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Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Illinois Institute of Technology, Illinois, United States
• Dr. Troyk is a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, the Executive director of the Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science and Engineering, and Affiliated Professor in the Stuart School of Business, at the Illinois Institute of Technology. Presently he is leading an 8-institution team for the clinical trial testing of an intracortical visual prosthesis (ICVP). He is also President/CEO of Sigenics, Inc – a custom electronics design company that is a partner in the ICVP visual prosthesis project, with locations in Chicago, IL, and Los Osos, CA, and provides ASIC design services for medical devices. His research interests are broad and include cortical and retinal visual prostheses, implantable neural interfaces, functional electrical stimulation systems, design of neural prostheses, bioelectronic medicine, smart sensors, Radio Frequency Identification, telemetry, VLSI design, and packaging of implantable electronic devices. He obtained his BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana, and the MS and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Illinois, Chicago.
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