Dr. Peckham is a biomedical engineer and is Chairman of the Steering Committee. He is the Donnell Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedics at Case Western Reserve University, Director of the Department of Veterans Affairs Functional  Electrical Stimulation Center, and Director of the Ohio Neuromodulation and Neurostimulation Biomedical Research and Commercialization Program, and Director of Orthopaedic Research at MetroHealth Medical Center. He has led the development of implantable neuroprostheses and their introduction through clinical trials into clinical use.

Dr. Durand is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University. He uses computational neuroscience, engineering and electrophysiology to solve problems in the central and peripheral nervous systems.

Dr. Grill is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. Dr. Grill's research involves design and testing of electrodes and stimulation techniques, the electrical properties of tissue and cells, and computational neuroscience with applications in restoration of the bladder function, treatment of movement disorders with deep brain stimulation, and multi-joint limb movement.

Jaimie Henderson received his B.A degree at Washington University, St. Louis, Biology in 1984, M.D. at Rush Medical College in 1988, Medical Education and Internship at Rush University Medical College, IL in 1988 and 1989 respectively, and completed his residency at St. Louis University Hospital, MO in 1995. Dr. Henderson received his Board Certification in Neurological Surgery at the American Board of Neurological Surgery in 2000. His clinical focus is in Neurological Surgery and Neurosurgery. Dr. Henderson received his administrative appointment at Stanford University Medicine as Director, Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery in 2004, where he is currently serving. He has Graduate and Fellowship Program Affiliations in Neurosurgery. Dr. Henderson conducted Clinical Trials in Safety and Efficacy Study of GAD Gene Transfer Therapy in Parkinson’s disease, (no longer recruiting.) His current research interests encompass several areas of stereotactic and functional neurosurgery, including frameless stereotactic approaches for therapy delivery to deep brain nuclei; deformable patient-specific atlases for targeting brain structures; cortical physiology and its relationship to normal and pathological movement; neural prostheses; and the development of novel neuromodulatory techniques for the treatment of movement disorders, pain, and other neurological diseases.

Diane Hoffman-Kim, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Medical Science and Engineering in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology at Brown University, and Director of Brown’s Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering. Her research program addresses the fundamental science of nerve repair technology, deconstructing the multiple, disorganized cues that neurons face at the site of injury to optimize the neural environment at the micro- and nanoscales. She studied optics and biomedical engineering at the University of Rochester and Brown University, with postdoctoral training in neurobiology at MIT and Harvard University. Following a fellowship as a Science Scholar at the Bunting Institute and a research faculty position at Rhode Island Hospital, she returned to Brown as one of the founding faculty in the Center for Biomedical Engineering. Professor Hoffman-Kim holds 10 patents, teaches BIOL 1140 – Tissue Engineering, and directs a multidisciplinary research program with funding from the NSF and NIH.

Dr. Humayun is a member of the National Academies of Medicine, Cornelius J. Pings Chair in Biomedical Sciences and professor of Ophthalmology at the USC Doheny Eye Institute and the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the Director of both National Science Foundation BioMimetic MicroElectronic Systems Engineering Research Center and the Department of Energy Artificial Retina Project. Dr. Humayun’s research focuses on the treatment of the most debilitating and challenging eye diseases through advanced engineering.

Dr. Leake is the Georgia G. Sullivan Chair in Hearing Research Director of the Saul and Ida Epstein Laboratory in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of California San Francisco. She studies the mechanisms underlying the development of neural connections from the cochlea to the auditory CNS brainstem cochlear nuclei. Her research focuses on improving cochlear implants and their neurotrophic effects on the developing auditory nervous system.

Joseph J. Pancrazio earned a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana, in 1984, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia (UVa), Charlottesville, in 1988 and 1990, respectively. His Ph.D. training focused on the ion channel electrophysiology using the patch clamp technique. After postdoctoral training in pharmacology in the Department of Anesthesiology at UVa as a recipient of a National Research Service Award, he received a joint appointment in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering as an assistant professor of research at the UVa in 1991. In 1997, he joined Georgetown University Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology as an Assistant Professor working at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC. In 1998, he joined the NRL as a Principal Investigator at the Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering, becoming the Head of Code 6920, the Laboratory of Biomolecular Dynamics, in 2002. At the NRL, Dr. Pancrazio led an extramurally supported project including biologists and engineers for the development and demonstration of a biosensor system based cultured neuronal networks for environmental threat detection. He has authored over 80 peer-reviewed publications, several book chapters and review papers, and has two patents. Dr. Pancrazio joined the Repair and Plasticity Cluster of NIH in the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) in January of 2004, where he served as the Program Director for neural engineering and the neural prosthesis program. In October 2009, he joined the faculty in the Volgenau School of Information Technology and Engineering as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the new Bioengineering Program. His research interests center on neural interface technologies, biosensors, and neuropharmacological assay development.

Prof. Shenoy heads the Neural Prosthetic Systems Lab (NPTL) at Stanford University where his group conducts neuroscience and neuroengineeringresearch to better understand how the brain controls movement, and to design medical systems to assist those with movement disabilities. His neuroscience (systems and cognitive neuroscience) research investigates the neural basis of movement preparation and generation using a combination of electrophysiological (single-electrode and chronic electrode-array recordings in rhesus monkeys), behavioral, computational and theoretical techniques. His neuroengineering (electrical, bio, and biomedical engineering) research investigates the design of high-performance neural prosthetic systems, which are also known as brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and brain-machine interfaces (BMIs). These systems translate neural activity from the brain into control signals for prosthetic devices, which assist disabled patients by restoring lost function. This work includes statistical signal processing, machine learning, low-power circuits, and real-time system modeling and implementation. Education, awards and honors include: BS Electrical Engineering, UC Irvine, Summa Cum Laude, Prof. G.L. Shaw (1990); NSF Graduate Fellow (1990-1995); SM Electrical Engineering, MIT, Prof. C.G. Fonstad, Jr. (1992); Hertz Foundation Graduate Fellow (1992-1995); PhD Electrical Engineering, MIT, Prof. C.G. Fonstad, Jr. (1995); Hertz Foundation Doctoral Thesis Prize (1996); Postdoc, Neurobiology, Caltech, Prof. R.A. Andersen (1995-1998); Senior Postdoc, Neurobiology, Caltech, Prof. R.A. Andersen (1998-2001); Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award in the Biomedical Sciences (1999); Assistant Professor, Stanford University (2001-2008); Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (2002); Defense Science Research Council (DSRC/DARPA) Fellow (2003-2005); DSRC/DARPA Member (2005-2009); IEEE Senior Member, Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2006); McKnight Technological Innovations in Neurosciences Award (2007); Associate Professor (tenured), Stanford University (2008-); Program Co-Director/Co-PI, NSF Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) interdisciplinary program entitled, “Emergent Functions of Neural Systems,” part of Stanford’s Center for Mind, Brain and Computation; Editorial board, Journal of Neurophysiology (2008-); Charles Lee Powell Faculty Scholar, School of Engineering, Stanford University (2008-2011); Co-Director (along with Co-Director Prof. Jaimie Henderson), Neural Prosthetics Translational Laboratory (NPTL), part of Stanford Institute for Neuro-Innovation and Translational Neuroscience (SINTN) and Stanford's Bio-X / NeuroVentures program (2009-); 2009 NIH Director's Pioneer Award (2009-2014).

Dr. Weiland is Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Biomedical Engineering University of Southern California. Dr. Weiland's interests include retinal prostheses, neural prostheses, electrode technology, visual evoked responses and implantable electrical systems.