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Alan V. Sahakian
Professor


Room: M394
Telephone: (847) 491-7007
E-mail: sahakian@ece.northwestern.edu

Personal Website:
www.ece.northwestern.edu/~sahakian

Alan V. Sahakian is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and in the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He joined the ECE department in 1984. Since 1985, he has been a member of the Associate Professional Staff, Department of Medicine, Evanston Hospital. He has authored about 150 publications and has advised 35 graduate students. Dr. Sahakian is a Fellow of the Searle Center for Teaching Excellence. He is the recipient of the Charles Deering McCormick Chaired Professorship in Teaching Excellence and has been named on the Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll for 1996, 1997, and 2002. He received the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science Advisor of the Year Award in 1995-96 and held the Bette and Neison Harris Chaired Professorship in Teaching Excellence from 1993-95. Alan received his B.S. in Applied Science and in Physics from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in 1976, and his M.S.E.E. in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (with a minor in Computer Science) in 1984 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research sponsors include DARPA, NSF, Medtronic, Inc., and the Dr. Scholl Foundation.

Research Interests
Instrumentation, signal and image processing for medical and aerospace applications. Automatic detection and treatment of the atrial cardiac arrhythmias by implanted devices.

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