Lei Ding

Dr. Lei Ding is the Endowed Stephenson Professorship #1 of Biomedical Engineering Lloyd and Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma. He has made seminal contributions to research in functional neuroimaging, noninvasive neuromodulation, brain-computer interface, and imaging biomarkers for neurological and psychiatric disorders. He received B.E. degree (Highest Honors) from Zhejiang University, China (2000), and Ph.D. degree (Dissertation Fellow) from the University of Minnesota (2007), both in biomedical engineering.

Dr. Ding is the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2010 and the only recipient of the New Scientist Award from the State of Oklahoma in 2009. He is the recipient of Early Career Achievement Award of 2016 from IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers in areas of medical imaging and neural engineering. Dr. Ding is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE EMBS, International Society for Bioelectromagnetism (ISBEM), Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM), and Society for Neuroscience (SfN).

Dr. Ding serves as an elected Administrative Committee (AdCom) member at IEEE EMBS between 2015 and 2018. He also serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Frontiers in Neuroscience, IEEE Access, IEEE Open Access Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology, PLoS ONE, and several other biomedical journals in the past 15 years. He has served as the chair of IEEE-EMBS Technical Committees on Biomedical Signal Processing between 2020 and 2023. He has served as Conference Program Chair/Co-Chair, Theme Chair/Co-Chair, Track Chair/Co-Chair or Session Chair/Co-Chair on EMBS annual conferences and/or other EMBS special topic conferences since 2007.