Bin He received his BS in 1982 in
electrical engineering, from
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. He later went to study in Japan and obtained his
M.S. in electrical engineering and
PhD (highest honors) in bioelectrical engineering from the
Tokyo Institute of Technology. Bin He completed his
postdoctoral fellowship at
Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in the United States. After working as a Research Scientist at
MIT, he later joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, where Bin He was named a University Scholar by the university president. In January 2004, Bin He became the
Professor of
Biomedical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and
Neuroscience at the
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He also served as the founding director of Center for Neuroengineering at Minnesota. Since 2011, Bin He has served as the director of the NSF IGERT Training Program on Systems Neuroengineering. In August 2012, Bin He was named the director of the Institute for Engineering in Medicine, a campus-wide research institute aimed at advancing innovative engineering solutions for tomorrow's medicine, by fostering collaborations between biomedical colleges and College of Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. He has contributed to neuroengineering education, including editing the first textbook in
neural engineering. He has also led training grants in neuroengineering funded by the
National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the
National Science Foundation (NSF). Bin He served as the past president of the
IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and as the chair of the
International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering. He also served as the Editor-in-Chief of
IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering and currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering. He directs the Biomedical Functional Imaging and Neuroengineering Laboratory, which was founded at the University of Minnesota and relocated to Carnegie Mellon University in 2018. He stepped down from his position of the Head of the Biomedical Engineering Department in 2021, and was succeeded by Keith Cook. ==Research==