Gert Cauwenberghs is Professor of Bioengineering and Co-Director of the Institute for Neural Computation at University of California San Diego. He received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 1994, and was previously Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, and Visiting Professor of Brain and Cognitive Science at MIT. He co-founded Cognionics Inc. and chairs its Scientific Advisory Board. His research focuses on neuromorphic engineering, adaptive intelligent systems, neuron-silicon and brain-machine interfaces, and micropower biomedical instrumentation. Over the last 35 years, he has pioneered the engineering of silicon integrated circuits that emulate the fundamental physical principles, structural organization, and cognitive function of the computational brain. Operating at extreme levels of energy efficiency and noise resilience, these integrated circuits have shown great use for ubiquitous deployment of engineered natural intelligence for applications ranging from human-computer interaction to wearable health monitoring. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and Francqui Fellow of the Belgian American Educational Foundation. He received the NSF Career Award, ONR Young Investigator Award, and Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
