Matthew Ward

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

Graduate Students