Musa Öztürk Email & Phone Number

Alameda, California, United States

• Building tiny implantable medical devices

San Francisco Bay Area

• Developing non-invasive neuromodulation therapies for CNS disorders

• Got invited to propose a research topic in Frontiers in Neuroscience: Translational Neuroscience journal • Built a team of 6 multidisciplinary scientist and physicians as the editorial team• Authored an editorial article summarizing the articles accepted to the research topic

Houston, Texas, United States

• Designed flexible miniature circuit to perform and collect UV spectroscopy data in a wireless indwelling catheter for urinary track infection prediction

Houston, Texas

• Discovered novel neuro-biomarkers for deep brain stimulation therapy - 2 patents pending • Created a real-time neural processing tool for targeting the optimal site in brain surgery, with MATLAB/Simulink• Oversaw 2 clinical studies (~$2M), including IRB preparation, data collection, review, publication and presentation• Developed a pipeline reducing offline neural data analysis time per subject from multiple days to <24 hours• Built a wearable accelerometer sensor to quantify patients’ tremor levels, utilizing Arduino platform• Mentored 2 junior PhD, 3 masters and 3 undergraduate students and contributed to their projects/publications• Acquired in vivo bio-signals in 100+ surgeries from patients with neurological disorders at 4 hospitals in the TMC: CHI Baylor St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Texas Children’s Hospital, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center

Houston, Texas

Bioinstrumentation Lab, Biomedical Signal Processing, Math. Methods for Biomedical Engineers• Supervised the bioinstrumentation laboratory and taught fundamentals of circuit design and bio-signal processing • Prepared and assessed 30+ students’ lab reports, homework and tests and provided feedback

Houston, Texas Area

• Volunteered to promote life science innovation in local healthcare ecosystem by connecting with key opinion leaders in relevant institutions and by organizing/participating innovation events in those institutions

• Led team of 3 in providing consulting services to 2 medical device startups on finalizing prototypes, market analysis, business plan and regulatory pathways

Ankara, Turkey

Analog electronics • Supervised the circuit design laboratory to design an analog radio with 10m range• Prepared and assessed 40+ students’ lab reports, assignments, tests and provided feedback

Ankara, Turkey

• Developed a CANBus communicator on IXXAT boards in C#

Ankara, Türkiye

• Implemented protocols RS232, I2C and SPI on XILINX FPGA boards in VHDL

Doctor Of Philosophy, Neuroscience, Best Dissertation Award

Research focus: Investigation of electro-pathophysiology of neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease through modulation.

Minor, Economics

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering, High Honors

Activities and Societies: Community Volunteers Foundation (TOG), Robotics Club, Amateur Radio Club