Bilal Haider is an assistant professor in the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University. He joined the faculty at Georgia Tech after completing postdoctoral training at University College London.

Haider’s research measures, manipulates and deciphers neural circuit activity underlying normal and impaired visual perception, providing new insights into how the brain processes information and orchestrates behavioral actions.

Haider has received several prestigious awards, including from the Whitehall Foundation, Simons Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. His work has been published in leading journals, including Nature, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Communications and Neuron.