Prof. Metin Akay, USA
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 | Prof. Metin Akay, USA
Professor of Bioengineering |
| Short CV | Prof. Metin Akay, Harrington Department of Bioengineering at ASU, received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 1981 and 1984, respectively and a Ph.D. degree from Rutgers University in 1990. He has played a key role in promoting the biomedical education in the world by writing several prestigous books and editing the Biomedical Engineering Book Series published by the Wiley and IEEE Press Prof Akay is author/coauthor/editor of 14 books and giving more 50 keynote, plenary and invited talks at the international meetings including the first, second and third Latin-American Conference on Biomedical Engineering'98, 01, 04. He is the founding chair of the Annual International Summer School on Biocomplexity from System, to Gene sponsored by the NSF and Dartmouth College and technically co-sponsored by the IEEE EMBS, of the Satellite Conference on Bioinformatics: Genomics and Proteomics, the first International IEEE Conference on Neural Engineering,in 2003. These activities were sponsored by the NSF and largely attended by the women and minorities. He is a strong supporter of the women and minorities in the engineering, medicine and science in the world. He is also the first chair of the steering committee of the IEEE Transaction on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics sponsored by the IEEE (CS, EMBS, NN, etc.) and non-IEEE societies. He was the invited guest editor for the special issues of Bioinformatics: Proteomics and Genomics Engineering of the Proc of IEEE, the most highly cited IEEE Journal, Nov and Dec 2002. He was also the invited guest editor for the special issue of Neural Engineering at the same journal. He is currently editing several books on "Genomics and Proteomics Engineering in Medicine and Biology" and "Neural Engineering" with the Wiley. He is also the founding editor-in-chief of the first biomedical engineering encyclopedia published by the Wiley and Sons. Prof. Akay is a recepient of the IEEE EMBS Service, 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 for "his outstanding research activity and the ability to communicate the importance of his research to the general public. He was invited to speak at the National Public Radio (NPR) on Neural Engineering and write at the Boston Globe about the Engineering and Science Education. Dr. Akay is a fellow of Institute of Physics, senior member of IEEE, a member of BMES, Eta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, the American Heart Association, and The New York Academy of Science. He also serves on the advisory board of several international journals including the IEEE T-BME, IEEE T-ITIB, Prof. of IEEE, Smart Engineering Systems etc. and NIH Bioengineering partnership study session and several NSF review panels. Dr. Akay's Neural Engineering and Informatics Lab is interested in investigating the Dynamics of motor function in Parkinson and Post-StrokeDisease Subjects, the effect of developmental abnormailities and maturation on the dynamics of respiration and the functional/structuralrelationships of oncogene protein sequences. |
| Title: | Biocomplexity from System to Neuron and Beyond.. |
| Abstract | The biological sciences have become more quantitative and information-driven as a result of emerging computational and mathematical tools which facilitate collection and analysis of vast amounts of biological data. Complexity analysis of biological systems provides biological knowledge for the organization, management and mining of biological data by using advanced computational tools. The biological data are inherently complex and non-uniform and collected at multiple temporal and spatial scales. The investigations of complex biological systems and processes require an extensive use of computational tools to improve our understanding of complex biological processes from system to gene. In this talk, we focus on the relatively new approaches to the mathematical and computational challenges in Integrative Neuroscience and the new directions in computational neuroscience and neural informatics; and, we discuss the ongoing research activities at the Neural Engineering and Informatics Lab at ASU. Our main emphasis will be on our recent finding about the relative contributions of maturation to the dynamics of respiration patterns from system to single cell in the neonate. We define and quantify changes in the complexity of the respiratory neural network that accompany maturation in piglets using the approximate entropy method which provides a model independent measure of the complexity (irregularity) of the underlying mechanisms of the respiratory network. Acknowledgements This research was supported in part by NIH-65732. |
