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Robert Rennaker
Alma materUniversity of Central Florida
Arizona State University
Scientific career
FieldsNeural engineering
InstitutionsUniversity of Texas at Dallas

Robert LeMoine Rennaker II is an American neural engineer.[1] He is a full professor of neuroscience and holds the Texas Instruments distinguished chair in bioengineering University of Texas at Dallas as of January 2015.[2]

Rennaker served in the United States Marine Corps from 1988 to 1993 at the Marine Corps Air Station New River.[3] He completed an A.A. in electrical engineering at the University of Central Florida in 1995. Rennaker earned a B.S.E. (1997), M.S. (2001) and Ph.D. (2002) in bioengineering from Arizona State University.[3] His dissertation was titled Learning-induced auditory cortical plasticity. His doctoral advisor was Daryl R. Kipke.[4]

He was the head of the Department of Bioengineering from 2013-October 2018 at the University of Texas at Dallas.[5] He is the founding director of the Texas Biomedical Device Center, which specializes in the development of Targeted Plasticity Therapy (vagus nerve stimulation paired with rehabilitation) to improve neurological impairments such as spinal cord injury, tinnitus, and stroke.[6][7]

References

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  1. ^ "FACULTY - School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences - The University of Texas at Dallas". bbs.utdallas.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  2. ^ "Dr. Robert L. Rennaker II | Endowed Chairs and Professorships". chairs.utdallas.edu. Retrieved 2022-03-17.
  3. ^ a b "Curriculum vitae: Robert Rennaker" (PDF). University of Texas at Dallas.
  4. ^ Rennaker, Robert Lemoine (2002). Learning-induced auditory cortical plasticity (Ph.D. thesis). Arizona State University. OCLC 52213606.
  5. ^ "Loop - Robert Rennaker Profile".
  6. ^ "D Magazine - How Dallas Became a Biomedical Device Hotbed". 19 September 2014.
  7. ^ "D Magazine - Robert Rennaker Wants to Rewire Your Brain". 10 October 2016.