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Dr. Chamanzar 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, earning the Sigma Xi Ph.D. thesis award. Currently, he serves as the William D. Nancy W. Strecker Career Development Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His postdoctoral research was at UC Berkeley before joining CMU. His current research involves developing novel electro-acousto-optic neural interfaces for large-scale high-resolution electrophysiology and distributed optogenetic stimulation. Maysam has published over 25 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and holds pending patents. He has received multiple awards including the SPIE Research Excellence Award and the GTRIC Innovation Award, and was a finalist for the OSA Emil Wolf Paper Award and Edison Innovation Award.
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