Dr. Leon D. Iasemidis is a world renowned expert in nonlinear dynamics and the development of new measures of dynamics for the detection, prediction and control of crises in complex coupled systems, in particular the animal and human epileptic brain. His research and over 170 peer-reviewed publications, interdisciplinary conference organizations, presentations and invited talks have stimulated an international interest in the prediction and control of epileptic seizures and understanding of the mechanisms of epileptogenesis. He is considered one of the founders of the field of seizure prediction and has collaborated with Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic and the Barrow Neurological Institute. Dr. Iasemidis served on the editorial board of Epilepsia, the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and the International Journal of Neural Systems, and currently is on the editorial board of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Epilepsy Research and IEEE’s Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB). He is a reviewer for a score of journals and research sponsoring national and international agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).

                                     

Over the years, Dr. Iasemidis’ research has been funded by NIH, VA, DARPA, NSF, DoD, the Epilepsy Foundation of America, CURE Foundation, the Science Foundation of Arizona, the Whitaker Foundation and industry for a total of over $30M in funds as PI or Co-PI. From 2016 to 2021, Dr. Iasemidis’ was the PI on a $6M NSF grant entitled “Probing and Understanding the Brain: Micro and Macro Dynamics of Seizure and Memory Networks” (NSF OIA 1632891) that resulted in the formation of a tri-state (Louisiana Tech U., U. Alabama and U. Arkansas) consortium, the Neuronal Networks in Epilepsy and Memory (NeuroNEM) consortium (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1632891). As PI of NeuroNEM, he led 22 faculty, 4 post-docs, 16 graduate and 21 undergraduate students, 10 REU students and 3 research administrative staff. He has co-founded three companies in the area of neuromodulation and control of epilepsy and is the co-author of 6 awarded, 1 pending and 9 provisional patents in these areas. His research has been highlighted on multiple forums, including the New York Times, Discover magazine, the Teaching Company, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

                                       

Dr. Iasemidis received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, M.S. in Biomedical Engineering and M.S. in Physics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and his B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. He was a Research Professor with the University of Florida from 1993 to 2000, and an Associate Professor in the department of Biomedical Engineering at Arizona State University from 2000 to 2012. From 2012 to August of 2021 he was the Rhodes Eminent Scholar, held a $2M endowed Chair, was the Director of the multidisciplinary Center for Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation Science (CBERS; http://coes.latech.edu/cbers),  the Founder and Director of the Brain Dynamics Laboratory (http://www.braindynamics.latech.edu) and the Founder and Director of the EEG Lab in the College of Engineering and Science at Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana, USA. As Director of CBERS, he led 31 junior and senior faculty with 5 core Labs and 20 individual investigator Labs. He also held adjunct professorships in Neurology at the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA (2013 – 2021), and in Neurosurgery at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Little Rock, AR (2014 - 2021). Since September of 2021, he moved to the famous Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, where he is a full Professor in the department of Translational Neuroscience, and Founder and Head of the Brain Dynamics Laboratory. Dr. Iasemidis is a Professor Emeritus at the Arizona State University. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineers (AIMBE), a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Dr. Iasemidis has an h-index of 41, i10-index of 100, and 7,540 citations to his work (Google Scholar, 03/29/2022).