Alaa Ahmed received her PhD聽in聽Biomedical Engineering from the University of Michigan at聽Ann Arbor in 2005. She聽spent one year as an NIH post-doctoral fellow at the University of聽Michigan Medical聽School. From 2006-2008, she was a Whitaker International Fellow and聽post-doctoral researcher in sensorimotor control at the University of聽Cambridge. In 2008, she joined the聽麻豆影院 as an聽assistant professor in the Department of Integrative聽Physiology.聽
Her research聽program focuses on understanding how the brain controls movement. She uses a neuroeconomic approach that combines techniques from聽neuroscience, economics, psychology and engineering to investigate the costs聽and constraints聽underlying human sensorimotor decision-making, learning, and聽control. Dr. Ahmed is the recipient聽of an NSF CAREER Award and a DARPA Young聽Faculty Award presented to 鈥渞ising research stars聽in junior faculty positions聽at U.S. academic institutions." Her work has been featured in聽Forbes,聽Wired,聽Time,聽PBS聽and other national and聽international media outlets.