Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Professor Vince Calhoun was honored with the Organization for Human Brain Mapping’s Glass Brain Award at the organization’s annual meeting in Seoul, Korea, this June.

The award recognizes lifetime achievements by leading researchers using or facilitating neuroimaging to discover original and influential findings regarding the organization and function of the human brain.

“One of the things I really like about the Glass Brain is it symbolizes to me our desire to see beneath the surface. It's a challenge to be open and transparent in our work,” Calhoun said. “Visualization is hard and subjective, we have to work to make the links between our fancy models, the underlying data, and our conclusions about the brain, as transparent as possible.”

He's made many contributions to the field, including authorship on over 1,000 papers in industry journals, generating over 100,000 citations within the research community.

Much of his work has focused on developing data-driven approaches to study brain dynamics, multimodal neuroimaging of the brain, and brain biomarkers across a range of mental and neurological conditions.

Calhoun is the founding director of the tri-institutional Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS), a joint effort between Georgia State, Georgia Tech, and Emory University. The Center’s goal is to improve the understanding of the human brain using advanced analytic approaches with an emphasis on translational research such as the development of predictive biomarkers for mental and neurological disorders.

Calhoun received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering (EE) from the University of Kansas, a pair of master’s degrees in biomedical engineering and information systems from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in EE from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

Before coming to Georgia Tech, he worked as a research engineer in the psychiatric neuroimaging laboratory at Johns Hopkins, the director of medical image analysis at the Olin Neuropsychiatry Research Center. He’s also been an associate professor at Yale University, a distinguished professor at the University of New Mexico, and the President of the Mind Research Network.

The Glass Brain Award is the latest of many distinctions Calhoun has received during his accomplished career. He’s received fellowships from a number of organizations, including the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Institute of Biomedical and Medical Engineers.

He’s also won an IEEE Outstanding Engineer Award in 2014 and an IEEE Southwest Area Outstanding Educator Award in 2015.