KRUSIENSKI RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTED IN RUSSIA

While amateur filmmakers, performers, academics and scientists alike are clamoring to get videos onto the widely popular online video streaming site YouTube, an associate professor in the electrical and computer engineering department, has already surmounted that feat. Currently, one is able to view his research with steady state visually evoked potential (SSVEP) on the Internet site. What was news to the associate professor is that the interest for his filmed project is in great demand by a far different authority.

Dean Krusienki's research has been focused on the application of advanced signal processing and pattern recognition techniques to brain-computer interfaces. These applications will come with great facility to individuals with severe neuromuscular disabilities in allowing them to communicate and interact with their environments using brainwaves. More specifically, his research interests include decoding and translation of neural signals, digital signal and image processing, machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, artificial neural networks, and biomedical and musical applications.

The research undoubtedly sounds fascinating but to see it can really command onlookers. Footage of a robotic arm being controlled through SSVEP can currently be viewed on YouTube. It was via this footage that Russian media contacted Krusienski about using one of his demonstration videos in a Russian television program about related technology.

To view a sample of what the SSVEP is capable of, click here.