Albert H. Titus, PhD

Albert H. Titus, PhD, is senior associate vice president for research at the University at Buffalo, where he also serves as a professor of biomedical engineering. In this portfolio, he oversees university-wide research compliance and operations.

Titus was founding chair of UB’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, located jointly the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, guiding its growth in enrollment, faculty and sponsored research and establishing new undergraduate and graduate programs. 

A Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Service, and an NSF CAREER awardee, Titus has been recognized as Western New York Inventor of the Year and as a key contributor to a Popular Science Top Ten Inventions Award. His research spans wearable sensors, integrated and biosensor systems, bioinstrumentation, analog VLSI implementations of artificial vision, and optoelectronic systems, with more than 100 publications and numerous patents in these areas.

Prior to joining UB, Titus was an assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He earned his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and BS and MS degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University at Buffalo.