Brian Litt

Brian Litt is a Professor of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Bioengineering at the Perelman School of Medicine and University of Pennsylvania. He is the former director of the Penn Epilepsy Center, and is director of the Center for Neuroengineering and Therapeutics.

He earned an A.B.(1982) in engineering and applied science from Harvard and an M.D. degree (1986) from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine His residency in neurology was at Johns Hopkins Hospital from 1988–1991.

Litt's research team focuses on epilepsy but also conducts research in functional neurosurgery, network and computational neuroscience, movement disorders, intra-operative and ICU monitoring, machine learning, high-speed data, and other related areas.

He holds several patents and has co-founded medical device companies. Viventi J, Kim DH, Vigeland L, Frechette ES, Blanco JA, Kim YS, Avrin AE, Tiruvadi VR, Hwang SW, Vanleer AC, Wulsin DF. [etc] Flexible, foldable, actively multiplexed, high-density electrode array for mapping brain activity in vivo. Nature neuroscience. 2011 Dec;14(12):1599. According to Google Scholar, it has been cited 935 times. 2015: American Epilepsy Society's Research Recognition Award for Clinical Science 2013: Brain Research Foundation's Scientific Innovations Award