Dr. Maysam Ghovanloo

Biography:

Maysam Ghovanloo received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, in 1994 and the M.S. degree in biomedical engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1997. He also received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI in 2003 and 2004, respectively. His Ph.D. research was on developing a modular wireless microsystem for Micromachined neural stimulating microprobes. In December 1998 he founded Sabz-Negar Rayaneh Co. Ltd., Tehran, Iran, to manufacture physiology and pharmacology research laboratory instruments. In the summer of 2002, he was with the Advanced Bionics Inc., Sylmar, CA, working on the design and development of spinal-cord stimulators. From 2004 to 2007 he was an assistant professor at the Department of ECE in the North Carolina State University, Raleigh. In June 2007 he joined the faculty of Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, where he is currently an assistant professor at the School of ECE and the founding director of the GT-Bionics laboratory. He is an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II. He has been a member of the technical program committee for the IEEE Midwest Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), and Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) conferences. He has organized special sessions on Advanced Neuroengineering Circuits & Microsystems at the ISCAS'07 and ISCAS'08, as well as modern Assistive Technologies at the 29th IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS'07) conferences. He has also served as a technical reviewer for major IEEE and IoP journals in the areas of circuits, systems, and biomedical engineering. Dr. Ghovanloo holds the ON Semiconductor junior faculty chair. He has received awards in the operational category of the 40th and 41st DAC/ISSCC student design contest in 2003 and 2004, respectively. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and IEEE Solid-State Circuits, Circuits and Systems, and Engineering in Medicine and Biology societies.