New Research Explores Medical Devices That Adapt to Each Patient

STEM Alex K. Jones (left) works with three students. STEM New Research Explores Medical Devices That Adapt to Each Patient Syracuse professor Alex K. Jones is part of a multi-university effort to create pacemakers and other implants that adapt to each patient and could reduce follow-up visits. Alex Dunbar Nov. 13, 2026 Estimated Reading Time: Share × Video Player Alex K. Jones, chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in the College of Engineering and Computer Science (ECS) and the Klaus Schroder endowed professor of engineering, is a principal investigator on a $1 million National Science Foundation (NSF) research project to develop implantable medical devices that learn from a patient’s body and adapt automatically. Jones leads Syracuse University’s research team on the multi-university project, which also includes Notre Dame and the University of Texas at San Antonio.

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