Biography (Medium): Prof. Jack W. Judy

Jack W. Judy received the Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, in 1996 and 1994 respectively, as well as the B.S.E.E. degree, with summa cum laude honors, from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, in 1989. He has been on the faculty of the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles, since 1997, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He has also worked for Silicon Light Machines, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, an optical-MEMS startup company, from 1996 to 1997. In his doctoral research he developed a novel ferromagnetic microactuator technology that is useful for a variety of applications, including optical, RF, and biological MEMS. At UCLA he is the Director of the Nanoelectronics Research Facility and the Director of the Microfabrication Instructional Laboratory. Dr. Judy also co-founded and directs the UCLA NeuroEngineering Training Program, which is sponsored jointly by the Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience Interdepartmental Programs and is the first such NeuroEngineering training program in the world. His present research interests include additional novel ferromagnetic MEMS and NEMS devices (such as magnetometers, optical and electrical switches, reconfigurable antenna systems, and nanoactuators), wireless chemical sensors, electronic noses, micromachined sensors for plasma research, and a variety of neuroengineering projects (such as magnetic-MEMS-enabled ventricular catheter for hydrocephalus, novel micromachined multielectrode neural probes, high-density neural microelectrode arrays, nanostructured intracellular electrodes, dynamic electrochemical simulation of 3-D neural-electronic interfaces, wireless neural transceivers, intracranial and intraductal RF microcoils for micrometer-scale-resolution MRI images, reliable brain-machine interfaces (BMI), somatosensory stimulation as a feedback signal for BMI systems, deep brain stimulation, high-resolution mapping and stimulation of the spinal cord, and ocular muscle stimulation to address severe strabismus).