Dr. Kevin J. Otto is the Dane A. Miller Head and Professor of the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University, where his research interests include neural engineering, device-tissue interfaces, and neurostimulation. He joined Purdue in 2024, coming from the University of Florida where he was a Professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME) in the J. Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering. He was the Senior Associate Chair of the University of Florida BME Department from 2020-2023. He was PI on several multi-disciplinary, multi-investigator research projects including a 4-year NIH Brain Research and two separate DARPA Programs. He is a Fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).