Todd P. Coleman
University of California San Diego, USA
Todd P. Coleman (S’01–M’05–SM’11) received the B.S. degrees in electrical engineering (summa cum laude) as well as computer engineering (summa cum laude) from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2000. He received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 2002, and 2005. He was a postdoctoral scholar in neuroscience at MIT during the 2005-2006 academic year. He was an Assistant Professor in ECE and Neuroscience at the University of Illinois from 2006-2011. Dr. Coleman is currently an Associate Professor in Bioengineering and director of the Neural Interaction Laboratory at UCSD, where his group builds flexible bio-electronics for neurological monitoring applications. His research is highly inter-disciplinary and lies at the intersection of bio-electronics, neuroscience, medicine, and applied mathematics. Dr. Coleman is a science advisor for the Science & Entertainment Exchange (National Academy of Sciences).