Gert Cauwenberghs
University of California San Diego
Expertise: Bioelectronics, low-power integrated bioinstrumentation, adaptive microsystems, neuromorphic engineering
Gert Cauwenberghs (S’89-M’94-SM’04-F’11) is Professor of Bioengineering at University of California San Diego, where he co-directs the Institute for Neural Computation. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena in 1994, and previously held positions as Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, and Visiting Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge. His research interests cover neuromorphic engineering, low-noise and low-power integrated biomedical instrumentation, neuron-silicon and brain-machine interfaces, computational and systems neuroscience, as well as learning and intelligent systems. He received the NSF Career Award in 1997, ONR Young Investigator Award in 1999, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 2000. He serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Senior Editor for IEEE Sensors Journal and IEEE Journal of Emerging Topics in Circuits and Systems, and Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.