Gabriel A. Silva

Dr. Gabriel A. Silva is a Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and the Department of Neurosciences at the University of California San Diego. He holds the J. Robert Beyster Endowed Chair in Engineering, is the Founding Director of the Center for Engineered Natural Intelligence, and Associate Director of the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind. He is an affiliated faculty member in the Department of NanoEngineering, and a faculty member in the BioCircuits Institute, the Neurosciences Graduate Program, Computational Neurobiology Program, and Institute for Neural Computation. Previously, Silva served as Vice Chair of the Department of Bioengineering, and was Co-Director of the Retinal Engineering Center in the Institute of Engineering in Medicine.

In addition to his academic work, he has written popular press articles for a number of Medium magazines, including Elemental, The Startup, Cantor’s Paradise, and BeingWell. He is also a regular contributor to Forbes.

Prof. Silva received an Hon.B.Sc. in human physiology and a B.Sc. in biophysics from the University of Toronto, Canada, followed by an M.Sc. in neuroscience also from the University of Toronto. He then did his Ph.D. in bioengineering and neurophysiology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in the Institute for BioNanotechnology and Medicine (IBNAM) and the Department of Neurology at Northwestern University. He joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego in 2003.

He has received numerous awards and recognitions for his research and teaching, including the IEEE/EMBS Excellence in Neural Engineering award, Wallace Coulter Foundation Early Career award, Faculty of the Year award for undergraduate education from the Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honors Society, selection to “Nanoscience: The best of NATURE publications”, and the YC Fung Young Investigator Award and Medal. He is an Associate Editor of four different journals and is on the editorial board of 16 journals. Dr. Silva is a co-inventor on a number of patents, and is a founder or co-founder of several start up companies. He has also consulted for a number of companies and is or has served on the Executive and Scientific Advisory Boards of several of them.

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Prof. Gabriel A. Silva
gsilva@ucsd.edu
858.822.4591

Mailing address:
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University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0433
La Jolla, California 92093-0433