Symposium Space: ELSI in Human Augmentation and Machine Interaction

Nick Zingale

Associate Professor at the Levin College of Public Affairs and Education at Cleveland State University

Linda Bishai

George Washington University

Dr. Linda Bishai joined the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) in April 2020, with twenty years of experience in teaching, training, and writing on international law, identity and conflict, security sector governance, and preventing/countering violent extremism. Current work includes military justice reform, international legal norms for space, and the ethical, legal and social implications of the military use of AI. In her previous positions at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Bishai designed and delivered workshops on teaching human rights in Iraq, civic education and violence prevention in Sudan, women’s roles in preventing violent extremism in Nigeria and Kenya and developing effective responses to radicalization and violent extremism in Kosovo. As Director of Research, Evaluation and Learning at the ABA Rule of Law Initiative, Bishai oversaw the activities of a team of legal researchers and monitoring and evaluation professionals working to promote the rule of law by supporting judges and lawyers in partner nations. Her recently edited volume on Law, Security and the State of Perpetual Emergency explores the blurring of law enforcement and defense activities in the counter-terrorism context. Bishai holds a B.A. in history and literature from Harvard University, a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics.

Dustin Tyler

Director, Human Fusions

Director, Functional Neural Interface Lab

Associate Director, Cleveland Advanced Platform for Technology

Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Case School of Engineering School of Medicine



The purpose of our research is to improve human neurologic health and function through the integration of engineered devices into living systems. The research goal is to advance the field of Neural Engineering in three specific areas:

• Clinical implementation of neural prosthesis systems. Research projects include:
  
  
  
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    Sensation and human-in-the-loop control for amputees

    
    
  
  
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    Neuro-inspired stimulation paradigms

    
    
  
  
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    Spinal cord stimulation for pain management

    
    
  
  
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    Peripheral nerve electrodes to restore function following spinal cord injury

    
    
  
  
  
  


• Advanced devices to improve extraction of information from and activation of the human nervous system


• Neuromimetic interfaces between neural tissue and engineered devices