Mesut Sahin earned his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Istanbul
Technical University in 1986. After graduation, he worked for a telecommunication
company, Teletas A.S., in Istanbul in hardware and software
development of phone exchanges until 1990. He earned the M.S. degree
in 1993 and a Ph.D. degree in 1998, both in biomedical engineering, particularly
in the field of neural engineering, from Case Western Reserve
University, Cleveland, Ohio. After post-doctoral training at the same
institute, he joined Louisiana Tech University as an Assistant Professor in
2001. He has been on the faculty of Biomedical Engineering at New Jersey
Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey since 2005, and currently is
a Full Professor, where he teaches bioinstrumentation and neural engineering
courses. His research interests are mainly in neural modulation
and development of novel neural prosthetic approaches. He has authored
more than 90 peer-reviewed publications. Dr Sahin is an Associate Editor
of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems and a Senior
Member of IEEE/EMBS.
Howard Fidel served as Vice President of Technology for IREX/
Johnson and Johnson Ultrasound, where he developed the market leading
Meridian Cardiology system. After leaving Johnson and Johnson in
1986, he founded Universal Sonics Corporation, as a contract engineering
company and a manufacturer of OEM Medical Devices supporting the
Ultrasound and Medical Device industry. Universal Sonics' customer base
included many well-known clients, including ATL, Acuson, Biosound, and
many others. After the acquisition of Universal Sonics by US Surgical, Mr.
Fidel left to become Chief Operating Officer of Stern Ultrasound, a startup
company that was in the process of developing a mid-market ultrasound
system. Later he functioned as C.T.O. and C.O.O of 3G Ultrasound.
In 2017, Mr. Fidel became an adjunct Professor at the New Jersey Institute
of Technology teaching biomedical engineering. Mr. Fidel earned a BE
degree with High Honors from Stevens Institute of Technology in 1972, an
MS in Bioengineering from the University of Connecticut in 1974, and an
MBA with Distinction from Pace University in 1984. He holds eight patents
in the ultrasound field. In 2016, he was inducted into the New Jersey
Inventors Hall of Fame. He currently lives in Tarrytown, NY and grew up
in Brooklyn, NY. He is married to Professor Marlene Brandt Fidel, and has
a daughter, Rivka Fidel, Ph.D.
Raquel Perez-Castillejos earned her B.S. degree in telecommunications
engineering with a specialization in Microelectronics from the Polytechnic
University of Catalonia in 1996. She earned her Ph.D. from the Institute
of Microelectronics of Barcelona in 2003, followed by a post-doctoral stay
in 2003-2004 at the University of Sao Paulo and postdoctoral training
at Harvard University, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
from 2004 to 2008. She joined the faculty of the New Jersey Institute of
Technology from 2008 to 2016 and is currently an Independent Consultant
in Biomedical Devices specialized in applications of microelectronics
and microfluidics for cell biology and biochemical analyses. Dr. Raquel
Perez-Castillejos has authored and co-authored 29 peer-reviewed papers,
5 patents, and more than 50 conference proceedings abstracts.
