Biography:Dean Neikirk

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Dean Neikirk is an American engineer, who is currently the Cullen Trust for Higher Education Endowed Professor in Engineering #7 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.[1][2]

Background and academic career

Neikirk pursued undegraduate studies at Oklahoma State University, where he earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics from in 1979. He later received an M.S. and Ph.D. in applied physics from California Institute of Technology.[3]

In 2013, Neikirk was appointed Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the University of Texas.[4] Neikirk was involved in the development of the "electric tongue" which could detect nutrition and other properties of materials using advanced sensor technologies. [5]

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