Sheila Nirenberg

IN A NUTSHELL

What if robots could process visual information the way humans do?

ABOUT SHEILA

Sheila Nirenberg is a professor of neuroscience at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the founder of two start-up companies – Bionic Sight LLC, which develops new visual prostheses, and Nirenberg Neuroscience LLC, which develops new kinds of smart robots. Her lab at the university focuses on the basic science of visual processing, and her companies take what’s learned in the lab and use it to develop solutions to real world problems. She’s won numerous awards for innovative research, including a MacArthur Genius Award. Her work on cracking the neural code of the retina has been featured in a TED talk, a BBC documentary, a PBS documentary, the Discovery Channel, Scientific American, and many others.

RECENT PATENTS

Nirenberg, S, Pandarinath, C & Ohioheneuan, I, Retinal Prosthesis, US Patent 9220634, filed 2011 and issued 2/29/15; also issued in Europe, China, Japan, Israel, 2015; other countries pending.

Nirenberg, S and Bomash, I, Retinal Encoder for Machine Vision, US Patent 9547804, filed, 2011 and issued 1/17/17; other countries pending.

Nirenberg, S. Neurological prosthesis, US Patent 9302103, filed, 2011 and issued 04/05/16.

Nirenberg, S. Machine Vision with Data Dimension Reduction, PCT/US2016/028406, filed 2016, patent pending.