BRITE ’21 SPEAKERS: DUSTIN TYLER

DUSTIN TYLER

Kent H. Smith II Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Director of the Human Fusions Institute
Case Western Reserve University

Dustin J. Tyler, Ph.D. is the Kent H. Smith Professor II in Biomedical Engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH and Director of the Human Fusions Initiative. He is an expert in the science and technology of directly communicating with the human nervous system to create a symbiotic relationship between humans and technology. He has a secondary appointment as a principal investigator at the Louis-Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center (LSCDVAMC) and is the Associate Director of the Advanced Platform for Technology Center, a Department of Veteran’s Affairs Rehabilitation Research & Development National Center.

Dr. Tyler has over 25 years of academic, entrepreneurial, and corporate experience advancing neuromodulation technology. He holds the Kent H. Smith Professorship II for the Case School of Engineering and has a prestigious Research Career Scientist award from the Veterans Affairs Rehabilitation Research and Development service. Dr. Tyler has previously held the Nord Distinguished Assistant Professorship and the Elmer Lincoln Lindseth Associate endowed Professorships at Case Western Reserve University.

In 2017, he was inducted into the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). Dr. Tyler was awarded the Neurotechnology Researcher of the Year award in 2015. He has had more than $28M in funding from the VA, NIH, NSF, and DARPA and more than 16 active US and international patents. He has served on several national leadership committees in the field of neural engineering.

Dr. Tyler’s expertise and interests include directly connecting humans and technology over neural system to improve human performance and capability. His areas of work include clinical trials of Class III medical devices with emphasis on neural interfaces; acute and chronic pre-clinical studies in small and large mammalian models, and computational neuroscience.