About Us

The IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Pittsburgh Chapter was established in December 2000 holding its Inaugural meeting in April of 2001.  Since that time a variety of meetings aimed at the diverse interests of the Pittsburgh area and western PA region have been launched.  The Chapter aims to provide information, support, and networking services to the life science community whether they be educators, students, scientists, engineers, physicians or simply people seeking knowledge about this rapidly growing sector of the Pittsburgh corporate makeup.  The EMB Pittsburgh Chapter operates under the IEEE Pittsburgh Section which hosts other local engineering society chapters such as Power, Industry applications, EMC, Nanotechnology, and Computers.  We encourage membership in the IEEE, but welcome all to our general technical meetings

Executive Administration

Dr. Zhi-Hong Mao is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. He earned his PhD in Electrical and Medical Engineering from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 2005. He also received a S.M. degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 2000 From Tsinghua University in China he earned a M.Eng in Intelligent Control in 1998, a B.Eng in Automatic Control in 1995, and a BS in Mathematics in 1995. His research interests include systems and control theory, signal processing, neural control and learning, and robotics.  He has published several papers in IEEE journals since 1995.  Dr Mao has been  a co-chair of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Pittsburgh Chapter since January 2006

Bob Brooks is a Senior Electrical Engineer in the Cardiovascular Products Business Unit at Medrad Inc headquartered in Marshall Township PA.  He currently holds a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.  His engineering interests include FPGA development, HDL programming, and mixed signal design.  In his current role, Bob is responsible for life-cycle engineering activities across multiple medical device product lines, project management responsibilities within cross-functional problem solving teams, and technical contributions to new product development projects.  Bob founded the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Pittsburgh chapter in 2000 and has been chair until 2005.  He now co-chairs the chapter with Dr. Mao