Senior Design Engineer

Maysam Ghovanloo received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran 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, in 2003 and 2004, respectively. From 2004 to 2007 Dr. Ghovanloo was an Assistant Professor in the Department of ECE at the North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC. From 2007 to 2019 he was a Professor with the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he founded the GT-Bionics Lab. In 2012 he started Bionic Sciences Inc. to develop state-of-the-art medical devices and research instruments, where he serves as the CTO. Since 2019 he has also been working on high speed digital interface and timing circuits at Silicon Creations Inc. as a Senior Design Engineer. He has authored or coauthored more than 250 peer-reviewed conference and journal publications on implantable microelectronic devices, integrated circuits and microsystems for medical applications, and modern assistive/rehabilitation technologies. He also holds 10 issued patents. Prof. Ghovanloo was a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Tommy Nobis Barrier Breaker Award for Innovation, and Distinguished Young Scholar Award from the Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. He serves on the Senior Editorial Board of the IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS). He served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II, as well as a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. He chaired the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS 2015) in Atlanta, GA, and co-chaired the technical program committee for BioCAS 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2019. He also served on the Imagers, Medical, MEMS, and Display subcommittee of the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) from 2009 to 2014.