UC San Diego, Department of Bioengineering

The UC San Diego Department of Bioengineering welcomes its newest faculty member, Gert Cauwenberghs.

Dr. Cauwenberghs received his Engineer’s Degree in Applied Physics from the University of Brussels in 1988. He obtained his Masters of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 1989 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1994 from the California Institute of Technology.

Dr. Cauwenberghs has held professorial appointments at Johns Hopkins University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He joined the UC San Diego Division of Biological Sciences, Neurobiology Section, in 2005. In July of 2009, Dr. Cauwenberghs was appointed Professor in the UC San Diego Department of Bioengineering.

Dr. Cauwenberghs has been awarded a Franqui Fellowship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation, an NSF Career Award, an ONR Young Investigator Award, and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

Dr. Cauwenbergh’s research focuses on cross-cutting advances at the interface between in vivo and in silico neural information processing. The goals are threefold: to empower silicon integrated circuits with adaptive intelligence inspired by sensory information processing in nervous systems; to facilitate advances in computational neuroscience by large-scale emulation of neural models in parallel analog silicon circuits; and to interface silicon with neural cells for restoring lost function in sensory and motor impaired patients.