Speaker: Dr. John White

Affiliation: Utah Science, Technology and Research Professor, Department
of Bioengineering, Brain Institute, University of Utah

Presentation Title: Probing brain function using real-time technology

John A. White received his BS in Biomedical Engineering from Louisiana Tech University, and his PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins. After postdoctoral work at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and the University of Iowa, White joined Boston University, where he was on the faculty of the Department of Biomedical Engineering for 13 years, most recently as Professor and interim Chair. In 2007, White moved to the University of Utah as a Utah Science, Technology and Research (USTAR) Professor of Bioengineering. The goals of the USTAR program are to promote economic development through translational efforts in science and engineering.

White uses engineering approaches to understand how information is processed in the brain, with the goal of exploiting these findings to improve the human condition. His group's specific methods include computational modeling of neuronal networks; the design and construction of customized instrumentation that interacts with human subjects and biological preparations in real time at high clock speeds; and electrophysiological and optical techniques for recording detailed information from single neurons and large neuronal networks.

White is the author of over 50 refereed publications and over 100 conference presentations. He has served as Principal Investigator or Co-Principal Investigator on grants totaling over $40M from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Whitaker Foundation, and other sources. White is Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering and Annals of Biomedical Engineering. He has held visiting fellowships at Otto-von-Guericke-Universität and the University of Cambridge. White is member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and is a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society.