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, and an Adjunct Professor in Neuroscience at Baylor College of Medicine. His research group develops miniature bioelectronics and novel methods to stimulate and record biological activity with an emphasis on neural circuit manipulations.

  Dr. Robinson graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.S. in Physics in 2003 and earned a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Cornell University in 2009. Following his Ph.D.​, Dr. Robinson began a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department.

  In 2012 Dr. Robinson joined the faculty at Rice University where is currently a Core Member of the Rice Neuroengineering Initiative and a Faculty Leadership Council Member for the Rice Biotechnology Launch Pad.

  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.