Stephen P. DeWeerth, PhD
Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Tech / Emory University
Stephen P. DeWeerth received his M.S. degree in Computer Science and his Ph.D. degree in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1991. He was a founding member of the Bioengineering Graduate Program at Georgia Tech, and joined the faculty of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory soon after its inception in 1998. He has led the rapidly growing neuroengineering and neurotechnology efforts at Georgia Tech over the past decade, as the founding director of the Laboratory for Neuroengineering, as the director of the of the NSF IGERT training grant in Hybrid Neural Microsystems, as the leader of the Innovative Technology Thrust of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, and, most recently, as the leader of the new campus-wide neurotechnology initiative at Georgia Tech. Dr. DeWeerth's research focuses on the computational and robotic modeling of the neural control of movement, with a particular emphasis on the role of sensory feedback in the modulation of rhythmic movement, and on the development of neural interfacing systems, with a particular emphasis on the optimization of targeted neuronal stimulation. His research is funded primarily by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), and has resulted in over 100 refereed publications. Dr. DeWeerth is a member of multiple editorial boards, the Society for Neuroscience (SfN), and the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), as well as a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).
