Rate My Professor Michel Maharbiz

Maharbiz's research focuses on the extreme miniaturization of technology to build synthetic interfaces to cells and organisms, spanning biosystems and computational biology, as well as micro/nano electromechanical systems. He is a co-inventor of neural dust, an ultrasonic interface enabling wireless recording from the peripheral nervous system, as described in the 2016 Neuron paper Wireless recording in the peripheral nervous system with ultrasonic neural dust. His group pioneered the world's first remotely radio-controlled cyborg beetles, selected as one of MIT Technology Review's TR10 top emerging technologies of 2009 and Time Magazine's Top 50 Inventions of 2009. Additional key publications include A minimally invasive 64-channel wireless uECOG implant (IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2015), Modular synthetic inverters from zinc finger proteins and small RNAs (PLoS ONE, 2016), and A miniaturized 64-channel 225 μW wireless electrocorticographic neural sensor (ISSCC, 2014). His innovations encompass oxygen-sensing implants for deep tissue, flexible bioelectronics, and neural interfaces for brain-machine applications. Maharbiz has received the McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award (2017), NSF CAREER Award (2009), Bakar Fellow (2014), Chan-Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator (2017), GE Scholar, Intel IMAP Fellow, and 2013 Excellence in Engineering Education Award from National Instruments. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and a member of the Society for Neuroscience. His work has advanced bioMEMS, neuroengineering, and tissue engineering fields.