Generate a tailored SOP for Dr. Reza Shadmehr. Improve your application with a focused, well-structured draft.
Reza Shadmehr is a professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering and in the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He serves as the co-director of the Ph.D. program in the Biomedical Engineering Department and the director of the Laboratory for Computational Motor Control. His research focuses on understanding how the human brain perceives the world, learns, and controls movements. The Shadmehr Lab approaches questions with an emphasis on the integration of robotics, control theory, and neuroscience, aiming to comprehend the biological computations that underlie movement control using brain imaging studies and investigation of motor disorders in patient populations. He has published significant works, including the book 'Computational Neurobiology' and other titles related to reaching, pointing, and biological learning control. Shadmehr has also filed several patents related to his research.
Johns Hopkins University • Baltimore, MD
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience, co-director of Ph.D. program in Biomedical Engineering, and director of the Laboratory for Computational Motor Control.
Department of Pathology - PhD in Pathobiology. GRE is not required.