Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Appointments and Affiliations
- Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
- Assistant Professor in Neurobiology
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Assistant Professor in Neurosurgery
Contact Information
- Email Address: timothy.dunn@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- Ph.D. Harvard University, 2015
Research Interests
Machine learning, computer vision, neurobiology, animal behavior, computational neuroscience, prognostic modeling, traumatic brain injury
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award. McKnight Foundation. 2021
- Peer Recognition Honor. Duke, Pratt School of Engineering. 2020
- Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. Harvard University . 2017
- Certificate of Excellence in Teaching. Harvard University. 2017
- AI Watson XPrize Finalist (with team DataKind). IBM. 2017
- Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. Harvard University . 2013
- Graduate Research Fellowship. National Science Foundation . 2010
- I.L. Chaikoff Award for Undergraduate Research. UC Berkeley . 2008
- MCB Department Citation (Best in Class). UC Berkeley. 2008
Courses Taught
- EGR 393: Research Projects in Engineering
- ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
- ECE 493: Projects in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- BME 899: Special Readings in Biomedical Engineering
- BME 792: Continuation of Graduate Independent Study
- BME 791: Graduate Independent Study
- BME 790L: Advanced Topics with the Lab for Graduate Students in Biomedical Engineering
- BME 789: Internship in Biomedical Engineering
- BME 590: Special Topics in Biomedical Engineering
- BME 580: An Introduction to Biomedical Data Science (GE)
- BME 494: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)
- BME 493: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)
- BME 394: Projects in Biomedical Engineering (GE)
- BME 390L: Special Topics with a Lab
In the News
- A New Way to Understand Brains and Behavior (Mar 25, 2025 | Pratt School of Eng…
- Going Big: A Cross-Continental Global Health Project Aims for Systemic Change (…
- Welcome the Pratt School New Faculty (Oct 26, 2021 | Pratt School of Engineerin…
- Timothy Dunn: Tracking Movement to Decipher Brain Activity (Jun 22, 2021 | Duke…
- Learning to DANNCE (Apr 23, 2021 | Duke AI Health)
- Tim Dunn - The DANNCE Study (Apr 19, 2021 | Duke Forge)
- Neural Circuits at the Brain Scale (Nov 8, 2016 | Harvard MCB News)
- Calculating Time to Collision (Feb 3, 2016 | Harvard MCB News)
Representative Publications
- Manjunath, Pranav, Brian Lerner, and Timothy W. Dunn. “Trust Your Neighbors: Multimodal Patient Retrieval for TBI Prognosis.” IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics 29, no. 12 (December 2025): 8775–82. https://doi.org/10.1109/jbhi.2025.3622508.
- Erning, K., K. L. Wilson, C. S. Smith, L. Nguyen, N. I. Joseph, R. Irengo, L. Y. Cao, et al. “Delivery of Angiogenic Therapy from Flowable Hyaluronic Acid Porous Scaffolds Results in Functional Improvement without Anti-Inflammatory Agents.” Advanced Functional Materials 35, no. 30 (July 24, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202500696.
- Klibaite, Ugne, Tianqing Li, Diego Aldarondo, Jumana F. Akoad, Bence P. Ölveczky, and Timothy W. Dunn. “Mapping the landscape of social behavior.” Cell 188, no. 8 (April 2025): 2249-2266.e23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.01.044.
- Adil, Syed M., Andreas Seas, Daniel P. Sexton, Pranav I. Warman, Benjamin D. Wissel, Kennedy L. Carpenter, Lacey Carter, et al. “Revisiting the Endoscopic Third Ventriculostomy Success Score using machine learning: can we do better?” J Neurosurg Pediatr 35, no. 3 (March 1, 2025): 246–54. https://doi.org/10.3171/2024.9.PEDS24146.
- Wu, J. H., H. Koneru, J. R. Ravenel, A. Sabath, J. M. Roach, S. S. X. Lim, M. R. Tadross, A. H. Williams, and T. W. Dunn. “DISENTANGLING 3D ANIMAL POSE DYNAMICS WITH SCRUBBED CONDITIONAL LATENT VARIABLES.” In 13th International Conference on Learning Representations Iclr 2025, 44255–82, 2025.