Metin Akay

Professor, Arizona State University, United States

Prof. Metin Akay has played a key role in promoting the biomedical education in the world by writing several prestigous books and editing the Biomedical Engineering Book Series published by the Wiley and IEEE Press Prof Akay is author/coauthor/editor of 14 books and giving more than 50 keynote, plenary and invited talks at the international meetings.

He is the first chair of the steering committee of the IEEE Transaction on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics sponsored by the IEEE (CS, EMBS, NN, etc.) and non-IEEE societies. He was the invited guest editor for the special issues of Bioinformatics: Proteomics and Genomics Engineering of the Proc of IEEE, the most highly cited IEEE Journal, Nov and Dec 2002. He was also the invited guest editor for the special issue of Neural Engineering at the same journal. He is currently editing several books on "Genomics and Proteomics Engineering in Medicine and Biology" and "Neural Engineering" with the Wiley. He is also the founding editor-in-chief of the first biomedical engineering encyclopedia published by the Wiley and Sons.

Prof. Akay is a fellow of Institute of Physics, senior member of IEEE, a member of BMES, Eta Kappa, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi. He also serves on the editorial or advisory board of several international journals including the IEEE T-BME, IEEE T-NSRE, IEEE T-ITIB, Proc of IEEE, Journal of Neural Engineering, NIH Neural Engineering and Bioengineering partnership study sections and several NSF review panels.

Prof. Metin Akay is currently the interim chair and professor at the Harrington Dept of Bioengineering at ASU.