Dr. Gregory B. Cogan obtained his bachelor's in psychology at Queen’s University, Canada, followed by his masters in Linguistics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. He completed his PhD in 2011 at the University of Maryland, College Park under the supervision of David Poeppel, where he examined the neural phase coding of speech using information theoretic approaches and magnetoencephalography (MEG). Dr. Cogan then carried out his postdoctoral work at the Center for Neuroscience at New York University (CNS - NYU) with Bijan Pesaran examining speech sensory-motor transformations using electrocorticography (ECoG). This was followed by a postdoctoral position in the Biomedical Engineering Department at Duke University with Jon Viventi to establish a human cognition research program using high density/high channel count electrode arrays.

Since 2017, Dr. Cogan is faculty in the School of Medicine and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology, Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering, a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, as well as a member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University. Since 2019, he is the Director of Research for the newly formed Duke Comprehensive Epilepsy Center (DCEC). His research program studies the neural basis of speech, language, and cognition. The lab’s work leverages opportunities from neurosurgical patients to directly record from the human brain. Projects include understanding how speech is produced in the brain and restoring this ability in patients through the development of neural speech prostheses.