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Official Job Title
Professor; Assoc. Chair Strategic Initiatives & Innovation
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Biography

Dr. Pamela Bhatti is Professor and Associate Chair for Strategic Initiatives and Innovation at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech. Her research is dedicated to overcoming sensory loss in human hearing through focused neural stimulation, and novel implantable sensors.  Dr. Bhatti also conducts research in cardiac imaging to assess and monitor cardiovascular disease. She received her B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley (1989), her M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington (1993), and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2006). In 2013, she earned an M.S. in Clinical Research from Emory University, and co-founded a startup company (Camerad Technologies) based on her research in detecting wrong-patient errors in radiology. Dr. Bhatti is the IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, Editor-in-Chief; and, in 2017, received the Georgia Tech Class of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award.

Research

 

  • Neural prostheses: cochlear and vestibular
  • Capturing mechanical heart motion: cardiac gating for improving quality in computed tomography
  • Building training programs to deepen the integration of engineering and medicine
  • Engineering entrepreneurship
Distinctions & Awards
  • Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, 2019- 2020
  • Georgia Institute of Technology Class of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activities Award, 2017
  • Associate Scientific Editor, Science—Translational Medicine, 2016
  • Master of Science in Clinical Research, Emory University, 2013