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Biography

Mohsen Rakshan is an assistant professor in the UCF Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining UCF, Rakhshan was the Biomedical Engineering Distinguished Fellow at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where his research focused on brain-machine interfaces and neural prostheses. He holds a doctorate in cognitive neuroscience from Dartmouth College, where he studied computational and mathematical models of decision-making and neural plasticity. During his Ph.D., he was appointed as an E.E. Just Fellow for his contributions to promoting diversity, equality and inclusion in graduate-level studies. He has received two master's degrees in electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame and the Shiraz University of Technology, during which his research focus was on intelligent control systems and nonlinear dynamics. He also received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Shiraz University.

Recent Publications

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Education


  • Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College

  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, University of Notre Dame

  • M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Shiraz University of Technology

  • B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Shiraz University of Technology

Specialties

  • Brain-machine interfaces
  • Neural prostheses
  • Computational neuroscience
  • Control Theory
  • Robotics

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