Akay

Dr Akay is the founding chair of the Annual International Summer School on Biocomplexity from System, to Gene and the founding chair of the International IEEE Conference on Neural Engineering. Prof. Akay is a recepient of the IEEE EMBS Service Award, a IEEE Third Millenium Medal an the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Early Career Achievement Award 1997. He also received the Young Investigator Award of the Sigma Xi Society, Northeast Region in 1998 and 2000. Dr. Akay's Neural Engineering and Informatics Lab is interested in developing an intelligent wearable system and investigating the developmental abnormalities of medullary respiratory neurons during early maturation and the sudden infant death syndromes.