I had the honor of working on this Review for Advanced Functional Materials covering the bulk of what someone might want to know about building a Neuroelectronic device. In particular, I worked on the FDA, Substrates, Interconnects, and Encapsulation sections and anything that has to do with materials. Online Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/adfm.201909165 At the lab, https://www.dion.ee.columbia.edu/, I worked on human use… Read more →

Dimensionless groups are a handy tool to approach engineering problems – most commonly used by Mechanical Engineers but overall a generally applicable method of summarizing complex systems. This document is a summary of many of the most commonly used dimensionless groups and includes a summary of the theory, derivation, and usage of these groups on page 7. This is just… Read more →

Summary: Digital health promises a paradigm shift for medicine where biomarkers in individuals are continuously monitored to improve diagnosis and treatment of disease. To that end, a technology for minimally invasive quantification of endogenous analytes in bodily fluids will be required. Here, we describe a strategy for designing and fabricating hydrogel microfilaments that can penetrate the skin while allowing for… Read more →

What defines a robot? Just kidding, I won’t get into that! However, I wanted to share some of what I learned from a lovely “introductory” robotics course I took at Columbia University, taught by Dr. Matei Ciocarlie. This course was full of twists and turns for someone without any robotic navigation experience, but was a magical way to describe movement… Read more →

In Columbia’s Brain Computer Interface class, run by Dr. Nima Mesgarani in the Electrical Engineering Department, our last lab assignment involved taking EEG recordings from one of our lab members (s/o to Jacob and Liang) during either left or right imagined movement. These EEG recordings are processed to reveal subtle differences in the motor cortex – resulting from just imagining… Read more →