Bionic Eye: ICES Researcher Shawn Kelly

Restoring vision to a blind person is the ultimate gift—one that Shawn Kelly has been working on for years. To take his research to the next level, Kelly has recently joined Carnegie Mellon University as a research faculty member in CMU's Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES). CMU's research environment and Pittsburgh's many resources for startups make it an ideal move as Kelly works to get his Bionic Eye Technologies company off the ground. "CMU offers a cooperative research environment where I can continue my work on a retinal prosthesis while using the same electronics technology in collaboration with other researchers in other fields of study," Kelly said. Continue Reading...

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