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  • General Information

  • Education: 

    B.Sc.A., Electrical Engineering, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
    Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Université Laval, Québec, Canada

    Professional Experience: 

    Senior Associate Dean, Daniel Felix Ritchie School of Engineering & Computer Science, University of Denver, 2016-present
     
    Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Denver, 2016-present
     
    Interim Dean, Daniel Felix Ritchie School of Engineering & Computer Science, University of Denver, 08/2020-03/2021
     
    Interim Chair, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Denver, 04/2020-07/2020
     
    Professor and the Executive Director of the Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science, University of Houston, 1988-2016
     
    Honorary Visiting Professor of Computational Neuroscience, University of Bradford, Bradford, U.K., 2005-present
     
    Department Chair, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston, 2004-2009
     
    Visiting Scientist, Department of Human Neurobiology, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 2004
     
    Visiting Scientist at Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco , CA, 1995-1996
     
    Assistant, Associate, Full Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston, 1988-2016

    Awards & Honors: 

    Honorary Visiting Professor of Computational Neuroscience, University of Bradford, Bradford, UK, 2005-present
     
    Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award for the book “Experimental Phenomena of Consciousness: A Brief Dictionary” Oxford University Press: New York, N.Y. (2007), co-authored with B. G. Breitmeyer and T. Bachmann., American Library Association, 2008
     
    Member, Central Visual Processing Study Section (CVP), Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health, 2005-2009
     
    Fellow, Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg), Germany, 2004
     
    Senior Faculty Research Award, University of Houston, College of Engineering, 2003
     
    University of Houston, College of Engineering W.T. Kittenger Outstanding Teacher Award, College of Engineering, 1998
     
    University of Houston, Junior Faculty Research Award, College of Engineering, 1994
     

    Research Interests: 

    Neuro-engineering, vision, visual psychophysics, visual memory, attention, computational neuroscience.

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