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
