Dr. Melody Moore joined the GSU faculty in January 1998. Since then, she has created and now directs the GSU BrainLab, an interdisciplinary research organization dedicated to advancing the state of the art in biometric user interfaces. The BrainLab facility is a computer and technology lab that contains a full EEG (brain signal) recording facility, a robotics lab, and a simulated home environment for communication and environmental control experiments using an intelligent wheelchair. The main focus of the BrainLab is to create technology to improve quality of life for people with very severe disabilities such as locked-in syndrome.

Forging ties with international and domestic collaborators, Dr. Moore has received a total of more than $14.7 million in federally sponsored research grant funding, with over $1.8 million directed to GSU. Her sponsors include the National Science Foundation, DARPA, National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). She has built an interdisciplinary team with expertise in computer science, neuroscience, electrical and mechanical engineering, cognitive psychology, rehabilitation technology, and biomedical engineering. Dr. Moore’s grants currently fund two full-time research scientists and she has funded and supervised 35 graduate and undergraduate students. She is in the process of bringing in two full time postdoctoral researchers in the fall.

Dr. Moore's current major research focus is on direct control of computers from human brain signals. Working with scientists at Neural Signals Inc., her team is developing a system, which utilizes a tiny electrode implanted directly in the brain to intercept neural signals, which are then used to control computer applications. The immediate goal is to provide people with "locked in syndrome" (completely paralyzed and unable to speak) a means of communication and environmental control. Eventually they hope to use the brain signals to restore motion to paralyzed limbs.

Dr. Moore is an Associate Professor in the Computer Information Systems Department of the College of Business Administration at Georgia State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her dissertation work in user interface reengineering combined the areas of Human-Computer Interface and Software Engineering, and her minor was Postsecondary Education. Dr. Moore also holds a B.A. in Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin (1980), and a M.S. of Information and Computer Science from Georgia Tech 1988).

Prior to GSU, Dr. Moore was on the faculty of the College of Computing at Georgia Tech for nine years as a Research Scientist, creating and directing the Open Systems lab and teaching Software Engineering. Before coming to academia, she worked for nine years in the industry as a professional software engineer developing real-time embedded systems, secure operating systems, networking, and compilers. Companies included Texas Instruments, Sperry, and National Semiconductor.