Reza Shadmehr


Reza Shadmehr is an Iranian-American professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and an elected fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. He is known for his contributions to the fields of motor control, motor learning, and computational neuroscience.

Biography

Born in Iran, he immigrated to the United States at the age of 14. He obtained his undergraduate degree from Gonzaga University, and a PhD degree from the University of Southern California. Before joining Johns Hopkins University as a faculty, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory of Emilio Bizzi at MIT. He was the director of the PhD program at Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering department from 2007 to 2018, during which the program consistently ranked 1st in the U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings.