People
Multi-Disciplinary Research
The research in BIST Lab is cross disciplinary covering different fields including engineering, mathematics, computer sciences, plus biology and particularly neuroscience and genetics. Therefore, our lab members are joining the lab with diverse educational backgrounds. We always welcome new ideas and approaches to address the challenges in the study of a the brain.
Open Positions
We are seeking brilliant and self-motivated students interested in working towards their Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science With interests in Bio applications and in particular neuroscience and brain studies. Specific areas of interest are electronics, electromagnetics, optics and photonics, signal processing etc. If you are interested please send an e-mail with your detailed CV to Ramin Pashaie.
Personnel
Ramin Pashaie, Ph.D., Principal Investigator
Ramin Pashaie received his Ph.D. degree in electrical and systems engineering from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, in Dec. 2007 under supervision of Professor Nabil H. Farhat. After Ph.D., he joined Karl A. Deisseroth lab as a postdoctoral scholar in the bioengineering department at Stanford University. uring his postdoctoral training he focused on technology development for optical modulation of neural activities using the tools of photonics and molecular genetics. From September 2009 he joined the electrical engineering department at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee as an assistant professor and director of the Bio-Inspired Sciences and Technology Laboratory (BIST-LAB) where the research is about optical interrogation of the dynamics of large scale neural networks mostly in the brain cortical regions. In particular, he is currently interested in implementation of neuroprosthetic devices to extract details of information processing in cortical networks and the nonlinear dynamics of cortical columns. This information can be used for reverse engineering and realization of brain machine interface mechanisms.
Dr. Pashaie is the recipient of NARSAD (Brain and Behavior Research Foundation) young investigator award (2013) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award in Biophotonics (2015).