和公众产生共鸣，他们对医疗保健和创新健康管理设备的认识不断提高，并有兴趣解决国家对有效管理老龄化人口中慢性疾病的日益增长的需求。因此，本网站将为学生提供一个机会，促进安全、有效和负担得起的个性化神经技术的发展，用于诊断、恢复、增强和康复感觉、运动、情感和认知功能。为实现这一目标，将支持跨脑功能和行为多个维度的创新跨学科研究，最终目标是在促进代表性不足群体积极参与的包容性环境中改善国民健康。该项目由休斯顿大学产学研合作研究中心（IUCRC BRAIN）的一群全国知名的教师导师领导，旨在指导本科生解决神经、认知和康复工程方面的重大挑战。REU的目标是激发、激励、培训和培养未来的本科生，并为那些可能没有机会在自己的机构进行研究的学生提供具有明显社会影响的多学科项目的研究经验。该网站将积极招募STEM领域和非研究机构中代表性不足的学生。在他们的REU经历结束时，学生将了解工程的社会影响，发展研究实验室技能和良好的工程实践，获得研究工具的实践培训，培养软技能，学习工程中的创新和创业精神，并参加社会活动，促进学生参与者之间的学院和合作氛围，同时了解社区。研究领域将包括设备开发、神经活动测量、大数据、神经调节、神经康复和辅助设备、设备互操作性和人体受试者试验。这个REU网站的最终目标是促进国民健康。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Evaluating Educational Settings through Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing

通过生物识别数据和虚拟反应测试评估教育环境

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: ACADIA
• 作者: Kalantari, K;Contreras-Vidal, JL;Smith, JS;Cruz-Garza, JG;Banner, P
• 通讯作者: Banner, P

A Novel Headset System Synchronizing Vision and EEG testing for a Rapid Assessment and Diagnosis of Concussions and Other Brain Injuries

一种同步视觉和脑电图测试的新型耳机系统，用于快速评估和诊断脑震荡和其他脑损伤

• DOI: 10.54941/ahfe1002125
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: AHFE International
• 作者: Edquilang, David;Feng, Jeff
• 通讯作者: Feng, Jeff

The Brain on Bikes: Voluntary Performance and Hemodynamic Response in the Prefrontal Cortex During Exhaustive Exercise

自行车上的大脑：力竭运动期间前额皮质的自愿表现和血流动力学反应

• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Conference of the Society of Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy
• 作者: Perry, JW;Adams, RJ;Pollonini, L
• 通讯作者: Pollonini, L

Computationally Analyzing Biometric Data and Virtual Response Testing in Evaluating Learning Performance of Educational Setting Through

通过计算分析生物识别数据和虚拟响应测试来评估教育环境的学习绩效

• DOI: 10.5151/sigradi2018-1875
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: 22th Conference of the Iberoamerican society of digital graphics
• 作者: Kalantari, Cruz-Garza;Banner, Pamela;Contreras-Vidal, Jose Luis
• 通讯作者: Contreras-Vidal, Jose Luis

Hemodynamic Response Function from Osteoarthritic Pain using functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

使用功能性近红外光谱分析骨关节炎疼痛的血流动力学反应函数

• DOI: 10.1364/boda.2021.jtu4a.32
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Optical Society of America (OSA
• 作者: Vallenilla, Natalia A.;Montero-Hernandez, Samuel;Ahn, Hyochol;Miao, Hongyu;Pollonini, Luca
• 通讯作者: Pollonini, Luca