Eva L. Dyer, Ph.D.
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Biography
Eva Dyer (she/they) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Dyer leads the NerDS Lab, which focuses on data-centric AI, representation learning, and AI for science. A key area of the lab’s research focuses on AI for neuroscience, where they aim to develop tools to better understand the brain and neural computation, and to uncover abstractions of natural intelligence for creating new brain-inspired AI. Eva earned all of their degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering, including a Ph.D. and M.S. from Rice University and a B.S. from the University of Miami. Eva has received numerous honors, including a Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, McKnight Foundation Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award, and CIFAR Azrieli Global Scholar Award.
Affiliations – Graduate Programs
- Associate Professor, Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Adjunct Professor, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Adjunct Professor, School of Computational Science & Engineering
- Program Faculty, Machine Learning Ph.D Program
- Program Faculty, Bioengineering Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program
Affiliations – Institutes & Centers
- Institute for Data, Engineering, and Science (IDEaS)
- Neuroscience at Georgia Tech (GTNeuro)
- Neural Engineering Center (NEC)
Affiliations – Training Programs
- Executive Board Member, Community Impact Co-Chair
Computational Neuroengineering Training Program (CNTP) - Director of Graduate Studies, Mentor
InQubate Training Program in Computational Biosciences
Funding and Support
- NIH – Theory Models and Methods (TMM) Program
- NSF – CAREER, IIS-RI, IIS-CCF
- McKnight Foundation
- Sloan Foundation
- CIFAR Global Scholar
- Allen Institute for Brain Science