Paul Sajda, highbrow of biomedical engineering, electrical engineering, and radiology, has been named a Fellow of a American Association for a Advancement of Science (AAAS). He joins 3 other Columbia imagination members who are among 391 new fellows awarded this honor, that began in 1874, since of their efforts to allege scholarship or a applications. Sajda was cited for his “distinguished contributions to a bargain of neural correlates of vision, tellurian perceptual decision-making, and cortically joined mechanism vision.”
“I am deeply respected to be famous with this eminence of being an inaugurated Fellow of a AAAS,” pronounced Sajda, who is also a member of Columbia’s Data Science Institute. “Of course, this respect would not have been probable but a organisation of superb students, postdocs, and colleagues we have had a payoff to work with while here during Columbia and via my career. we am unapproachable to share this respect with them.”
Sajda’s examine is focused on neural engineering, an rising interdisciplinary margin that uses engineering techniques to know and interface with a brain. Sajda’s specific work uses large-scale computational modeling, appurtenance training and modernized neuroimaging to examine a duty of and manipulate a function of a tellurian executive and marginal shaken systems. He leads a Laboratory for Intelligent Imaging and Neural Computing, where his group uses beliefs of retreat neuroengineering to impersonate a cortical networks underlying perceptual and cognitive processes, such as fast preference making, in a tellurian brain. They are also building mind mechanism interfaces that implement neural correlates of attentional shift, arousal, engagement, and approval as labels for exemplar-based appurtenance training systems.
Sajda’s work has led to a growth of several innovative systems underneath what he terms “applied neuroscience,” including mind mechanism interfaces for picture search, imagination assessment, and even tracking tellurian trust in automation. Three startups have emerged from his lab during Columbia, focused on commercializing neurotechnology in marketplace areas trimming from sports to neurogaming to unconstrained driving.
“My truth is ‘build it, magnitude it, exam it, know it’,” he adds, “partly fostered by my 6 years of industrial RD knowledge during a Sarnoff Research Center in Princeton, NJ.”
The new AAAS fellows will be presented with an central certificate and a bullion and blue (representing scholarship and engineering, respectively) ensign pin on Feb 18 during a 2017 AAAS Annual Meeting in Boston, Mass.
—By Holly Evarts
