Founding chair of the new Biomedical Engineering Department and the John S. Dunn professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Houston. Dr.\u00a0Akay\u00a0has played a key role in promoting biomedical education in the world by writing and editing several books, editing several special issues of prestigious journals, including the\u00a0Proc.\u00a0of IEEE, and giving more than hundred keynote, plenary and invited talks at international conferences, symposiums and workshops regarding emerging technologies in biomedical engineering. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Biomedical Engineering Book Series published by the Wiley and IEEE Press and the Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering. He is also the editor of the Neural Engineering Handbook published by Wiley\/IEEE Press and the first steering committee chair of the IEEE Trans on Computational Biology and\u00a0Bioinformatics<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AWARDS and DISTINCTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n IEEE EMBS Early Career and Service award Founding chair of the new Biomedical Engineering Department and the John S. Dunn professor of biomedical engineering at the University of Houston. Dr.\u00a0Akay\u00a0has played a key role in promoting biomedical education in the world by writing and editing several books, editing several special issues of prestigious journals, including the\u00a0Proc.\u00a0of IEEE, and giving more than hundred […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-149","personnel","type-personnel","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnel\/149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnel"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/personnel"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnel\/149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26667,"href":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/personnel\/149\/revisions\/26667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mscs.uoc.gr\/bme-crete\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
IEEE Third Millenium Medal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"