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Robert J Butera, PhD, PE

Rob Butera

Program Chair, Interdisciplinary Bioengineering Graduate Program
Associate Professor and Pre-Medical Advisor
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Laboratory for Neuroengineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA USA

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Education

  • BEE (co-op, with highest honors), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 1991.
  • MSEE, Rice University, Houston, TX 1994.
  • Ph.D., Rice University, Houston, TX 1996.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 1996-1999.

Honors

  • NSF CAREER Award Recipient (2004)
  • James S. McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Scientist Award
  • Chair: IEEE-EMBS Distinguished Lecturers Committee
  • Member: IEEE-EMBS Neuroengineering Technical Advisory Committee
  • License Professional Engineer (registered in Georgia)
  • Research actively supported by multiple grants from NSF, NIH, and private foundations
  • Panelist and Grant Reviewer for NIH and NSF
  • Article reviewer for all major Neuroscience, Computational Neuroscience, Biomedical Engineering, and Neural Engineering journals, as well as some Physics and Mathematics journals.