Neural engineering is an emerging interdisciplinary technology that integrates neuroscience into engineering and encompasses experimental, computational, theoretical, clinical and applied aspects of research. The key interests of neural engineering are understanding, interfacing and manipulating the nervous system, which controls our movements. The analysis of the neural activity helps us understand how the information is processed in our brain and transferred to the nervous system to control our body. The interpretation of the neural activity provides the possibility to interface between the nervous system and artificial entities, which can decode the neural signals and modulate neural activity through external stimuli. The modelling of neural activities and interactions of neural circuities between external stimuli and connected neural circuitries provides theoretical principles of constructing artificial neural systems. With the rapidly aging societies across the world, the need for rehabilitation services significantly increases. The advancement of neural engineering technology would benefit the development of efficient, quantitative and automated rehabilitation methods to release the demands for long-term medical treatment and healthcare and reduce the workload of rehabilitation professionals.
This workshop invites world-renowned keynote speakers and upcoming researchers from North America, Europe, and Asia. The aim is to discuss the state-of-the-art in neural engineering and its applications in rehabilitation, fostering new international collaborations that would lead to collaborative research projects and initiatives and impulses the development of the neural engineering technology and rehabilitation. The workshop also has an international impact in both experimental and modeling aspects, as reflected by the expertise of the invited. The first workshop was successfully at HKUST during June 3-4, 2019. This event is a continuation of the IAS-supported workshop in 2019.
