Changfeng Tai received his Ph.D. degree in biomedical engineering from the Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, in 1992. After his postdoctoral training in the Department of Rehabilitation Science and Technology at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, he joined the Department of Pharmacology as a faculty member. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the Department of Urology at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests include neuromodulation to restore urinary bladder functions after spinal cord injury, model analysis of nerve stimulation, and neurophysiology and pharmacology of the lower urinary tract. Dr. Tai’s research is funded by NIH, DOD, Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, Medtronic Inc., and Ethicon Inc., a Johnson and Johnson Company.
Dr. Tai has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and served as a member of study sections for NIH, DOD, and VA. Dr. Tai is a senior member of IEEE and a member of Society for Neuroscience.