Tilak Ratnanather, PhD

Born with profound bilateral hearing loss, Tilak Ratnanather is an associate research professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. His research focus is on the analysis of brain structures implicated in neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders such as schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, Huntington’s, deafness and speech, and language processing. In 2015, he received from President Obama the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM) for FY2012 in recognition of more than 25 years of mentoring people with hearing loss in STEMM worldwide.