Bin He is a Chinese American

biomedical engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic). BME is also traditionally logical sciences ...

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. He was the Trustee Professor and Head of the Department o
Biomedical Engineering
and Professor by courtesy in th
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
and Professor of th
Neuroscience Institute
at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

. Prior, he was Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medtronic-Bakken Endowed Chair for Engineering in Medicine at the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

. He previously served as the director of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine and the Center for Neuroengineering at the

. He is the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. He was the president of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBS) from 2009 to 2010.

Biography

Bin He received his BS in 1982 in electrical engineering, from

Zhejiang University Zhejiang University, abbreviated as ZJU or Zheda and formerly romanized as Chekiang University, is a national public research university based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is a member of the prestigious C9 League and is selected into the ...

, Hangzhou, China. He later went to study in Japan and obtained his

M.S. A Master of Science ( la, Magisterii Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree in the field of science awarded by universities in many countries or a person holding such a degree. In contrast to ...

in electrical engineering and

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(highest honors) in bioelectrical engineering from the

Tokyo Institute of Technology is a national research university located in Greater Tokyo Area, Japan. Tokyo Tech is the largest institution for higher education in Japan dedicated to science and technology, one of first five Designated National University and selected a ...

. Bin He completed his

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at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in the United States. After working as a Research Scientist at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...

, he later joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering at the

University of Illinois at Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illinois s ...

, where Bin He was named a University Scholar by the university president. In January 2004, Bin He became the

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Biomedical Engineering Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare purposes (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic). BME is also traditionally logical sciences ...

, Electrical Engineering, and

Neuroscience Neuroscience is the science, scientific study of the nervous system (the brain, spinal cord, and peripheral nervous system), its functions and disorders. It is a Multidisciplinary approach, multidisciplinary science that combines physiology, an ...

at the

, Minneapolis. He also served as the founding director of Center for Neuroengineering at Minnesota. Since 2011, Bin He has served as the director of the NSF IGERT Training Program on Systems Neuroengineering. In August 2012, Bin He was named the director of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine, a campus-wide research institute aimed at advancing innovative engineering solutions for tomorrow's medicine, by fostering collaborations between biomedical colleges and College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. In February 2018, Bin He became the Department Head of th
Department of Biomedical Engineering
at

. He leads th
Biomedical Functional Imaging and Neuroengineering Laboratory
which was founded at the University of Minnesota and relocated to Carnegie Mellon University in 2018. He resigned from his position of the Head of the Biomedical Engineering Department in 2021, and was soon replaced by Keith Coo

Awards

Bin He has been recognized by a number of prestigious awards, including the IEEE EMBS Academic Career Achievements Award in 2015, IEEE Biomedical Engineering Award in 2017, IEEE EMBS Willian J Morlock Award in 2019, among others.

Research

Bin He has made significant research and education contributions to the field of

neuroengineering Neural engineering (also known as neuroengineering) is a discipline within biomedical engineering that uses engineering techniques to understand, repair, replace, or enhance neural systems. Neural engineers are uniquely qualified to solve design ...

and biomedical imaging, including functional biomedical imaging, multimodal

neuroimaging Neuroimaging is the use of quantitative (computational) techniques to study the structure and function of the central nervous system, developed as an objective way of scientifically studying the healthy human brain in a non-invasive manner. Incr ...

, and noninvasive brain-computer interface (BCI). His pioneering research has helped transforming

electroencephalography Electroencephalography (EEG) is a method to record an electrogram of the spontaneous electrical activity of the brain. The biosignals detected by EEG have been shown to represent the postsynaptic potentials of pyramidal neurons in the neocor ...

from a 1-dimensional detection technique to 3-dimensional neuroimaging modality.

References

External links

Treating sickle cell pain deep in the brain

Biography of Bin He at Carnegie Mellon University

The Department of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University

Biomedical Functional Imaging and Neuroengineering Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University

{{DEFAULTSORT:He, Bin 1957 births Chinese emigrants to the United States Chinese bioengineers 21st-century American engineers Living people Zhejiang University alumni Harvard University staff University of Illinois Chicago faculty University of Minnesota faculty Tokyo Institute of Technology alumni Fellow Members of the IEEE Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering Educators from Hangzhou Engineers from Zhejiang Biologists from Zhejiang