Prof. Jose C. Principe from University of Florida, US, paid a two-day visit to USTC from March 14^th to 15^th, during which period he gave two academic talks entitled “Information Theoretic Signal Processing” and “Somatosensory Brain Machine Interfaces”, respectively. Prof. Principe is a world-famous scholar in biomedical signal processing field. His lecture attracted many students and teachers not only within USTC, but also from Zhejiang University and Nanjing University of Information Science.

In his lectures, Prof. Principe introduced the main achievements he had got in signal processing field as well as prospects for the brain-computer interface applications. He also introduced the adaptive inverse control programs and the spike kernel mode that are being developed by his research team, and demonstrated some preliminary results. The innovative content of the lecture and Prof. Principe’s humorous presentation style greatly aroused the interest and enthusiasm of the audiences on the spot. Warm applause was heard now and then.

While listening to the lecture, the audiences asked many questions fervently. Prof. Principe gave detailed answers to the question.

During Prof. Principe’s visit to USTC, Dean LI Weiping of School of Information Science and Technology (SIST) held a meeting with him specially, and they had an in-depth conversation on issues such as future academic cooperation etc. Dean LI invited Prof. Principe for a longer visit to USTC at his convenient time, which was accepted with pleasure.