Professor
UC San Diego
La Jolla, California, United States
Shadi A. Dayeh is Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at UC San Diego, with affiliated roles in Chemical and Nano Engineering, Bioengineering, Materials Science & Engineering and Neurological Surgery. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Physics/Electronics at the Lebanese University in Beirut, the MS degree from Southern Methodist University, and the PhD degree from UC San Diego, both in Electrical Engineering. He received the 2026 NANS Innovator Award, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award (2019), ISCS Young Scientist Award (2018), NSF CAREER (2014), Jacobs School Teacher of the Year – ECE (2015), and LebNet Bireme Technologist of the Year (2021). Earlier, he was a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow and J. R. Oppenheimer Distinguished Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His group’s work spans PtNR-based, ultra-dense human brain interfaces, flexible depth electrodes, Brain-iEEG visualization, and safety limits for stimulation, culminating in an FDA IDE for a 1,024-channel intraoperative platform and >100 patient uses across three centers. He co-leads a $12.25M NIH UG3/UH3 consortium on high-channel wireless systems and serves as Neuromodulation Architect for ARPA-H Transplantation of Human Eye Allografts.
Thursday, January 22, 2026
5:05 PM - 5:10 PM PST