Dr. Maysam Chamanzar

Biography

Maysam Chamanzar joined the ECE department at Carnegie Mellon University in 2015, currently holding a joint appointment in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Previously, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher and research scientist in the EECS department at UC Berkeley from 2012 to 2015. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2012, where his dissertation focused on developing novel hybrid plasmonic-photonic on-chip biochemical sensors, for which he received the Sigma Xi Ph.D. thesis award. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the SPIE Research Excellence Award, the GTRIC Innovation Award, and was a finalist for the OSA Emil Wolf Paper Award and the Edison Innovation Award. Professor Chamanzar’s research group focuses on the design and implementation of novel devices and methods to address critical needs in biology and medicine, with major applications in Neuroscience and Biophotonics. His work in Neuroengineering involves the development of multimodal (Acousto-opto-electrical) neural interfaces to enhance the understanding of neural functions in the brain and the realization of functional brain-machine interfaces. Additionally, his Biophotonics research concentrates on creating efficient hybrid photonic-plasmonic-fluidic on-chip systems for point-of-care diagnostics, environmental monitoring, imaging, and spectroscopy.

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