Event Date
Join us for an evening of networking, learning and a cold drink at Engineering on Tap—a series designed to connect engineering alumni with each other and the college.
Our spring quarter event will showcase how your College of Engineering is advancing human health through innovative, multidisciplinary research in collaboration with the UC Davis Health System. Learn how our faculty leverage their partnerships with UC Davis Health to pursue cutting-edge research and improve the health of all.
Featuring presentations from Karen Moxon, founding co-director emerita of the Center for Neuroengineering and Medicine and biomedical engineering professor, and Jonathon Schofield, principal investigator for the BEAR Lab and mechanical and aerospace engineering professor.
This is a free event and includes light refreshments and one drink ticket per UC Davis alumni attendee.
About Professor Karen Moxon
Dr. Moxon has conducted groundbreaking research in neuroengineering, developing computational approaches to study the encoding of sensory and motor information. An important focus of her work is the impact of neural injury on the representation of information in the brain. Early in her career, she contributed to the first demonstration of a closed-loop, real-time brain-machine interface system in a rat model that was quickly translated to non-human primates and, more recently, to humans with neurological disorders. This work has spurred an entirely new discipline within neuroengineering that has had a global impact. Dr. Moxon maintains an active research program, combining signal processing and the development of neural interface devices with computational approaches to study how changes in neural encoding contribute to recovery of function after spinal cord injury.
Professor Moxon is a IEEE Senior Member.
About Professor Jonathon Schofield
Dr. Schofield works to improve user acceptance and promote the seamless integration of humans and assistive medical devices, leveraging techniques in bio-robotic control and feedback, sensory-motor neural interfaces, and cognitive-perceptual neurosciences. The Schofield lab performs interdisciplinary research at the interface of mechanical and electrical engineering, neurosciences and rehabilitation medicine to address unmet clinical needs and understand how humans engage with intelligent technologies such as robotic prostheses and powered exoskeleton orthoses, among many others.