Ning Jiang, Ph.D.

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Ning Jiang
EC4-2021
University of Waterloo
200 University Ave. W.

Tel: +1 519 888 4567 ext. 33677

E-mail: ning.jiang <at> uwaterloo.ca

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New name of our lab: Waterloo Engineering Bionics Lab!

 Accepting Graduate students on all levels!!

Projects available on different topics in neurorehabilitation engineering and biological signal processing. Contact me for more details

 

Real time Brain Computer Interface paper among the most cited paper published by IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

 

Looking for Experiment participants in an electromyogram (EMG) and myoelectric control study. Click here for the Recruitment Advertisement, and here for more information.

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My most recent CV is here

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Research Interests

  • Analysis, Modelling, and applications of electromyogram (EMG)
    • Advanced EMG signal processing for myoelectric controlled prosthesis: simultaneous and proportional control of multiple degrees of freedoms;
    • Modelling of muscle synergy during natural movements through EMG and bio-kinetics and bio-kinematics;
    • Novel EMG processing algorithms for general purpose muscle-machine interfaces
  • Brain Computer Interface (BCI) for the application of rehabilitation
    • BCI design and implementation and electroencephalogram (EEG) processing algorithms
    • BCI applications in motor function rehabilitation for stroke and parkinson;
    • BCI for general purpose applications (control and communications);

Academic Experiences

Nov. 2012 ~ April., 2015, Senior Research Scientist, Department of NeuroRehabilitation Engineering, University Medical Center Goettingen, Goettingen, Germany

Sep., 2010 ~ Oct., 2012, Marie-Curie Fellow, Strategic Technology Management, Global Headquarters, Otto bock HealthCare GmbH, Duderstadt, Germany

Apr., 2009 ~ Aug., 2010, Research Assistant Professor, Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction (SMI), Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Denmark

Sep., 2004 ~ Jan., 2009, Ph.D. candidate, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Canada. Supervisors: Dr. Philip Parker and Dr. Kevin Englehart

Jun., 2002 ~ Sep., 2004, MS.C. student, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Canada. Supervisors: Dr. Philip Parker and Dr. Kevin Englehart Sep., 1994 ~ Jul., 1998, B.E., Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

 

Teaching

SYDE252 - Fall 2015

BME252 – Spring 2016

SYDE252- Fall 2016

SYDE544-Winter 2017

Publications

Selected Journal papers

2016

Ren Xu, Ning Jiang, Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, Kim Dremstrup, and Dario Farina, “Factors of Influence on the Performance of a Short-Latency Non-Invasive Brain Switch: Evidence in Healthy Individuals and Implication for Motor Function Rehabilitation”, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Vol. 9, No. 527, 2016 (DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00527)

 

Janne M. Hahne, Ning Jiang, Dario Farina, David Liebetanz, “Chronic Subcutaneous Electrode Implants for Improving Robustness in Myoelectric Control”, Accepted, Frontiers in Neuroscience, Feb. 2016 (DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2016.00114)

 

Tamás Kapelner, Ning Jiang, Aleš Holobar, Ivan Vujaklija, Aidan D. Roche, Dario Farina, and Oskar C. Aszmann, “Motor unit characteristics after targeted muscle reinnervation”, PloS One, In press, Feb. 2016 (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149772)

 

Ren Xu, Ning Jiang, Strahinja Dosen, Chuang Lin, Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, Kim Dremstrup, and Dario Farina, “Endogenous Sensory Discrimination and Selection by a Fast Brain Switch for a High Transfer Rate Brain-Computer Interface”, Accepted, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Jan., 2016 (DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2016.2523565)

2015

Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, Ning Jiang, Andrew JT Stevenson, Imran Khan Niazi, Viladmir Kostic, Aleksandra Pavlovic, Sasa Radovanovic, Milica Djuric-Jovic, Federica Agosta, Kim Dremstrup, Dario Farina, “Efficient neuroplasticity induction in chronic stroke patients by an associative brain-computer interface”, Accepted , Journal of Neurophysiology, Dec. 2015 (DOI: 10.1152/jn.00918.2015)

David Hofmann, Ning Jiang, Ivan Vujaklija, and Dario Farina, “Bayesian Filtering of Surface EMG for Accurate Simultaneous and Proportional Prosthetic Control”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, In press, Nov. 2015 (DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2015.2501979) (*corresponding author)

 

Ning Jiang, Loenardo Gizzi, Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, Kim Drumstrup, and Dario Farina, “A Brain Computer Interface for Single-trial Detection of Gait Initiation from Movement Related Cortical Potentials”, Clinical Neurophysiology, Vol. 126, No. 1, pp. 154-159, 2015 (DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2014.05.003)

Susan Aliakbaryhosseinabadi, Ning Jiang, Aleksandra Vuckovicc, Kim Dremstrup, Dario Farina, and Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, “Detection and comparison of movement intention from single-trial movement-related cortical potentials with random and non-random cued paradigms”, Accepted, the Brain Computer Interfaces, May, 2015

Michael Siomau, Ning Jiang, “Myoelectric control of artificial limb inspired by quantum information processing”, Physica Scripta, Vol. 90, No. 3, pp. 035001, Feb. 2015 (DOI: 10.1088/0031-8949/90/3/035001)


Mads Jochumsen, Imran K. Niazi, Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, Ning Jiang, Dario Farina, Kim Dremstrup, “Comparison of spatial filters and features for the detection and classification of movement-related cortical potentials in healthy individuals and stroke patients”, Accepted, , June, 2015

Jiayuan He, Dingguo Zhang, Ning Jiang, Xinjun Sheng, Dario Farina, Xiangyang Zhu, “User adaptation in long-term, open-loop myoelectric training: implications to pattern recognition-based myoelectric prosthetic control”, Journal of Neural Engineering, Vol. 12, No. 4, 046005, June 2015 (10.1088/1741-2560/12/4/046005)

Jianwei Liu, Xinjun Sheng, Dingguo Zhang, Ning Jiang, and Xiangyang Zhu, “Towards Zero Re-training for Myoelectric Control Based on Common Model Component Analysis”, Accepted, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, April., 2015

2014


Ren Xu, Ning Jiang*, Aleksandra Vuckovic, Muhammad Hasan, Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, David Allan, Matthew Fraser, Bahman Nasseroleslami, Bernie Conway, Kim Dremstrup, and Dario Farina, “Movement-related cortical potentials in paraplegic patients: abnormal patterns and considerations for BCI-rehabilitation”, Frontiers in Neuroengineering, 7:35, Aug., 2014 (DOI: 10.3389/fneng.2014.00035)

Ning Jiang, Thomas Lorrain, and Dario Farina, “A state-based and proportional myoelectric control method: online validation and comparison with clinical state-of-the-art”, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 11:110, 2014 (DOI: 10.1186/1743-0003-11-110)

Ning Jiang, Ivan Vujaklija, Hubertus Rehbaum, Bernhard Graimann, Dario Farina, “Is Accurate Mapping of EMG Signals on Kinematics Needed for Precise Online Myoelectric Control?”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 549-558, 2014 (DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2013.2287383) 

Ning Jiang, Hubertus Rehbaum, Bernhard Graimann, and Dario Farina, “Intuitive, online, simultaneous and proportional myoelectric control over two degrees of freedom in upper limb amputees'', IEEE  Trans Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 501-509, 2014 (DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2013.2278411) 

Ren Xue, Ning Jiang, Natalie Mrachacz-Kerstin, Chuang. Lin, Guillermo Asin, Juan Moreno, Jose Pons, Kim Dremstrup, Dario Farina, “A Closed-Loop Brain–Computer Interface Triggering an Active Ankle–Foot Orthosis for Inducing Cortical Neural Plasticity”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 61, No. 7, pp. 2092-2101, July, 2014  (DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2014.2313867) (Featured Story of the July issue of 2014)

Dario Farina, Ning Jiang, Hubertus Rehbaum, Ales Holobar, Bernhard Graimann, and Oskar Aszmann, “The Extraction of Neural Information from the Surface EMG for the Control of Upper-Limb Prostheses: Emerging Avenues and Challenges”, IEEE Transactions on Neural System and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 897-809, July, 2014  DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2014. 2305111) (Cover story of 4th issue in 2014)

Silvia Muceli, Ning Jiang, Dario Farina, “Extracting Signals Robust to Electrode Number and Shift for Online Simultaneous and Proportional Myoelectric Control by Factorization Algorithms”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 623-633, 2014  (DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2013.2282898)

Sebastian Amsüss, Peter M. Göbel, Ning Jiang, Bernhard Graiman, Liliana Paredes and Dario Farina “Self-correcting Pattern Recognition System of Surface EMG Signals for Upper Limb Prosthesis Control”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (IF: 2.233), Vol. 61, No. 4, pp. 1167-76, Apr., 2014, (DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2296274)

Ren Xue, Ning Jiang, Chuang Lin, Natalie Mrachacz-Kerstin, Kim Dremstrup, and Dario Farina, “Enhanced Low-latency Detection of Motor Intention from EEG for Closed-loop Brain-Computer Interface Applications”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (IF: 2.233), Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 288-296, Feb., 2014, (DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2013.2294203) 

Dario Farina, Francesco Negro, Ning Jiang, “Modeling the Transmission of Synaptic Input to Motoneuron Output is Necessary for Understanding the Influence of EMG Rectification on Coherence Analysis”, Journal of Physiology (IF: 4.544), Vol. 592, No. 1, pp. 251-252, Jan. 2014 (DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2013.267070) (Response to Letter)

 

Binghui Wang, Lin Chuang, Xin Fan, Ning Jiang, Dario Farina, “Hierarchical Bayes based Adaptive Sparsity in Gaussian Mixture Model”, Pattern Recognition Letter, Vol. 49, pp. 238-247, Nov. 2014 (DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2014.07.008)

Janne Hahne, Felix Biessmann, Ning Jiang, H. Rehbaum, Dario Farina, Frank Meinecke, Klaus-Robert Müller, Lucas Parra, “Linear and non-linear regression techniques for simultaneous and proportional myoelectric control”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering (IF: 2.821), Vol.22, No. 2 , pp. 269-279, Mar. 2014 (DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2014.2305520)

Dario Farina, Hubertus Rehbaum, Ales Holobar, Ivan Vujaklija, Ning Jiang, Christian Hofer, Stefan Salminger, Hans-Willem van Vliet, and Oskar Aszmann, “Non-Invasive, Accurate Assessment of the Behavior of Representative Populations of Motor Units in Targeted Reinnervated Muscles”, IEEE Transactions on Neural System and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 810-819, July, 2014 (DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2014.2306000)

2013


Ning Jiang, Silvia Muceli, Bernhard Graimann, and Dario Farina, “Effect of arm position on the prediction of kinematics from EMG in amputees”, Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp.143-151, 2013 (DOI: 10.1007/s11517-012-0979-4)


Dario Farina, Francesco Negro, Ning Jiang, “Identification of Common Synaptic Inputs to Motor Neurons from the Rectified Electromyogram”, Journal of Physiology (London), vol. 591, No. 10, pp 2403-18, May 2013 (IF: 4.544) (DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2012.246082)

Imran K. Niazi, Ning Jiang, Mads Jochumsen, Jørgen F. Nielsen, Kim Dremstrup, and Dario Farina, “Detection of movement-related cortical potentials based on subject-independent training”,  Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Vol. 51, No. 5, pp. 507-512, May 2013 (DOI: 10.1007/s11517-012-1018-1)

2012


Ning Jiang, Strahinja Dosen, Klaus-Robert Müller, and Dario Farina,“Myoelectric control of Artificial Limbs: is There the Need for a Change of Focus?”, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 29, No. 5, pp. 152-150, Sep. 2012  (DOI: 10.1109/MSP.2012.2203480)


Imran Niazi, Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, Ning Jiang, Nielsen Kim, Dario Farina,  “Peripheral electrical stimulation triggered by self-paced detection of motor intention enhances Motor Evoked Potentials”, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 595-604, Jul. 2012 (IF: 2.821) (DOI:10.1109/TNSRE.2012.2194309)


Ning Jiang, Johnny L.G. Vest-Nielsen, Silvia Muceli, Dario Farina, “EMG-based simultaneous and proportional estimation of wrist/hand kinematics in uni-lateral trans-radial amputees”, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Vol. 9, No.42, 2012  (DOI: 10.1186/1743-0003-9-42)

2011

Ning Jiang and Dario Farina, “Covariance and Time-Scale Methods for Blind Separation of Delayed Sources”, IEEE Transactions on  Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 550-556, Mar. 2011 (DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2084999)


Imran K. Niazi, Ning Jiang, Olivier Tiberghien, Jørgen F. Nielsen, Kim Dremstrup, Dario Farina, “Detection of movement intention from single-trial movement-related cortical potentials”, Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 8, No. 6, 066009, Oct. 2011 (DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/8/6/066009) 

Thomas Lorrain, Ning Jiang, Dario Farina, “Influence of the training set on the accuracy of surface EMG classification in dynamic contractions for the control of multifunction prostheses”, Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 25, May 2011  (DOI: 10.1186/1743-0003-8-25)


Johnny Nielsen, Steffen Holmgaard, Ning Jiang, Kevin Englehart, Dario Farina, and Philip Parker, “Simultaneous and Proportional Force Estimation for Multifunction Myoelectric Prostheses Using Mirrored Bilateral Training”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 58, No. 3, pp. 681-688, Mar. 2011 (IF: 2.233) (DOI:10.1109/TBME.2010.2068298)

2010 and earlier


Ning Jiang, Deborah Falla, Andrea d’Avella, Bernhard Graimann, Dario Farina, “Myoelectric Control in Neurorehabilitation”, Critical Reviews in Biomedical Engineering, 2010, Vol. 38, No. 4, 381-391, 2010

Rui Zhou, Ning Jiang, Kevin Englehart, Philip Parker, “A computational model and simulation study of the efferent activity in the brachial nerves during voluntary motor intent”, Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, Vol. 48 No. 1, pp. 67-77, Jan. 2010, 2010 (IF: 1.500) (DOI:10.1007/s11517-009-0555-8) 

Quan Zhou, Ning Jiang, Kevin Englehart, Bernard Hudgins, “Improved Phoneme-Based Myoelectric Speech Recognition”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 56, No. 8, pp. 2016-2023, Aug. 2009 (IF: 2.233) (DOI: 10.1109/TBME.20092024079) 

Ning Jiang, Philip Parker, and Kevin Englehart, “Extracting Simultaneous and Proportional Neural Control Information for Multiple-DOF Prostheses From the Surface Electromyographic Signal”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 56, No. 4, pp. 1070-1080, Apr. 2009 (DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.2007967)    

Ning Jiang, Philip Parker, and Kevin Englehart, “Spectrum of the nonstationary electromyographic signal modeled with integral pulse frequency modulation and its application to estimating neural drive information”, Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, Vol. 19, pp. e267-e279, Jun. 2009  (DOI: 10.1016/j.jelekin.2008.05.007)

Ning Jiang, Kevin Englehart, and Philip Parker, “A simulation method for the firing sequences of motor units”, Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, Vol. 17, Issue 5, Pages 527-534, Oct. 2007  (DOI:10.1016/j.jelekin.2006.07.003)

Ning Jiang, Philip Parker, and Kevin Englehart, “Modeling of muscle motor unit innervation processes correlation and common drive”, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 53, No. 8, pp. 1605-1614, 2006  (DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2006.876631)

Recent Conference Publications

  1. S. Aliakbaryhosseinabadi, N. Jiang, L. Petrini, D. Farina, K. Dremstrup and N.  Mrachacz-Kersting, “Robustness of Movement Detection Techniques from Motor Execution: single trial movement related cortical potential”, the International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, Apr., 2015, Montpellilier, France
  2. Tamas Kapelner, Ning Jiang, Ivan Vujaklija, Oskar C. Aszmann, Ales Holobar and Dario Farina, “Classification of Motor Unit Activity Following Targeted Muscle Reinnervation”, the International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, Apr., 2015, Montpellilier, France
  3. Heiko Scheel, Ren Xu, Ning Jiang, Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, Kim Dremstrup, and Dario Farina, “Influence of External Cues on Synchronized Brain-Computer Interface based on Movement Related Cortical Potentials”, the International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, Apr., 2015, Montpellilier, France
  4. Chuang Lin, Binghui Wang, Ning Jiang, Ren Xu, Dario Farina, “Discriminative Manifold Learning Based Detection Method of Movement-Related Cortical Potentials (MRCP) Signal”, Neuroscience & Neurotechnology Bernstein Conference and Neurex Annual Meeting (BC14), Sep. 2014,Göttingen, Germany (DOI: 10.12751/nncn.bc2014.0143)
  5. Chuang Lin, Binghui Wang, Ning Jiang, Dario Farina, “Simultaneous and Proportional Multiple Degrees of Freedom Control of Active Prostheses with Sparseness Constraint Non-Negative Matrix Factorization of EMG Signal”, Neuroscience & Neurotechnology Bernstein Conference and Neurex Annual Meeting (BC14), Sep. 2014, Göttingen, Germany (DOI: 10.12751/nncn.bc2014.0167)
  6. Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, Ning Jiang, Susan Aliakbaryhosseinabadia, Ren Xu, Laura Petrini, Ramulus Lontis, Mads Jochumsen, Kim Dremstrup and Dario Farina, “The changing Brain: Bidirectional learning between algorithm and user”, Global 10 nominee of the 2014 BCI Research Award, 3rd place, presented at the BCI Conference 2014, Sep 2014, Graz, Austria
  7. Susan Aliakbaryhosseinabadi, Laura Petrini, Ning Jiang, Dario Farina, Kim Dremstrup and Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, “Effect of Different Attentional Level and Task Repetition on Single-trial Movement-Related Cortical Potential”, BCI Conference 2014, Sep 2014, Graz, Austria
  8. Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, Ning Jiang, Ren Xu, Kim Dremstrup, and Dario Farina, “Plasticity following skilled learning and the implications for BCI performance”, BCI Conference 2014, Sep 2014, Graz, Austria
  9. Lin Chuang, Francesco Negro, Ning Jiang, Dario Farin, “Estimation of Muscle Force by Linear Regression of Motor Unit Spike Trains”, the 36th annual IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Aug. 2014, Chicago, USA
  10. A Savic, R. Lontis, N. Malesevic, M. Popovic, N. Jiang, K. Dremstrup, D. Farina and N. Mrachacz-Kersting, “Feasibility of an Asynchronous Event Related Desynchronization based Brain Switch for control of Functional Electrical Stimulation”, the 48th annual conference of the German Society for Biomedical Engineering, Oct. 2014, Hannover, Germany
  11. D. Hofmann, N. Jiang, M. Herrmann, and D. Farina, “Bayesian Filtering Improves Proportional Myoelectric Prosthesis Control”, the XX Congress of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology, July 2014, Rome, Italy (Winner of Granata Award for Young Scientist)
  12. M. Jochumsen, I.K. Niazi, H. Rovsing, C. Rovsing, G.A.R. Nielsen, T.K. Andersen, N.P.T. Dong, M.E. Sørensen, N. Mrachacz-Kersting, N. Jiang, D. Farina and K. Dremstrup, “Detection of movement intentions through a single channel of electroencephalography”, the International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2014), June 2014, Aalborg, Denmark
  13. S. Aliakbaryhosseinabadi, N. Jiang, A. Vuckovic, R. Lontis, K. Dremstrup, D. Farina,  and N. Mrachacz-Kersting, “Detection movement intention from movement-related cortical potentials with different paradigms”, the International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2014), June 2014, Aalborg, Denmark
  14. A. Savic, R. Lontis, N. Jiang, M. Popovic, D. Farina, K. Dremstrup and N. Mrachacz-Kersting, “Movement Related Cortical Potentials and Event Related Oscillations During Self-Initiated and Cued Movements”, the International Conference on NeuroRehabilitation (ICNR2014), June 2014, Aalborg, Denmark
  15. Ren Xu, Ning Jiang*, Natalie Mrachacz-Kersting, Kim Dremstrup, and Dario Farina, “Comparison of Sensory-motor Rhythm and Movement Related Cortical Potential During Ballistic and Repetitive Motor Imagery: an initial report”, the 3rd International Conference of Rehabilitation Medical Engineering (CRME2014), May, 2014, Shanghai, China