Ning Lan International Faculty

Biography

Dr. Ning Lan obtained the Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. He is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of Laboratory of NeuroRehabilitation Engineering, and the Executive Associate Director, Institute of Rehabilitation Engineering, School of Biomedical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), PI of Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Adjunct Professor of Physical Therapy, University of Southern California. His main research interests include: (1) Neural control: computational and experimental studies of sensorimotor control functions and biomechanics of movement; (2) Rehabilitation engineering: designing functional electrical stimulation (FES) systems to retrain or suppress pathological limb movements for patients poststroke or with Parkinson’s disease; (3) Sensory feedback for hand prosthesis: developing transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation paradigm to provide tactile sensory information feedback for prosthetic hand; (4) Biorealistic control of hand prosthesis: computational modeling approach to restoring biorealistic properties of neuromuscular reflex for prosthetic hand. He served as Assistant Editor of IEEE Trans Rehab Engr and IEEE Trans Neural Engr and Rehab. (1997-2001); Associate Editor of Frontiers of Neurorobotics (2022-present), Guest Associate Editor of Frontiers in Computational Neurosciences (2014- present) and Frontiers in Neuroscience (Neuroprosthetics) (2021-present).