Dr. Ning Lan is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of University of Southern California. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in 1989. In 1995, he helped organizing the Neural Engineering Committee of the Chinese Society for Neuroscience, and served as its Funding Associate Director. Professor Lan is a Senior Member of IEEE/EMBS. He also served as Assistant Editor of IEEE Trans on Rehabilitation Engineering (now IEEE Trans on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering), and Associate Editor of Chinese Rehabilitation Theory and Practice. In 2009, he joined the faculty of the Med-X research Institute as an Academic Leader. His research interests include: Neural control of movements; neural rehabilitation engineering; and speech processing in cochlear implants for tonal language.