Biography
Dr. Ted Berger has been Professor of Biomedical Engineering and
Neurobiology at the University of Southern California since 1992, and
was appointed the David Packard Chair of Engineering in 2003. He became
Director of the Center for Neural Engineering at USC in 1997, an
organization that helps to unite the numerous USC Faculty with
cross-disciplinary interests in neuroscience, engineering, and
medicine. He joined the Departments of Neuroscience and Psychiatry at
the University of Pittsburgh in 1979, being promoted through to the
level of Full Professor in 1987. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow
at The Salk Institute from 1978-1979 and conducted postdoctoral
research at the University of California, Irvine from 1977-1978. Dr.
Berger has published over 170 journal articles and book chapters, and
has co-edited a book Toward Replacement Parts for the Brain: Implantable Biomimetic Electronics as Neural Prostheses.
His research interests are focussed on developing biologically-based
mathematical models of the properties of the hippocampus and in
developing analog VLSI implementations of models of hippocampal neurons
and neural networks.
He received several awards including McKnight Foundation Scholar Award, Lockheed Senior Research Award, NIMH Research Scientist Development Award (twice), NIMH Senior Scientist Award, and Person of the Year "Impact Award"
by the AARP for his work in neural prostheses. He was a National
Academy of Sciences International Scientist Lecturer in 2003, and is
currently an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer. He is a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American
Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Dr. Berger received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1976, for which he received the James McKeen Cattell Award from the New York Academy of Sciences.
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