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Maysam Chamanzar is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His active research areas include interface photonics, bioMEMs, and neuroscience. Chamanzar’s work involves using fundamental principles of physics combined with advanced engineering techniques to design and implement novel devices aimed at addressing significant challenges in biology and medicine. His main application interests lie in neuroscience and biophotonics, focusing on developing multimodal neural interfaces and efficient hybrid photonic systems for diagnostics and environmental monitoring. Chamanzar received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2012 and completed postdoctoral research at the University of California, Berkeley. Over the years, he has published more than 25 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, holds several pending patents, and has received multiple awards, including the SPIE Research Excellence Award and the GTRIC Innovation Award. He directs the Biophotonics Neurotechnologies Lab and is a faculty member of the Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute.
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