Rate My Professor Jitendran Muthuswamy

Jitendran Muthuswamy serves as an Associate Professor in the School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering at Arizona State University and directs the Neural Microsystems Laboratory. His primary research interests encompass neural interfaces, neuromodulation, BioMEMS, and neural engineering, with a specific focus on migraine pain mechanisms, chronic neural interfaces, and the cellular and molecular underpinnings of neuromodulation. Muthuswamy holds a BTech in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India; MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering; and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.

Muthuswamy's scholarly contributions include highly cited publications such as "Brain micromotion around implants in the rodent somatosensory cortex" (Gilletti and Muthuswamy, 2006, Journal of Neural Engineering; 406 citations), "Spectral analysis methods for neurological signals" (Muthuswamy and Thakor, 1998, Journal of Neuroscience Methods; 284 citations), "Long-term changes in the material properties of brain tissue at the implant–tissue interface" (Sridharan et al., 2013, Journal of Neural Engineering; 174 citations), and "Compliant intracortical implants reduce strains and strain rates in brain tissue in vivo" (Sridharan et al., 2015, Journal of Neural Engineering; 143 citations). His research has amassed over 2,995 citations according to Google Scholar. He has received funding from the National Institutes of Health for projects including Wireless, Injectable Neurostimulators for treating Chronic Migraine and Near Infrared Light Activated Adhesives for Nerve Repair, as well as a Flinn Foundation Translational Research Seed Grant for a Portable Neurostimulation System for Chronic Migraine Pain. Additionally, Muthuswamy is an Associate Editor for Frontiers in Neuroscience and PLOS One, and serves as emeritus Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering. His influence extends through affiliations with the Biodesign Center for Biomaterials Innovation and Translation and the School of Life Sciences at ASU.