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BioCAS TC List of Members

 

Dr. Alan A. Stocker

Center for Neural Science,
New York University
4 Washington Place Rm 809
New York, NY-10003, U.S.A.
Email: alan.stocker at nyu.edu
URL:
http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~alan 

 

Research interests: understanding visual information processing by the noisy brain, linking theory to perceptual behavior and physiological data. using these insights to develop novel, neurally inspired electronic circuits.

Dr. Alexander Fish

Electrical & Computer Engineering
ICT Building, Room 428
Schulich School of Engineering
University of Calgary
Calgary
, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4

Email: fish at atips.ca

Research interests: image sensors, analog and digital on-chip image processing, algorithms for dynamic range expansion, neuromorphic processing and low-power design techniques for digital and analog circuits.

Dr. Alistair McEwan

University College London Medical Physics
Gower St
, London
, WC1E6B
Email: a.mcewan at ucl.ac.uk
URL: http://www.medphys.ucl.ac.uk/~amcewan/
 

Research interests: electrical impedance spectroscopy (stroke and epilepsy), Bioimpedance,  Current mode analog signal processing, Neuromorphic circuits and integrated electronics for biomedical applications.

Dr. Andre van Schaik 

School of Electrical and Information Engineering

The University of Sydney Sydney

NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA

Email: andre at ee.usyd.edu.au

URL: http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/andre

 

Research interests: Neuromorphic Engineering, Integrated circuit design, Smart Sensory Systems, Bio-inspired systems, Augmented Reality and wearable computing, Auditory displays, Sonification - Rendering data as audio, Wearable sensors technology, Multimedia Engineering, Virtual reality displays, Immersive environments, Audio Engineering, Speech recognition, Speech coding, 3D audio, Virtual auditory space, Auditory modelling, Hearing aids, Perceptual audio coding.

Dr. Andreas Demosthenous

University College London
Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering Torrington Place London 
WC1E 7JE, UK

Email: a.demosthenous at ee.ucl.ac.uk
URL:
http://www.ee.ucl.ac.uk/~ademosth/ 

 

Research interests: implantable biomedical circuits for neuralprostheses, biomedical instrumentation, analog signal processing.

Dr. Andreas G. Andreou 

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer Science
Whitaker Biomedical Engineering Institute
Barton Hall,
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21218 USA
Email: andreou at hu.edu
URL:http://www.ece.jhu.edu/faculty/andreou/AGA/index.htm

Research interests: Microelectronics, microelectromechanical systems, integrated sensor arrays and networks, imaging, bio-computation and bio-instrumentation.

Dr. Andrew Mason

Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan USA 48824
Email: mason at msu.edu
URL: www.egr.msu.edu/~mason/
 

Research interests: Adaptive low-power mixed-signal integrated circuits; Nanostructured bioelectrochemical sensor arrays; Microsensor signal conditioning and signal processing circuits; Microelectromechanical systems

Dr. Angel Rodriguez-Vazquez

Email: angel at imse.cnm.es 

Dr. Angela M. Hodge 

Applied Physics Laboratory

11100 Johns Hopkins Road

Laurel, MD 20723-6099

Tel: 240-228-2737/Washington

      443-778-2737/Baltimore

Fax: 240-228-6779/443-778-6779

Email: Angela.Hodge at jhuapl.edu

Dr. Ching-Hsing (Robin) Luo

Dept. of Electrical Engineering

National Cheng Kung University

Tainan, TAIWAN 701

Email: robin at ee.ncku.edu.tw

 

Research interests: wireless Powering, implantable biochip, CMOS-MEMS system design, implantable antenna, on-chip antenna, RFIC, low power sensing readout and ADC, wireless sensing network, single cell model, single cell biochip from gene to ion channel, human subtle energy.

Dr. Chris Toumazou

Institute of Biomedical Engineering,

Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ
United Kingdom

Email: c.toumazou at ic.ac.uk

Dr. Chua-Chin Wang

Dept. of Electrical Engineering

National Sun Yat-Sen University

70 Lien-hai Rd. Kaohsiung 804 Taiwan

Email: ccwang at ee.nsysu.edu.tw 

 

Research interests: implantable ASIC/SOC design and wireless communication circuitry.  The major applications of these circuits on silicon are bladder control and pressure measurement, neural signal sensing, pain blocking, and muscle stimulation.

Dr. David Balya

Analogic and Neural Computing Systems Laboratory Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
MTA-SzTAKI, Kende u. 11. Budapest, Hungary
Email: balya at sztaki.hu
URL: http://lab.analogic.sztaki.hu/
 

Research interests: Neuromorphic modeling of the visual and other sensory systems, Cellular neural networks, bio-inspired algorithm design.

Dr.Diego Barrettino

Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii
2540 Dole Street, Holmes Hall 483
Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Email: diego at spectra.eng.hawaii.edu
URL:
http://www-ee.eng.hawaii.edu/  

 

Research interests: Analog and mixed-signal IC design, control architectures for integrated microsystems, microsensors, MEMS, bioelectronics and systems biology.

Dr. Elisabetta Chicca
 

 

Institute of Neuroiformatics, UNI-ETH Zurich Winterthurerstrasse 190,
CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Email: chicca at ini.phys.ethz.ch
 

Research interests are in the field of neuromorphic VLSI. Specifically, I have been developing hardware implementation of recurrent cooperative competitive networks of spiking neurons for mimicking cortical computation.

Dr. Emm. Mic.Drakakis

 

Imperial College London
Dept. of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering
Email: e.drakakis at ic.ac.uk
URL: http://www.bg.ic.ac.uk/research/Bio-inspired_VLSI_CAS_Group/HomePage.htm
 

Research interests: Circuits for and from Biology

Dr. Erik Bruun

Professor, Orsted DTU
Technical University of Denmark
Orsteds Plads, Building 348
DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Demark
Email: eb at oersted.dtu.dk

URL: http://www.oersted.dtu.dk/personal/eb/
 

Research interests: Current mode analog signal processing, low power/low voltage CMOS circuit design, integrated electronics for biomedical applications, and RF integrated circuits.

Dr. Esther Rodriguez 

Email: e.rodrignez at imperial.ac.uk

Dr. Eugenio Culurciello

 

Yale University
51 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 0520 USA 4.
Email: Eugenio.culurciello at yale.edu
URL:
http://www.eng.yale.edu/elab/
 

Research interests: Sensors and biosensors, silicon on insulator design. 

Dr. George S. Moschytz

Email: moschytz at isi.ee.ethz.ch

Dr. Gert Cauwenberghs 

Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218
Email :
gert at ucsd.edu

Research interests: Adaptive microsystems, learning in silicon,  micropower mixed-signal processing, image and acoustic sensors, visual and hearing aids, biomedical instrumentation.

Dr. Giacomo Indiveri

UNI-ETH Zurich, Institute of Neuroinformatics Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8058, Zurich, Switzerland
Email: giacomo at ethz.ch

 

Research interests : Design and implementation of "Neuromorphic VLSI Systems". Specifically my interests lie in the design of real-time, mixed-mode analog/digital spike-based learning neural systems for sensory signal processing. I have also been developing visual selective attention (VLSI) systems, implemented using neuromorphic sensors interfaced to spiking neural network chips.

Dr. Glenn Vandevoorde

Email: gv at a-bionics.com

Dr. Graham A. Jullien

iCORE Research Chair in Advanced Technology Information Processing Systems
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Calgary
2500 University Dr. NW
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
Email: jullien at atips.ca
URL: http://www.atips.ca/people/jullien

 

Research iInterests: Integrated circuits, System-on-Chip; bio-platforms; MEMS; high performance signal processing systems; hearing instruments; cellular neural networks; vision systems.

Dr. Guoxing Wang
 

Second Sight Medical Products

12744 San Fernando Rd.

Sylmar, CA 91342

Email: wgx at soe.ucsc.edu
 

Research interests: implantable electronics, telemetry, mixed-signal circuit design

Dr. Gwee Bah Hwee

Associate Professor,

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,

Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Avenue, Singapore
639798
Email: ebhgwee at ntu.edu.sg
URL: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/eee/eee2/cv/ebhgwee.htm
 

Research interests: Digital signal processing and low power IC design for portable medical applications including hearing instruments.

Dr. Iasonas F. Triantis

Institute of Biomedical Engineering,

Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ
United Kingdom
Email: i.triantis at imperial.ac.uk

  

Research interests :IC design for neuroprosthetic devices; peripheral nerve interfacing using cuff electrodes; research in advanced neural recording and stimulation configurations including improvement in cuff fascicle-selectivity, lower power consumption and closed-loop FES systems. Interests also include ISFET / chemFET - based sensors.

Dr. Jennifer M. Blain Christen

Arizona State University

Dept of Electrical Engineering

GWC 334, Tempe, AZ 85287-5706, USA

Email: jennifer1 at asu.edu
Tel: 480-965-9859
URL: http://www.public.asu.edu/~jblainch/

 

Research interests: the design of analog and mixed-mode integrated circuits for direct interface to aqueous environments that incorporate biological materials and in bioelectronics.

Dr. Jie Chen

Associate Professor

Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept. & Biomedical Engineering Dept.

University of Alberta Edmonton,

Alberta Canada T6G 2V4

Fellow, National Institute of Nanotechnology Canada

Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. on BioCAS

 

Email: jc65 at ualberta.ca
URL: http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~jchen/

Tel: 780-492-9820

 

Research interests: nanoparticles for cancer diagnosis and treatment, biomarker design and Drug delivery.

Dr. Joseph S Chang

Associate Professor

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,

Nanyang Technological University
Nanyang Avenue, Singapore
639798
Email: ejschang at ntu.edu.sg
URL: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/eee/eee2/cv/ejschang.html
 

Research interests: Biomedical engineering, psychoacoustics, audiology and acoustics, electroacoustics, focused ultrsound, analog and digital signal processing.

Dr. Julio Georgiou

Lecturer, University of Cyprus,

Holistic Electronics Research Lab,

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

75 Kallipoleos Str., 1678 Nicosia, Cyprus

Email: julio at ucy.ac.cy

 

Research interests: biomedical devices and neuroprosthetics, neuromorphic, bio-mimetic & bio-inspired electronics, ultra low power circuits & systems, imagers & vision systems,smart sensors and MEMS devices

Dr. Karim Oweiss

Email: koweiss at msu.edu

Dr. Khaled Nabil Salama

 

Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Dept.
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 8th Street
JEC 6044
Troy, NY 12180
Email: khaled at ecse.rpi.edu
URL: http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/~khaled/

Dr. Leila Shepherd

Imperial College
Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Bessemer Building, Imperial College
London SW7 2AZ
Email: l.shepherd at ic.ac.uk

 

Research interests: Fully-integrated interfacing and analogue signal processing for CMOS-based biochemical sensors.

Dr. Maciej Ogorzalek

Email: maciej at zet.agh.edu.pl

Dr. Marc Cohen

Assistant Research Scientist
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland
A.V. Williams Bldg., Rm. 3111
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 301-509-7394
Fax: 301-384-1115
Email:
mhcohen at umd.edu
URL:
http://www.isr.umd.edu/faculty/gateways/mcohen.htm
 

Research interests: learning and adaptation algorithms and their implementation in VLSI. RFID sensors and sensor networks.

Dr. Maysam Ghovanloo

 

Assistant Professor

ECE Dept. Georgia Institute of Technology

85 Fifth Street NW, TSRB-419

Atlanta, GA 30308

Tel: 404-385-7048

Fax: 404-894-4701

Email: mghovan at ece.gatech.edu

URL: http://www.ece.gatech.edu/~mghovan
 

Research interests: My main research interest is in implantable microelectronic devices. I am also interested in sensor interface and low power circuits.

Dr. Milutin Stanacevic

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

State University of New York at Stony Brook

Stony Brook, New York 11794-2350
Email: milutin at ece.sunysb.edu
URL:
www.ece.sunysb.edu/~milutin

 

Research interests: implantable biomedical instrumentation and telemetry, microphone arrays for hearing aids.

Dr. Mohamad Sawan

Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
2900 Edouard-Montpetit
C.P.6079, Station centre-ville
Montreal, Qc. Canada, H3C3A7
Email :
m.sawan at polymtl.ca
URL: http://www.polystim.polymtl.ca

Research interests : Design and test of mixed-signal(analog,digital and RF) circuits and systems, digital and analog signal and image processing. His interests deal also with modeling, design, integration, assembly and validation of medical devices such as implantable sensors and neuromuscular stimulators, catheters, ultrasound devices, advanced wireless powered and controlled implantable monitoring and measurement techniques and devices. Dr. Sawan is a cofounder and currently a member of the borad of the International Functional Electrical Stimulation Society (IFESS).

Dr. Mohammad Yaqub Afridi

Email: afridi at gwu.edu   

Dr. Mona Zaghloul  

Professor
The George  Washington University
Tel: 202-994-3772
Email: zaghloul at gwu.edu 
URL: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mems
 

Research interests: Biomedical applications of MEMS

Dr. Nitish V. Thakor

Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
720 Rutland Av, Baltimore, MD 21205
Tel: 410-955-7093; Fax: 410-955-0549
Email: nitish at jhu.edu
URL: http://www.jhu.edu/nthakor

 

Research interests: Medical Instrumentation, Neuroengineering, Brain-machine interface and Neural Prosthesis, Implantable devices, Application of low power analog and mixed circuits for electrical and neurochemical sensing and telemetry.

Dr. Orly Yadid-Pecht  

Email: oyp at ee.bgu.ac.il   

Dr. Pamela Abshire

Email: pabshire at umd.edu

Dr. Paolo Arena 

Email: parena at dees.unict.it

Dr. Patrick Degenaar

Email: p.degenaar at imperial.ac.uk

Dr. Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung

National Cheng Kung University

Dept. of Electrical Engineering

EE Building, 1 University Rd Tainan 70101, Taiwan ROC

Email: pcchung at ee.ncku.edu.tw

 

Research interests: medical image analysis, telemedicine, sensor-based health care, health care mobility, and video analysis for health care.

Dr. Paul P. Sotiriadis

Electrical and Computer Engineering

John Hopkins University

Barton Hall 105 3400 N. Charles St.

Baltimore, MD 21218, USA

Email: pps at jhu.edu

Dr. Pedram Mohseni

Electrical Engeneering and Computer Science

Case Western Reserve University

10900 Euclid Av. Cleveland, Ohio 44106-7071 USA

Email: pedram.mohseni at case.edu

 

Research interests: biomedical microsystems; wireless brain-machine interfaces; microelectronics for neural engineering; implantable neuroprostheses; wireless integrated sensing/actuating systems; and assembly/packaging of biomicrosystems.

Dr. Pedro Julian

Email: pjulian at ieee.org

Dr. Peter Wu

Email: cywu at alab.ee.nctu.edu.tw

Dr. Philipp Hãfliger

Institute of Informatics
University of Oslo
PO Box 1080, Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway
Tel: 47 22 84 01 18, Fax: 47 22 85 24 01
Email: hafliger at ifi.uio.no
URL:
http://www.ifi.uio.no/~hafliger

 

Research interests: neuromorphic, hybrid micro chip implementations of learning algorithms, and subthreshold, low power electronics for biomedical implants.

Dr. Rahul Sarpeshkar

Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Rm. 38-294 77 Masachusetts Av. Cambridge,

MA 02139 USA

Email: rahuls at mit.edu

 

Research interests: ultra-low-power biomedical electronics for the deaf, blind, paralyzed and bio-signal sensing systems; bio-inspired systems for sensing, computing, and RF; and, circuit models of biology especially of gene-protein and neuronal networks.

Dr. Ralph Etienne-Cummings

Associate Professor

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

The Johns Hopkins University
105 Barton Hall, 3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
Tel: (410) 516 3494
Fax: (410) 516 2939
Email: retienne at jhu.edu
URL: http://etienne.ece.jhu.edu/

Research interests: VLSI circuits, systems and algorithms for biologically inspired and low-power, parallel mixed-signal processing, with applications to sensory information process, biomorphic robotics and neural prosthetics, low-power instrumentation, acoustic signal processing MEMS and computer integrated surgical systems and technologies.

Dr. Reid Harrison

University of Utah
50 S. Central Campus Dr., Rm. 3280
Salt Lake City, UT 84112  USA
Email: harrison at ece.utah.edu
URL:
http://www.ece.utah.edu/~harrison/

 

Research interests: Low-power, low-noise integrated microelectronics for wireless multi-unit neural recording and stimulation.

Dr. Rizwan Bashirullah

 

University of Florida
527 New Engineering Building
Box 116130
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611-6130
Email: rizwan at tec.ufl.edu
URL:
http://www.icr.ece.ufl.edu/
 

Research interests: Biomedical circuits and wireless interfaces; High-performance I/O circuits and low power analog/digital VLSI; Electronic circuit devices and technology.

Dr. Robert Rieger

National Sun Yat-sen University
Department of Electrical Engineering
80424, Kaohsiung
Taiwan, R.O.C.

Email: rrieger at mail.nsysu.edu.tw

URL: http://rrieger.ee.nsysu.edu.tw

 

Research interests: low-power electronics for biomedical application, bio-chip design and analog signal processing. Recent projects include multi-channel ENG recording, implantable and wearable biosignal recorders, body area networks.

Dr. Robert W. Newcomb

Email: newcomb at eng.umd.edu

Dr. Roman Genov

Email: roman at eecg.toronto.edu

Dr. Salvatore Baglio

Email: salvatore.baglio at diees.unict.it

Dr. Shantanu Chakrabartty

The Johns Hopkins University
Email: shantanu at jhu.edu

Dr. Tan Meng Tong

Nanyang Technological University
Address: Nanyang Technological University,
School of EEE, Nanyang Ave, Singapore 639798
Email: etanmt
at ntu.edu.sg

URL: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/eee/eee2/cv/etanmt.html

 

Research interests : VLSI Design, Class D Amplifiers, Analog and Digital Signal Processing Circuit Design, Biomedical Engineering.

Dr. Timothy G. Constandinou

Imperial College London
Institute of Biomedical Engineering
B422, Bessemer Building
London SW7 2AZ
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 0790, Fax: +44 (0)20 7594 5196

Email: t.constandinou at imperial.ac.uk
URL: www.imperial.ac.uk/people/t.constandinou

Research interests: implantable neuroprosthetic devices, body-worn biomedical instrumentation, biologically-inspired vision systems, CMOS-based integrated sensors and ultra low power circuits.

Dr. Tor Sverre Lande

Professor, Dept. of Informtics
University of Oslo
Informatics Building, Box 1080, Blindern
N-0316 Oslo, NORWAY
Tel: 47-22 85 24 55, Fax: 47-22 85 24 01
Email: bassen at ifi.uio.no
URL: http://www.ifi.uio.no/~bassen


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