{"470891":{"#nid":"470891","#data":{"type":"news","title":"GT Bionics Lab Team Wins Best Live Demo Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYaoyao Jia, Zheyuan Wang, and Abdollah Mirbozorgi received the Best Live Demo Award at the 2015 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS 2015), held at the Historic Academy of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis team, from the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), won the award for their demo entitled \u201cLive Demonstration: A Smart Homecage System with Behavior Analysis and Closed-Loop Optogenetic Stimulation Capabilities.\u201d\u0026nbsp;Jia (a Ph.D. student), Wang (a visiting student), and Mirbozorgi (ECE postdoctoral fellow) are members of the GT-Bionics Lab, led by ECE Associate Professor Maysam Ghovanloo.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this live demonstration, the team presented a smart, wirelessly-powered\u0026nbsp;homecage, called the\u0026nbsp;Enercage-HC system, for conducting behavioral and electrophysiology research on awake, freely-behaving small animal subjects. The smart\u0026nbsp;homecage\u0026nbsp;is equipped with closed-loop wireless power transmission, wireless communication, automated tracking, and animal behavior recognition capabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWireless power is delivered in near-field at 13.56 MHz in the FCC-approved ISM-band through an array of coils designed to provide the entire\u0026nbsp;homecage\u0026nbsp;with homogeneous magnetic field. Bidirectional data transmission is accomplished at 2.4 GHz via Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for communication with sensors and stimulators attached to or implanted in the animal body. A dual-mode 2D\/3D imaging system based on Microsoft Kinect is used for animal subject tracking and behavioral analysis using an advanced real-time pattern recognition and machine learning algorithm.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhoto caption:\u003C\/strong\u003E Yaoyao Jia shows the Enercage-HC System at IEEE BioCAS 2015, held October 22-24 in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPhoto caption:\u003C\/strong\u003E Abdollah Mirbozorgi (far left) and Yaoyao Jia were presented with the Best Live Demo Award at IEEE BioCAS 2015, held October 22-24 in Atlanta. Taking part in the presentation were ECE Assistant Professor Hua Wang (far right), who served as co-chair of the conference live demo session, and ECE Associate Professor Maysam Ghovanloo (second from left).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA team from the GT Bionics Lab received\u0026nbsp;the Best Live Demo Award at the 2015 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS 2015), held at the Historic Academy of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A team from the GT Bionics Lab received the Best Live Demo Award at the 2015 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS 2015), held at the Historic Academy of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia."}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2015-11-17 16:34:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:03","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2015-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2015-11-17T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"470901":{"id":"470901","type":"image","title":"Yaoyao Jia and Enercage demo","body":null,"created":"1449257176","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:26:16","changed":"1475895220","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:40","alt":"Yaoyao Jia and Enercage demo","file":{"fid":"203900","name":"jia_enercage-hc_demo_biocas15.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jia_enercage-hc_demo_biocas15_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jia_enercage-hc_demo_biocas15_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":334732,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jia_enercage-hc_demo_biocas15_0.jpg?itok=tu3q0gJK"}},"470911":{"id":"470911","type":"image","title":"IEEE BioCAS 2015 Live Demo Award presentation","body":null,"created":"1449257176","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 19:26:16","changed":"1475895220","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:40","alt":"IEEE BioCAS 2015 Live Demo Award presentation","file":{"fid":"203901","name":"jia_mirbozorgi_live_demo_award_biocas15-cropped.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jia_mirbozorgi_live_demo_award_biocas15-cropped_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/jia_mirbozorgi_live_demo_award_biocas15-cropped_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1240070,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/jia_mirbozorgi_live_demo_award_biocas15-cropped_0.jpg?itok=eS5LgLn1"}}},"media_ids":["470901","470911"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"http:\/\/biocas2015.org\/","title":"IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference"},{"url":"http:\/\/www2.ece.gatech.edu\/research\/labs\/gt-bionics\/","title":"GT-Bionics Lab"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"13998","name":"GT Bionics Lab"},{"id":"148331","name":"IEEE BioCAS 2015"},{"id":"8781","name":"Maysam Ghovanloo"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39441","name":"Bioengineering and Bioscience"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}