Hasan Ayaz

Hasan Ayaz, PhD, is a Provost Solutions Fellow and Professor at Drexel University, School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Philadelphia, PA with affiliations at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, AJ Drexel Autism Institute and Solutions Institute of Drexel University, Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Associate Fellow at the Center for Injury Research and Prevention of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, a core member of the Cognitive Neuroengineering and Quantitative Experimental Research Collaborative and directs the Neuroergonomics and Neuroengineering for Brain Health and Performance Research core. He received his BSc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Türkiye with high honors and MSc. and PhD degrees from Drexel University where he developed enabling software for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy based brain monitoring and FDA-approved medical devices.

His research interests include understanding human brain functioning using mobile neuroimaging in realistic and real-world environments, across the lifespan and from healthy to clinical conditions in collaboration with domain experts and clinical partners. His research aims to design, develop, and utilize(i.e., to measure->elucidate->enable) next-generation brain imaging for neuroergonomic applications over a broad spectrum from aerospace to healthcare. He organized and chaired international conferences on this topic and co-founding Field Chief Editor of the new journal Frontiers of Neuroergonomics, which focuses on mobile neurotechnology methods and applications.