Dr. Edward Keller

Biography

Prof. Edward L. Keller received his BS degree in Engineering Science from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1961 and served as a U.S. naval officer from 1961 to 1965. He obtained his Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Johns Hopkins University in 1971 and joined the EECS Department faculty that same year. He was a Visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, Germany in 1977-78 and chaired the campus Engineering Science Program from 1988 to 1994. He also served as Chair of the Joint UC Berkeley/UC San Francisco Graduate Group in Bioengineering during 1989, and worked as a Visiting Scientist at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD from 1989 to 1990. After retiring as an Emeritus Professor in 1994, he became the Associate Director at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco. His research focuses on how the brain converts sensory inputs into appropriate signals to generate motor behavior, particularly examining the structural and functional organizations of the nervous system that carry spatiotemporal transformations using the saccadic system model. He is a Fellow of IEEE.

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