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Metin AKAY
FIEEE, FIAMBE, FAAAS, President of IEEE EMBS Founding Chair and John S Dunn Endowed Chair Professor University of Houston
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Prof. Metin AKAY is currently the founding chair of the new Biomedical Engineering Department and the John S. Dunn professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Houston. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1981 and 1984, respectively, and a Ph.D. degree from Rutgers University in 1990.
Prof. AKAY has played a key role in promoting biomedical education in the world by writing and editing several books, editing several special issues of prestigious journals, including the Proc of IEEE, and giving more than a hundred keynote, plenary, and invited talks at international conferences, symposiums, and workshops regarding emerging technologies in biomedical engineering.
His Neural Engineering and Informatics Lab is interested in developing an intelligent wearable system for monitoring motor functions in Post-Stroke Hemiplegic Patients and detecting coronary artery disease. In addition, his lab is currently investigating the effect of nicotine on the dynamics of ventral tegmental area (VTA) dopamine neural networks as well as the detection of coronary occlusions.
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