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Mark E. Nelson

Mark E. Nelson

Full-time Faculty
Neurotech

5251 Beckman Institute
405 North Mathews Avenue
Urbana, Illinois 61801

(217) 244-1371


Mark Nelson received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1983. He is a professor in the University of Illinois Department of Molecular & Integrative Physiology and a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute NeuroTech group. He is also a member of the Neuroscience program, the Biophysics & Computational Biology program and the Bioengineering program. His fields of professional interest are computational neuroscience, neural coding, and biological signal processing.

Honors: James E. Heath Award for Excellence in Teaching (2001); Beckman Fellow, U of I Center for Advanced Study (1993); William Evans Fellow (1990).

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