Edgar Lobaton

Bio

Bio

Dr. Lobaton received the B.S. degree in mathematics and the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Seattle University in 2004. He completed his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Dr. Lobaton joined the department in 2011.

His research focuses on the integration of AI, and physical and probabilistic modeling applied to cyber-physical systems in areas such as wearable health monitoring, rehabilitation robotics, agriculture and biological imaging. Lobaton was engaged in research at Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs in 2005 and 2009. He was awarded the NSF CAREER Award in 2016. He was also awarded the 2009 Computer Innovation Fellows post-doctoral fellowship and conducted research in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill from 2009 until 2011. In 2023, he received the William F. Lane Outstanding Teaching and the Winser Alexander Diversity Faculty Awards from the ECE Department. In 2024, he received the University Faculty Scholars and the Outstanding Teacher Awards from NC State.

Education

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 2009

Bachelor’s, Mathematics, Seattle University, 2004

Bachelor’s, Electrical Engineering, Seattle University, 2004

Research Focus

• Machine Learning and AI
• Control, Robotics, and Mechatronics
• Communications, Controls, Signal Processing, and Learning
• Expert in: machine learning, biosensing