Members

Prof Nitish V Thakor | Director, SINAPSE, Provost Chair Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Bioengineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, USA
Prof Thakor is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at National University of Singapore (NUS). He has also been appointed Director of the University level research centre SiNAPSE (Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology: Advancing through Partnership of Scientists and Engineers). Prof Thakor received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT Bombay (1974), and PhD from University of Wisconsin (1981). He has been a Full Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University since 1994. He has authored 370 peer-reviewed publications in the areas of neurological instrumentation, biomedical signal processing, micro and nanotechnologies, neural prosthesis, and clinical applications of neural and rehabilitation technologies. He has also generated 20 patents and co-founded 4 companies. His research has been funded mainly by the NIH, NSF and DARPA. He is Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural and Rehabilitation Engineering. Prof 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. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a Founding Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society. He is also a recipient of the Centennial Medal from the University of Wisconsin School of Engineering, an Honorary Membership from Alpha Eta Mu Beta Biomedical Engineering Student Honor Society and a Distinguished Alumnus Awardee as well as Distinguished Service Awardee from IIT Bombay.