11 June 2026 at 1:00pm ET
As populations age worldwide, the need for technologies that support cognitive health, independence, and quality of life has never been more urgent. Neurotechnology—spanning neural sensing, brain‑computer interfaces (BCIs), cognitive monitoring, and AI‑driven neural analytics—offers powerful new pathways to transform AgeTech and reshape how we understand and support aging.
This webinar explores how emerging neurotechnologies can serve as a foundational layer in AgeTech solutions. Ethical and human‑factors perspectives will also be discussed to ensure neuro‑enabled technologies remain transparent, accessible, and supportive rather than intrusive.
Join this forward‑looking discussion in partnership with IEEE Brain on a future where neuro‑informed technologies help older adults live longer, healthier, and more connected lives.
Panel
Moderator:
Rikky Muller, University of California, Berkeley
Rikky Muller, PhD is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where she holds the S. Shankar Sastry Professorship in Emerging Technologies. She is Co-director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center and an Investigator at the Weill Neurohub. Her research focuses on developing miniaturized, low-power bioelectronic devices and integrated systems for neural sensing, stimulation, and closed-loop neuromodulation.
Prof. Muller received her BS and MS degrees from MIT and her PhD from UC Berkeley, all in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences. She was previously an IC designer at Analog Devices, Inc. and co-founder of Cortera Neurotechnologies, a medical device company acquired in 2019.
She was named one of MIT Technology Review’s Innovators Under 35 and has received several major honors, including the IEEE SSCS New Frontier Award, the McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Bakar Prize, and the National Academy of Engineering Gilbreth Lectureship. She has also served as an IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Distinguished Lecturer. Prof. Muller is the SSCS liaison to IEEE Brain and a member of the IEEE Brain Steering Committee.
Panelists:
Laura Y. Cabrera, Penn State University
Dr. Laura Cabrera is the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Lloyd Huck Chair in Neuroethics. She is an Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics, and Philosophy at Penn State University. She is Senior Research Associate at the Rock Ethics Institute, and Associate Director of Neuroethics and Engagement with the Center for Neural Engineering. She is chair of the IEEE- SA P7700 -Recommended Practice for the Responsible Design and Development of Neurotechnologies – Standard Development Group, a member of the IEEE BRAIN Advisory Board, the IEEE TechEthics Advisory Group, and of the International Neuroethics Society (INS) Board of Directors. Dr. Cabrera’s interests focus on the ethical, societal, cultural and policy implications of neurotechnologies and other disruptive technologies.
Michel Maharbiz, Epia Neuro
Michel Maharbiz is CEO of Epia Neuro, Inc. He was formerly CEO of iota Biosciences, Inc. and until 2021 a Full Professor at the University of California, Berkeley in the EECS Department, with affiliations in Bioengineering and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. He is the recipient of the McKnight Foundation’s Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award (2017), a Chan-Zuckerberg (CZ) Biohub Investigator (2017), a Bakar Fellow (2014), recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2009), a GE Scholar and an Intel IMAP Fellow.
Dan Rizzuto, Nia Therapeutics
Dr. Dan Rizzuto is the founder, President and Chief Technology Officer at Nia Therapeutics, which is building the world’s first personalized neurostimulation system for the treatment of memory loss. Dan developed Nia’s core technology at the University of Pennsylvania, where he demonstrated that personalized neurostimulation could significantly improve human verbal memory performance. He completed his doctoral training at Brandeis University in the neuroscience of human memory, his postdoctoral training at Caltech in brain-machine interfaces and previously ran large-scale neurotechnology development projects at Northstar Neuroscience, Swedish Neuroscience Institute and the Allen Institute for Brain Science.
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