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Liu et al present a miniaturized wireless brain-machine interface (BMI) integrated with custom-designed 120-channel μECoG arrays, engineered for monitoring brain activities in freely behaving marmosets. The BMI can capture and characterize behavior-specific neural signals, including drinking-related activation, pre-vocalization anticipatory responses, and vigilance-induced transient responses enabling advanced studies of neural mechanisms underlying natural primate behaviors.
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Recently, the 4th IEEE International Conference on Micro/Nano Sensors for AI, Healthcare, and Robotics (IEEE-NSENS 2025) was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Prof. MingJun Zhang gave the plenary talk named as “Embodied Intelligence Brain-machine Interface“. PhD students Chengqian Cui, Xize Gao, and Nianzhen Du delivered oral presentations. Among them, the paper co-authored by Cui Chengqian and Gao Xize was awarded the conference’s sole Best Conference Paper Award.
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Sheng et al present a modular multimodal brain-machine interface (BMI) device capable of adapting different configurations, modalities, and capabilities. The modular device can be configured to support neurorecording, neurostimulation, and drug delivery, and its unified interfaces facilitates plug-andplay usage. The applicability of the BMI was demonstrated across four scenarios, including closed-loop seizure modulation in free-moving rats, cortical and depth recording in swine, alpha wave detection in humans, and directional neurostimulation in vitro.
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Ph. D. student Xize Gao Enter the Student Paper Competition Finalist at the IEEE EMBC 2024 Conference.
The 46th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, was held in Orlando, Florida, USA, July 15-19, 2024. As social determinants of health take on an ever-important role, the conference theme, “Technology and its promise for equity and access for well-health,” addresses the great potential impacts that engineers can provide to the whole of society. Prof. Zhang and Xize Gao attended this meeting with a conference paper “Hitchhiking calvaria immune cells to bypass BBB for CNS drug delivery through transcranial nanoparticle microinjection”.
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The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) reports the latest research progress of our group.
Recently, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) reported the latest research progress of our group on its official website, “Under the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) project (Grant Nos. 62173200, 62350710211, and 62173198).
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Ph.D. students Xize Gao et.al. published an article in Science Advances.
Inspired by the expansion of the spiny dolphin, the team of Professor Mingjun Zhang from Tsinghua University School of Medicine and Associate Professor Jing Xu from the Department of Mechanics have jointly developed a painless and biodegradable drug-delivery robot that uses intestinal peristalsis to drive microneedles into the intestinal wall.