GIANLUCA LAZZI

Fred H. Cole Professorship in Engineering, and Provost Professor of Ophthalmology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Clinical Entrepreneurship, and Biomedical Engineering

Gianluca Lazzi is a Provost Professor at the Keck School of Medicine (Ophthalmology, Roski Eye Institute), the Viterbi School of Engineering (Ming Hsieh Dept. of Electrical Engineering) and the Marshall School of Business (Clinical Entrepreneurship) at the University of Southern California. Gianluca’s research work has been sponsored by several US federal agencies, including NIH, NSF, and DOE. He has made contributions to fields of bioelectromagnetics, liquid metal electronics, antennas, wireless electromagnetics, magnetic neurostimulation, and computational neuroscience. For the past 20 years he has been working on an artificial retina to restore partial vision to the blind; he is currently the Principal Investigator of an interdisciplinary, National Institutes of Health (NIH)-supported, research effort on multiscale modeling for neural excitation, with a primary focus on retina and hippocampus modeling. His research interests are neuroprosthetics, wireless systems and wireless power transfer, bioelectromagnetics, computational electromagnetics, and SAR testing. He has published over 200 papers in journals, conference proceedings, and books. Gianluca has been the Editor-in-Chief (EiC) from 2008 to 2013 of one of the leading journals in the field of antennas and propagation, IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters (AWPL).

Gianluca founded the company Teveri LLC, and served as its founding Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Teveri focuses on the commercialization of stretchable conductive fibers knitted in clothing and athletic apparel to bring seamless biometric, sensing and illumination solutions to smart clothing as well as stretchable electronic systems for medical, consumer, and military applications.