Bridging the Gap between Mind and Machine

Ramana Vinjamuri is an Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He is the Principal Investigator of the Sensorimotor Control Laboratory/ Vinjamuri Lab at UMBC. He serves as the center director for NSF IUCRC called BRAIN at UMBC. Supported by National Science Foundation (NSF CAREER award, NSF I-Corps and NSF IUCRC), NIDILRR (SBIR), New Jersey Health Foundation (Research and Innovation grants), United States-India Science and Technology Endowment Fund (Rehab Robotics), and several other internal grants he specializes in Sensorimotor Control, Brain Machine Interfaces, Exoskeletons, human-robot interaction and collaboration, and neurotechnologies for mental health. He received Mary E. Switzer Merit Fellowship from NIDILRR in 2010, IEEE Senior Membership in 2011, Harvey N Davis Distinguished Teaching Award in 2018 from Stevens Institute of Technology and NSF CAREER Award in 2019.  He is a visiting scientist at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of National Institutes of Health (NIH). He has a visiting appointment at IIT-Hyderabad, and Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India, and he teaches fractal credit courses there in summer and intersessions.

• Are AI machines making humans obsolete.- The embodiment paradox integrating prosthetic systems to enhance human machine integration.- Affective Edge Computing Challenges and Opportunities in Decoding Emotional States.- Modeling Human Emotions via Interpretable EEG Based Spatio nterfaces for Neurorehabilitation Trends Methods and Challenges Temporal Attention Network.- Vibes that emote Eliciting affect through vibrotactile stimulation.- Assessing Cognitive Fatigue in Human Teammates During Human Robot Collaboration.- Mind Over Machine Using Action Observation to Reduce Mental Fatigue in Motor Imagery.- Synergies between Mind and Machine in Autism Research An AI Based Framework for  Understanding and Reconstructing Neural Dynamics.- Human Intent into Motion Neuro Motor Controlled Prosthetic Hand.- Design of a Human Machine Interface for Assisted Speech on an EOG based voice speller.- Enhancing Hand Exoskeleton Grasping Performance with Robust Force Controller Development.- A Pairing Free Approach for End to End Mapping from Human to Kinematically Dissimilar Robotic Hands.- Human Centered Shared Autonomy for Motor Planning Learning and Control Applications.- Enhancing Surgeon Feedback via LSTM Driven Prediction of Tissue Puncturing Events.- Synergy based Intuitive Virtual and Augmented Therapy for Mental Health.- Building Neuro Musculoskeletal Models of Upper and Lower limb In Silico by Bridging Neural Circuitry Biomechanics and Intelligent Control.