Matthew Ward
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Email: mpward@purdue.edu
Phone: +1 765 494-8181
Fax: +1 765 496-1459
Location: West Lafayette
Purdue University
Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering
Martin C. Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering
206 S. Martin Jischke Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2032
Research Interests
- Bioelectronic treatments for inflammation, depression, urinary incontinence, pain and gastroparesis
- Artificial intelligence in medical devices
- Non-invasive neural interfaces for diagnostic and therapeutic applications
- Computational neuroscience
Awards
- JHU Innovations for Substance Use Disorder Executive Education Fellowship, 2025
- Outstanding Reviewer Award, IOP Publishing, 2025
- Outstanding Reviewer Award, Journal of Neural Engineering, IOP Publishing, 2024
- Official VinFuture Prize Nominator, VinFuture Foundation 2024-2025
- Most Impactful Inventors, Purdue University, 2020
- NIH SPARC Ideas Lab Competition Winner, Washington DC, 2020
- Seed for Success Award, Purdue University 2016-2017
- Purdue Innovators Hall of Fame, Purdue University, 2014,2017
- Young Investigator Award, Digestive Disease Week Conference, 2016
- Top Poster Presentation Award, Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI), 2015
- Young Investigator Award, American Epilepsy Society, 2012
- Certificate of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Burton D. Morgan Center, 2011-2012
- Engineering, Physics and Mathematics Poster Award, American Society for Microbiology Conference for Multidisciplinary Science (ABRCMS), 2011
- Interdisciplinary Research Award, American Society for Microbiology Conference for Multidisciplinary Science (ABRCMS), 2011
- Magoon Excellence In Teaching Award, College of Engineering, Purdue University, 2010