Bin He
Trustee Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Courtesy Appointment, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Bin He received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Zhejiang University in 1982, and Ph.D. in Bioelectrical Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan, a Nobel Prize winning campus in 1988, both with the highest honors. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Biomedical Engineering at Harvard University - M.I.T. After working as a Research Scientist at M.I.T., he was a faculty member of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was named a University Scholar by the president of the University of Illinois. From 2004-2018, he was a professor of Biomedical Engineering and director of Biomedical Functional Imaging and Neuroengineering Laboratory at the University of Minnesota. Later he was appointed as a Distinguished McKnight University Professor and Medtronic-Bakken Chair for Engineering in Medicine. At Minnesota, He served as director of the NSF IGERT Neuroengineering Training Program and the NIH Neuroimaging Training Program, director of Graduate Studies for Neuroengineering Minor, and director of Undergraduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering. He was the founding director of the Center for Neuroengineering from 2007-2017, and served as the director of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine from 2012-2017 at the University of Minnesota. From February 2018 – February 2021, He served as the head of Department of Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. During his tenure, the department has witnessed substantial growth and its US News and World Report graduating ranking increased from the top 26th to the 17th.
He's research interests include neuroengineering, functional biomedical imaging, cardiovascular engineering, and medical devices. He has published over 270 articles in peer-reviewed core international journals including PNAS, Science Robotics, Nature Communications, Neuron, Brain, Annals of Neurology, Neurology, Journal of Neuroscience, Proceedings of the IEEE, NeuroImage, Human Brain Mapping, Nanomedicine, Heart Rhythm, Epilepsia, Applied Physics Letters, American Journal of Physiology, Journal of Neural Engineering, and various IEEE journals, including IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, and IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. He has also delivered over 40 plenary and keynote talks in various international conferences and workshops. He’s research has been featured by Nature, BBC, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Scientific American, The Economist, New Scientist, US News, NPR, among others. A video describing his work on mind controlled flying robot has been viewed ~900,000 times.
He’s research has been recognized by a number of awards. He is the recipient of the prestigious IEEE Technical Field Award of Biomedical Engineering, IEEE EMBS William J. Morlock Award, and the Academic Career Achievement Award from the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). He also received the Distinguished Service Award from IEEE EMBS, the Outstanding Research Award from the International Federation of Clinical Neurophysiology, the Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association, and the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, among others. He is an elected Fellow of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, IEEE, Biomedical Engineering Society, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, among others. He serves or served as an associate editor or editorial board member of a number of international journals in the field of biomedical engineering, and was the editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering during 2013-2018. He has served as the general chair of the International Annual Conference of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2009), chair of the IEEE EMBS Forum on Grand Challenges in Neuroengineering (2010), co-chair of Scientific Committee of the World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (2012), chair of IEEE Life Sciences Grand Challenges Conference (2012), chair of IEEE EMBS International Conference on Neural Engineering (2013), chair of NSF Workshop on Mapping and Engineering the Brain (2013), and chair of IEEE EMBS BRAIN Grand Challenges Conference (2014). He was the 2009-2010 president of IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, consisting of 10,000+ members worldwide; and is the chair of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering from 2018-2021. He was a member of the NIH BRAIN Multi-Council Working Group.
He has been fortunate to be associated with talented graduate and undergraduate students, and postdoctoral associates, many of whom have taken faculty positions in the US, Canada, France, Japan, China, Korea, and in major corporations. Many of his Ph.D. students received competitive fellowship awards from various funding agencies or the University, or paper competition awards in international conferences.
“Push-pull” dynamic in brain network is key to stopping seizures
Brain Computer Interface: Sending Neurological Signals to an External Device
Welcoming Bin He to Carnegie Mellon
Breakthrough in Non-Invasive Mind-Control of Robotic Limbs
Education
1991 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biomedical Engineering, Harvard University - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
1998 Ph.D., Bioelectrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
1985 MS, Electrical Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology
1982 BS, Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University
Affiliations
Media mentions
CMU Engineering
Battling chronic pain with noninvasive focused ultrasound
New research demonstrates the effectiveness of novel tech that is able to stimulate and modulate specific brain circuits with sub-millimeter spatial precision to suppress pain hypersensitivity.
CMU Engineering
Breakthrough approach enables bidirectional BCI functionality
For the first time, researchers successfully integrated a novel focused ultrasound stimulation to realize bidirectional BCI that both encodes and decodes brain waves using machine learning.
CMU Engineering
Refined AI approach improves noninvasive BCI performance
Researchers used AI technology to improve the decoding of human intention and control a continuously moving virtual object all by thinking about it, with unmatched performance.
AIMBE
He presents Earl Bakken Lecture at 2024 AIMBE annual meeting
BME’s Bin He was selected to be the 2024 Earl Bakken lecturer at the AIMBE Annual Meeting in Washington D.C., on March 24-25, 2024.
National Academy of Inventors
He named to the National Academy of Inventors
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) has elected BME’s Bin He to its 2022 cohort of fellows for significant research and education contributions to the field of neuroengineering and biomedical imaging.
CMU Engineering
Advancing dynamic brain imaging with AI
Bin He introduces a novel, AI-based dynamic brain imaging technology alternative to map out rapidly changing electrical activity in the brain with high speed, high resolution, and low cost.
Diagnostics World
He quoted on novel technology to localize epileptic seizures
BME’s Bin He was featured in a recent Diagnostics World piece highlighting neuroengineering technology.
CMU Engineering
Breakthrough tech enables seizure localization in minutes
Tech that uses minimally invasive resting state electrophysiological recordings to localize seizure onset brain regions and predict seizure outcomes in just 10 minutes is the He lab's latest win.
NINDS/NIH
He receives NIH/NINDS grant to further brain imaging research
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) of National Institute of Health (NIH) has awarded BME’s Bin He a four-year, $2 million grant to develop and validate novel neuroengineering techniques to detect and image the epileptic brain.
NIH
Focused ultrasound technology noted in HEAL research spotlight
BME’s Bin He was featured in a recent NIH research spotlight highlighting new treatment options on the horizon for pain associated with sickle cell disease.
NIH
BRAIN Initiative awards multi-million dollar grant to CMU
The National Institute of Health’s BRAIN Initiative has awarded BME’s Bin He a three-year, ~$2 million grant to investigate the neuroscience mechanisms of novel transcranial focused ultrasound neuromodulation at cellular and neural circuit levels.
NIH/NIBIB
He and colleagues receive NIH/NIBIB Neural Interfacing Training Grant
BME’s Bin He and his team were recently awarded an NIH/NIBIB Predoctoral Training Grant on Neural Interfacing. Over the next five years, the grant will fund the effort to establish an integrative Neural Interfacing graduate training program at Carnegie Mellon University. Other investigators of the grant are Marlene Behrmann, Steve Chase, and Matt Smith.