Michel Maharbiz

Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley.

His research focuses on the extreme miniaturization of technology focused on building synthetic interfaces to cells and organisms. He is one of the inventors of “neural dust,” an ultrasonic interface for very small implants in the body, which led to the founding of iota Biosciences, Inc.

He has founded several successful companies, including Microreactor, Inc. and Cortera Neurotechnologies. In 2017 he received the McKnight Foundation’s Neuroscience Technology Innovations Award; he was appointed a Chan-Zuckerberg (CZ) Biohub Researcher in 2017; Bakar Fellow in 2014 and has received a 2009 National Science Foundation CAREER Award, a GE Fellow, and intel iMAP Fellow.