Introduction and Aims:

Echoing the booming techniques and applications in neural engineering, we propose to organize an international summer school on neural engineering (ISSNE) in Shanghai, China, sponsored by IEEE EMBS and hosted by Shanghai EMBS chapter. IEEE ISSNE summer school was founded in 2013 in Shanghai and was hosted biennially. The program will be held each summer since 2017, in coordination with other summer schools sponsored by EMBS, e.g. international summer school on medical devices and biosensors, international summer school on biomedical imaging, international summer school on biomedical signal processing, and international summer school on bio-complexity.

The ISSNE will use the unique platforms as its teaching support, i.e. the huge clinical hospital system of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. With 12 top-ranked affiliated general and specialized hospitals, and the largest outpatient number and hospital admission number in China, SJTU has its uniqueness in bench-to-bed clinic-driven research and teaching. Students in ISSNE will have face-to-face meeting and discussions with the experts from the departments of neurology, radiology and neuroimaging centers, and get the opportunities of onsite training on translational neural engineering in these affiliated divisions.   

Sponsors:

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society

IEEE EMBS Shanghai Chapter

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

National Natural Science Foundation of China

Location:

Shanghai, China

Faculty/Invited Speakers: TBD

Date: August, 2017

Application, Registration & Fellowship and Cost

(1)     The summer school will cover all local accommodation cost for arranged hotels, lunch, diner, sightseeing, transportation during the summer school period; The students will afford their own travel to and from Shanghai.

(2)     Registration fee required

(3)     Fellowship, ISSNE provides several travel awards to help students covering expenses towards attending the School.

Travel award will be available for both international students and domestic applicants.

Program (Draft)

A draft schedules are listed in the table below; the order of the lectures and seminars may be subjected to change according to the faculties’ itinerary schedule. 

School of Biomedical Engineering, SJTU will provide a certain number of scholarships, which will cover a part of the travel expenses. Application for scholarship should contact Ms. Hanqun Wang at hanqun.w@sjtu.edu.cn.