Mark Iskarous

Mark M. Iskarous (S'14-GS'18-M'24) was born in Nashville, TN, USA in 1993. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA in 2015, and the Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA in the Neuroengineering and Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory in 2024.

From 2015 to 2017, he was a Hardware Development Engineer at Amazon Lab126, Sunnyvale, CA, USA working on consumer electronic devices. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. His current research interests include sensorimotor brain-computer interfaces, neuroprostheses, neuromorphic models of sensory information, and neuromorphic computing. His work has been published in Proceedings of the IEEE and he has presented at the IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering.

Dr. Iskarous is a member of the Society for Neuroscience. He is a recipient of the NIH Ruth L. Kirschtein Predoctoral Individual National Service Award (F31), the NSF AccelNet NeuroPAC Fellowship, and the MWC/ARCS Foundation 2022-2023 Forster Family Foundation Scholarship.