Nitish V. Thakor (koli)[1] (born 1952) is an American biomedical engineer and is a professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University,[2] a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a professor of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University.
Thakor is a leading researcher in Neuroengineering, having pioneered technologies for brain monitoring to prosthetic arms and neuroprostheses.
[citation needed] Thakor joined the Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering department in 1983.
[citation needed] In 2012 he was invited to lead the Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology.
[citation needed] Thakor has authored more than 360 refereed journal papers (h-index 68; i10-index 313 as of November 2017[4])