Biosketch and CV for Reza Shadmehr

Reza Shadmehr was born in Tehran, Iran and immigrated to the United States at the age of 14.

Training
Reza Shadmehr was a Ph.D. student of Prof. Michael Arbib at USC, where he developed theories for control of bio-mechanical systems. He was a post-doc in the laboratory of Prof. Emilio Bizzi at MIT, where he developed theories on human motor learning and used robots to test these theories in humans.

Education

· 1985 BS in Electrical Engineering, Gonzaga University

· 1987 MS in Biomedical Engineering, University of Southern California

· 1991 PHD in Computer Science (Robotics), University of Southern California

· 1991-94 McDonnell-Pew Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Academic Appointments

· 1995 Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

· 2000 Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

· 2004 Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

· 2007 Director of the Biomedical Engineering PHD Program

Books

· 2005 The Computational Neurobiology of Reaching and Pointing, MIT Press

· 2012 Biological Learning and Control, MIT Press

Patents

· US Patent No. 5,554,033

· US Patent No. 5,846,086