| Nitish V. Thakor | |
| Birth Place: | Nagpur, India |
| Citizenship: | USA |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Neuroengineering, Medical Sensors and Instrumentation, Biomedical Engineering |
| Workplaces: | The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering Case Western Reserve |
| Alma Mater: | Indian Institutes of Technology Bombay, India University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Thesis Title: | Design, Implementation and Evaluation of Microprocessor-based Arrhythmia Monitor |
| Thesis Url: | http:?? |
| Thesis Year: | 1981 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | John G. Webster |
| Academic Advisors: | Willis J. Tompkins |
| Spouse: | Ruchira Thakor |
Nitish V. Thakor (koli)[1] (born 1952) is an American biomedical engineer and is a professor ofBiomedical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University,[2] a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a professor of Neurology at the Johns Hopkins University. He is also the director of the Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE)[3] at the National University of Singapore. Thakor is a leading researcher in Neuroengineering, having pioneered technologies for brain monitoring to prosthetic arms and neuroprostheses.
Thakor graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay. Thakor joined the Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering department in 1983. In 2012 he was invited to lead the Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology. Thakor has authored more than 360 refereed journal papers (h-index 68; i10-index 313 as of November 2017[4])