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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 several keynote and plenary talks
at international conferences, symposiums and workshops relating to
emerging technologies in biomedical engineering.
Akay is the founding
editor-in-chief of the Biomedical Engineering Book Series published by
the Wiley and IEEE Press and the Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical
Engineering. He is also the first steering committee chair of the IEEE
Trans on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.
Akay established the
Annual International Summer School on Biocomplexity from Gene to System
sponsored by the NSF and the IEEE EMBS and is the founding chair of the
IEEE EMBS Special Topic Conference on Neural Engineering. He is also the
chair of the IEEE EMBS Neuroengineering Technical Committee. He was the
program chair of the International IEEE EMBS 2001 and the co-chair of
the International IEEE EMBS 2006.
He is a recipient of the
IEEE EMBS Early Career and Service awards as well the IEEE Third
Millenium Medal and is a fellow of IEEE and the Institute of Physics.
His Neural Engineering and Informatics Lab is interested in developing a
MEMS Microphone Array for the Localization of Coronary Occlusions and a
wearable system for monitoring motor functions in Parkinson and Post-Stroke
Disease Subjects. In addition, his lab is currently investigating the
effect of nicotine and elevated body temperature on the respiratory
neural network during maturation. ( Confirmado ). |
