Director, NeuroRobotics Lab
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Core Faculty, Utah Robotics Center
Member, Utah Center for Neural Interfaces
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Jacob A. George received his B.S. in Biomedical Engineering and a Certificate in Computational Science and Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin in 2016. Dr. George graduated with Highest Honors and was the sole recipient of the Biomedical Engineering Student Leadership Award for his contributions to his department as President of the Biomedical Engineering Honor Society. He then received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Utah in 2018 and 2020, respectively. At Utah, George served as the Co-President of the Graduate Student Advisory Committee and Inaugural President of the IEEE Engineering Medicine and Biology Student Chapter. Dr. George briefly served as a postdoctoral fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Utah before establishing his own independent research program via the prestigious NIH Director's Early Independence Award.