Teresa Davis Hastings

Teresa is a distinguished leader in the field of telecommunications and data analytics, currently serving as a Senior Delivery Manager at Ciena Corporation. A proud alumna of The University of Texas at Austin, she earned her Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering with highest honors in 1981 before completing a Master’s degree at Caltech in 1983.

Jim Derryberry

Jim is a Special Advisor and Managing Director of Riverstone Holdings LLC, which he and two colleagues formed in 2000. Riverstone is a private equity firm that has invested $40 billion in energy entities in 180 companies in 11 countries. He has served on the Boards of Directors of several public entities.

Jim began his career in 1968 at Bell Labs working on advanced ballistic missile defense systems and other DoD programs. He was part of a team that was technical advisor to the 1972 Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT 1).

A Jolt of Innovation for Brain-Computer Interfaces

Did you know it’s possible to control a robotic arm or a wheelchair with just your thoughts, through a device called a brain-computer interface (BCI)? But for many users, learning to operate these systems is slow, difficult and, in some cases, unattainable. José del R. Millán has discovered a novel way to accelerate this learning process: a gentle electrical nudge to the spine before BCI training.

Published by Cockrell School of Engineering
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