Tom Talavage named Purdue University Faculty Scholar
Tom Talavage, professor of biomedical engineering and professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named a Purdue University Faculty Scholar for 2015-2020. The University Faculty Scholars Program recognizes outstanding faculty members at the West Lafayette campus who are on an accelerated path for academic distinction.
Eligible faculty must hold the rank of tenured associate or full professor and have been in that rank for no more than five years. Faculty Scholars are appointed for a nonrenewable five year term and receive an annual $10,000 discretionary allocation to support their research.
Talavage received a B.S.in computer and electrical engineering in 1992 and a M.S. in electrical engineering in 1993, both from Purdue University. He received a Ph.D. in speech and hearing sciences from MIT in 1998. His research interests are in functional neuroimaging, statistical biomedical image and signal processing, signal detection, audition, speech, language comprehension, and neural prostheses.