Dr. Jose L Contreras-Vidal is a Fellow of the IEEE and the AIMBE for his contributions to brain–machine interfaces, wearable exoskeletons, and mapping art-evoked brain activity. He is also a Cullen Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the NSF Industry–University Collaborative Research Center on Building Reliable Advances and Innovations in Neurotechnologies (IUCRC BRAIN) at the University of Houston, and the Principal Investigator for this NSF PFI Project. He earned his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder and his Ph.D. in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Motor Neuroscience at Arizona State University and a Human Frontiers Science Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Fribourg (Fribourg, Switzerland). His research interests are neural engineering, neurohumanities, powered exoskeletons, brain–machine interfaces, neuromodulation, computational neuroscience, etc. He is a member of the National Advisory Board for Medical Rehabilitation Research at the U.S. National Institutes of Health and a member of the IEEE BRAIN Steering Committee.