Rob MACLEOD

(He/him/his)

Professor

Biomedical Engineering

  • Professor
    Biomedical Engineering
  • Adjunct Professor
    Internal Medicine

RESEARCH INTERESTS

His research interests include computational electrocardiology with a special interest in both simulating and measuring bioelectric fields in the heart and body. He uses both experimental investigation and clinical approaches to improve the management of ventricular and atrial arrhythmias and to explore the mechanisms and indicators of acute myocardial ischemia.  The broad range of techniques he and his teams use include scientific computing, imaging, image and signal processing, data science, and visualization as well as high-resolution capturing of bioelectric signals.  Most recently, Rob has been applying data-science and machine-learning approaches to the field of electrocardiology.

GRANTS

  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    SIMULATION TOOLS FOR HEART FAILURE THERAPIES
    19 Jun 2026 - 18 Dec 2026
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    SUSTAINABLE SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR NEUROMODULATION PREDICTION
    5 Aug 2025 - 31 Jul 2027
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    THALAMOCORTICAL RESPONSIVE NEUROSTIMULATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF LENNOX-GASTAUT SYNDROME
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA1 Jun 2025 - 15 Jun 2026
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Computational Modeling Guided Ablation for Atrial Flutter
    VA SALT LAKE CITY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM2 Apr 2025 - 31 Mar 2028
    People funded by this grant:
    • Ranjan R,
    • Shelton R,
    • Chang L,
    • Beiging E,
    • DiBella E
    VA SALT LAKE CITY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    KESTRA EXTERNAL STIMULATION EXPLORATION
    13 Dec 2024 - 12 Dec 2027
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    ARRHYTHMIA MECHANISMS IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA
    NORA ECCLES TREADWELL FOUNDATION1 Jul 2024 - 30 Jun 2025
    NORA ECCLES TREADWELL FOUNDATION
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    THALAMOCORTICAL RESPONSIVE NEUROSTIMULATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF LENNOX-GASTAUT SYNDROME
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA1 Jun 2024 - 31 May 2025
    UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    ARRHYTHMIA MECHANISMS IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA
    1 Jul 2023 - 30 Jun 2024
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    THALAMOCORTICAL RESPONSIVE NEUROSTIMULATION FOR THE TREATMENT OF LENNOX-GASTAUT SYNDROME
    1 Jun 2023 - 31 May 2024
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    MACLEOD NETF 2021 START
    NORA ECCLES TREADWELL FOUNDATI7 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2022
    NORA ECCLES TREADWELL FOUNDATI
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    U24 SUPPLEMENT
    NIH NATL INST BIOMEDICL IMAGIN1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2022
    NIH NATL INST BIOMEDICL IMAGIN
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    INTEGRATION OF UNCERTAINTY QUA
    NIH NATL INST BIOMEDICL IMAGIN7 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2022
    NIH NATL INST BIOMEDICL IMAGIN
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA DETECTION
    NIH NATIONAL HEART LUNG & BLOO7 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2022
    NIH NATIONAL HEART LUNG & BLOO
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    CIBC
    NIH NATIONAL INST OF GENERAL M5 Jan 2019 - 31 Dec 2021
    NIH NATIONAL INST OF GENERAL M
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Collaborative Research: US-German Research Proposal: Optimization of Human Cortical Stimulation
    NSF9 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2018
    NSF
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    NIH Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing
    NIH8 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2020
    NIH
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Dissecting Multifactorial Mechanisms of Atrial Fibrillation: Predictive Modelling Framework for Evaluating Medical Treatments
    British Heart Foundation1 Jan 2015 - 31 Dec 2018
    British Heart Foundation
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Summer Course for Biomed Resea
    NIH NATIONAL INST OF GENERAL M9 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2018
    NIH NATIONAL INST OF GENERAL M
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    BIOELECTRIC FIELD MODELING SI
    NIH NATIONAL INST OF GENERAL M8 Jan 2013 - 31 Dec 2015
    NIH NATIONAL INST OF GENERAL M
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Image Based Modeling Simulation and Visualization Summer Course for Biomedical Researchers
    NIH7 Jan 2013 - 31 Aug 2018
    NIH
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    SIEMENS OVERLAY
    SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC9 Dec 2012 - 9 Oct 2016
    SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    CAMPSITE UTAH
    BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP1 Jan 2012 - 31 Dec 2013
    BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORP
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    Image based computer simulation methods to determine the effects on cardiac defibrillation of extraneous metal conductors
    PCMC Foundation/Pediatrics7 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2012
    PCMC Foundation/Pediatrics
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    ITK Algorithms for Analyzing Time-Varying Shape with Application to Longitudinal Heart Modeling
    NIH NLM7 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2011
    NIH NLM
  • EXTERNAL GRANT OR CONTRACT
    NAMIC
    BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL1 Jan 2010 - 31 Dec 2011
    BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL