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Kevin J. Otto, PhD

Dane A. Miller Head and Professor
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States

Dr. Kevin J. Otto is the Dane A. Miller Head and Professor of the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Purdue University, where his research interests include neural engineering, device-tissue interfaces, and neurostimulation. He joined Purdue in 2024, coming from the University of Florida, where he was a Professor of Biomedical Engineering in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering.

He received the BS degree in chemical engineering from Colorado State University (1997), and both the MS degree (2002) and PhD degree (2003) in Bioengineering from Arizona State University. From 2003 to 2004 he was a Research Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan where his work focused on brain-machine interface systems and implantable devices. From 2004 to 2006 he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Central Systems Laboratory in the Kresge Hearing Research Institute in the Department of Otolaryngology at the University of Michigan where his work focused on cochlear implants. He was an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at Purdue University from 2006-2014.

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