Booz Allen Hamilton Colloquium: Dr. Ramesh R. Rao, University of California, San Diego

Friday, April 13, 2018
3:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
1110 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building
Kara Stamets
301 405 4471
stametsk@umd.edu

Dr. Ramesh R. Rao
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering 
Jacobs School of Engineering 
University of California, San Diego

 

Building and Getting Infected by Interdisciplinary Research!
 
Ramesh Rao will recount his experience in building the Qualcomm Institute, an interdisciplinary research institute that combines Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, Medicine and Engineering. He will then describe some recent collaborative, interdisciplinary, work on addressing the problems of pain, addictions, and post traumatic stress disorders using electrical and ultrasound stimulation that result in the disruption or alteration of neural circuits. He will also describe an early prototype in building a “Cortical Internet”, a 1,000 node, wirelessly powered, 10/1 Mbps, brain implantable, wireless network to record and stimulate regions of the brain. He will also share a few personal measurements and observations on the potential equivalence between practices, such as meditation, and altering autonomic functions. He will finish with reflections on the search for causality in the context of developing effective interventions as new measurement tools emerge. 

Bio: Dr. Ramesh R. Rao. Dr. Rao has been a faculty member at UC San Diego since 1984, and Director of the Qualcomm Institute, UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), since 2001. He holds the Qualcomm Endowed Chair in Telecommunications and Information Technologies in the Jacobs School of Engineering at UCSD, and is a member of the school’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department.

Prior to QI (Calit2), Professor Rao served as the Director of UCSD’s Center for Wireless Communications (CWC). Dr. Rao is involved on a day-to-day basis with a wide variety of research initiatives at QI. He leads several major interdisciplinary and collaborative projects and has been a PI on dozens of federal-, state-, foundation- and industry-funded grants. Dr. Rao is an IEEE Fellow and Senior Fellow of the California Council on Science and Technology. He was named a Member of the Board of the Academy of Neurosciences for Architecture, a Member of the Rady Children’s Hospital and Health Center Board IT Task Force and serves on the Board of Directors of CONNECT. Dr. Rao has been a long time member of the San Diego Indian American Society and currently serves as the Vice President for the Board of Governors.

Dr. Rao earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1984, after receiving his M.S. from the same institution in 1982. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in 1980 from the University of Madras (the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirapalli). Dr. Rao received the distinguished alumnus award from the National Institute of Technology in 2010, the ECE Distinguished alumni award from the University of Maryland in 2012, the Professional Gordon Engineering Leadership Award from UCSD’s Gordon Engineering Leadership Center in 2010. He also received the 2011 Casa Familiar Abrazo Award for engagement with underprivileged area of San Diego.

Audience: Clark School  Graduate  Undergraduate  Faculty  Alumni 

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