JACOB T. ROBINSON

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

CEO and Co-Founder, Motif Neurotech, Inc.

Adj. Professor, Bioengineering, Rice University 
Adj. Professor, Neuroscience, Baylor College of Medicine

Core Member, Rice Neuroengineering Initiative

Faculty Leadership Council, Rice Biotechnology Launch Pad

Jacob Robinson is a Professor in Electrical & Computer Engineering and Bioengineering at Rice University where his group develops miniature technologies to manipulate and monitor physiology and neural circuit activity. Prof. Robinson received a B.S. in Physics from UCLA, a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University, and completed Postdoctoral training in the Chemistry Department at Harvard. In addition to his academic work, Dr. Robinson is the co-founder and CEO of Motif Neurotech, which is developing a therapeutic brain computer interface to treat mental health disorders. 

  Professor Robinson has supervised over 30 current and former Ph.D. students and more than 40 undergraduate researchers since joining Rice in 2012. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles including articles in Nature, Science, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Materials, and Nature Biomedical Engineering, has won best paper awards at ACM MobiCom and IEEE CICC, and has given multiple keynote presentations. He is a recipient of the Charles Duncan Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement, a DARPA YFA award, the Materials Today Rising Star Award, the Hamill Innovation Award, and a John S. Dunn Collaborative Research Award. He is a former co-chair of the IEEE Brain Initiative and is currently a senior member of IEEE and member of the IEEE EMBS AdCom.