Nitish Thakor, Ph.D. Professor Dept. of Biomedical Engineering The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA http://www.jhu.edu/nthakor   Thursday, October 9, Afternoon plenary session PL. 6, Olympia 2

Biographical Sketch
Nitish V. Thakor is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering with joint appointments in Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering. Currently he directs the Laboratory for Neuroengineering at Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine. His technical expertise is in the areas of neural diagnostic instrumentation, neural signal processing, optical and MRI imaging of the nervous system, micro and nanoprobes for neural sensing. He carries out research on hypoxic-ischemic brain injury and traumatic brain injury in basic experimental models and also directs collaborative technology development programs on monitoring patients with brain injury in neurocritical care settings.   He has carried out research sponsored mainly by the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation for more than 20 years. He is a principal research scientist in a large multi-University program funded by DARPA to develop next generation neurally controlled upper limb prosthesis. He has close to 200 refereed journal papers and generated 6 patents. He carries out research funded mainly by the NIH, NSF and DARPA. He is the Editor in Chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural and Rehabilitation Engineering.   He is the Director of a Neuroengineering Training program funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, a multi-disciplinary and collaborative training program for doctoral students.  He has established a Laboratory for  Clinical Neuroengineering at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with the aim of carrying out interdisciplinary and collaborative engineering research for basic and clinical neuroscientists.  Dr. Thakor teaches courses on Medical Instrumentation and Molecular and Cellular Instrumentation.  He has advised 44 pre-doctoral  trainees, 24 post-doctoral trainees and currently advisees 12 pre-doctoral, 3 post-doctoral trainees and one research associate.  Dr. Thakor is a recipient of a Research Career Development Award from the National Institutes of Health and a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation, and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, IEEE and Founding Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society.  He is also a recipient of the Centennial Medal from the University of Wisconsin School of Engineering, Honorary Membership from Alpha Eta Mu Beta Biomedical Engineering student Honor Society and Distinguished Service Award from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India.