Murray B. Sachs, Ph.D. University Distinguished Service Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Professor of Neuroscience
Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Center for Hearing and Balance
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msachs AT bme.jhu.edu EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering, B.S., 1962
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Auditory Physiology, M.S., 1964
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering and Auditory Physiology, Ph.D., 1966
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1968-1969 From July 1991 until September 2007 Dr. Sachs was Massey Professor and Director of the Department of Biomedical Engineering and from 1999 until 2007 he was the Founding Director of the Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute. He obtained the B.S. in 1962, M.S. in 1964 and Ph.D. in 1966 in electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Sachs has received numerous awards including the von Bekesy Silver Medal of the Acoustical Society of America in 1998, the 1999 Award of Merit of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology and the 2003 Life Achievement Award of the American Auditory Society for his contributions to auditory neuroscience. He was the Biomedical Engineering Society Distinguished Lecturer in 2000 and a Jacob Javitz Neuroscience Investigator. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. He is a Founding Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America. He served as Chair of the AIMBE College of Fellows. Research InterestsDr. Sachs' primary research interest is the neural processing of speech. His work has included neurophysiological and modeling studies of neural encoding in the inner ear and processing of the neural code by populations of neurons in the central nervous system. Publications Search> From Pub Med > From Google Scholar  < Back to Primary Faculty page.
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