Beth Lopour

Beth Lopour has been an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine since 2013. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northwestern University in 2004 and her PhD in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2009, where her research focused on representations of sleep and epilepsy in a mean-field model of the human cortex. Dr. Lopour was then a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Neurobiology at UCLA, studying single neuron recordings in the epileptic human brain. Since joining UCI, she has focused on signal processing techniques for both invasive and noninvasive human electrophysiological data, developing novel methods and computational markers to aid in the diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy. She has received the Junior Investigator Research Award from the American Epilepsy Society and the Faculty Innovation in Teaching Award from the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at UCI, and she is a member of the UCI Faculty Academy for Teaching Excellence.