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** Due to the snow storm, the seminar will be rescheduled for Wednesday, March 15, 2017 ** Hakan Töreyin Visiting Researcher Bilkent University Faculty host: Douglas Densmore Light refreshments will be available at 10:45 am. Title: Low-Power, High-Performance, and Smart Circuits and Systems for Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurological Disorders Abstract: According to the World Health Organization, around one billion people worldwide are affected by neurological disorders, ranging from Parkinson’s Disease to peripheral neuropathy. Conclusive diagnosis of many of these disorders can only be made through tests requiring use of large, expensive, time-consuming, and uncomfortable tools, which cannot be operated outside the clinic. Therefore, in most cases, patients visit clinics only when symptoms occur. Such an approach prevents the early detection and therefore lowers treatment success rates. An increasingly popular treatment option for many neurological disorders is neuromodulation therapy and collaborative research efforts of engineers and clinicians over the past decades have significantly improved clinical outcomes from neuromodulation treatment. On the other hand, high power consumption, invasiveness, and open-loop operation limit the use of current neuromodulation systems. This talk will focus on technologies towards creating a new class of wearable and implantable sensing and neuromodulation systems that could be operated by minimally-trained users in uncontrolled settings, thereby potentially enabling timely diagnosis and effective management of neurological disorders. The talk will emphasize electronics and systems design methods for energy-efficiency, high accuracy, and smart operation. The talk will include examples of electronics design for high-resolution biosignal acquisition, system development enabling innovative assessment of biosignals towards proposing new biomarkers, as well as bioinspired physical computation examples for achieving ultra-low-power consumption while performing physiologically-relevant signal processing in hardware in real-time. The talk will also cover research efforts for translation of biomedical electronics and systems into clinical use. Bio: Hakan Töreyin received the B.S. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, and the M.S. and the Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA in 2007, 2008, and 2014, respectively. Dr. Töreyin completed his postdoctoral studies in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016. Currently, he works at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department at the Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey as a visiting researcher. In 2007-2008, he was a Fulbright Fellow and in 2012, he was awarded the Chih Foundation Research Award. At the IEEE EMBC 2014 Student Paper Competition, he was recognized as the North America Finalist and awarded the third prize. Dr. Töreyin’s research interests include energy-efficient circuits and systems design for wearable and prosthetic biomedical applications.