Rob MACLEOD

Rob MacLeod was trained in Canada and Austria in physics, electrical engineering, and physiology & biophysics and has been on the faculty at the University of Utah since 1991.  He is a full professor of Biomedical Engineering and Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Utah.  He is a co-founder and Deputy Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute and has held a similar position at the Nora Eccles Treadwell Cardiovascular Research and Training Institute (CVRTI).  He also co-founded the Consortium for ECG Imaging and is President of the Computing in Cardiology Society, which are both international groups dedicated to using computing approaches to explore all aspects of cardiac function, diagnosis, and care.  He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and a Life Member of IEEE.  Dr. MacLeod has a deep commitment to education, training, and mentorship and for the past 18 years has been Vice Chair and Director of the Undergraduate program in Biomedical Engineering.  In his position as Deputy Director at the SCI Institute, Rob is also deeply involved in all aspects of leadership, most recently with the Responsible AI Initiative, recruiting new faculty, and supporting the Institute in its vision to empower our students and scholars to impact society through multidisciplinary transformative computing research.