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<td style="border: 1px solid #ffffff; background-color: #ffffff;">The  College of Engineering and Computing at Florida International    University (FIU), has appointed Dr. Ranu Jung as the Wallace H. Coulter    Eminent Scholars Chair of Biomedical Engineering and Chair of the    Department of Biomedical Engineering starting in January 2011. Professor   Jung is a leader in the rapidly expanding fields of  Neural  Engineering  and Computational Neuroscience. Established in 2003  with a  generous  endowment from the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation and  matched  by support  from the State of Florida, the department is the largest  and most  active biomedical engineering unit in  Florida and a prime  resource for  education, training and research in  this field. The  department has  close ties with the new Herbert Wertheim  College of  Medicine at FIU and  with many industries in South Florida. Through a  professorship in  neuro-engineering and an  endowment from the Ware  Foundation, the  department has a very active  collaboration with the  Miami Children’s  Hospital, one of the best in the  nation.</td>
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The  biomedical engineering department prides itself on its support for   innovation and entrepreneurship. Its undergraduate program, which was   accredited by ABET in 2006, encourages scientific curiosity and research   through Weldon Endowed Excellence Scholarships for exceptional  undergraduate students. Coulter fellowships for  innovation are provided  to young postdoctoral investigators who aspire  to a career in  biomedical engineering research and development with a  focus on  translational research. Faculty-industry collaboration is seeded through  a competitive Technology Innovation Program. The young  department has  filed 20 patents in the last 5 years and has been  awarded one.

Dr.  Jung comes to FIU from Arizona State University where she is the   Director of the Center for Adaptive Neural Systems – a   multi-disciplinary center approved by the Arizona Board of Regents. She   is a tenured faculty member of the School of Biological and Health  Systems Engineering, and is affiliated with the School of Electrical and   Energy Engineering and is also a member of the graduate faculty of the   Neuroscience and Applied Mathematics doctoral degree programs. The   prestigious “New Florida Scholar’s Boost Award”, a Florida state program  to attract nationally recognized faculty in  health/engineering, has  been recommended for Dr. Jung.

“Dr. Jung will not only enhance  the global reputation of the Department  of Biomedical Engineering, but  also establish a new transdisciplinary  research center dedicated to  neural engineering and translational  neuroscience. This new effort is a  partnership for the College of Engineering and Computing together with  the Colleges of  Medicine, Nursing &amp; Health Sciences, and Arts &amp;  Science” said  the Dean of the College of Engineering and Computing,  Dr. Amir Mirmiran.  Dean Mirmiran also acknowledged the hard work and  dedication of Dr. Anthony McGoron, who has led the department so ably  for the last  three years, and has "developed a strong partnership with  the Herbert  Wertheim College of Medicine in the area of bio sensors."

“I  am honored to have the opportunity to lead a dynamic and enthusiastic   biomedical engineering department and a new research group that is   truly integrated with the medical and health sciences. BME students,   staff and faculty at FIU are ready to rise to new challenges and aspire  to the “Worlds Ahead” vision of the University.  The time is ripe for  innovative education of tomorrow’s biomedical  engineers and for  knowledge discovery in signature areas of excellence  that have  translational research and development as a hallmark. BME@FIU will build  a growing wheel of impact that expands  across the region, state,  nation and the world” said Jung.

Jung has been an entrepreneur  and a leader in establishing  academic-clinical-industrial partnerships  in neural engineering and  computational neuroscience research. She is  actively engaged in the  development of neurotechnology that is inspired  by biology, is adaptive and could be used to promote adaptation in the  nervous system  to overcome neurological disability or trauma. Of  special interest to  her are biomimetic and biohybrid living-hardware  systems for  sensorimotor control.

She currently leads a  Bioengineering Research Partnership that is funded  through a multi-year  award from the National Institutes of Health. With  this partnership,  she and her team are developing a novel, fully  implanted neural  interface between a myolectric prosthetic hand and peripheral nerves of  below-the-elbow amputees. This  translational R&amp;D effort will  deliver a unique neural  enabled-prosthesis that provides sensation to  users of prosthetic hands  into clinical practice. Patent-pending  technology includes novel electrode designs and methods of  communication.
As President and co-founder of Advensys, LLC she  received Phase I and II  funding from the US Army to develop powered  lower-limb splints for  evacuating injured soldiers from the urban  battlefield. This  patent-pending technology also has promise for  providing “crutch-free” walking after ankle injuries.

Jung  received her PhD in biomedical engineering from Case Western  Reserve  University in 1991. She also holds a master’s degree in  biomedical  engineering from Case and a bachelor’s degree with  distinction in  electronics and communications engineering from the National Institute  of Technology, Warangal in India.

With a body of published work  which includes peer reviewed articles,  book chapters, and conference  papers, she is a frequently invited  speaker. Her honors include a  National Research Service Award from the  US National Institutes of  Health, a N.E. Ohio American Heart Association fellowship, the 2002  Science and Engineering Award,  Governors Certificate of Recognition  from the Commonwealth of Kentucky  and appointment by the Arizona  Governor and Senate as Commissioner to  the Arizona Biomedical Research  Commission.

Jung’s professional service includes membership on  several advisory and  scientific review panels for the US National  Science Foundation, the US  National Institutes of Health, NASA,  US-Israel Binational Science  Foundation, Arkansas Science and  Technology Authority and other international universities and funding  agencies. She served a  multi-year term as elected President of the  Organization for  Computational Neurosciences, Inc., which is an  international  organization that serves the global community of  computational neuroscientists. She is an elected Senior Member of IEEE  and the Society  of Women Engineers and serves on the board of Rocky  Mountain  Bioengineering Sympoisum, inc. She is also Associate Editor  for the  journals IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Neural  Networks and Review Editor for Frontier’s in Neuromethods.