He is a faculty member of the BrainHub at CMU and also the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), which is a joint venture of University of Pittsburgh and CMU. He was a research scientist at UC Berkeley before joining CMU. Chamanzar received his Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Georgia Tech in 2012. His dissertation on developing novel hybrid plasmonic-photonic on-chip biosensors received the Sigma Xi best Ph.D. thesis award. electrical and computer engineering has published more than 25 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers and he holds three pending patents. He is the recipient of a number of awards including the SPIE research excellence award and GTRIC innovation award. His current research is focused on developing novel electro-acousto-optic neural interfaces for high-resolution electrophysiology recording and optogenetic stimulation.