Iota Biosciences

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley and Co-Director of the Center for Neural Engineering and Prostheses (CNEP) at UC Berkeley and UCSF. He earned his Ph.D. in Robotics from the University of Edinburgh (2002) and completed postdoctoral work at Duke University's Center for Neuroengineering. His research focuses on brain-machine interfaces, closed-loop decoder adaptation, and neuroprosthetic systems. He received the NSF CAREER Award (2010), Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2009), and McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award (2017). He co-founded Iota Biosciences in 2017 to commercialise the neural dust ultrasonic sensing platform.

Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley and co-inventor of "neural dust" — the ultrasonic, battery-free implantable sensor technology that iota Biosciences commercialised. His lab is also known for developing the first remotely radio-controlled cyborg beetles. He co-founded iota in 2017 alongside Jose Carmena to build millimetre-scale wireless sensors for nerve, muscle, and organ monitoring. He also co-founded Cortera Neurotechnologies (2013), demonstrating repeated translation from Berkeley lab innovations to startups. Iota was acquired by Astellas Pharma in October 2020.