Albert Titus UB researcher Albert H. Titus, professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Fellowship, according to the NAI, is the highest professional distinction accorded by the organization to academic inventors who have demonstrated “a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society.” Titus is one of 175 researchers worldwide to be elected to the NAI this year. “Albert Titus is a prolific investigator whose innovative research record spans a diverse array of fields, including artificial vision, hardware and software for artificial neural networks, optoelectronics and integrated sensor systems. He is a recognized leader in his field, with patents and scholarship that have contributed greatly to the advancement of technologies with great societal benefit,” according to a joint statement from Kemper Lewis, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Michael Cain, vice president for health sciences and dean of the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.