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Faculty Profile - Stephen P DeWeerth

Professor
Bioengineering

Phone: 404.894.4738
Fax: 404.894.2295
Office: WHIT 3107

http://www.neuro.gatech.edu/

Biography

Dr. DeWeerth was born and raised in Mendota, Illinois. He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Chemistry from Wartburg College in Waverly, IA in 1985. He then attended the California Institute of Technology where he earned a M.S. in Computer Science in 1987 and a Ph.D. from the Computation and Neural Systems program in 1991.

After receiving his Ph.D., he joined the ECE faculty at Georgia Tech. In 1999, he accepted a split faculty appointment between ECE and the new joint Georgia Tech / Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is presently the Director of the Laboratory for Neuroengineering, a multi-departmental group that is focused on research and education at the intersection of Engineering and Neurobiology.

Dr. DeWeerth's passion is spending time with his wife and five children, and he enjoys home renovation and musical performance.

Selected Publications, Patents

Research Interests
  • Neuromorphic Engineering
  • Hybrid Neuronal-MEMS Systems
  • Biologically-Inspired Sensorimotor Systems and Motor Learning
  • Analog VLSI Circuits and Systems
  • ""Smart"" Sensors
  • Remote Interfacing (via Java Programming) to Embedded Systems
Distinctions
  • General Chair, Advanced Research in VLSI Conference, 1999
  • Member, IEEE
  • Member, Society for the Neural Control of Movement
  • Recipient of a Dupont Young Investigator Award

Last revised on July 25, 2006.