Name Ravi Bellamkonda | ||
Duke Engineering Class of 2019—Undergraduate Ceremony
Ravi V. Bellamkonda (born 1968) is a biomedical engineer and the Vinik Dean of the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering since 2016.
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- Duke Engineering Class of 2019Undergraduate Ceremony
- Education and career
- Research
- Professional services
- Honors awards and recognition
- References
Bellamkonda also holds a professorship in the Duke Department of Biomedical Engineering, where his laboratory explores the interplay of biomaterials and the nervous system for neural interfaces, nerve repair and brain tumor therapy.
Bellamkonda was elected as president of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) for the 2014-2016 term. He has served as a member of the board for the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES), and is on the editorial board for several scientific journals. He advises several biomedical engineering-related departments and programs nationally as a member of their external advisory boards.
Education and career
Bellamkonda earned his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Biomedical Engineering at Osmania University in May 1989 and his Ph.D. in Medical Science and Biomaterials from Brown University in June 1994.
From 1994 to 1995, Bellamkonda was a Markey Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Jerry Schneider and Sonal Jhaveri.
In 1995, he went on to become the Elmer L. Lindseth assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH, then advanced to associate professor for the Department of Biomedical Engineering in 2001.
In 2003, Bellamkonda joined Georgia Tech as an associate professor of biomedical engineering, and in 2005, he was promoted to professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, a joint department created by Emory's School of Medicine and the Georgia Tech College of Engineering. From 2006 to 2013, he was designated as the Carol Ann and David D. Flanagan Chair in biomedical engineering at Georgia Tech. the Carol Ann and David D. Flanagan Chair in Biomedical Engineering and Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scholar
In 2008, he was named deputy director of research at the Georgia Tech/Emory Center for the Engineering of Living Tissues (GTEC), an NSF funded engineering research center. Afterwards, in 2010, he was named associate vice president for research at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a position he held until 2013.
In 2013, Bellamkonda was named the department chair of the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. On August 1, 2016, he became Vinik Dean at Duke University.
Research
Bellamkonda's primary area of research is the application of biomaterials to the human nervous system, including spinal nerve repair, neural interfaces, and brain tumor therapy.