Short Bio

Dr. Neda Nategh is currently an Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering, and Research Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of Utah. She received her Ph.D. in electrical engineering, her M.Sc. in electrical engineering, and her M.Sc. in statistics, all from Stanford University, and her B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Sharif University of Technology. She holds a certificate in Biophysics and Computation in Neurons and Networks from the Neuroscience Institute at Princeton University. Dr. Nategh also holds two US patents with Camera Algorithm Group at Apple Inc. and the University of Utah. Her research focusing on the neural code of active vision and neuro-inspired visual computations has been funded by NIH, NSF, AFOSR, and NASA.