Professor Denison holds a joint appointment in Engineering Science and Clinical Neurosciences at Oxford, where he explores the fundamentals of physiologic closed-loop systems in collaboration with the MRC Brain Network Dynamics Unit. Tim also serves as an advisor to several governments and industry boards on the field of translational medical devices; in particular, helping define strategies for mapping scientific discovery to product development roadmaps within the regulatory and economic constraints of medical systems. Prior to Oxford, Tim was a Technical Fellow at Medtronic PLC and Vice President of Research & Core Technology for the Restorative Therapies Group, where he helped oversee the design of next generation neural interface and algorithm technologies for the treatment of chronic neurological disease. In 2015, he was elected to the College of Fellows for the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He has a PhD from MIT in electrical engineering, and an AB in Physics and MBA from the University of Chicago.

Lyes Khacef is a PostDoc in the Bio-Inspired Circuits and Systems group at University of Groningen. He received the M.Sc. in electrical engineering and embedded systems from the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (France). He pursued a PhD at Université Côte d’Azur (France) in brain-inspired computing where he worked on understanding and modeling the local computations behind the self-organization capabilities of the brain. He proposed a new model for multimodal unsupervised learning based on local structural and synaptic plasticity rules, implemented then on FPGA-based cellular neuromorphic hardware. Dr. Lyes Khacef developed a multi-disciplinary expertise in computational neuroscience, machine learning and hardware design. He is currently working on the modeling and hardware prototyping of spike-based synaptic plasticity rules, for learning spatio-temporal patterns using neuromorphic vision, audio and tactile sensors.

Dion Khodagholy is an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in New York City.  
He received his Master’s degree from the University of Birmingham (UK) in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering. This was followed by a second Master’s degree in Microelectronics at the Ecole des Mines. He attained his PhD in Microelectronics at the Department of Bioelectronics (BEL) of the Ecole des Mines (France). His postdoctoral research at New York University, Langone Medical Center was focused on large-scale cortical acquisition and analysis.
His research explores the interface of electronics and the brain in the context of both applied and discovery sciences, with the ultimate goal of new innovations in device engineering and neuroscience methods to improve diagnosis and treatment of neuropsychiatric disease.

Tae-il Kim is currently working as an associate professor in School of Chemical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Korea. He earned his BS and Ph.D degree from the SKKU and Seoul National University, respectively. He moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) for postdoctoral research with Prof. John A. Rogers, working on the bio-integrated optoelectronic devices and their optogenetic applications from 2009 to 2012. His current researches are based on flexible, bioinspired and bio-integrated electronics fabricated by unconventional lithographical method and advanced materials.

Prof. Dr. Tobias Moser is a neuroscientist, otologist, and audiologist at the Göttingen Campus in Germany. He heads the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Göttingen and leads research groups at the German Primate Center and the Max-Planck-Institutes for Biophysical Chemistry and Experimental Medicine. His main areas of research are synaptic coding and processing of auditory information as well as innovative approaches to the restoration of hearing in the deaf such as the optogenetic cochlear implant

Kelly Owens is the director of education and outreach at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. In 2017, after fifteen years of active Crohn’s disease and inflammatory arthritis, and failing almost two dozen medications, she and her husband moved to Amsterdam for six months to participate in a revolutionary clinical trial run by SetPoint Medical using vagus nerve stimulation, a part of the emerging field of bioelectronic medicine. Within two months, she was deemed in clinical remission. Nowadays, her mission is to expand access to more patients suffering from inflammatory diseases and advance research.

Patients who are interested in learning more about bioelectronic medicine should email Kelly at kowens4@northwell.edu. She can share a variety of resources to learn about the science, clinical trials so far, and can add patients to the Feinstein Institutes’ patient database to be contacted for future trials.

Angélica was born in Mexico City, Mexico. She received the M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City and the Ph.D. degree in neuroscience from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 1999 and 2006, respectively. She first worked as doctoral student and research assistant at the Ophthalmology Clinic of the Geneva University Hospitals. In 2011 she joined the team at the Western Switzerland University Cochlear Implants Center, and became its head of engineering in 2013. Currently, she is also leads the laboratory of Audiology of the Division of ENT and Head-and-Neck Surgery of the Geneva University Hospitals. Angélica became lecturer for the University of Geneva in 2015 and senior lecturer in 2018.

The focus of her research is sensory perception evoked by electrical neuroprostheses (retinal implants, cochlear implants, and vestibular implants). Her early scientific work was devoted to investigating the fundamental theoretical psychophysical aspects of visual prostheses and retinal implants. Later, she had the opportunity to investigate these aspects in humans, during one of the first human clinical trials of retinal prostheses. Currently, she leads the research group at the University of Geneva performing the first in-human trial of a vestibular implant to rehabilitate patients with bilateral vestibular deficits (www.vestibularimplant.org). The main focus of this research is the investigation of the effects of electrical stimulation of vestibular nerve afferents in human subjects and the clinical significance of the rehabilitation that a vestibular implant could provide to patients suffering from a bilateral vestibular loss.

John A. Rogers is the Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Northwestern University, with affiliate appointments in Mechanical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Chemistry, where he is also Director of the recently endowed Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics. He has published nearly 800 papers, is a co-inventor on more than 100 patents and he has co-founded several successful technology companies. His research has been recognized by many awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship (2009), the Lemelson-MIT Prize (2011), the National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellowship (2012), the Smithsonian Award for American Ingenuity in the Physical Sciences (2013), the MRS Medal (2018), the Benjamin Franklin Medal from the Franklin Institute (2019), the Sigma Xi Monie Ferst Award (2021) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2021).  He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, the National Academy of Inventors and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.