Biographical Sketch
Metin Akay received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul Turkey in 1981 and 1984, respectively and a Ph.D. degree from Rutgers University in 1990. He is currently a professor at the Harrington Dept of Bioengineering at ASU. He has played a key role in promoting the biomedical education in the world by writing and editing several books and editing the Biomedical Engineering Book Series published by the Wiley and IEEE press. Prof. Akay is a recipient of the IEE EMBS Service Award, a IEEE Third Millennium Medal and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Early Career Achievement Award in 1997, the Young Investigator Award of Sigma Xi Society, Northeast Region in 1998 and 2000, is a fellow of Institute of Physics, and serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards of several international journals.