Dr. Firat Yazicioglu is the head of Neuromodulation Devices at GSK Bioelectronics R&D and responsible for the development of implantable devices and creation of new technologies for implantable devices.
 
He received his PhD degree from KU Leuven in Belgium and worked 13 years at imec, a Belgian technology research institute, where he led the research on biomedical circuits and systems for wearable and implantable applications. He has developed technologies for several biomedical devices including wireless cardiac monitoring patches, wearable EEG recording headsets, and implantable neural probes for high density recording of neural activity.
 
Dr. Yazicioglu has served in the technical program committees of the European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC), the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), and the Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS). He is Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.