Thomas DeMarse received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in learning and memory from Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. From 1997 to 1999 he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Behavioral/Cognitive Systems Group at Arizona State University. From 1999 to 2003 he worked as Research Fellow in the Department of Biology at the California Institute of Technology and the Biomedical Engineering Department at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently a Research Scientist in neural engineering area within the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA. His primary research interests employ in vitro multichannel microelectrode array technology to study neural computation, neural interface technology including noninvasive brain stimulation, and plasticity, learning and memory in living neural systems withapplication to neural disorders such as epilepsy and stroke.