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RANU JUNG, Ph.D. 

PERSONAL 

Office 

Home 

PO Box 879709 

11481 E Bella Vista Dr. 

Tempe, AZ 85287-9709 Scottsdale, AZ 85259 

Telephone: 480-965-9052 (office); 602-327-7567 (mobile) 

Fax: 480-727-7624 

email: ranu.jung@asu.edu 

Citizenship: USA 

EDUCATION 

Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, January 1991. 

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. 

Thesis title: Ventral Medullary Organization for Cardio-Respiratory Control 

Advisor: Peter G. Katona, Sc.D. 

M.S., Biomedical Engineering, May 1986. 


Thesis title: Arterial Pressure and Respiratory Responses to Slow Ramp Carotid Sinus 

Pressures in the Dog. 

Advisor: Peter G. Katona, Sc.D. 

B.Tech. with Distinction, Electronics and Communication Engineering, April 1982. 

National Institute of Technology (previously Regional Engineering College), Warangal, 

Andhra Pradesh, India. 

PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS 

Neural Engineering 

Computational Neuroscience 

Neurophysiological control of motor systems (Sensorimotor integration) 

Neurotrauma (Spinal Cord Injury) 

Dynamical Systems 

Signal Processing 

EXPERIENCE 

Sept’02 – Current 

Aug’02 – Current 

Jan’08 – Current 

Aug’05 – Current 

Co-Director, Center for Adaptive Neural Systems, (Previously Center for 

Rehabilitation Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Engineering), 

Arizona State University 

Associate Professor (with tenure) 

Harrington Department of Bioengineering 


Member of Graduate Faculty of Mathematics, Bioengineering & Electrical 

Engineering 

Affiliated Associate Professor 

Center for Adaptive Neural Systems 

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Apr’04 – Current 

Aug’02 – June’04 

July’01 – Aug’02 

Nov ’00 – Aug’02 

Aug’97 - June’01 

July’95- Aug’97 

July ’93-Aug’95 

Aug.’92 

Jan.’91-July’92 

Sept’89-Dec’90 

Oct’88-Nov’89 

Oct’83-May’89 

Department of Electrical Engineering 


President and Co-founder 

AdveNSys, LLC, Scottsdale, AZ. 

Adjunct Associate Professor 

Center for Biomedical Engineering 

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 

Associate Professor (with tenure) 



(Joint appointment in Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering) 

(Joint appointment in Department of Physiology) 

Affiliated Faculty 

Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center 

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 

Assistant Professor 



(Joint appointment in Department of Electrical Engineering) 


Assistant Research Professor 




Research Associate 

(NIH Individual National Research Service Award Fellow) 

Department of Zoology 

University of Maryland, College Park, MD. 

Summer trainee (Computational Neuroscience) 

(NIH National Research Training Award Fellow) 

Marine Biological Laboratory 

Woods Hole, MA. 

Research Associate and Technical Director Small-Animal Lab. 

(N.E. Ohio American Heart Association Research Fellow) 

Department of Medicine (Cardiology) 


Research Assistant 

Department of Medicine (Cardiology) 


Consultant 

Gensia Pharmaceuticals Inc., San Diego, CA. 

Graduate Research Assistant, 

Department of Biomedical Engineering, 


1985-86, 88 Instructor 

Integrated Human Biology (cardiovascular laboratory) 





School of Medicine 


1985-1986 Instructor 

Undergraduate Biomedical Engineering Lab.(cardiovascular physiology) 

Department of Biomedical Engineering 


1980 Summer trainee 

Instrument Techniques Private Limited, Hyderabad, AP, India. 

AWARDS 

Feb ‘02 

Aug ‘93-July ‘95 

Aug ‘92 

Jan’91-June’92 

Summer ‘ 88 

June ’77-Apr ’82 

Fall ’81 

Fall ’81 

2002 Science and Engineering Award, Governors certificate of recognition, 

Commonwealth of Kentucky, USA. 

National Institutes of Health (NINDS); Individual National Research Service 

Award. 

National Institutes of Health; National Research Trainee Award; Methods in 

Computational Neuroscience Workshop (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods 

Hole, MA 02543). 

Research Fellow. American Heart Association (N.E. Ohio Affiliate) 

Award for slide and poster presentation, Biomedical Engineering Research Day, 

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. 

Gandhi Memorial Centenary Merit Scholarship, Bhilai Steel Plant; Steel 

Authority of India Ltd. 

Finalist; All India student seminar and paper contest in electronics, held at Dept. 

of Electronics Engineering, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. 

First prize, Technical talk. Competition held by Electronics and Communication 

Engineering Association, Regional Eng. College, Warangal, India. 

Fall ’81 First prize, Technical Quiz. Competition held by Electronics and 

Communication Engineering Association, Regional Eng. College, Warangal, 

India. 

AWARDS TO MENTORED STUDENTS 

Graduate: 

Mallika Mukherjee, Wakonse-Arizona Fellowship; Arizona State University; March 2006. 

Anil Thota, Best Paper (2 nd prize), Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, April 2001. 

Dan Li, Graduate Fellowship Award, 3 rd International Workshop on BioSignal Interpretation, June 

1999. 

Sarvani Grandhe, President’s Choice, Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, April 1999. 

Undergraduate: 

Stefani Mulligan, Best Paper (2 nd prize), Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, April 2002. 

Casey McIntosh, Research Paper Award. Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, April 1998. 

Casey McIntosh, Undergraduate Research and Creativity Award, University of Kentucky, May 1996. 

Bradley Brewer, Research Paper Award. Southern Biomedical Engineering conference, 16th 

Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, Biloxi, MS, 1997. 

Bradley Brewer, Second place Award for Presentation. Southern Biomedical Engineering 

conference, 16th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, Biloxi, MS, 1997. 





Bradley Brewer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Fellowship, University 

of Kentucky, August 1995. 

HONORS 

INTERNATIONAL 

Jan’07- present 

July ’06-present 

Jan ’06-present 

Jan ’06 -present 

July 12, 2007 

June 14, ’07 

Associate Editor; IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 

President (Elected- 3 year term), Organization for Computational 

Neurosciences, Inc.) 

Senior Member (Elected) IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics 

Engineers, Inc.) 

Expert Assessment Committee for Appointments and Promotions (Member); 

Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, DK. 

Co-Organized Workshop with Dr. Sharon Crook, Neuro-Machine Interfaces: 

Integrating Biology and Technology to Develop Functionally Relevant Devices, 

16th Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, CNS*2007, Toronto, 

Canada. Invited speakers from industry and universities. 

http://www.cnsorg.org/workshop_feedback.pdf 

Opponent, PhD defense of Mikael Huss, Royal Institute of Technology, 

Stockholm, Sweden 

4/13-4/15’07 Invited Participant; Neuromorphic Cognition Spring Meeting (EU-US-NSF 

sponsored), Porto Conte Ricercche, Tramriglio, Sardegna, Italy 

July ‘04 

Invited lecturer, 4 th International Workshop on Biocomplexity from System to 

Gene, July 18-24, 2004, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. 

Oct’ 03 

Minisymposium Organizer and Co-Chair with Dr. Chi-Sang Poon, Nonlinear 

Dynamics and Control, 25 th Annual International Conference of the IEEE 

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Sept. 17-21, 2003, Cancun, 

Mexico. 

Oct’ 02 

Session Co-Chair with Dr. Robert Kirsch, Neuromechanical Systems, 24 th 

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and 

Biology Society & Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, 

Oct. 23-26, 2002, Houston, TX. 

Mar ’02 

Grand Awards Judge, Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, 

Louisville, KY, USA. 

July ’00 

Session Moderator; Ninth Annual International Computational Neuroscience 

Meeting (CNS-00), Brugge, Belgium 

Oct ’99 

Session Organizer and Moderator; NeuroEngineering Track: "Neural Recording 

II: Cells, Slice, Brain" at the 21st Annual International Conference of the IEEE 

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society joint meeting with the Biomedical 

Engineering Society, October 13-16, 1999, Atlanta, GA. (Pre-organized 

discussion topic prior to the Moderated Poster session) 

July ’99 

Session Moderator; Eighth Annual International Computational Neuroscience 

Meeting (CNS-99), Pittsburgh, PA. 

April ’97 

Plenary Session Chair; Rehabilitation Engineering: Is it Science, Engineering 

Technology or Gadgetry. Rocky Mountain Engineering Symposium, Dayton, 

OH. 





NATIONAL 

July ‘07 

March ’07 

April ‘07 

Oct’02- June ‘06 

Nov ‘06 

Oct ’05 

Oct ’05 

Nov ’04 

Nov ’03 

Oct ’03 

Nov ’02 

Invited Workshop Participant. “Future Challenges for the Science and 

Engineering of Learning" sponsored by the US National Science Foundation, 

Washington, D.C. July 23-25, 2007 

NIH- Peer Review Advisory Committee; Center for Scientific Review- 

Neurotechnology Working Group Member. 

UCSD Site Visit Team member, NSF-Science of Learning Centers Advisory 

Board. April 29-30, 2007, San-Diego, CA. 

Regular Member, Respiratory Integrative Biology and Translation Research, 

Study Section; NIH. 

Selected Participant; 4th Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative 

Conference on “Smart Prosthetics: Exploring Assistive Devices for the Body 

and Mind”; November 9-12, 2006, Irvine, CA. 

Site Visit Team member, NSF-Science of Learning Centers Advisory Board. 

Oct 26-28 

Invited Participant; Integrated Research Team meeting “NeuroProsthetics: 

Emerging Solutions for the Soldier and Society”, U.S. Army Medical Research 

& Materiel Command’s (USAMRMC) Telemedicine & Advanced Technology 

Research Center (TATRC), Oct 10-12, Marina del Rey, CA 

Site Visit Team member, NSF-Engineering Research Centers (Center for 

Neuromorphic Systems Engineering, CalTech). Nov 8-10 


Neuromorphic Systems Engineering, CalTech). 

Session Co-Chair with Dr. John White, Neural Interface, Biomedical 

Engineering Society, Oct. 1-3, 2003, Nashville, TN. 



Jan ’02 



Jan’ 98 Invited participant; Institute for Mathematics and its Applications: 

Computational Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, MN. 

STATE 

Jun’ 02 

April ’97 

April ’96 

UNIVERSITY 

October’ 07 

March 22-23, ‘07 

Session Organizer and Chair; Development and Plasticity of Spinal Circuits, 

Eighth Annual Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Symposium, 

June 24-26, 2002, Lexington, KY. 

Session Organizer and Chair; Biomedical Engineering Education. American 

Society for Engineering Education, North Central Section. Spring conference, 

Dayton, OH. 

Session Chair; Neural Networks. 15 th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conf., 

Dayton, OH. 

Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering 2006-2007 Faculty Honoree. Arizona State 

University, Tempe, AZ. 

Organizer and Chair, Symposium on “Adaptation and Learning in Neuro- 

BioMechatorinic Systems” at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 





GRANTS & CONTRACTS (ACTIVE) 

Promoting Plasticity after Spinal Cord Injury using Neuromuscular Stimulation 

Science Foundation Arizona, CAA 

Awarded 04/03/2008: start dates TBD 06/02/2008- 06/01/2009, $274,000 

PI: 

R. Jung, Ph.D. 

Co-I: 

J.J. Abbas, Ph.D. (ANS/Bioengineering) 

NIH R01-EB008578 

Neural-Enabled Prostheses with Sensorimotor Integration 

Bioengineering Research Partnership 

National Institutes of Health (NIBIB), 

09/30/2007- 06/30/2012, $3,281,759 

PI: 


Co-I: 


Co-I: 

B. Bakkaloglu, Ph.D. (EE) 

Co-I: 

K. Horch, Ph.D. (ANS) 

Co-I: 

S. Kiaei, PhD (EE) 

Co-I: 

M. Santello, Ph.D. (Kinesiology/Bioengineering) 

Co-I: 

Sub-Contracts: 

S. Phillips, Ph.D. (EE) 

Mayo Clinic Arizona, Scottsdale, AZ, USA; PI: Anthony Smith, MD 

Cochlear Ltd., Australia; PI: James Patrick 

Motion Control, Inc., Utah, USA; PI: Harold Sears, PhD 

SBE-0518697- Supplement to 

Catalyst- Center of Excellence for Adaptive Neuro-Biomechatronic Systems (CEANS) for 

Minisymposium and Workshop on “Co-Adaptive Learning: Technology for the Aged” 

National Science Foundation 

08/15/2005-07/31/2008, $22,174 

PI: 

R. Jung. Ph.D. 

5R01NS054282 

CRCNS-Modeling Neuromusculoskeletal Alterations after Spinal Cord Injury 

National Institutes of Health (NINDS) 

08/15/2005-05/31/2009 $1,314,799 

PI: 


Co-I: 


Co-I: 

A. Razdan, Ph.D. (PRISM/Computer Science) 

Sub-contract: T. Hamm, Ph.D. (Barrow Neurological Institute/ANS) 

Sub-contract: G. Yamaguchi, Ph.D. (E x ponent, Inc.) 

Sub-contract: V. Booth, Ph.D. (U. Michigan, Mathematics). 

SBE-0518697 

Catalyst- Center of Excellence for Adaptive Neuro-Biomechatronic Systems (CEANS) 


08/15/2005-07/31/2008, $110,944 

PI: 


Senior Personnel: J. Abbas, Ph.D. (ANS/Bioengineering) 

C. Castillo-Chavez (Mathematics) 

S. Crook (Mathematics/ANS) 

A. Garcia (Bioengineering) 

L. Joshi (Bioengineering) 

Y. Kuang (Mathematics) 





S. Phillips (Electrical Engineering/ANS) 

A. Razdan (PRISM) 

M. Santello (Kinesiology/Bioengineering) 

J. Wang (Biodesign/Chemical &Materials Engineering/Chemistry) 

W911NF-05-C-0122 

Neuromorphic Control of Powered Limb Splints (Phase II) 

ARMY- Phase II STTR through AdveNSys, LLC 

09/28/2005-09/27/2007, $750,000 

PI: 


Subcontract(ASU) 

PI: 

J.J. Abbas, PhD (ANS/Bioengineering) 

Co-I: 

B. Bokkologlu, PhD (Electrical Engineering) 

1R01HD049773-01 

Adaptive Electrical Stimulation for Locomotor Retraining 

National Institutes of Health (NCMRR_NICHD) 

07/01/2005-04/30/2009, $868,573 

PI: 


Co-I: 


1S10RR019945-01 

7T/30 Bruker BioSpec Magnetic Resonance Imaging/Spectroscopy System (Previously: PharmaScan 

70/16 In-Vivo Spectroscopy/Imaging System). 

National Institutes of Health (NCRR) 

06/01/2005-05/31/2008, $1,309,550 

PI: 

Participants: 

R. Jung, PhD 

Several ASU faculty; Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center faculty; 

Barrow Neurological Institute faculty 

1R21 EB003629-A1 

Active MEMS Neural Clamps. 

National Institutes of Health (NIBIB) 

04/01/2005-03/31/2007, $403,756 (no cost extension till 03/31/2008) 

PI: 

Co-I: 

Co-I: 


S. Phillips, Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) 

J. D. Sweeney, Ph.D. (Bioengineering) 

0114712 

IGERT: Musculoskeletal &Neural Adaptations in Form & Function 


6/30/2000- 7/31/2005; $2,503,931 

Co-PIs: 

J. He, Ph.D., M. Marzke, Ph.D., T. Hamm, Ph.D. 

Co-I: 

R. Jung, Ph.D. amongst several others 

GRANTS & CONTRACTS (PENDING) 

Co-Adaptive Learning: Promoting Neural Plasticity after TBI using Adaptive Neuroprostheses 

Department of Defense (DOD) Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Traumatic Brain Injury (PTSD/TBI) 

Research Program: TBI Concept Award- Funding Opportunity Number: W81XWH-07-TBI-CA 

Submitted, August 16, 2007, 04/01/2008- 09/30/2009, $219,951 

(Recommended for Alternate Funding) 

PI: 






Co-I: 

Co-I: 

D. Jindrich, Ph.D. (ANS/Kinesiology) 


Promoting Plasticity after Spinal Cord Injury using Neuromuscular Stimulation 

National Institutes of Health, (NCMRR-NICHD; R01HD054614-01) 

Re-submitted, July 5 th , 2007, 04/01/2008-03/31/2013, $1,413,724 

Submitted, February 1, 2006, 12/01/2006- 11/31/2011, $1,830,920 (Scored; withdrawn) 

PI: 


Co-I: 

J.J. Abbas, Ph.D. (Biodesign/Bioengineering) 

Co-I: 

K. Horch, Ph.D. (Biodesign) 

Empowering Malawians with Disabilities 

National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) 

Submitted, Nov, 19, 2007, June 1, 2008 – May 30, 2009 $50,000 

PI: 

V. Pizziconi 

Participant: R. Jung, Ph.D. amongst several others 

GRANTS & CONTRACTS (COMPLETED) 

A Rodent Model for Locomotor Training with FNS 

National Institutes of Health (NCMRR_NICHD; R01HD40335), 

1/17/2002- 6/30/2006, $775,418 

PI: 


Co-I: 

J.J. Abbas, Ph.D. (Biodesign/Bioengineering) 

PHASE III: Western Alliance to expand student opportunities. 

National Science Foundation (Directorate for Education & Human Resources) 

11/01/2001-10/31/2006; $878,422 

PI: 

A. Garcia, Ph.D. (Arizona State University, Bioengineering) 


LSAMP: Biodesigned Bridges to the Doctorate. 

National Science Foundation (Directorate for Education & Human Resources) 

11/01/2001-10/31/2006 $770,000 

PI: 

A. Garcia, Ph.D. (Arizona State University, Bioengineering) 


Effects of Incomplete Spinal Injury on Reflex and Motoneuron Properties 

Barrows Neurological Institute (St. Josephs Hospital) 

6/1/2003- 9/1/2005; ($19,600) 

Co-PIs: 


T. Hamm, Ph.D. (Barrow Neurological Institute) 

Neuromorphic Control System for Powered Limb Splints 

ARMY, Phase I- STTR ( W911NF-04-L-0071) 

Phase 1 STTR to AdveNSys, LLC, $99,949 (08/01/2004-01/31/05) 

PI: 


Co-I: 

V. Jung, MBA (AdveNSys, LLC) 

Subcontract to: J.J. Abbas, Ph.D. (ASU, Biodesign Institute/Bioengineering) 





LTR 09/29/00 

Neural & molecular, cell, & tissue bioengineering: a theme for the new department of bioengineering at 

ASU 

The Whitaker Foundation 

7/1/00-6/30/05; Total Budget: ($1,744,580) 

PI: 

E. Guilbeau, Ph.D. (Arizona State University, Bioengineering) 

Co-I: 


Program development award third year progress report and extension and continuation grant proposal 

The Whitaker Foundation 

7/1/00-6/30/05; $250,000 

PI: 

E. Guilbeau, Ph.D. (Arizona State University, Bioengineering) 

Co-I: 


Monitoring Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging 

Kentucky Science & Engineering Foundation 

4/2002- 4/ 2004, $185,739 

PI: 

P. Hardy, Ph.D. (University of Kentucky, Biomedical Eng.) 

Co-PI: 

R. Jung, Ph.D. (University of Kentucky, Biomedical Eng.) 

Locomotor Training in a Rodent Model of Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury 

Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust (0-9A), 

1/15/2001- 1/14/2004, $268,637. 

PI: R. Jung, Ph.D. 

Co-I: 

S. Carlson, Ph.D. (University of Kentucky, Anat. & Neurobiol.) 

Contractile and Metabolic Adaptations of Skeletal Muscle to Spinal Cord Injury and Rehabilitation 

Arizona State University- Multi-Investigator Proposal Development Grant Program 

1/1/2003- 12/31/2003; $18,000 

Co-PIs: 

K. Huey, Ph.D. (Arizona State University, Kinesiology) 

W. Willis, Ph.D. (Arizona State University, Kinesiology) 

R. Jung, Ph.D. (Arizona State University, Bioengineering)Analog 

Analog VLSI-Spinal Cord Interface for Motor Control 

National Institutes of Health (NCRR; R21-RR12588) 09/01/1998-08/31/2000, $184,901. 

PI: 

R. Jung Ph.D. 

Co-I: 

J.J. Abbas, Ph.D. (University of Kentucky, Biomedical Eng.) 

subcontract to: E.J. Brauer, Ph.D. (Northern Arizona Univ., Elect Eng. & Comp. Sci.) 

Dynamical Analysis of Brain-Spinal Cord Interaction in the Lamprey 

National Science Foundation (IBN-9601345) Aug. 1996-July 2000, $115,485. 

PI: 


Co-I: 

E.N. Bruce, Ph.D. (University of Kentucky, Biomedical Eng) 

Biomedical Engineering Approaches to Spinal Cord Injury (Conference Support for a special session at 

6 th Annual Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Symposium) 

The Whitaker Foundation, May 2000-July 2000, $10,000 

PI: 

Co-I: 

J.J. Abbas, Ph.D. (University of Kentucky, Biomedical Eng) 


J. Geddes, Ph.D.(University of Kentucky, Anat. & Neurobiol.) 





Brain-Spinal Cord Interactions in the Control of Locomotion 

The Whitaker Foundation, Jan. 1997-Dec.1999, $209,866 

PI: 


Co-I: 

E.N. Bruce, Ph.D. (University of Kentucky, Biomedical Eng) 

Consultant: J.T. Buchanan, Ph.D. (Marquette University, Biology) 

Pathways and Neurons in the Mammalian Spinal Cord Involved in the Generation of Locomotor Output 

Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust (MAR-9606-K3), 

Jan. 1997-Jan. 2000, $270,278 

PI: 

D.S.K. Magnuson, Ph.D. (University of Louisville, Neurosurgery) 

Co-I: 


Subcontract: Signal Analysis of Neural Activity in Mammalian Locomotor Output. Jan.1997-Jan. 

2000, $52,150 

PI on subcontract: R. Jung, Ph.D. 

Fos Expression as a Neuronal Activity Marker in the Lamprey (Research Experience for 

Undergraduates). 

National Science Foundation (IBN: Computational Neuroscience), Jan 1998-Aug.1998, $5,749. 

PI: 


Effects of Environmental Conditions on Lamprey Swim Behavior (Research Experience for 

Undergraduates). 

National Science Foundation (IBN: Computational Neuroscience), Feb.1997-Aug.1997, $5,000. 

PI: 


Sensorimotor Integration in the Lamprey (Individual National Research Service Award for Postdoctoral 

Fellows) 

National Institutes of Health (NINDS, F32NS09462), Aug. 1993-July 1995; $58,500. 


Sponsor: A.H. Cohen, Ph.D. (University of Maryland, Zoology) 

Methods in Computational Neuroscience Workshop (Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA 

02543) 

National Institutes of Health. National Research Trainee Award, August 1992. 

Directors: J. Bower, Ph.D. (CalTech, Biology) 

C. Koch, Ph.D. (CalTech, Biology) 

Caudal Ventrolateral Medulla and Ventilation in the Rat (Pilot Projects in Neurobiology) 

University Sleep Center, University Hospitals, Cleveland, Ohio.1992, $4,000. 

PI: 


Baro- and Chemoreflexes in Heart Failure (Competitive renewal) 

American Heart Association (N.E. Ohio Affiliate). Jan. ’92- June’92; $10,000. 


Sponsor: M.D. Thames, M.D. (Cardiology) 

Baro- and Chemoreflexes in Heart Failure 

American Heart Association (N.E. Ohio Affiliate). Jan. ’91- Dec.’91; $20,000. 


Sponsor: M.D. Thames, M.D. (Cardiology) 





INTERNAL EQUIPMENT AND INSTRUCTIONAL GRANTS 

Peak Motus ® System for Kinematic Analysis (Equipment funds through Commonwealth Research 

Equipment Bond) 

University of Kentucky, Medical Center, Oct. 2000, $72,000 

PI: 


EE-579: Neural Engineering (Merging Engineering with Neuroscience) (Instructional funds for 

hardware for project work). 

University of Kentucky, College of Engineering, Oct. 2000, $2440 

PI: 


EE-599: Neural Engineering (Instructional funds for hardware/software for project work in a new 

course taught in Electrical Engineering). 

University of Kentucky, College of Engineering, Jan. 1998, $3000 

PI: 


RESEARCH AWARDS TO STUDENTS MENTORED 

The Barrett Honors College: Thesis Research Grants Program 

Arizona State University, Aug ’03- May ’04, $1300 

Student: Taryn Jensen, Bioengineering. 

Sponsor: R. Jung, Ph.D. 

Undergraduate Research and Creativity Grant. 

University of Kentucky, College of Engineering, May ’96-April ‘97, $500 

Student: Casey McIntosh, Mechanical Engineering. 


Howard Hughes Medical Institute Undergraduate Research Fellowship. 

University of Kentucky, Arts and Sciences, August ‘95-May ‘96, $850 

Student: Bradley Brewer, Biology. 


REVIEWED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS (* indicates mentored student, # indicates mentored postdoctoral 

fellow) 

1. 

2. 

3. 

4. 

# Kim, S-J, M. Fairchild*, A. Iarlov, J.J. Abbas, R. Jung. Adaptive control for neuromuscular 

stimulation-assisted movement therapy. (IEEE-TBME – In revision) 

# Ichihara, K., G. Venkatasubramanian*, J.J. Abbas, and R. Jung. Neuromuscular electrical 

stimulation of the hindlimb muscles for movement therapy in a rodent model (J Neurosci Methods - 

In revision) 

#+ Lynskey. J.V., * + A. Bellanger, R. Jung. Activity dependent plasticity in spinal cord injury. JRRD 

45(2): 229-240, 2008 (+These authors contributed equally) 

#+ Kanchiku, T, #+ J.V.Lynskey, D. Protas*, J.J. Abbas and R. Jung. Neuromuscular electrical 

stimulation induced forelimb movement in a rodent model. J Neurosci Methods 167(2):317-26, 

2008, Epub 2007 Aug 8 (+ These authors contributed equally) 

5. *Thota, A., S. Carlson-Watson, E.J. Knapp, B.T. Thompson, and R. Jung. Neuromechanical control 

of locomotion in the rat. Journal of Neurotrauma. 22(4): 442-465, 2005. 





6. *Graham, J., V. Booth and R. Jung. Modeling motoneurons after spinal cord injury: Persistent 

inward currents and plateau potentials. Neurocomputing 65-66, 719-726, 2005. 

7. *Wang, H. and R. Jung. Variability analyses suggest that supraspino-spinal interactions provide 

dynamic stability in motor control, Brain Res.,930(1-2):83-100, 2002. (Figure used for cover of vol. 

933(2), April 2002) 

8. *Li, D. and R. Jung. Tracking rhythmicity in nonstationary quasiperiodic biomedical signals using 

adaptive time varying covariance, Computers in Biology and Medicine, 32(4):261-282, 2002. 

9. *Mulligan, S.J., B. Thompson, E. Knapp, and R. Jung. A method for assessing balance control in 

rodents. Biomedical Sci. Instrum, 38:77-82, 2002. 

10. Jung, R., E.J. Brauer, and J.J. Abbas. Real-time interaction between a neuromorphic electronic 

circuit and the spinal cord, IEEE Trans. Neural Systems. Rehab. Eng.,9(3):319-326, 2001. 

11. *Grandhe, S. and R. Jung. Presence of brain-spinal cord interactions alters lamprey locomotor 

response to periodic perturbation. Neurocomputing, 38-40:1249-1259, 2001. 

12. *Thota, A.K., S. Carlson and R. Jung. Recovery of locomotor function after treadmill training of 

incomplete spinal cord injured rats. Biomedical Sci. Instrum, 37:63-68, 2001. 

13. *Li, D. and R. Jung. Quantifying co-evolution of nonstationary biomedical signals using time 

varying phase spectra. Annals of Biomed. Eng., 28:1101-1115, 2000. 

14. Jung, R. and *M. Shao. Robustness of coarse graining spectral analysis in estimating frequency and 

Hurst exponent from mixed time series with harmonic and fractal components. Neurocomputing, 32- 

33, 1055-1063, 2000. 

15. *Li, D., D.S.K. Magnuson, and R. Jung. Non-stationary analysis of extracellular neural activity. 

Neurocomputing, 32-33, 1083-1093, 2000. 

16. *Grandhe, S., J.J. Abbas, and R. Jung. Brain-spinal cord interactions stabilize the locomotor rhythm 

to an external perturbation Biomedical Sci Instrum, 35: 175-180, 1999. 

17. Jung, R., J.T. Buchanan, and *D. Li. Brain-spinal cord feedforward-feedback interactions affect 

output pattern and intracellular properties of motor networks in the lamprey. Neurocomputing, 26- 

27:749-759, 1999. 

18. Jung, R., *J. Jung, and *B. Losch. Increased variability in motor output with brain-spinal cord 

interaction. Biomedical Sci. Instrum., 34:107-112, 1998. 

19. *McIntosh, C. M., C.F. Knapp, and R. Jung. Design of a closed system swim mill for lamprey 

swimming analysis, Biomedical Sci. Instrum., 34: 87-92, 1998. 

20. Jung, R., T. Kiemel, and A.H. Cohen. Dynamic behavior of a neural network model of locomotor 

control in the lamprey. J. Neurophysiol., 75(3):1074-1086, 1996. 

21. Cohen, A.H., L. Guan, J. Harris, R. Jung, and T. Kiemel. Interaction between the caudal brainstem 

and the lamprey central pattern generator for locomotion. Neurosci., 74(4):1161-1173, 1996. 

22. Jung, R., M.E. Dibner-Dunlap, *M.A. Gilles, and M.D. Thames. Cardiorespiratory baroreflex 

control in rats with left ventricular dysfunction. Am. J. Physiol. (Heart. and Circ.), 268 (1 pt 2): 

H218-225, 1995. 

23. Jung, R., E.N. Bruce, and P.G. Katona. Cardiorespiratory responses to glutamatergic antagonists in 

the caudal ventrolateral medulla of rats. Brain Res., 564:286-295, 1991. 

24. Jung, R. and P.G. Katona. Cardiovascular and respiratory responses to slow ramp carotid sinus 

pressures in the dog. J. Appl.Physiol., 68(4):1465-1474, 1990. 





25. Jung, R., E.N. Bruce, P.G. Katona. Tonic and baroreflex effects on arterial pressure and ventilation 

of pentobarbital and nicotine on the rat ventral medullary surface. Brain Res, 485:399-402, 1989. 

In Preparation 

26. R. Jung. G. Venkatasubramanian*, # Ichihara, K., and J.J. Abbas. Hindlimb neuromuscular electrical 

stimulation therapy in a paraplegic rodent model. 

REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS AND INVITED COMMENTARIES (* indicates mentored student) 

1. Venkatasubramanian*, G., R. Jung, J. D. Sweeney. “Functional Electrical Stimulation”, In: The 

Wiley Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation, 2nd Edition, Editor. J. G. Webster, 

Wiley, March 2006. ISBN: 0-471-26358-3; 3666 Pages 

2. Jung, R. Computer simulated models complement experimental investigations of neuromotor control 

in a simple vertebrate. Invited Commentary on Chapter 4.4 (Simulation of the spinal circuits 

controlling swimming movements in fish). In: Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement. 

Eds. J.M. Winter and P.E. Crago, Springer-Verlag, pp 228-230, 2000. 

3. Jung, R. The fractal nature of the locomotor rhythm may be due to interactions between the brain and 

the spinal pattern generator. Invited Commentary on Chapter 4.7 (Fractal analysis of human walking 

rhythm). In: Biomechanics and Neural Control of Movement. Eds. J.M. Winter and P.E. Crago, 

Springer-Verlag, pp 263-264, 2000. 

4. Jung, R. and *S. Generazzo. Response to perturbations of a neural network model of locomotor 

control in the lamprey. In: Computational Neuroscience:Trends In Research Ed. James Bower, 

Plenum Publishing, New York, pp. 415-421, 1998. 

5. Jung, R., T. Kiemel, and A.H. Cohen. Bifurcation analysis of a neural network model of locomotor 

control in the lamprey. In: Computational Neuroscience. Ed. James Bower, Academic Press, New 

York, pp. 367-372, 1996. 

PATENTS 

July 19, 2007; Patent pending (Self-Anchoring MEMS Intrafascicular Neural Electrode) Ranu Jung, 

Stephen Phillips, James Abbas, Case # 06-554. 

DISSERTATIONS 

Jung, R. Ventral Medullary Organization for Cardio-Respiratory Control. Doctoral Dissertation. 

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. January 

1991. 

Jung, R. Arterial pressure and Respiratory Responses to Slow Ramp Carotid Sinus Pressures in the 

Dog. Masters Thesis. Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 

Cleveland, OH. May 1986. 

REVIEWED CONFERENCE PAPERS (* indicates mentored student, # indicates mentored postdoctoral fellow) 

1. 

# Kanchiku,T., # J.V. Lynskey, T. Taguchi, J.J. Abbas and R. Jung. Rodent Model for Forelimb 

Neuromuscular Stimulation based Movement Therapy. (Online: www.ifess.org; ISBN 4-9980783-1- 

3), pg. 274-276, 11 th Annual Conference of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation 

Society, 12 th -15 th September, 2006, Miyagi-Zao, Japan (Poster presentation by T. Kanchiku and R. 

Jung). 

2. Jung, R.., A. Belanger, # T. Kanchiku, # J. Lynskey, M. Mukherjee, D. Hagner, J.J. Abbas. Hindlimb 

Neuromuscular Stimulation Therapy after Thoracic Contusion Injury Promotes Locomotor 

Recovery. (Online: www.ifess.org; ISBN 4-9980783-1-3), pg. 118-120, 11 th Annual Conference of 





the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society, 12 th -15 th September, 2006, Miyagi-Zao, 

Japan (Oral presentation by R. Jung). 

3. Ichihara, K. # , G. Venkatasubramanian*, A. LaBelle, E. Ashton, J.J. Abbas, R. Jung. Muscle 

stimulation in a rodent model: electrode design, implantation and assessment. Proceedings of IFESS- 

FESnet 2004, 9 th Annual Conference of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society 

and the 2 nd conference of FESnet (Online: www.ifess.org), pg. 404-406, Edts. Duncan Wood, Paul 

Taylor, 6 th -9 th September, 2004, Bournemouth International Centre, Bournemouth, UK. (Poster 

presentation by R. Jung) 

4. Jung, R. and H. Wang*. Variability in Motor Control: Supraspino-Spinal Interactions underlie 

Fractal Locomotor Rhythms. Proceedings of the 25 th Annual International IEEE- EMBS 

Conference, EMBC 2003: 3826-3829; Sept 17-21, 2003, Cancun, Mexico USA (Oral presentation by 

R. Jung) 

5. Jung, R., E.A. Knapp, *A.K. Thota, B.T. Thompson, *S. Mulligan, *N. Ravi, and *A. Quick, 

Quantitative outcome measures for assessing motor control in a rodent model of spinal contusion 

injury. Proceedings of the 2 nd Joint EMBS-BMES Conference, pg. 2556-2557, Oct 23-26, 2002, 

Houston, TX, USA (Oral presentation by R. Jung) 

6. Jung, R., E.J. Brauer, J.J. Abbas, and *S. Grandhe. Analog VLSI-Spinal Cord Interface for Motor 

Control. Proceedings of the First Joint EMBS-BMES conference, pg. 488,Oct 13-16, 1999, Atlanta, 

GA, USA (Moderated poster presentation by R. Jung) 

7. *Wang, H. and R. Jung. Site Specific Variability in Spinal Motor Output. Proceedings of the First 

Joint BMES/EMBS conference, pg. 416, Oct 13-16, 1999, Atlanta, GA, USA (Oral presentation by 

*H. Wang) 

8. Brauer, E.J., R. Jung, B. Thompsen, and J.J. Abbas. Experimental Results of 6 Neuron VLSI Circuit 

of Lamprey unit Pattern Generator. Proceedings of the First Joint BMES/EMBS conference, pg. 372, 

Oct 13-16, 1999, Atlanta, GA, USA. 

9. *Li, D. and R. Jung. Time-varying analysis of rhythmic neurological signals. Proceedings of the 3 rd 

International Workshop on Biosignal Interpretation, pg.226-229, June 12-14, 1999, Chicago, USA. 

(Poster presentation by *D. Li with R. Jung, student D. Li won an award for the paper). 

10. Brauer, E.J., R. Jung, B. Thompsen, and J.J. Abbas. aVLSI circuit of lamprey unit pattern generator. 

Proceedings of IJCNN- 99, paper no. 591, 1999. 

11. *Bernstein, D.S. and R. Jung Intersegmental coupling in a brain-spinal cord neural network model of 

locomotor control in the lamprey. Proceedings of the 17th Southern Biomedical Engineering 

Conference, pg. 30, 1998, San Antonio, TX, Edts. C. Mauli Agrawal and K.A. Athanasiou, (Poster 

presentation by *D. Bernstein) 

12. *Brewer, B. and R. Jung. Sensitivity analysis of a hybrid neural network for locomotor control in the 

lamprey. Proceedings of the 16th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, pg. 353-356, 1997, 

Biloxi, MS, (Poster presentation by *B. Brower. The paper won an award. The student received an 

additional award for the presentation). 

13. Brauer, E.J., R. Jung, D. Wilson, and J.J. Abbas. Sensitivity analysis of analog circuit model of 

lamprey unit pattern generator. Proceedings of IJCNN- 97,vol 2., pg. 975-979, 1997. 

14. Brauer, E.J., R. Jung, D. Wilson, and J.J. Abbas. Analog circuit model of lamprey unit pattern 

generator. Proceedings of the Seventh Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI. pg. 137-142, 1997. 

PROGRESS REPORTS 

National Institute of Health (NIBIB): Neural Enabled Prostheses with Sensorimotor Integration, May 

15, 2008 (Progress Report, Non-competing continuation). 





National Institute of Health (NINDS): CRCNS-Modeling Neuromusculoskeletal Alterations, Apr 16, 

2008 (Progress Report, Non-competing continuation). 


2007 (Progress Report, Non-competing continuation). 

National Institute of Health (NICHD): A Rodent Model for Locomotor Training with FNS, Jan, 2007 

(Final Progress Report). 



National Institute of Health (NIBIB): Active MEMS Neural Clamps, Feb 27, 2006 (Progress Report, 

Non-competing continuation). 

National Institute of Health (NICHD): A Rodent Model for Locomotor Training with FNS, May 16, 


National Institute of Health (NICHD): A Rodent Model for Locomotor Training with FNS, May 16, 


National Institute of Health (NCRR: Analog VLSI-Spinal Cord Interface for Motor Control, April, 

2003 (Final Report). 

National Institute of Health (NICHD): A Rodent Model for Locomotor Training with FNS, Nov 1, 2002 

(Progress Report for transfer). 

Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust: Locomotor Training in a Rodent of Incomplete 

Spinal Cord Injury, March 1, 2002 (Annual Report). 

National Science Foundation: Dynamical Analysis of Brain-Spinal Cord Interaction in the Lamprey, 

November 3, 2000 (Final Report). 

The Whitaker Foundation: Brain-Spinal Cord Interactions in the Control of Locomotion. December 2, 

1998 (Annual Report) 

National Center for Research Resources: Analog VLSI-Spinal Cord Interface for Motor Control, June 

30, 1998 (Progress Report, Non-competing continuation). 

The Whitaker Foundation: Brain-Spinal Cord Interactions in the Control of Locomotion. November 

25, 1997 (Annual Report) 

REVIEWED ABSTRACTS (* indicates mentored student, # indicates mentored postdoctoral fellow) 

1. Hillen, B.K.*, J.J. Abbas, D. Jindrich, R.Jung. Effects of muscle strength and activation profile on 

foot drag in a simulated SCI rat (In Review:CNS*2008) 

2. Ranu Jung. Adaptive Neurotechnology to Make Neural Circuits Functional. American Physiological 

Society, March Meeting, March 10-14, 2008. New Orleans, LA. (Invited talk). 

3. Seung-Jae Kim # , Mallika Mukherjee*, Alexandre Iarkov, James Abbas, Ranu Jung. Adaptive 

Control for Neuromuscular Stimulation Therapy in an Intermittent Training Paradigm. BMES 

Annual Meeting, Los Angles, CA 2007. P1.133 

4. Kim,S-J # , M. Mukherjee*, A. Iarkov, J.J. Abbas, R. Jung. Adaptive control for neuromuscular 

stimulation movement therapy. J. Neurotrauma, 24(7): P236, pg 1288. 2007 

doi:10.1089/neu.2007.9972. (Poster presentation at 25 th Annual National Neurotrauma Society 

Meeting. Missouri, KA 2007 by S-J. Kim). 

5. Graham, J.W.* and R. Jung. Modeling morphological changes in spinal motoneurons following 

spinal cord injury to explore changes in electrical behavior. (Poster presentation # 242 at the 16th 

Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting, July 7th-12th, 2007, Toronto Canada, 2007; Travel 

award to J. Graham). 





6. Ichihara, K., T. Kanchiku # , T. Taguchi T, R. Jung. A rodent model for functional neuromuscular 

stimulation locomotor therapy: electrode design, implantation and Recruitment. 17th Annual 

Meeting of Division of Chugoku and Shikoku; Japanese Association of Rehabilitation Medicine; 

Ube, Yamaguchi, Japan, May 28, 2006, (Talk by K. Ichihara) 

7. Lynskey, J.V # , A. Belanger*, T. Kanchiku # , G.Venkatasubramanian*, M.Mukherjee*, A. Thota, J. 

Abbas, R. Jung. Therapeutic Neuromuscular Stimulation Therapy Improves Recovery of 

Locomotion after Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury in Adult Rats. (Poster presentation at the 11 th 

International Symposium on Neural Regeneration, December 14-18, 2005, Asilomar, CA). 

8. Venkatasubramanian, G.*, T. Kanchiku # , M. Mukherjee*, J.J. Abbas, R. Jung. Functional 

neuromuscular stimulation after spinal cord injury: a rodent model. J. Neurotrauma, 22(10):P307, 

pg.1241, 2005. (Poster presentation at 23 rd Annual National Neurotrauma Society Meeting, 

Washington DC, Nov 10-11, 2005). 

9. Mukherjee M.*, A. Belanger*, T. Kanchiku # , J. Lynskey # , A. Thota, J.J. Abbas, R. Jung. Functional 

neuromuscular stimulation after incomplete spinal cord injury in rodents promotes recovery of 

locomotion. J. Neurotrauma, 22(10):P222 pg.1220, 2005. (Poster presentation at 23 rd Annual 

National Neurotrauma Society Meeting, Washington DC, Nov 10-11, 2005). 

10. Venkatasubramanian*, G, K. Ichihara # , J.J. Abbas, R. Jung. Functional Neuromuscular Stimulation 

in a Paraplegic Rodent Model: Electrode Design, Implantation and Assessment J. Neurotrauma 

21(9):P225, pg. 1320 2004. (Poster Presentation at the 22 nd National Neurotrauma Society, Oct 21- 

Oct 22, San Diego, CA, MS, 2004 by R. Jung and G. Venakatasubramanian) 

11. Graham, J.*, V. Booth and R. Jung. Modeling motoneurons after spinal cord injury: Persistent 

inward currents and plateau potentials. P278, (Poster Presentation at the Thirteenth Annual 

International Computational Neuroscience Meeting, July 18-22, 2004, Baltimore, MD, USA by R. 

Jung). 

12. Ichihara , K. G. Venkatasubramanian*, J.J. Abbas, R. Jung. Electrical stimulation paradigms to assist 

in locomotor training after spinal cord injury. J. Neurotrauma, 20(10):P412 pg.1131, 2003. 

(Presentation at the National Neurotrauma Society, Nov. 6-Nov. 7, Biloxi, MS, 2003) 

13. Gullapalli, J.*, I. Fugaccia; K.J. Anderson; K. Grisanti; R. Jung; S.W. Scheff, P. Hardy. Anisotropic 

diffusion coefficient characterizes spinal cord injury. J. Neurotrauma 20(10):P236 pg. 1086, 2003. 

(Presentation at the National Neurotrauma Society, Nov. 6-Nov. 7, Biloxi, MS, 2003) 

14. Jung, R. Interfacing with the nervous system for neuromotor control, Proceedings of the 2003 

Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, 10.5.5, 2003. Oct 1-3, Nashville, TN 

(Invited talk by R. Jung) 

15. Jung, R., S. Carlson, E. Knapp, *A. Thota, B. Thompson, *N. Ravi, *J. Alton and T. Coates # . 

Locomotor training in a rodent model of incomplete spinal cord injury. J. Neurotrauma 19(10):P359, 

pg. 1337, 2002. (Poster presentation at the First Joint Symposium of the National and International 

Neurotrauma Societies, Oct. 27-Nov. 1, Tampa, FL, 2002 by R. Jung) 

16. *Thota, A., R. Jung and J.J. Abbas. Adaptive control of end-point position by weighted activation of 

force fields. Annals of Biomed. Eng., vol.29 (Suppl. 1), 10.2.4, pg. S-121, 2001. (Oral presentation 

by *A. Thota at 2001 Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Durham, North 

Carolina. Oct. 4-7) 

17. *Miller, A., A. Thota, B. Thompson and R. Jung. Locomotor recovery after incomplete spinal cord 

injury in the rat. National Conference on Undergraduate Research. Lexington, KY, March 13-15, 

2001. (Poster presentation by *A. Miller) 

18. *Thota, A.K., S. Carlson and R. Jung. Recovery of locomotor function after treadmill training of 

incomplete spinal cord injured rats. 38 th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium. Copper 

Mountain, Colorado, April 20-22, 2001. (Oral presentation by *A. Thota). 





19. *Woodrich, T. and R. Jung. Entrainment of locomotor rhythm in the lamprey: Experimental 

confirmation of a model prediction. Tenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS- 

2001), San Francisco, CA June 30-July 5, pg. 110, 2001. (Poster presentation by *T. Woodrich with 

R. Jung) 

20. *Miller, A., B. Thompson, R. Jung. Kinematic analysis of locomotor recovery in the partial spinal 

cord injured rat. Annals of Biomed. Eng., vol.28 (Suppl. 1), T11.25, pg. S-113, 2000. (Poster 

presentation by *A. Miller at the 2000 Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, 

Oct. 12 – 14, Seattle, Washington) 

21. *Grandhe, S. and Jung, R. Presence of brain-spinal cord interactions alters lamprey locomotor 

response to periodic perturbation. Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Computational Neuroscience 

Meeting (CNS-2000), Brugge, Belgium, July 16-20, pg. 109, 2000. (Oral presentation by *S. 

Grandhe). 

22. *Wang, H. and R. Jung. Effects of supraspinal-spinal loops on the dynamic evolution of fictive 

locomotion Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS-99), 

Pittsburgh, pg. 89, 1999. (Poster presentation by *H. Wang with R. Jung) 

23. *Li, D. D.S.K. Magnuson, and R. Jung. Non-stationary analysis of extracellular neural activity. 

Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS-99), Pittsburgh, pg. 

89, 1999. (Poster presentation by *D. Li with R. Jung) 

24. *Shao, M. and R. Jung. Robustness of the CGSA in estimating the Hurst exponent from time series 

with fractal and harmonic components. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Computational 

Neuroscience Meeting (CNS-99), Pittsburgh, pg. 89, 1999. (Poster presentation by R. Jung) 

25. *Grandhe, S., Abbas, J.J., Jung, R. Brain-Spinal Cord interactions stabilize locomotor rhythm to 

external perturbation. 36th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium. Copper Mountain, 

Colorado. April 16-18, 1999. (Oral presentation by *S. Grandhe) 

26. Jung, R, J.J. Abbas, E.J. Brauer. Entrainment of an analog VLSI model of lamprey unit pattern 

generator. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 26(1):NE.48, S-99, 1998. (Poster presentation by R. 

Jung) 

27. *Li, D., D.S. K. Magnuson, R. Jung. A non-uniform coupled phase oscillator model for a locomotor 

pattern generator. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 26(1):NE.50, S-99, 1998. (Poster presentation 

by *D. Li with R. Jung) 

28. Grandhe, S. and R. Jung. Periodic perturbation of a neural network model of the lamprey locomotor 

CPG. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 26(1):NE.51, S-100, 1998. (Poster presentation by *S. 

Grandhe with R. Jung) 

29. *Li, D. D.M. Green, D.S.K. Magnuson, and R. Jung. Time-varying analysis of the locomotor rhythm 

generator in neonatal rat spinal cord. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 26(1):NE.49, S-99, 1998. 

(Poster presentation by *D. Li with R. Jung) 

30. *Jung, J. and R. Jung. Brain-spinal cord feedforward-feedback interactions affect output pattern and 

intracellular properties of motor networks in the lamprey. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual 

Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS-98), Santa Barbara, pg. 89, 1998. (Poster presentation 

by R. Jung) 

31. Jung, R. and *S. Generazzo. Perturbation of a neural network model of locomotor control in the 

lamprey. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS-97), Big Sky, 

Montana, pg. 77. July 1997 (Poster presentation by R. Jung) 

32. *Brewer, B. and R. Jung. Effects of external tonic input on the oscillatory output of the lamprey 

locomotor network. 34th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium. Dayton, Ohio, April, 

1997. (Oral presentation by *B. Brewer) 





33. *Brewer, B. and R. Jung. Contributions of pacemaker neurons in a central pattern generator for 

locomotor control. Suppl. to Proceedings of the 15th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference, 

Dayton, OH, 1996. (Oral presentation by *B. Brewer) 

34. Jung, R., T. Kiemel, and A.H. Cohen. Bifurcation analysis of a neural network model of locomotor 

control in the lamprey. Proceedings of the Computational and Neural Systems Conference (CNS-95), 

Monterey, CA, 1995. (Poster presentation by R. Jung) 

35. Jung, R. and M.D. Thames. Cardio-respiratory baroreflex control in rats with chronic myocardial 

infarction. Circulation (Suppl.II), 84(4):2202, 1991. (Oral presentation by R. Jung) 

OTHER ABSTRACTS (* indicates mentored student, # indicates mentored postdoctoral fellow) 

1. Hillen, B.K.*, J.J. Abbas, G. Yamaguchi, R. Jung. Effects of spinal cord injury on musculoskeletal 

parameters in the rodent. Program No. 404.20. 2007 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San-Diego, CA: 

Society for Neuroscience, 2007. Online. (Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 

Nov 3-7, 2007. Poster presentation) 

2. Fairchild, M*, J.W. Graham*, A.V.Iarkov, D.Hagner, R. Jung. Characterization of motoneuron 

morphology in a complete and incomplete spinal cord injury rodent model. Program No. 76.4. 2007 

Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San-Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2007. Online. (Society 

for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, Nov 3-7, 2007. Poster presentation) 

3. Graham, J.W.* and R. Jung. Morphologically realistic computational models of rat hindlimb 

motoneurons after spinal cord injury. Program No. 76.5. 2007 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San- 

Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2007. Online. (Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, San 

Diego, CA, Nov 3-7, 2007. Poster presentation) 

4. Bhowmik, M., D. Channer, S. Allison, R. Herman, R. Jung, J.J. Abbas. Locomotor retraining after 

spinal cord injury using adaptive control of electrical stimulation. Program No. 75.3. 2007 

Neuroscience Meeting Planner. San Diego, CA: Society for Neuroscience, 2007. Online. 

5. Jung, R. “Catalyst: Center of Excellence for Adaptive Neuromechatronic Systems (CEANS)”, 

Science of Learning Centers (SLC) Annual PI Meeting, October 16-17, 2006, Washington DC. 

(Poster presentation) 

6. Lynskey, J. # , T Kanchiku # , Protas, D.*, Abbas, J.J. and R Jung. A Rodent Model for Forelimb 

Neuromuscular Stimulation Based Movement Therapy, 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Poster 

Symposium, March 2, 2007, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (Poster presentation by D. Protas) 

7. Jung, R. Making Injured Neuromusculoskeletal Systems Functional, National Academies Keck 

Futures Initiative conference on “Smart Prosthetics: Exploring Assistive Devices for the Body and 

Mind”, Nov. 9-11, 2006, Irvine, CA. (Poster presentation) 

8. Jung, R. “Catalyst: Center of Excellence for Adaptive Neuromechatronic Systems (CEANS)”, 

Science of Learning Centers (SLC) Annual PI Meeting, October 19-20, 2006, Washington DC. 

(Poster presentation) 

9. Iarkov, A., J. Graham*, T. Kanchiku # ; D. Hagner, R. Jung. Location and 3d reconstruction of 

motoneurons innervating gastrocnemius medialis and tibialis anterior in the rat. Program No. 88.18. 

2006 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Atlanta, GA: Society for Neuroscience, 2006. Online. (Society 

for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Oct 14-18, 2006. Poster presentation) 

10. Lynskey JV # , Kanchiku T # , Abbas JJ, Jung R. A Rodent Model of Forelimb Neuromuscular 

Stimulation for Motor Therapy. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Oct 14-18- 

16, 2006. Program No. 284.12. 2006 Neuroscience Meeting Planner. Atlanta, GA: Society for 

Neuroscience, 2006. Online. (Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Oct 14-18, 

2006. Poster presentation) 





11. Shah, M, M. Kilcoyne, D.Hagner, S.Svarovsky, R.Jung, L.Joshi. Global expression analysis of 

glycoconjugates in rat central nervous system using lectin histochemistry. Glycobiology 16(11), 

2006 (Annual Conference of the Society of Glycobiology, Universal City, CA Nov 15-18, 2006. 

12. Belanger, A*, T. Kanchiku # , M. Mukherjee*, J. Lynskey # , .J.J. Abbas, R. Jung. A Rodent Model of 

Functional Neuromuscular Stimulation Therapy after Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury; Program No. 

105.11. 2005 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2005. 

Online. (Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC. Nov12-16, 2005. Poster 

presentation) 

13. Venkatasubramanian,G.*, T. Kanchiku # , M. Mukherjee*, J.J. Abbas, R. Jung. Functional 

Neuromuscular Stimulation (FNS) Assisted Locomotion in a Paraplegic Rodent. Program No. 

105.12. 2005 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2005. 

Online. (Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting, Washington DC. Nov12-16, 2005. Poster 

presentation) 

14. Greges, M.J., *J.Gullapalli, I. Fugaccia; K.J. Anderson; K. Grisanti; R. Jung; S.W. Scheff; P. Hardy. 

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evaluation of Spinal Cord Injury, Kentucky Science and Engineering 

Foundation Conference and Poster Presentations, Louisville, KY, USA, March 3, 2004. 

15. *Graham, J, V. Booth and R. Jung. Modeling motoneurons after spinal cord injury. NSF IGERT 

Research Day, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, January 30, 2003. (Poster presentation by Joe 

Graham) 

16. *Venkatasubramanian, G., K. Ichihara # , J.J. Abbas, R. Jung. A rodent model for locomotor training 

using functional neuromuscular stimulation. Program No. 498.11. 2003 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary 

Planner. Washington, DC: Society for Neuroscience, 2003. Online. 2003 Society for Neuroscience 

31 st Annual Meeting, Nov. 8-12, 2003, New Orleans, LA. (Poster presentation) 

17. *Veeraraghavalu,K., J.J. Abbas, G. Yamaguchi, R. Jung. Biomechanical model of an unloaded rat 

hindlimb. Program No. 76.20. 2003 Abstract Viewer/Itinerary Planner. Washington, DC: Society for 

Neuroscience, 2003. Online. Society for Neuroscience 31 st Annual Meeting, Nov. 8-12, 2003, New 

Orleans, LA. (Poster presentation) 

18. *Gullapalli, J., K. Grisanti, P. Hardy, R. Jung. Monitoring recovery of spinal cord injury using MRI. 

Kentucky Science and Engineering Foundation Conference, Lexington, KY, USA, March 5, 2003 

(Poster presentation by J. Gullapalli). 

19. Jung, R., *G. Venkatasubramanian, *T. Jensen, L. Knapp, *A.K. Thota, B. Thompson, * N. Ravi and 

T. Coates # . Locomotor therapies in a rodent model of spinal cord injury. Mayo/Asu Research Forum. 

Dec, 7 2002, Scottsdale, AZ (Poster and Oral presentation by R. Jung). 

20. Jung, R., S. Carlson, E. Knapp, B. Thompson *A. Thota, and *N. Ravi. Kinematics of rodent gait 

after incomplete spinal cord injury. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. P853.4, 2002 (Poster presentation R. Jung 

& A. Thota, Society for Neuroscience 30 th Annual Meeting, Nov. 2-7, 2002, Orlando FL.) 

21. *Ravi, N., V. Booth, J.J. Abbas, Jung, R. A two-compartment vertebrate motoneuron model to 

investigate effects of afferent nerve stimulation Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. P667.13, 2002 (Poster 

presentation, N.Ravi & R. Jung at Society for Neuroscience 30 th Annual Meeting, Nov. 2-7, 2002, 

Orlando FL.) 

22. Jung, R., S. Carlson, E. Knapp, *A. Thota, B. Thompson, *N. Ravi, and T. Coates # . Locomotor 

training in a rodent model of incomplete spinal cord injury. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual 

Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Symposium. June 24-26, Lexington, KY, 2002. 

(Oral presentation by R. Jung). 





23. Jung, R., S. Carlson, E. Knapp, N. Ravi, B. Thompson, and A. Thota*. Locomotor training in a 

rodent model of incomplete spinal cord injury, Clinical Advances in Neurorehabilition Science, Sept. 

27-29, 2001, Lexington, KY (Poster presentation by R. Jung) 

24. *Thota, A.K., E. Knapp, B. Thompson, A. Quick, and R. Jung. Kinematic and electromyographic 

analysis of treadmill walking after locomotor training in a rodent model of incomplete spinal cord 

injury. 13 th Annual Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Research Day, Lexington, KY, June 7, 

2001. (Oral presentation by *A.K. Thota). 

25. *Grandhe, S., J.J. Abbas and R. Jung. Periodic perturbation effects on locomotor rhythm and motor 

pattern generation in the lamprey. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 26(2):834.1, 2000. (Poster presentation by 

R. Jung). 

26. Jung, R. Brain-spinal cord interactions in control of locomotion. Proceedings of the Whitaker 

Foundation Biomedical Engineering Research Conf., August 10-13, 2000, San Diego, CA. (Poster 


27. Abbas, J.J. and R. Jung. Bioengineering the nervous system- Approaches to investigate, replace and 

repair the injured spinal cord. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head 

Injury Research Trust Symposium. June 10-13, Lexington, KY, 2000. 

28. Jung, R., E.J. Brauer, and J.J. Abbas. A real-time neuromorphic analog VLSI spinal cord interface 

for rhythmic motor control. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 25(1):422.3, 1999. (Oral presentation by R. Jung) 

29. *Shao, M and R. Jung. Persistent correlation in locomotor rhythm in the presence of brain-spinal 

cord interaction. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 25(1):49.14, 1999. (Poster presentation by R. Jung) 

30. Jung, R. Brain-spinal cord interactions in control of locomotion. Proceedings of the Whitaker 

Foundation Biomedical Engineering Research Conf., 113, August 13-15, 1999, San Diego, CA. 

31. *Wang, H. and R. Jung. Spinal neural organization and brain-spinal cord interaction affect variability 

in spinal motor output. Proceedings of the University of Kentucky Life Sciences Day, Nov.1, 1999, 

Lexington, KY. (Poster presentation by *H. Wang ) 

32. *Li,,D., D. S. K. Magnuson and R. Jung. Characterization of the in vitro locomotor rhythm of the 

neonatal rat. Kentucky Society for Neuroscience Day, Lexington, KY. April 1999. (Poster 

presentation by *D. Li) 

33. *Shao, M. and R. Jung. Persistent correlation in locomotor rhythm in the presence of brain-spinal 

cord interaction. Kentucky Society for Neuroscience Day, Lexington, KY. April 1999. (Poster 

presentation by *M. Shao). 

34. *Grandhe, S., J.J. Abbas and R. Jung. Dynamic brain-spinal cord interactions stabilize locomotor 

rhythm. Kentucky Society for Neuroscience Day, Lexington, KY. April 1999 (Poster presentation by 

*S. Grandhe). 

35. *Wang, H. and R. Jung. Brain-spinal loops alter variability of spinal locomotor output. Kentucky 

Society for Neuroscience Day, Lexington, KY. April 1999. (Poster presentation by *H. Wang). 

36. *Li, D., D.M.Green, T. Sengoku, D. Li, D.S.K. Magnuson and R. Jung. Non-stationary analysis of 

locomotor rhythm evoked by ventrolateral funiculus stimulation in neonatal rat spinal cord. 

Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust 

Symposium. Lexington, KY, pg. 22, 1998. (Oral presentation by R. Jung with D.S.K. Magnuson). 

37. Green, D.M., T. Sengoku, *D. Li, R. Jung, and D.S.K. Magnuson. Characterization of lumbar 

spinoreticular neurons from a physiologically identified locomotor pathway. Proceedings of the 

Fourth Annual Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust Symposium. Lexington, KY, 

pg. 19, 1998. 





38. *Losch, B. and R. Jung. Effects of brain-spinal cord interaction on the CPG locomotor rhythm in the 

lamprey. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 23(1):86.9, 1997. (Poster presentation by *B. Losch with R. Jung) 

39. Magnuson, D.S.K., R. Jung, D.M. Green, T. Sengoku, T.C. Trinder. Pathways and neurons in the 

mammalian spinal cord involved in the generation of locomotor output. Proceedings of the Third 

Annual Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust Symposium. Louisville, KY, June, 

1997. 

40. Jung, R. and A.H. Cohen. Effects of trigeminal input on locomotor pattern and reticular neural 

activity in the lamprey. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Neurons, Networks, and 

Motor Behavior. The University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ, VI-6P, pg. 62, 1995. (Poster presentation 

by R. Jung) 

41. Jung, R. and A.H. Cohen. Effects of trigeminal input on locomotor pattern and reticular neural 

activity in the lamprey. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 21(1):277.3, 1995. (Poster presentation by R. Jung) 

42. Jung, R. and A.H. Cohen. Role of reticulospinal neurons in locomotor control in the lamprey: 

Investigation using a neural network model. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr., 20(2):652.4, 1994. (Poster 


43. Jung, R., T. Kiemel, and A.H. Cohen. Dynamical behavior of a neural network model of locomotor 

control in the lamprey. Proceedings of the Dynamical Neuroscience Workshop. Florida Atlantic 

University, FL, 1994. (Poster presentation by R. Jung) 

44. Jung, R. Ventral medullary organization for cardiorespiratory control. Ann. of Biomed. Eng., 20:142, 

1992. 

45. Jung, R. and M.D. Thames. Baroreflex control of sympathetic and phrenic nerve activity in rats with 

chronic myocardial infarction: impaired central mechanisms. Faseb Jour., 6(4):92, 1992. (Oral 


46. Jung, R., E.M. Adams, N.S. Cherniack, and P.G. Katona. Effects on baroreflex control of arterial 

pressure and ventilation of focal cooling in the rostral ventrolateral medulla (RVLM) of the dog. 

Faseb Jour., 5(4):2170, 1991. (Oral presentation by R. Jung) 

47. Jung, R., E.N. Bruce, and P.G. Katona. Cardio-respiratory responses to a glutamatergic antagonist in 

the rat ventral medulla. The Physiologist, 33(4):96.2, 1990. (Poster presentation by R. Jung) 

48. Jung, R., E.N. Bruce, and P.G. Katona. Tonic and baroreflex effects on arterial pressure and 

ventilation after application of pentobarbital and nicotine on the rat ventral medullary surface. Faseb 

Jour., 3:855, 1989. (Oral presentation by R. Jung) 

49. Jung, R. and P.G. Katona. Arterial pressure and respiratory responses to ramp pressure stimulation of 

carotid sinus baroreceptors in the dog. Fed. Proc., 45:1125, 1986. (Oral presentation by R. Jung) 

INVITED SEMINARS, PRESENTATIONS, PANELS, WORKSHOPS 

1. “Neurotechnology for Making Neural Circuits Functional” Twelfth International Conference on 

Cognitive and Neural Systems (12th ICCNS), Boston University, Boston, MA, May 14–17, 2008. 

(Invited Talk- planned) 

2. “Adaptive Neurotechnology for Making Neural Circuits Functional”, 2008 APS Annual March 

Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 14, 2008. (Invited Speaker in Session on “Artificial Neurons”) 

3. “Neurotechnology for Making Neural Circuits Functional”, 2 nd Annual ASU-BNI Neuroscience 

Symposium, Tempe, AZ, February 16, 2008 (Invited Talk) 

4. “Synergistic Learning: Adaptive Neurotechnology for Promoting Neuroplasticity”, University of 

Utah, November 30, 2007. (Seminar) 





5. “Catalyst: Center of Excellence for Adaptive Neuromechatronic Systems (CEANS)”, Science of 

Learning Centers (SLC) Annual PI Meeting, October 16-17, 2007, Washington DC (Poster). 

6. “Rehabilitation Engineering- Adaptive Neural Systems”, Technology-Enhanced Lifestyles- 

Signature Research Breakfast Forum. Sponsored by Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, ASU & 

City of Tempe; Tempe, October 11, 2007, AZ (Seminar) 

7. “Co-Adaptive (Synergistic) Learning”, position statement presentation and participation at the 

“Future Challenges in Science and Engineering of Learning” workshop, Directorate for Social, 

Behavioral & Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation, Washington DC, July 23-25, 2007 

8. Introductory lecture at the “Neuro-Machine Interfaces: Integrating Biology and Technology to 

Develop Functionally Relevant Devices” Workshop; 16 th Annual Computational Neuroscience 

Meeting, Toronto, Canada. July 12, 2007. 

9. “Making Neural Circuits Functional”. The Nobel Institute for Neurophysiology, Department of 

Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, June 15, 2007. (Seminar) 

10. “Modeling Neuromusculoskeletal Alterations after Spinal Cord Injury”, CRCNS- Collaborative 

Research in Computational Neuroscience, NSF-NIH, Spring 2007 PI meeting, June 2-5, Washington 

DC. (Poster) 

11. “Neuromorphic Engineering: Cognitive and Behaving Systems- Applications”. 2007 Neuromorphic 

Spring Meeting, Porto Conte Ricerche, April 13-15, 2007, Tramariglio, Italy. (Seminar) 

12. Introduction to the “Symposium on Adaptation and Learning in Neuro-Biomechatronic Systems”, 

The Biodesign Institute, March 22 nd , 2007. (Seminar) 

13. “Making Neural Circuits Functional”. Center for Neural Computation and Neural Engineering 

Seminar Series, University of Chicago, March 13, 2007. (Seminar) 

14. “Technology to make neural circuits functional”. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics 

Engineers, Inc Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - Phoenix Chapter, February 15th, 

2007. Tempe, AZ. (Seminar) 

15. “Adaptive Technologies for the Central Nervous System: Are We Changing What it Means to be 

Human”, Public discussion and talk by bioengineer Ranu Jung and bioethicist Jason Robert as part 

of the “Science Café” sponsored by the Consortium for Science Policy & Outcomes, ASU at 

Arizona Science Center, January 19 th , 2007, Phoenix, AZ. (Public Forum) 

16. Selected Participant; 4 th Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference on “Smart 

Prosthetics: Exploring Assistive Devices for the Body and Mind”; November 9-12, 2006, Irvine, CA. 

(Poster) 

17. “Catalyst: Center of Excellence for Adaptive Neuromechatronic Systems (CEANS)”, Science of 

Learning Centers (SLC) Annual PI Meeting, October 19-20, 2006, Washington DC. (Poster) 

18. “Designing Adaptive Engineered Systems. To Promote Adaptation in Neural Systems”, Department 

of Orthopedic Surgery, Yamaguchi University, September 16 th , 2006, Hofu, Japan. (Seminar) 

19. “CRCNS- Modeling Neuromusculoskeletal Alterations after Spinal Cord Injury”, Arizona 

Bioscience Leadership Symposium: Building Collaborations, Sponsors: The Arizona Biomedical 

Research Commission & The Flinn Foundation, June 12-13, 2006, Phoenix, AZ. (Bioengineering 

Research Platform Presentation) 

20. “Preclinical Bioimaging and Spectroscopy at Arizona State University”, Arizona Bioscience 

Leadership Symposium: Building Collaborations, Sponsors: The Arizona Biomedical Research 

Commission & The Flinn Foundation, June 12-13, 2006, Phoenix, AZ. (Bioimaging Research 

Platform Presentation) 


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21. “Modeling Neuromusculoskeletal Alterations after Spinal Cord Injury”, CRCNS- Collaborative 

Research in Computational Neuroscience, NSF-NIH, Spring 2006 PI meeting, June 4-6, Washington 

DC. (Poster) 

22. “SAIF- A Small Animal Imaging Facility”, Sensor, Signal and Information Processing Workshop on 

New Applications of Signal Processing in Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Arizona State University, 

April 28, 2006, Tempe, AZ. (Seminar) 

23. AEMB Industry/Faculty Discussion Panel, Alpha Eta Mu Beta, Biomedical Engineering Honor 

Society Discussion panel member, November 16, 2005. 

24. Invited Participant Integrated Research Team meeting “NeuroProsthetics: Emerging Solutions for 

the Soldier and Society”, U.S. Army Medical Research & Material Command’s (USAMRMC) 

Telemedicine & Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Oct 10-12, 2005, Marina del 

Rey, CA 

25. “Making Neural Circuits Functional”, University of Arizona, Bioengineering, Tuscon, AZ, October 

3, 2005. (Seminar) 

26. “Making Spinal Circuits Functional: Influence of the brain and periphery in the control of 

locomotion”, The Institute of Neuroinformatics ETH-Zurich and The Institute of Neuromorphic 

Engineering, Univ. Maryland joint workshop on “Processing and Generation of Temporal Signals in 

Neural and Neuromorphic Systems”, August 22-24, 2005, Zurich, Switzerland. (Seminar) 

27. “Functional Motor Recovery after Spinal Cord Injury”, Seminar series: Doings in Motor Control, 

University of Arizona, May 6, 2005, Tuscon, AZ. (Seminar) 

28. “Neuromorphic Control of Movement”, Army Research Office Biosciences Workshop “Bugging 

Bugs and Brains: Internal Communications and Applications from Cellular Internals to Mental 

Contents.” May 22-25, 2005. Cashiers, NC (Seminar) 

29. “Bioengineering”, Arizona Bio-EXPO 2005, March 29, 2005, Phoenix, AZ. (Seminar) 

30. Presentation on Rehabilitation Engineering and Neuroscience and Intelligent Prosthetic Systems, 

DARPA site visitors, The Biodesign Institute, ASU, Feb 12, 2005, Tempe, AZ. 

31. Invited Participant, DARPA Advanced Prostheses Workshop, January 10-11, 2005, Ellicott City, 

Maryland 

32. “Rehabilitation Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Engineering at ASU”, DARPA-DSO; June 16, 

2004. Washington DC. (Presentation) 

33. “Interfacing with the nervous system for neuromotor control”. Special session on Neural Interface, 

Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Fall Meeting, Oct. 1-3, 2003, Nashville, TN. (Seminar) 

34. “Variability in Motor Control: Supraspino-Spinal Interactions underlie Fractal Locomotor Rhythms.” 

Mini-Symposium on Nonlinear Dynamics and Control, 25 th Annual International Conference of the 

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Sept. 17-21, 2003, Cancun, Mexico. (Seminar) 

35. “Motor Plasticity after Spinal Neurotrauma: Neuromotor Assessment”, Arizona State University, 

NSF IGERT on Neural and Musculoskeletal Adaptation in Form and Function, Tempe, AZ, April 

17, 2003. (Seminar) 

36. “Brain-Spinal Cord Interactions in the Control of Locomotion: Lessons from a Lower Vertebrate”, 

Case Western Reserve University, NSF IGERT invited speaker, Cleveland, OH, Mar. 3, 2003. 

(Seminar) 

37. “Rehabilitation Neuroscience and Rehabilitation Engineering”, Mayo/ASU Joint Research Forum, 

Scottsdale, AZ, Dec. 7, 2002. (Seminar) 





38. “Research Thrust”, Whitaker Foundation Site Visit, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, Oct 4, 

2002. (Presentation) 

39. “Promoting Recovery, Repair, and Regeneration after Spinal Cord Injury”, Arizona State University, 

Tempe, AZ, September 11, 2002. (Seminar) 

40. “Making Spinal Circuits Functional: the influence of the brain and periphery in the control of 

locomotion”, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, February 27, 2002. (Seminar) 

41. “Locomotor training in a rodent model of incomplete spinal cord injury”, Seventh Annual Kentucky 

Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Symposium, Louisville, KY. June 14, 2000. (Seminar) 

42. “Strategies for locomotor control: Lessons from a lower vertebrate”, University of Twente, Dept. of 

Electrical Engineering, Enchede, The Netherlands, July 21, 2000. (Seminar) 

43. “Biomimetic control of an undulatory living system”, DARPA, Washington D.C., January 7, 2000. 

(Presentation) 

44. “A real-time neuromorphic analog VLSI spinal cord interface for rhythmic motor control”, Society 

for Neuroscience Annual Conference, October 1999, Miami, FL. (Presentation) 

45. “Pathways and neurons in the mammalian spinal cord involved in the generation of locomotor 

output”, Fifth Annual Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Symposium, Louisville, KY. 

July 1999. (Seminar) 

46. “Left Foot Right Foot; There’s A Wocket In My Pocket”, National Society for Black Engineers, 

Regional Conference, Lexington, Kentucky, October 31, 1998, Workshop. 

47. “Neural genesis and control of locomotion: Insights from a primitive vertebrate”, Physics 

Colloquium, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. October 23, 1998. 

48. “Pathways and neurons in the mammalian spinal cord involved in the generation of locomotor 

output”, Fourth Annual Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Symposium, Lexington, 

KY. July 1998 (Presentation with D.S.K. Magnuson). 

49. “Increased variability in motor output with brain-spinal cord interaction”, 35 th Annual Rocky 

Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, Copper Mountain, Colorado, April 1998. (Seminar) 

50. “Modeling and experimental investigations of neural control of locomotion”, Dept. of Biomedical 

Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL. April 1997. (Seminar) 

51. “Modeling and experimental investigations of neural control of locomotion”, Dept. of 

Bioengineering, The University of Toledo, Toledo, OH. March 1997. (Seminar) 

52. “Neural control of locomotion in the lamprey”, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of 

Kentucky, Lexington, KY. February 1997. (Seminar) 

53. “Understanding rhythmic motor behavior using dynamical systems analysis”, Dept. of Mathematics, 

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. October 1996. (Seminar) 

54. “Biomedical engineering”, Society of Women Engineers (Student Chapter), University of Kentucky, 

Lexington, KY. April, 1996. Keynote at annual banquet. 

55. “Overview of biomedical engineering”, Dept. of Biosystems and Agriculture Engineering, 

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. December 1995. (Seminar) 

56. “Locomotor control in the lamprey: Nonlinear systems analysis”, Dept. of Physiology and 

Biophysics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. October 1995. (Seminar) 

57. “Dynamical behavior of a neural network model of locomotor control in the lamprey”, Center for 

Biomedical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. October 1995. (Seminar) 





58. “Experimental and modeling studies of locomotor control in the lamprey”, Dept. of Medicine, 

Howard University, Washington DC. April 1995. (Seminar) 

59. “Modeling and experimental investigations of brainstem control in locomotion”, Dept. of Biology, 

University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC. April 1995. (Seminar) 

60. “Ventral medullary organization for cardio-respiratory control”, Dept. of Chemical, Bio, and 

Materials Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. April 1992. (Seminar) 

61. “Cardiorespiratory baroreflex control in left ventricular dysfunction”, Dept. of Biomedical 

Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. December 1991. (Seminar) 

62. “Cardiorespiratory responses to glutamatergic antagonists in the rat caudal medulla”, Dept. of 

Biomedical Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Sept. 1991. (Seminar) 

63. “Cardiorespiratory control and ventrolateral medulla: experimental results and a neural network 

model”, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Akron, OH. May 1991. (Seminar) 

64. “Role of the caudal ventral medulla in cardiovascular and respiratory control”, Division of 

Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH. March 1991. 

(Seminar) 

65. “Ventral medullary organization for cardio-respiratory control”, Biomedical Engineering 

Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. February 1991. (Seminar) 

66. “Ventral medullary organization for cardio-respiratory control in the rat”, Dept. of Biomedical 

Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. Nov. 1990. (Seminar) 

67. “Ventral medullary organization for cardio-respiratory control: experimental data”, Dept. of 

Medicine "Seminars in Autonomic Control", Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. 

June 1990. (Seminar) 

68. “Role of the ventrolateral medulla in cardio-respiratory control”, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering 

"Research Day", Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. August 1988. (Poster and slide 

presentation.) 

69. “Arterial pressure and respiratory response to ramp pressure stimulation of carotid sinus 

baroreceptors in the dog”, Dept. of Pulmonary Medicine "Pulmonary Research Seminars", Case 

Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH. March 1986. (Seminar) 

70. “Medical Instrumentation”, Dept. of Electronics Engineering “All India student seminar and paper 

contest in electronics”, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, 1981. (Seminar) 

INVITED CLASSROOM LECTURES 

1. Invited lecturer, “Organization of the neuromuscular plant and spinal reflexes” in Human Systems 

Neuroscience, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. October 3, 2006 

2. Invited lecturer, “Computational Neuroscience for Bioengineers” in BME 100; Dept. of 

Bioengineering, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 

November 14, 2006 

3. Lecture series; Lecture 1:‘Spinal Neurotrauma’; Lecture 2: ‘The complexity of addressing recovery 

and repair of a nonlinear system’; 4 th International Workshop on “Biocomplexity from System to 

Gene”, July 18-24, 2004, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH. 

4. Invited lecturer, “Bioengineering” in ECE 100: Introduction to Engineering Design for Ira A. Fulton 

School of Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. July 8, 2004 

5. Panel on Ethics in Neurobiology Research, Bio 416/HPS 410: Professional Values in Science Class, 

School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, April 28, 2004. 





6. “Neural control of movement”, NSF-REU program for Anatomy and Neurobiology, University of 

Kentucky, Lexington, KY, June, 2000, 

7. “Central chemoreceptors”, Dept. of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Feb. 13, 

1998. Guest lecture in graduate course titled “Advanced Respiration”. 

8. “Overview of sample problem”, NSF-REU program for Math and Engineering, University of 

Kentucky, Lexington, KY. June, 1997. 

9. “Analysis of Neural Excitability I: Neuron Behavior”, Dept. of Mathematics, University of 

Kentucky, Lexington, KY. April, 1997. Guest Lecture in graduate class titled “Bifurcations and 

Chaos.” 

10. “Analysis of Neural Excitability II: Phase Resetting”, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, 

Lexington, KY. April, 1997. Guest Lecture in graduate class titled “Bifurcations and Chaos.” 

11. Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. April 1997. Substitute 

Guest lecture in graduate class titled “Signals and Systems I”. 

12. Presented software used for model analysis and led informal discussion group on ‘Central Pattern 

Generators for Locomotion’ at a three week international workshop on Neuromorphic Engineering 

funded by NSF, The Gaspie Foundation (UK), and California Institute of Technology. Telluride, CO, 

July, 1996. 

13. “Central chemoreceptors”, Dept. of Physiology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. Spring 

1996. Guest lecture in graduate course titled “Advanced Respiration”. 

14. “Neural networks”, Dept. of Mathematics, NSF-REU program for Math and Engineering, University 

of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. June, 1996. 

15. “Respiratory control: CPGs and dynamical analysis”, Dept. of Zoology, University of Maryland, 

College Park, MD. March 1995. Two guest lectures in graduate course titled “Fundamentals in 

Cognitive Neuroscience”. 

OFFICES 

INTERNATIONAL FEDERAL COMMITEES 

August 2004 Canada Foundation for Innovation/Fondation canadienne pour l'innovation, 

Canada; Reviewer for New Opportunities Fund. 

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITEES 

Aug ’06-July ’09 Organization for Computational Neuroscience, Inc.; President (International 

Panel). 

Jan ’03-July ’06 Organization for Computational Neuroscience, Inc.; Board of Directors 

(International Panel). 

April ’97-current Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium, Inc.; Board of Directors 

(International Panel). 

July ’97-July ’00 Computational Neuroscience Meeting; Program Committee (International 

Panel). 

NATIONAL (US) FEDERAL COMMITEES 

National Institutes of Health 

Special Emphasis Panel- ZRG1-BST-E(51) on Predictive Multiscale Models of the 

Physiome in Health and Disease, Panel Member, Washington DC, May 21, 2008 





Special Emphasis Panel- ZRG1-SBIB-C (40) P, Site reviewer, University of Southern 

California Biomedical Simulations Resource, Los Angles, CA, March 7-9, 2008 

Neurotechnology Working Group; Panel Member, March 12, 2007 

Sensorimotor Integration Study Section (SMI); Panel Member, Feb 20, 2007 

Respiratory Integrative Biology and Translational Research (RIBT), Panel Member, 

10/11/2006 

Respiratory Integrative Biology and Translational Research (RIBT), (previously RAP and 

RESP) Regular study section member, 10/2002-9/2006 (Four year term; 3 review 

panels a year in February, June and October) 

Integrative, Functional, and Cognitive Neuroscience (IFCN-C (02)); Panel Member, Nov. 

12, 2004 

Integrative, Functional, and Cognitive Neuroscience (ZRG1- IFCNB 05); Panel Member, 

Mar. 16, 2004 

Respiratory (RESP); Phone Reviewer; March. 2002 

Integrative, Functional, and Cognitive Neuroscience (IFCN-8); Panel Member, Feb. 2002 

Regulatory and Applied Physiology (RAP); Phone reviewer, Nov. 2001 

Regulatory and Applied Physiology (RAP); Panel Member, June 2001 

Regulatory and Applied Physiology (RAP); Ad-hoc Reviewer, Oct. 2000 

Regulatory and Applied Physiology (RAP); Panel Member, March 2000 


IGERT pre-proposal panel, National Science Foundation, June 18-19, 2007 

Science of Learning Centers, Site visit advisory board, Apr 29-May 1, 2007 

Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS), Panel Member, March 2- 

3, 2006. 

Science of Learning Centers, Site visit advisory board, October 26-28, 2005 

Directorate for Engineering, Division of Engineering Education and Research Centers, Site 

visit team member (Neuromorphic Engineering Research Center at California 

Institute of Technology), November 8-10, 2004 

Integrative Biology and Neuroscience: Computational Neuroscience Panel Member. June 3- 

4, 2004. 




Directorate for Biological Sciences, Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research (FIBR), 

Ad-hoc Reviewer, May 2003 

Cognitive Neuroscience (COGSCI), Panel member, December 12-13, 2002 




DMS: Special Programs Reserve, September 2002 (Ad-hoc reviewer) 



Institute of Technology), January 2002 

Integrative Animal Biology; Ad-hoc Reviewer, August 2001 

Office of Integrative Activities (Science and Technology Centers); Ad-hoc Reviewer, May 

2001 

Information Technology Research/IBN; Ad-hoc Reviewer, April 2001 

Applied Mathematics; Ad-hoc Reviewer, April 2001 

Biocomplexity; Ad-hoc Reviewer, June 2000 

Integrative Biology; Ad-hoc Reviewer, April 2000 

Computational Neuroscience; Ad-hoc Reviewer, April 2000 





Instrumentation and Instrument Development; Ad-hoc Reviewer, Sept. 1999 

Computational Neuroscience, Ad-hoc Reviewer, 1998. 

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA 

Life and Biomedical Sciences and Applications Division panel member; 1995 

Life and Biomedical Sciences and Applications Division panel member; 1994 

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITTEES 

July’07- present 

NIH: Neural Interfaces Conference; Steering Committee member. Conference 

supported by U13 NS060636 (PI: Hunter Peckham, PhD Case Western Reserve 

University). 

’98-‘02 Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network (National Panel; 

representative for University of Kentucky. 

June’97-June’99 Society of Women Engineers; Women in Academia (National Panel; 

representative for Region G). 

’95-’98 Society of Women Engineers; Council of Section Representatives (National 

panel; representative for Bluegrass Section, Region G). 

PRIVATE FOUNDATION COMMITTEES 

Feb’03-present Flinn Foundation, Bioengineering Technology Platform Engagement Committee 

Member (Alternate Chair), Phoenix, AZ 

Nov’ 04- present Flinn Foundation, Bioimaging Platform Engagement Committee Member, 

Phoenix, AZ 

INSTITUTIONAL COMMITTEES 

’06- present President’s Academic Advisory Council, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 

(Office of the President) 3-year term 

May’07-present Member, Faculty International Committee, Arizona State University, Tempe, 

AZ (Office of the VP for Global Engagement) 3-year term 

May’07- Aug’07 Member, Graduate Faculty committee, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 

(Office of the Graduate School) 

’03-Aug‘07 Promotion & Tenure Committee member, Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, 

Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 

’03-‘07 International Academic Programs; Committee member, Arizona State 

University, Tempe, AZ. 

Sept’06-May’07 Executive Board Member, Faculty Womens’ Association, Arizona State 

University, Tempe, AZ 

July’06-June’07 Board Member, Asian American Faculty and Staff Association, Arizona State 

University, Tempe, AZ 

Dec ’05-May ’06 Member, Provost Search Committee, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 

Fall ’05- April’07 Member, Personnel Committee for Research Faculty, The Biodesign Institute, 

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 

Fall ’03-Spring ‘04 Office of Research and Sponsored Programs Search Committee member, 

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 

’03-‘06 Dean’s Advisory Council member, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, 

Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. 

’96-‘02 Society of Women Engineers; Counselor for student chapter at The University 

of Kentucky, Lexington, KY. 





’93-’95 Society of Women Engineers; Counselor for student chapter at The Catholic 

University of America, Washington D.C., ‘93-’95. 

’80-’81 Treasurer for IEEE student chapter, Regional Engineering College, Warangal, 

A.P., India. 

EDITORIAL SERVICES 

ASSOCIATE EDITOR: 

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (January 2007-present) 

ADHOC REVIEWER: 

Journals: 

Conferences: 

Annals of Biomedical Engineering 

American Journal of Physiology (Heart and Circulatory Physiology) 

Biomedical Science and Instrumentation 

Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews 

Experimental Neurology 

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering 

IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 

Journal of Applied Physiology 

Journal of Neuroscience 

Journal of Neurophysiology 

Journal of Neuroscience Methods 

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 

Neurocomputing 

Synapse 

Computational Neuroscience Conference 

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference 

Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Conference 

National Conference for Undergraduate Research 

RECENT MEDIA EXPOSURE (SELECTED) 

Newswise: Released Wed 05-Mar-2008; “Largest Physics Meeting of the Year, in New Orleans’. 

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/538345/ 

2007 Dean’s Report, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, ASU; Fall ’07; Signature Research: 

Repairing Damaged Nervous Systems 

http://www.fulton.asu.edu/fulton/news/documents/deansREPORT_2007_000.pdf 

Full Circle Magazine, Ira A Fulton School of Engineering, ASU; Fall ‘07; “To Walk Again” 

http://www.fulton.asu.edu/fulton/news/publications/Fall2007_Full%20Circle.pdf 

Arizona Bioscientist (blog). July 30, 2007; “Ranu Jung and the 16th Annual International 

Computational Neuroscience meeting” 

http://azbioscientist.blogspot.com/2007/07/ranu-jung-and-16th-annual-international.html 

NIBIB- E-Advance; April 28, 2006; “Tiny Neural Clamps Make Connections” 

http://www.nibib.nih.gov/publicPage.cfmpageID=4510 

Arizona Republic Feb 9, 2006; Pair Look to Reboot the Brain 

Flinn Foundation, Jan 23, 2006; Meet the Players-Two Family…. 

http://www.flinn.org/bio/article.cms/itemid=b_mtp_jung_kinetic 

Crain’s Cleveland Business- on the web, Editor’s Choice: Feb 13, 2006 

ASU Foundation “Researcher Ranu Jung Receives Honor”, 2006 (web posting) 





Biodesign News Detail: August 9, 2006 (web posting) “Biodesign's Ranu Jung Elected President of 

the Organization for Computational Neuroscience” 

EMBO reports 6, 2, 108–110, 2005; When Mind Meets Machine 

http://www.nature.com/embor/journal/v6/n2/full/7400344.html 

NCRR, July 12, 2005; “High End Instrumentation Grants” 

http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/jul2005/ncrr-12.htm 

Flinn Foundation, Oct 5, 2005; “ASU Researchers Receive 3.9 million in NIH Grants” 

http://www.flinn.org/bio/article.cms/itemid=b_fn_asu_3_9m_nih 

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES 

American Association for the Advancement of Science (Member, ‘91) 

Biomedical Engineering Society (Member) 

Organization for Computational Neuroscience (President,’06-‘09) 

Organization for Computational Neuroscience (Board Member,) 

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (Student Member, Member, SM 01/06) 

International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society (Member) 

National Neurotrauma Society (Member) 

Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Society Org. (Board Member) 

Society for Neuroscience (Member) 

Society of Women Engineers (Senior Member, 1993) 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE (ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: 2002-PRESENT) 


Oct’ 06 - present Member of the ASU President’s Academic Advisory Council 

May ’07 - present Member of the Faculty International Committee (Three year term) 

April ’07 – Aug’07 Member of the Graduate Faculty Committee 

Sept’ 06 - May’07 Member of the Executive Board, Faculty Women’s Association 

July’ 06 - July’07 Member of the Board, Asian American Faculty and Staff Association 

Dec ’05 - Aug’06 Member, Provost Search Committee, Arizona State University 

Feb ’03 - present Co-Chair (alternate from’03-’06 Fall) and Representative from ASU 

to the Bioengineering Technology Platform Engagement Committee, 

organized by the Battelle Research Institute for the Flinn Foundation, 

Phoenix, AZ 

Nov’ 03- present Representative from ASU to the Bioimaging Platform Engagement 

Committee, organized by the Battelle Research Institute for the Flinn 

Foundation, Phoenix, AZ 

Spring 2003-Spring 2007 Member, Committee on International Academic Programs 

The Biodesign Institute 

October ’05- April’07 

Fall 2003 

Member, Personnel Committee for Research Faculty, The Biodesign 

Institute 

Member, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Administration 

(ORSPA) search committee 

Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering 

April 19, 2006 

Fulton Discovery Series Tour- Presentation to lay public 

Fall 2003-Spring 2007 Member, Fulton School of Engineering Academic Standards 

Committee 





Fall 2003-Spring 2006 

Member, Deans Advisory Council 

Harrington Department of Bioengineering 

April 18, 2008 

MS defense committee (David Hunn, BME) 


Doctoral Defense Committee Chair (Mallika Fairchild, BME) 


MS defense committee (Alex Pacanowsky, BME) 

Fall 2003 – Sept, 2007 Member, Promotion and Tenure Personnel Committee 

October 12, 2007 Prospectus Exam Committee Chair (Mallika Fairchild, BME) 

April 26, 2007 

Prospectus Exam Committee (Alison Sitek, BME) 

June 22, 2007 

Prospectus Exam Committee Chair (Joe Graham, BME/IGERT) 

April 19, 2007 

MS defense committee (Tingting Wang, BME) 

Feb. 22, 2007 

Doctoral defense Committee (Tilak Jain, BME) 

January 9, 2007 

Prospectus Exam Committee (Yang Chenhui, EE) 

August 4, 2006 

MS defense committee (Shelly Allison, BME) 

July 28, 2006 

MS defense committee (Erin Gaekel, BME) 

May 20, 2006 

Prospectus Exam Committee (Paula Stice, BME) 

May 2, 2006 

MS non-thesis project defense committee (Inbal Lapid, BME) 

April 5, 2006 

MS defense committee (YeoChen Na, BME) 

April 20, 2006 

Prospectus Exam Committee (Tilak Jain, BME) 

April 5, 2006 

MS defense committee (YeoChen Na, BME) 

March 8, 2006 

Comprehensive Exam Committee (Jack Goble, BME) 

February 27, 2006 Prospectus Exam Committee (Jerry Tian, BME) 

February 17, 2006 Comprehensive Exam Committee (Massoud Khairiache, BME) 

January 12, 2006 Qualifying Exam Committee 

Fall 2004 

Doctoral defense Committee (Derek Dosdall, BME) 

Fall 2004 

Comprehensive Exam Committee (Remy Walhoun, BME) 

April 25, 2003 

Judge, Biomedical Engineering Research Day 

Service to Interdisciplinary Education 

Fall 2003- present Steering Committee member in NSF IGERT Program on Neural & 

Musculoskeletal Adaptation in Form & Function 

Fall 2004- present Mentor in SOLUR (School of Life Sciences Undergraduate Research) 

program 

Fall 2007-present Mentor in NASA intern program 

UNIVERSITY SERVICE (UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY: 1995-2002) 


Spring, Fall 2001 Member, Faculty Search Committee 

August 2000 

Member, Website Development Committee. 

Fall 1999-Summer 2000 Member, Research and Program Development Committee for 

submission of Special Opportunities Research Proposal to The 

Whitaker Foundation. 

Fall 1999 

Wrote draft of part of the report for Self-Assessment of the Center for 

Biomedical Engineering, University of Kentucky. 

Sept. 1997-Summer 1998 Member, Research and Program Development Committee for 

planning and submission of Special Opportunities Research Proposal 

to The Whitaker Foundation. 

Fall 1998 

Responsible for leading the group and developing the student 

recruitment flyer for the Center for Biomedical Engineering. 





Service to Interdisciplinary Education 

Fall 2000-Spring 2002 Mentor to high school junior/senior (Annika M. Quick) in Math, 

Science and Technology program run by Paul Dunbar High School, 

Lexington, KY. 

June 2002-July 2002 Research mentor for summer fellow accepted by the ‘NSF-REU 

program in Anatomy and Neurobiology’ at the University of 

Kentucky. (Jason Jackson, Kentucky State Unviersity, Biology Major) 

Summer 1999 Electrical Engineering and Physics - Research mentor for 

undergraduate student (Ryan Porter). 

Spring 1999 

Mentor to high school senior in Math, Science and Technology 

program run by Paul Dunbar High School, Lexington, KY. 

Fall 1999 

Gave introduction on Biomedical engineering to high school students 

on visit to the Center. 

1998-1999 Mentor to high school junior/senior (Amber Miller) in Math, Science 

and Technology program run by Paul Dunbar High School, 

Lexington, KY. 

July 1998 Anatomy and Neurobiology - Acted as research mentor during an 8 

week rotation for Ph.D. student (Tomoko Sengoku). 

1998 Biosystems and Agriculture Engineering - Research mentor for 

Undergraduate (Leigh Bonta) 


program in Math and Engineering’ at the University of Kentucky. 

(Katie Evans, Morehead State Univ., Mathematics major) 

September 1997 Presentation to incoming graduate students in the Department of 

Physiology to provide them information and options for research in 

Computational Neuroscience 



(Dan Bernstein, Cornell University, Computer Science major) 

June 1997 Presented laboratory tour showing research in Biomedical 

Engineering to undergraduate students participating in the NSF 

funded ‘REU program in Math and Engineering’ at the University of 

Kentucky. 

Fall 1995-Spring 1998 Acted as liaison between the Biosystems and Agriculture Engineering 

(BAE) department and the Center for Biomedical Engineering at the 

University of Kentucky, in organizing a pre-biomedical engineering 

technical option for undergraduate students in BAE. 

July 1996 

Organized presentation of Biomedical Engineering Research (three 

laboratories) to middle school students participating in the Pre- 

Freshman Enrichment Program (PREP’96) held in the College of 

Engineering at the University of Kentucky. 



(Sue Generazzo, University of Massachusetts, Mathematics major) 

June 1996 

Organized and presented research in Biomedical Engineering to 

undergraduate students participating in the NSF funded ‘REU 






Service to retention of Women in Engineering (selected) 

Summer 2002 

Participated in “Young Women in Science” University of Kentucky 

program for the state of Kentucky by including two high-school girls 

in research laboratory work. 

October 2001 

Participated in the “Evening with Industry” program held prior to the 

Engineering career fair. Career fair sponsored and organized by the 

University of Kentucky student chapter of the Society of Women 

Engineers. 

September 2001 Attended the Chartering of the Society of Women Engineers Student 

Chapter at the Paducah Campus, Paducah, KY. 

Summer 2001 

Participated in “Young Women in Science” University of Kentucky 

program for the state of Kentucky by including two high-school girls 

in research laboratory work. 

April 2001 

Member of committee for awarding “Margaret Ingels Society of 

Women Engineers Graduate Fellowship”. 

November 2000 Help establish and draft application package for the “Margaret Ingels 

Society of Women Engineers Graduate Fellowship” to be awarded 

starting Fall 2001. 

October 2000 

Participated in the “Evening with Industry” program held prior to the 



Engineers. 90 companies at career fair. 

August 2000 

Participated in welcome retreat for Women in Engineering Program 

(Incoming women freshmen in engineering). 

June 2000 

As counselor, accompanied students from the Society of Women 

Engineers student section to the National convention held in 

Washington DC. The student section won a TRW Foundation 

Scholarship, and one academic fellowship. Set up a booth for UK 

College of Engineering at the national career fair. 

1999 As counselor helped with the drafting of the guidelines for 

establishing an endowment for the “Margaret Ingles Society of 

Women Engineers Graduate Fellowship” offered by the Society of 

Women Engineers Student Chapter at University of Kentucky. 

($50,000 endowment shared equally by SWE and the State of 

Kentucky through a Research Challenge Trust Fund) 

October 1999 

Participate in the “Evening with Industry” program held prior to the 



Engineers. 72 companies at career fair. 

August 1999 



July 1999 

As faculty advisor, provide support to the student body of the Society 

of Women Engineers. The Society won the Best Student Section 

award for the Region (26 sections encompassing Ohio, Kentucky, 

Pennsylvania, and West Virginia), the TRW Foundation 

Scholarship, and placed second in the National SWE Matter Bowl. 

November 1998 Guided and helped organize the Region-G Society of Women 

Engineering Regional Conference hosted by the University of 

Kentucky and the Bluegrass section. 





August 1998 

July 1998 

October 1998 

November 1997 

October 1997 

August 1997 

July 1997 

Spring 1997 

March 1997 

February 1997 

November 1996 

November 1996 

June 1996 

Financial Support: Solicited funds from several industries for 

support of the Region-G conference. 



As counselor, accompanied students from the Society of Women 

Engineers student section to the National convention held in Houston, 

Texas. At the National level (Ten Regions) the UK student section 

won the award for Best Student Section in the Nation, the National 

Team Tech Award, The Best Audio-Visual Presentation, a 

Freshmen Academic Scholarship, and the TRW Foundation 

Scholarship. At the Regional level (26 sections encompassing Ohio, 

Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia) the section was the Best 

Student Section. Set up and manned a booth for UK College of 

Engineering at the career fair. Contacted industry representatives (30- 

40) to increase industry participation in UK career fair and to get 

information about summer internships and co-op opportunities for 

students. 

Participated actively in the Evening with Industry program held prior 

to the Engineering career fair. 

Represent Bluegrass Section, Region G and the University of 

Kentucky at the Regional Society of Women Engineers Conference at 

Pennsylvania State University, PA; Drive students to the conference. 

Attended “Evening with Industry” prior to the University of Kentucky 

annual career fair. 

Participated in the Faculty/Students/Industry Group Interaction at the 

“Women in Engineering” welcome retreat. 

Represented Bluegrass Section, Region G and the University of 

Kentucky at the national Society of Women Engineers Conference in 

Albuquerque, New Mexico; Made contacts with company 

representatives to increase industry participation in UK career fair; 

accompanied the student members as their counselor. The UK student 

section won the National Scribe award, second place for the 

National Team-Tech award, Best Student Section in the Region, 

and a TRW Foundation Scholarship. 

Accompanied SWE, University of Kentucky student chapter officers 

and directors for overnight retreat. Organized activity for team 

building and negotiating skills and helped with the prospective 

planning for the new fiscal year. 

Judge for University of Kentucky SWE Scholarships. 

Judge for University of Kentucky Society of Women Engineers 

Freshmen Scholarships. 

Represented Bluegrass Section at the Region G Society of Women 

Engineers Conference (responsible for submitting section reports; 

required to attend Regional and National meetings). 

Invited Participant; Panel on ‘Motherhood and Career” organized by 

Society of Women Engineers, University of Kentucky student chapter. 

Judge for Society of Women Engineers Student Section reports for 

Region G. 





STAFF & STUDENTS SUPERVISED AND MENTORED 

STAFF 

Alex, Iarkov, PhD, Research Scientist, Aug. ’04 - present 

James V. Lynskey, PhD, PT, Asst. Research Scientist, July ’06- present 

Diane Hagner, BS. Research Analyst, Senior, July ’04- Mar’07 

Anil Thota, M.S., Laboratory Coordinator and Engineer, Apr. ’04- October’05. 

Alana La Belle, M.S., Project Engineer, Oct ’03 – July ‘04 

Elizabeth Ashton, B.S., Research Coordinator, July ’03 – July ‘04 

Elizabeth A. Knapp, M.S., Principal Research Analyst, Feb.’01-Oct.’02 

Brian Thompson, M.S., Sr. Research Analyst, Oct.’99-Sept.’02 

John Alton, Research Tech, Mar’ 02-July ‘02 

Fahad Fahoudi, Research Technician, Jan.’91-July ’92. 

Jeanine Elliott, Administrative Assistant, Feb ’07-present 

Betsy Arnold, Program Coordinator, Jan’07- Sept’07 

Eona Lewis, BS, Program Coordinator, January ’05 – Sep’06 

Melissa Magyar, BS, Administrative Assistant, Fall’04-Fall’05 

POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS 

Seung-Jae Kim, PhD, Aug’06-present 

James Lynskey, PhD, PT, Dec.’04-June ‘06 

Current Status: Assistant Professor - Physical Therapy, AZ School of Health Sciences, A.P. 

Still University, Joint Appointment as Research Scientist, Center for Adaptive Neural 

Systems, Arizona State University 

Tsukasa Kanchiku, MD, PhD., Aug.’04- June ‘06 

Current Status: Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, 

Japan 

Kazuhiko Ichihara, MD, Ph.D., Feb.’03- July ‘04 

Current Status: Chief Doctor - Orthopedic Surgery, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, 

Kyoritsu Hospital, Yamaguchi, Japan 

Thomas D. Coates, Ph.D., Aug.’01- July ‘02 

GRADUATE STUDENTS 

Primary Dissertation/Thesis advisor for: 

Active: 

Brian Hillen, PhD program, Started June 2005, Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, Arizona 

State University 

Research Supported by: NIH:R01NS054282 

Conferences attended: 

Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, 2007, San Diego, CA (International 

Conference; Poster presentation) 

Mallika Fairchild nee Mukherjee, PhD program, Started August 2004, Harrington Dept. of 

Bioengineering, Arizona State University 

Expected graduation: Fall 2008 

Thesis title: Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation Therapy in a Rodent Model of Spinal 

Cord Injury 

Research Supported in part by: NIH:R01NS054282 






Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, 2005, Washington DC (International 


Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, 2007, San Diego, CA (International 


Abstracts published: 5 reviewed, 2 un-reviewed. 

Conference Papers: 1 published 

Joe Graham, PhD program, Started August 2003, IGERT and the Harrington Dept. of 

Bioengineering, Arizona State University; Expected graduation Spring 2008 

Thesis title: Modeling Motoneurons and the Effects of Spinal Cord Injury 

Research Supported by: NIH:R01NS054282 




CNS*2007, Toronto, Canada (International Conference; Poster presentation) 

Journal Papers: 1 published, 1 in preparation 


Graduated: 

Adam Bellinger, MS, August 2003-December 2005 Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, 


Thesis title: The Effects of Therapeutic Neuromuscular Stimulation Following Incomplete 

Spinal Cord Injury. 

Research Supported in part by: NIH:R01HD40335 

Current Status: Engineer, BioRec, Inc. Tempe, AZ 

Journal Papers: 1 published, 1 in preparation 



Ganapriya Venkatasubramanian, M.S., August 2002-August 2005, Harrington Dept. of 


Thesis title: A Rodent Model for Locomotor Training after Spinal Cord Injury Using 

Functional Neuromuscular Stimulation. 

Research Supported by: NIH:R01HD40335 

Current Status: Research Associate, Sports Injury Prevention Center, Department of 

Kinesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI. 


National Neurotrauma Society, 2004, San Diego (International Conference; Poster 

presentation) 

National Neurotrauma Society, 2005, Washington DC (International Conference; Poster 

presentation) 



Journal Papers: 2 submitted 


Book Chapters: 1 published 


Anil Thota, M.S. program, August 2000-April 2004, Center for Biomedical Engineering, 

University of Kentucky 





Thesis title: Neuromechanical Control of Locomotion in the Intact and Incomplete Spinal 

Cord Injured Rat. 

Research Supported by: Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust and 

NIH:R01HD40335 

Current Status: Research Engineer, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH. 

Conferences: 

Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Conference, Durham, NC, October 4-7, 2001. 

(National Conference, Oral Presentation) 

38th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium. Copper Mountain, Colorado. 

April 20-22, 2001. (International Conference; Oral presentation) 

Journal Papers: 2 published. 


Jayaroop Guallapalli, M.S. program, September 2001-August 2004, Dept. of Electrical and 

Computer Engineering, University of Kentucky. (Dr. Peter Hardy took over as primary 

advisor in August 2002 when R. Jung moved to ASU) 

Thesis title: Monitoring Recovery from Spinal Cord Injury Using Magnetic Resonance 

Imaging. 

Research Supported by: Kentucky Science and Education Fund. 

Nirmal Ravi, M.S. program, June 2001-2002, Center for Biomedical Engineering (changed 

advisors and projects when R. Jung moved to ASU) 

Research Supported by: Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust. 

Sarvani Grandhe, M.S., 1997-2000, Degree: Spring 2000. Center for Biomedical Engineering, 


Thesis title: Perturbation Analysis of the Locomotor System. 

Supported by: NIH-RR12588 and NSF (IBN-9601345) to R. Jung 

Current Status: Engineer, Advanced Bionics, CA. 


Ninth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS-2000), Brugge, Belgium, July 

16-20, 2000. (International Conference; Oral presentation) 


April 16-18, 1999. (International Conference; Oral presentation) 

Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, October 10-13, 

1998 (National Conference; Poster presentation) 

Kentucky Society for Neuroscience Day, Lexington, KY, April 1999 (Local Conference; 

Poster presentation) 



Dan Li, M.S., 1997-2000, Degree: Fall 2000. Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of 

Kentucky 

Thesis title: Time Varying Analysis of Rhythmic Locomotor Activity of the In-Vitro Neonatal 

Rat Spinal Cord 

Supported by: Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust (MAR-9606-K3) to R. 

Jung 

Current Status: Research Engineer; Guidant Inc., Minneapolis, MN. 


Eighth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS-99), Pittsburgh, July 18-22, 

1999. (International Conference; Poster presentation) 

3rd International Workshop on Biosignal Interpretation, Chicago, June 12-14, 1999 

(International Workshop; Poster presentation) 





Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Conference, Cleveland, Ohio, Oct. 1998. 

(National Conference; Two Poster presentations) 



Journal papers: 3 published. 

Conference papers (reviewed): 1 published. 


Heng Wang, M.S., 1998-2000, Degree: Fall 2000. Center for Biomedical Engineering, 


Thesis title: Effects of Supraspino-Spinal Interactions on Variability in the Lamprey 

Locomotor Rhythm. 

Supported by: and NSF (IBN-9601345) and The Whitaker Foundation to R. Jung 

Current Status: Ph.D. student, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of 

Michigan. 


Eighth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS-99), July 18-22, 1999, 

Pittsburgh, PA. (International Conference; Poster presentation) 

First Joint BMES/EMBS conference, Oct. 13-16, 1999, Atlanta, GA. (International 

Conference; Oral presentation) 

Society for Neuroscience Annual Conference, Oct. 1999, Miami, Florida, (International 





Conference Papers (reviewed): 1 published. 


Dissertation/Thesis Committee Member: 

Active: 

Yang Chenhui, PhD program, Spring 2007-present; Electrical Engineering, Arizona State 

University 

Advisor: J. Si, Ph.D. 

Paula Stice PhD program, Spring 2006-present, Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, Arizona 

State University. 

Advisor: J. Mutthuswamy, Ph.D. 

Aaron Convaloff, PhD program, Spring 2005-Spring 2006, Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, 

Arizona State University. (Transferred to Purdue University) 

Advisor: A. Panitch, Ph.D. 

Mini Kurian, PhD program, Fall 2005-present, Department of Mathematics, Arizona State 

University. 

Advisor: S. Crook, Ph.D. 

Massoud Khraiche, PhD program, Fall 2005-present, Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, 

Arizona State University. 


Allison Sitek, PhD program, Spring 2005-present, Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, Arizona 


Advisor: J.J. Abbas, Ph.D. 

Munir Khan, PhD program, Spring 2005-present; Electrical Engineering, Arizona State 

University 

Advisor: S. Phillips, Ph.D. 





Brett Szymek, PhD program, Spring 2004-present, IGERT Fellow and Dept. of Biology, Arizona 


Advisor: R. Satterlie, Ph.D. 

Jerry Tian, PhD program, Fall 2003-present, IGERT Fellow and Harrington Dept. of 

Bioengineering, Arizona State University. 

Advisor: J. He, Ph.D. 

Song Paek, MS program, Spring 2004-present, Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, Arizona 

State University 

Advisor: J.Sweeney, Ph.D. 

Ting Yang Chen, MS program, Spring 2008-present, Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, 



Graduated: 

David Hunn, MS program, Fall 2007-Spring 2008 (April 18, 2008), Harrington Dept. of 

Bioengineering, Arizona State University. “A theory of basal ganglia function using nonspecific 

output implemented in a large-scale computational model” 

Advisor: S. Helms Tillery, Ph.D. 

Alex D.Pacanowsky, MS program, Spring 2008 (April 7, 2008), Harrington Dept. of 

Bioengineering, Arizona State University. “The exercise response to voluntary arm crank 

ergometry and electrically stimulated leg cycling in a subject with complete tetraplegia 


Tingting Wang, MS program, Fall 2005-Fall 2007 (April 19, 2007), Harrington Dept. of 

Bioengineering, Arizona State University. “Acoustic biosensor for measuring major 

inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA” 


Tilak Jain, PhD program, Spring 2004-Spring 2007 (Feb 22, 2007), Harrington Dept. of 

Bioengineering, Arizona State University. “Biochip for spatial-temporal electroporation of 

exogenous molecules into secondary cell lines and primary neurons” 


Derek Dosdell, PhD, Fall 2004, Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, Arizona State University. 

Advisor: J. Sweeney, Ph.D. 

Shelly Allison, MS, Spring 2004-Summer 2006 (Aug 4, 2006), Harrington Dept. of 

Bioengineering, Arizona State University; “Adaptive Control of Locomotion During Partial 

Weight Bearing Therapy” 


Erin Gaekel, MS, Summer 2006 (July 28, 2006), Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, Arizona 

State University; “Ramping Through A Hopf Bifurcation: New Insights Into The Memory 

Effect” 

Co-Advisors: V. Pizziconi, Ph.D. and Steve Baer, Ph.D. 

Almir Halilcevic, MS non-thesis, Fall 2006, Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, Arizona State 

University; “Evaluation of PDA Platform for Development of Closed-Loop Functional 

Neuromuscular Stimulation Systems” 

Advisor: J. Abbas, Ph.D. 

Yeochan, Na, MS, Fall 2005, Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, Arizona State University 


Stefani Mulligan, MS, Summer 2005 (Graduated Summer 2005), IGERT and the Harrington 

Dept. of Bioengineering, Arizona State University; “Effect of Deep Brain Stimulation on 

Postural Control in Parkinson’s Disease” 


Munir Khan, MS, Spring 2003-Fall 2004, Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University 

Advisor: S. Phillips, Ph.D. 





Inbal Lapid, MS non-thesis, Spring 2006, Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, Arizona State 

University; “Glycogene Microarrays for Cancer Characterization and Detection” 

Advisor: L. Joshi, Ph.D. 

Niral Patel, MS non-thesis, Fall 2005, Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, Arizona State 

University 


Nancy Quick, Ph.D. program, Expected 2002, Department of Kinesiology and Health 

Promotion), University of Kentucky 

Thesis title: Use of Nerve Conduction Velocity as a Measurement of Mechanical and 

Physiological Alterations during Nerve Stretching 

Advisor: R. Shapiro, Ph.D. 

(Part of her dissertation experiments were performed in the lab. of Dr. R. Jung) 

Junli Ou, M.S. 2001, Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of Kentucky 

Thesis title: Multisegment Movement Control using Functional Neuromuscular Stimulation 


Transferred: 

Manoshi Bhowmik, PhD program, Fall 2005-Fall 2007, Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, 

Arizona State University. (changed dissertation topics in Fall 2007) 


David Meller, PhD program, January 2004-December 2005, Harrington Dept. of Bioengineering, 


Sherry D’Jorio, PhD program, August 2003-June 2004, IGERT and the Harrington Dept. of 


KrishnaMohan Veeraghavalu, M.S. program, January-December 2003, Department of Electrical 

Engineering, Arizona State University (Changed to MS-non thesis option) 

Min Shao, M.S. program, 1998–1999, Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of 

Kentucky; 

Supported by: NSF (IBN-9601345) to R. Jung 






Jeeyune Jung, M.S. program, 1997-1998, Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of 

Kentucky. 

Supported by: The Whitaker Foundation to R. Jung 


Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Nov.1998. (International Conference) 

Journal Papers: 1 published 

Abstracts published: 1 reviewed. 

Breton Losch, Ph.D. program 1996-1998, Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of 

Kentucky 

Supported by: NSF (IBN-9601345) to R. Jung 

Current Status: Ph.D. student in Electrical Engineering, University of Kentucky. 


Society for Neuroscience, New Orleans, Nov. 1998. (International Conference; Poster 

presentation) 






Abstracts published: 1 

Research Rotation: 

Tomoko Sengoku, Ph.D. program, July 1998-August 1998, Interdepartmental Neuroscience 

Program, University of Kentucky 

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS (ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY) 

Bioengineering: 

Andrew Edwards, Junior/Senior Fall2007-Spirng 2008 (Senior Capstone Design; “Malawi 

Polo Leg Brace”) 

James Dupuis, Junior/Senior Fall2007-Spirng 2008 (Senior Capstone Design; “Malawi 


Alison Smith, Senior 

Fall2007-Spirng 2008 (Senior Capstone Design; “Malawi 


Leila Kabiri, Senior 


Group Project: Ida”) 

Mariam Asadalla, Senior Fall2007-Spirng 2008 (Senior Capstone Design; “Malawi 


Ryan Dobbs, Senior 



Natasha Nanda, Sophomore Spring 2008-present (Barrett Honors College - research) 

Ashka Atodaria, Sophomore Summer 2006-Fall 2006 (laboratory participant) 

Sarah Call, Senior 

Fall 2004- Spring 2005 (Capstone Design) 

Cory Fackiner, Freshman Fall 2006- Spring 2007 (laboratory participant) 

Taryn Jensen, Junior-Senior Fall 2002-Spring 2004 

The Barrett Honors College (Thesis Research Advisor) 

Thesis: Posture Control in Rats with Incomplete Spinal Cord Injury 

Senior Capstone Design Mentor 

Current Position: Engineer with Medtronics, Inc. 

Kimberly Yarnall, Sophomore-Junior Fall 2003- Spring 2004 (laboratory participant) 

Follow up Status: MS in Biomedical Engineering, Arizona State University 

Veena Ganeshan, Senior Fall 2003 

The Barrett Honors College (Thesis Research Advisor) 

Crystal Ong Spring 2003 

The Barrett Honors College (Thesis Research, Second Reader) 

Thesis: “Design of Computer Interface Device for Person of Limited Motor Control” 

Anusuya Das, Sophomore Fall 2002 (laboratory participant) 

Follow up Status: PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering, MIT 

Biology/School of Life Sciences (SOLS): 

Robia Hendrix, Sophomore Spring 2008-present (Barrett Honors College - research) 

Jared Bartell, Sophomore Spring 2008-present (School of Life Sciences Undergraduate 

Research (SOLUR) Apprentice; Psychology Major) 

Ashley Diamond, Senior Fall 2007-present (NASA intern;) 

Danielle Protas, Senior Fall 2006 - present (School of Life Sciences Undergraduate 

Research (SOLUR) research fellow & Barrett Honors 

College) 

Ralph Moreno, Junior Fall 2007 

Adrienne Azurdia, Sophomore Spring 2007 (School of Life Sciences Undergraduate 

Research (SOLUR) apprentice) 





Hemali Rajyaguru, Freshman 

Ashley Miller, Freshman 

Alexis Pasulka, Sophomore 

Spring 2006 (School of Life Sciences Undergraduate 

Research (SOLUR) apprentice) 

Fall 2005 (School of Life Sciences Undergraduate Research 

(SOLUR) apprentice) 

Summer 2004 (laboratory participant) 

Electrical Engineering: 

Kyle Komenda, Senior Spring 2004 (Capstone Design) 

Melise Iglesias, Senior 

Mark Mamlouk, Senior 

Vinh Trang, Senior 

Project: “Neuromuscular Stimulator” 

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS (UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY) 

Biology: 

Jasen Jackson, B.S. 

June 2002-July 2002, Kentucky State University. 

Supervised Summer Research (8 weeks) 

Supported by: NSF UK-REU summer fellowship. 

Todd Woodrich, B.S. 

Spring 2000 - Fall 2000, University of Kentucky, Research in 

Biology (BIO-395). 

Report Title: Phase Changes during Periodic Pulse Perturbation 


Tenth Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CNS-2001), Asilomar, CA, June 30 

- July 5, 2001. (International Conference; Poster presentation) 

Abstract: 1 

Aaron Taylor, B.S. 

June 2000-July 2000, St. Norbert College. 


Supported by: NSF UK-REU summer fellowship. 

Follow up Status: PhD (Neuroscience) student , Brown University 

Carissa Coleman B.S. 

Fall 1999, University of Kentucky. 

Research in Biology (BIO-395) 

Justin Kiester, B.S. 

Spring 1998, Univ. of Kentucky, Honors (Biophysics). 

Research in Biology (BIO-395) 

Report Title: Feedforward and Feedback Contributions to the Central Pattern Generating 

Model of Locomotion in the Lamprey. 

Bradley Brewer, B.S. 

Fall 1995, Spring 1996, Fall 1996, University of Kentucky, 

Honors in Biology. Double major in Biology and Chemistry. 

Research in Biology (BIO-395), Supervised Honors Thesis Research 

Honors Thesis Title: Contributions of Pacemaker Neurons to the Central Pattern Generator 

for Locomotor Control in the Lamprey. 

Supported by: Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship 

Follow up Status: MD/PhD (Pharmacology) student , University of Louisville 


16th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conference. Biloxi, MS, April 4-6, 1997. 

(Regional Conference; Poster presentation) 

34th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symp. Dayton, OH, April, 1997. 

(International Conference; Oral presentation) 





Conference papers (reviewed): 1 published 

Abstracts published: 1 reviewed, 1 un-reviewed 

Biosystems and Agriculture Engineering: 

Stefani Mulligan, B.S. Fall 2001, University of Kentucky. 

Independent Study (BME-481G) 



April 20-22, 2002. (International Conference; Oral presentation) 


Follow up Status: MS in Bioengineering student, Arizona State University 

Eddie Kwong, B.S. 

Fall 1999, University of Kentucky. 


Leigh Bonta, B.S. 

1997-1999, University of Kentucky. 

Supervised NSF-REU project 

Supported by: NSF-REU to R. Jung. 

Computer Science: 

Dan Bernstein, B.S. 

June 1997-July 1997, Cornell University. 


Supported by: NSF UK- REU summer fellowship. 


17th Southern Biomedical Engineering Conf., San Antonio, TX, Feb 6-8, 1998. 

(Regional Conference; Poster presentation) 

Conference papers (reviewed): 1 published 

Follow up Status: Doctoral student, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 

Electrical Engineering: 

Karla Conn, B.S. 

Summer 2002, University of Kentucky. 

Supported by: KSCHIRT (0-9A) 

Adam Gerhardstein, B.S. Fall 2000-current, University of Kentucky. 


Chad Thomas, B.S. 

Spring 2000-current, University of Kentucky. 

Independent Problems (EE-595) 

Ryan Porter, B.S. 

Summer 1999, University of Kentucky. 


Supported by: NSF (IBN-9601345) to R. Jung. 

Steve Santapaola, B.S. Fall 1997, University of Kentucky. 


Mathematics: 

Katie Evans, B.S. 

June 1998-July1998, Morehead State University, 


Supported by: NSF UK-REU Summer Fellowship. 

Sue Generazzo, B.S. 

June 1996-July 1996, Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell. 


Supported by: NSF UK-REU summer fellow. 





Book Chapter: 1 published 

Abstracts published: 1 reviewed 

Mechanical Engineering: 

Amber Miller, B.S. 


Supervised Research (Continuing from High School) 


Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting. Seattle, Washington, October 12-14, 

2000. (Poster presentation) 

Follow up Status: BS in Mechanical Engineering, University of Kentucky. 

Abstracts published: 2 reviewed. 

Casey McIntosh,B.S. 


Supervised Research 


35th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioengineering Symposium. Copper Mountain, Colorado, 

April, 17-19, 1998. 

(International Conference; Oral presentation) 

Follow up Status: MS in Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech. University. 

Journal papers: 1 published 

HIGH SCHOOL 

Jioana Zhang 

Lucas Rogers 

Annika Quick 

Amber Miller 

Summer 2006 (Biodesign Institute Summer Fellow), Desert 

Mountain HS, Scottsdale, AZ 

Fall 2005, Corona del Sol High School, Tempe, AZ 

Fall 2000-Spring 2002, Math Science and Technology Center, 

Paul Dunbar High School, Lexington, KY. 

Fall 1997-Spring 1999, Math Science and Technology Center, 

Paul Dunbar High School, Lexington, KY. 

COURSES TAUGHT 

(* indicates new course developed, # indicates new teaching material or topic developed) 

Interdisciplinary (Arizona State University) 

BME 598: Human Systems Neuroscience 

One guest lecturer; 

New teaching material; 

Graduate class in Neuroscience; 

Fall 2006; Spring 2008 

Bioengineering (Arizona State University) 

*BME 598: Computational Neuroscience (4 credits) 

Team taught (one of three instructors); 

Graduate bioengineering students in Neural Engineerign Track; 

Spring 2008 

BME 419: Biocontrols (3 credits) 

Seniors in bioengineering; 

Fall 2007. 

# BME 598: Scientific Communication 

New lecture material developed; 

One lecture (team-taught); Graduate students in bioengineering; 





Fall 2007. 

BME100: Introduction to Bioengineering 

Two guest lectures (Computational Neuroscience for Bioengineers); 


Undergraduate freshman class (96 students) in engineering; 

Fall 2006; Fall 2007; Spring 2008. 

*BME 598P: Neurotrauma: Repair, Regeneration and Functional Recovery (3 credits) 

New course developed; 

Graduate students in engineering, mathematics & life sciences; 

Spring 2004, 2005, 2006. 

*BME 598L: Computational Neuroscience (3 credits) 


Graduate students in engineering, mathematics & life sciences; 

Fall 2003; Spring 2007 

# BME 413/423: Bioinstrumentation I (3 credits) 



Fall 2004, Fall 2005. 

# BME 413/423: Bioinstrumentation Lab (1 credit) 



Fall 2004 

# BME 513/523: Bioinstrumentation I /Bioinstrumentation Lab (3/1 credit) 


Graduate students in bioengineering; 

Fall 2004. 

BME 591A: Neural Engineering/ Molecular& Cell Tissues Seminar Series (Co-in charge with 

JJ. Abbas) (1 credit) 

Fall 2002, Spring 2003, Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004. 

Arranged for weekly seminar speaker for each semester. Speakers from in-state and out-ofstate. 

BME591: IGERT Neural and Musculoskeletal Form and Function (4 credits) 

Team Taught; 

New Material; 

Graduate students in Engineering, Life Science and Anthropology 

Spring 2005 

BME 417: BME Capstone Design I and II 

Individual and Group Student Projects 

Seniors in Bioengineering 

Fall 2003 – Spring 2005; Fall 2007-present 

ECE 100: Introduction to Engineering Design 

One lecture; 

New material; 

Freshmen in Engineering 

Summer 2004 

Electrical Engineering (Arizona State University) 

EEE 489A: Senior Design (2 credits) 

Individual Student Projects 

Seniors in Electrical Engineering 






Spring 2004 

EEE 488A: Senior Design (2 credits) 

Individual Student Projects 

Seniors in Electrical Engineering 


Fall 2003 

Biomedical Engineering (University of Kentucky) 

*BME 579: Neural Engineering-Merging engineering with neuroscience (3 credits) 

New course developed and formally approved, cross-listed as EE 579, initially taught as EE 

599 as described below); 

Graduate students and seniors in engineering; 

Spring 2001, 2002. 

*BME 781-05: Special Topics (Computational Neuroscience) (3 credits) 


Graduate students in engineering; 

Spring 1998, 1999; Fall 2000, 2001. 

*BME 481G: Special Topics (Data Acquisition and Control for Neurophysiology) 


Seniors in engineering; 

Fall 1997, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002. 

#BME 501: Foundations in Biomedical Engineering (3 credits) 

Team Taught; 


Graduate/undergraduate engineering; 

Fall 1999, 2001. 

BME 615: Biomedical Signal Processing I 

Substitute guest lecturer; 

Graduate students in engineering; 

Spring 1997. 

Electrical Engineering (University of Kentucky) 

#EE 499: EE Design, juniors and seniors in electrical engineering (3 credits) 

New topic; 

Spring 2000. 

*EE 579: Neural Engineering-Merging Engineering with Neuroscience (3 credits) 

New course developed and formally approved, cross-listed as BME579; 

Graduate students and seniors in engineering; 

Spring 2001, 2002. 

EE 599: Neural Engineering (3 credits) 

Precursor to EE579/BME 579 described above 

Spring 2001, 2002. 

#EE 595: Independent Problems (3 credits) 

New topic; 

Undergraduates in electrical engineering; 

Spring 2000, Fall 2000. 

Physiology (University of Kentucky) 





#PGY 609: Advanced Respiration (Central Chemoreceptors) 

Team Taught; 


Graduate students in Life Sciences; 

Spring 1996, 1998. 

Biology (University of Kentucky) 

#BIO 395: Research in Biology 

New topic every section; 

Seniors in Biology/Biophysics; 

Spring 1996, 1998, 2000, Fall 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000. 

Mathematics (University of Kentucky) 

#MA 773: Special Problems in Analysis: Bifurcation and Chaos. 

Two guest lecturers; 


Graduate class in Mathematics; 

Spring 1997. 

Other (University of Kentucky) 

Member of Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program at University of Kentucky 

1 Ph.D. student completed research rotation in laboratory. 

Summer Lectures for NSF-REU in Math and Engineering students. 

Offered Research Experience for Undergraduates 

Bioengineering; Biology; Biosystems and Agriculture Engineering; Computer Science; 

Electrical Engineering; Mathematics; Mechanical Engineering.

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