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A New Route to Deep Brain Stimulation

Researchers designed a small, low-powered implant that fits inside the sphenoid sinus that can create electrical signals strong enough to affect brain cells.
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A Floating Wire Could Transform How We Treat the Brain

A tiny implanted wire bundle can relay scalp-delivered electricity deep into the brain, enabling precise stimulation.
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Electrical and Computer Engineering

What are the deadlines for the fall and spring admission processes? Please refer to the Graduate Application Admissions Deadlines. How can I check my application status? Due to the large number of ...
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Electrical and Computer Engineering

Shinji Watanabe is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. (Dr. Eng.) degrees from Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He was a ...
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Courtesy Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sebastian Scherer is a professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, specializing in unmanned rotorcraft and low-altitude operations in cluttered environments.
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Reshaping the future of consumer electronics

When it came time for Jiaqi Zou, a senior studying electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), to start his summer internship at Hewlett-Packard (HP), he felt prepared due ...
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Rectennas: converting radio waves into electricity

We are constantly surrounded by energy in the form of electromagnetic waves. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could take advantage of it? In a recently published paper in the journal Nature, a future ...
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A New Minimally Invasive Method for Deep Brain Stimulation

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Allegheny Health Network have developed a new method for deep brain stimulation. The technique, called “DeepFocus,” uses transcranial electrical ...
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Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Unprecedented Resolution

In 2019, sitting in his office running computer simulations, Chaitanya Goswami, a Ph.D. student in Carnegie Mellon’s electrical and computer engineering department, noticed something that seemed too ...
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Earbuds that Listen to the Heart

The human heart does more than beat, it vibrates. This hidden language of motion marks the precise opening and closing of valves, the subtle mechanics of life itself. Measuring these micro-cardiac ...
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A Breakthrough in Brain Sensing

The human brain is complex. Understanding deep brain function usually requires the insertion of probes that frequently result in irreversible tissue damage. Current neural probes are made out of ...