John Seymour
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, McGovern School of Medicine University of Texas Health
Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Rice University
SURF Mentoring
Potential projects/topics: Fusion mechanical design of BCI
Potential skills gained: Electromechanical design, CAD skills
Required qualifications: Any engineering major
Direct mentor: Faculty/P.I., Graduate Student
Student Project Titles List
Optimizing Interconnect Gap Size to Reduce Parasitic Capacitance in Interdigitated Electrodes for Epilepsy Diagnosis
Developing an Affordable Robot Arm to Increase Precision and Yield of Animal Surgeries
Research Areas
Prof. Seymour heads the Translational Biomimetic Bioelectronics Lab, where they seek to develop novel materials and fabrication methods to improve the treatment of neurological disease. His interests are Neuroengineering, Micro-devices, signal processing, engineering design and translation.
