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Douglas J. Weber is a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the College of Engineering with a focus on Biomedical Engineering. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering. He furthered his education by earning a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Arizona State University. Dr. Weber has extensive post-doctoral training at the Centre for Neuroscience at the University of Alberta. His research primarily centers on Neural Engineering, specifically in the areas of functional electrical stimulation (FES), activity-based neuromotor rehabilitation, neural coding, and neural control of prosthetic devices. He is highly skilled in advanced techniques including neurophysiology, biomechanics, 3D motion analysis, electromyography, and multichannel neural recording stimulation. His laboratory engages in developing motor sensory neural interfaces to control sensors in prosthetic limbs. Over the years, Dr. Weber has mentored numerous undergraduate, graduate, medical students, and post-doctoral fellows and has contributed to the field through multiple patents and extensive research publications.
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