Education

•  Case Western Reserve University, PhD in Biomedical Engineering 1998
• Case Western Reserve University, MS in Biomedical Engineering 1993
• Istanbul Technical University, BS in Electrical Engineering 1986

Research Interests

• Neural Recording with Microelectrode arrays
• Neural Prostheses/Neural Interfaces
• Spinal Cord/Brain-Computer Interface
• Floating Micro-Stimulators
• Neural Signal Extraction/ Analysis
• Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
• Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA)
•  Autonomic Control of the Heart Rate

 Journal Papers

•  Sahin. M., “A Low-noise Amplifier for Nerve Cuff Electrodes”,  IEEE Tran. on Neural Systems and Rehab. Eng. (will appear in Dec 2005).
• Sahin, M., and Jingtao Huang, “Electrical Activation of Tongue Muscles in Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Neural Prosthetic Application”, Encyclopedia of BME, (accepted).
• Huang, Jingtao and Mesut Sahin, “Dilation of the Oropharynx via Selective Stimulation of the Hypoglossal Nerve”,  Journal of Neural Engineering, No 2, pp. 73-80, 2005.
• Sahin, M., “Information capacity of the corticospinal tract recordings as a neural interface,” Ann. of Biomed. Eng. Vol. 32, No. 6, June 2004, pp. 823-830.
• Yoo, P., M. Sahin, and D.M. Durand, “Selective Stimulation of the Canine Hypoglossal Nerve Using a Multi-Contact Cuff Electrode”, Ann. of Biomed. Eng. Vol. 32, No. 4, April 2004, pp. 511-519.
• Mesut Sahin, Dominique M. Durand, and Musa A. Haxhiu, "Closed-loop stimulations of hypoglossal nerve using its spontaneous activity as the feedback signal", IEEE Tran. on Biomed. Eng., Vol. 47, No. 7, pp. 919-925, July, 2000.
• Mesut Sahin, Dominique M. Durand, and Musa A. Haxhiu, "Chronic recordings of hypoglossal nerve in a dog model of upper airway obstruction" J. Apply. Physiol. Vol. 87, No. 6, pp. 2197-2206, 1999.
• Mesut Sahin and Dominique M. Durand, "Improved nerve cuff electrode recordings with sub-threshold anodic currents", IEEE Tran. on Biomed. Eng., Vol. 45, No. 8, pp. 1044-1050 , Aug., 1998.
• Mesut Sahin, Musa A. Haxhiu, Dominique M. Durand, and Ismail A. Dreshaj, "Spiral nerve cuff electrode for recordings of respiratory output", J. Apply. Physiol., Vol. 83, No. 1, pp. 317-322, July 1997.

 Patents

US Patent # 6,587,725, “Method and apparatus for closed-loop stimulation of the hypoglossal nerve in human patients to treat obstructive sleep apnea”, Dominique Durand, Mesut Sahin, and Musa A. Haxhiu, July 2003.

Positions

09/05-present   Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, New Jersey Institute of Technology.
02/01-08/05 Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA.
05/98-02/01 Post-Doc (Research Associate), Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio
08/87-02/90 R&D Engineer, TELETAS Corp., Istanbul, Turkey.

Honors and Awards

Post-doc fellowship from Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, 1999.
Scored within top 1% in the Nationwide Student Selection and University Placement Exam of Turkey, 1982.