Fall 2009 IAB - Director / Speaker Biographies
September 16 to 18
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| |  | | Mehmet Akgul Received his B.S. Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with high-honors in 2007 from Middle East Technical University, Ankara-Turkey. In summer 2006, he worked as an undergraduate researcher at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). He is currently a 3rd year graduate student at EECS Department of University of California, Berkeley, pursuing his Ph.D. degree as working with Prof. Clark Nguyen. Mehmet Akgul's current research interests are micromechanical filter design for RF channel selection and fabrication of MEMS devices, and in the long term to realize a fully micromechanical RF transceiver. He is expected to graduate in 2013. | | | | |
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| | Justin Black See also: http://www.qualcomm.com/qmt/ | | | | |
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| | Frederic Breussin Frederic Breussin is expert in Microfluidics for diagnostics and life sciences. He has supported many companies in their innovation and product development strategy in making the bridge between micro systems technologies and their applications in Life sciences, diagnostics and medical device industries. He holds an Engineering diploma from INSA Rouen and a DEA in fluid mechanics from University of Rouen. See also: http://www.yole.fr | | | | |
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| | Jim Chih-Min Cheng Jim received his B.Eng. in Electrical Engineering from McMaster University, Canada in 2004. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Berkeley in Electrical Engineering in 2006 and 2009, respectively. His research interests are in NEMS/MEMS and their applications to medicine and energy. Thus far, his research has focused on biologically-inspired MEMS sensors and next-generation energy storage utilizing nanocomposites. Outside of research he enjoys exploring the Bay Area, music, backpacking and swimming. See also: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~chengjcm/ | | | | |
| |  | | Zhiyong Fan Zhiyong Fan received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in physical electronics from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 1998 and 2001, and Ph.D. degree in Materials Science from University of California, Irvine in December, 2007. His Ph.D. research involved synthesis and characterization of metal-oxide nanowires for nanoelectronics and sensing applications. Currently he is a post-doctoral researcher in EECS of UC Berkeley, working with Prof. Ali Javey. His current research mainly focuses on assembly and integration of semiconducting nanowires for high performance nanoelectronics and energy harvesting. | | | | |
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| | Octavian Florescu was born in Brasov, Romania on October 10, 1980. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 2004 and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley where he working on a fully integrated point-of-care immuno-diagnostic device based on CMOS technology. He has held internships at DEC, Compaq, Quake Technologies, GE, Nokia and Qualcomm, throughout which he has developed control systems for nuclear reactors, software for network management, high speed digital blocks for 10Gb/s and 40Gb/s Ethernet, baseband PLLs for digital timing and RF front-ends for cellular communication. Octavian was a Vodafone Fellow from 2004-2006 and has several US patents with several more pending. Outside of IC design and biotechnology research, his interests include Austrian economics and philosophy. See also: http://www.siliconbiodevices.com | | | | |
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| | Shomit Ghose Mr. Ghose is a venture capitalist with technology operating experience. Mr. Ghose joined ONSET Ventures after 19 years of working at high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. During his career, he participated in several successful IPOs, including those of Sun Microsystems and BroadVision.
Most recently, he was Senior Vice President of Operations and Chief Operating Officer at Tumbleweed Communications, where he managed the marketing, professional services and corporate development departments. He helped the company through a successful IPO in 1999. He was Vice President of the Worldwide Professional Services Organization at BroadVision and participated in a successful IPO in 1996.
His first job was as network protocol engineer at Metaphor Computer Systems, a company acquired by IBM. Later, he was a kernel software engineer at Sun Microsystems. He has also been Director of Marketing and Director of Asia/Pacific Operations for nCUBE, a manufacturer of video-on-demand servers, and a board member of Alier, Inc., a data integration software company that is now part of webMethods.
Mr. Ghose was accepted to the University of California, Berkeley, at age 15. He graduated in 1982 with a degree in Computer Science.
At ONSET Ventures, Mr. Ghose coaches, mentors and provides management resources to portfolio companies to maximize their success. He focuses on software, networking and infrastructure companies.See also: http://www.onset.com/main.html | | | | |
| |  | | Gilbert Hawkins received BS and PhD degrees in physics from Stanford University and MIT, in 1969 and 1973, respectively, and was Miller Fellow of Basic Research at the University of California, Berkeley before joining the Research Labs of the Eastman Kodak Company in 1976. His research activities have focused on imaging systems, CCD sensors, semiconductor processing and MEMS/NEMS technology development for micro-optical and micro-fluidic arrays. He has published over 60 technical papers, holds 110 US patents in those fields, and has participated in the activities of many outside organizations, including the NSF. He established the Integrated Materials and Microstructures Laboratory at Kodak in 1997 and was Associate Director of Research, Kodak Research Labs, until his retirement in 2009. | | | | |
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| | Ron Hofmann is a Senior Advisor at the California Institute for Energy and the Environment (CIEE) that operates under the California Energy Commission. He played a leading role in establishing the Public Interest Energy Research (PIER) Programs Demand Response Enabling Technologies program at CIEE and he continues to work with the PIER Program on research related to demand response. Mr. Hofmann has extensive experience in developing new businesses and markets in the energy sector from the ground up. Currently, he sits on two Boards and is an advisor to several emerging energy-related technology companies. Over the past 40 years, Mr. Hofmann has started several successful enterprises. He was a co-founder in 1983 (and the original CEO for 12 years) of EnergyLine Systems, Inc. EnergyLine, now a division of S&C Electric, is a provider of communicating automation solutions for applications on both sides of the power revenue meter. Mr. Hofmann has a mechanical engineering degree from the University of California in Berkeley and did post-graduate studies in thermo sciences at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. For many years, he was an active (and charter) participant in the CEO Forum sponsored by the Santa Clara University Business School. In his career, he held technical, marketing, sales, and management positions in large and small companies. See also: http://uc-ciee.org/staff/hofmann.html | | | | |
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| | Li-Wen Hung Li-Wen Hung received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan University, Taipei, and University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, respectively, both in Electrical Engineering. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Prof. Clark T.-C. Nguyen’s lab focusing on design and fabrication of narrow-band RF micromechanical filters. She has three patent applications and receives multiple awards, including Best Poster Award and two Best Paper Awards from BSAC IAB, and Gold Prize of TSMC Outstanding Student Research Award in 2010. See also: http://www.invensense.com | | | | |
| |  | | Gabriel Lavella I recently completed my Ph.D. in the Maharbiz research group. My research primarily deals with the creation of organic/inorganic nanomachines. I received my B.S. degrees from Drexel University in both Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering in 2001. Following graduation I worked as systems engineer for PSE&G Nuclear and then as missile systems engineer for Lockheed Martin. I've received numerous accolades in industry and academia including the Presidential Fellowship at the University of Michigan, the Hess Research Award, and the Ballistic Missile Systems Excellence Award from Admiral Kathleen Paige. | | | | |
| |  | | Chih-Ming Lin Chih-Ming Lin received the B.S. degree in civil engineering and the M.S. degree in applied mechanics from the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, in 2001 and 2003, respectively. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. From 2004 to 2005, he was a MEMS R&D engineer at the BenQ Corporation, Hsinchu, Taiwan, where he was involved in the development of fully integrated CMOS-MEMS microfluid injecting technology for inkjet print heads. His research interests include acoustic wave devices, piezoelectric RF N/MEMS resonators, oscillators and filters, and CMOS-compatible N/MEMS technologies. | | | | |
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| | Daniel McCormick Dr. McCormick founded Advanced MEMS in 2005, where he is currently President and CTO, to focus on the development and commercialization of MEMS systems for biophotonic and biomedical applications. AdancedMEMS’ imaging systems have been employed in human research trials for approximately 4 years.
From 2003 to 2006, Daniel was a post-doctoral researcher and a visiting research associate with the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center and EECS at the University of California, Berkeley, continuing his research on RF and biomedical applications of MEMS. His research at UC Berkeley focused on the integration of MEMS and microelectronics for high-precision instrumentation, biomedical instrumentation, tag-less detection of proteins, nanobiology and RF/microwave devices. Dan received his B.S.E. degree with distinction in biomedical engineering and electrical engineering from Duke University, Durham, NC, in 1999 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, in 2002 and 2003, respectively. His doctoral dissertation focused on micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) for in vivo optical coherence tomography imaging and radio frequency (RF) applications.
See also: http://advancedmems.com/index.php | | | | |
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| | Igor Paprotny Dr. Igor Paprotny is a Research Scientist with Prof. Richard White at the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC) at U.C. Berkeley where he is involved in applying MEMS technologies to distributed self-powered microsensors for the Smart Grid, microrobotics, and pollution monitoring using air microfluidics. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Dartmouth College while part time in-residence at the Department of Computer Science at Duke University. He holds an Engineering Diploma in Mechatronics from the NKI College of Engineering in Oslo, Norway, as well as BS and MS degrees in Industrial Engineering from Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. He has over 3 years of professional experience in the semiconductor industry where he was involved in designing automated material handling systems for semiconductor factories. His research interests include MEMS Smart Grid sensors and energy scavengers, MEMS micro- and nano-robotic systems, air microfluidics, as well as applications of MEMS to alternative computing paradigms. See also: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~igorpapa/ | | | | |
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| | Richard Przybyla Richie is a fourth year graduate student working on his PhD in Professor Bernhard Boser's group. He has held positions with Hewlett-Packard, Oregon State University, and was a visiting researcher at the Technische Universitaet Kaiserslautern in Germany. He is interested in high performance mixed-signal circuits, especially integrated circuits for MEMS. See also: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~rjp/ | | | | |
| |  | | Stefon Shelton Stefon Shelton received his B.S. in Optical Science and Engineering from U.C. Davis in 2004. He is currently a Ph.D. student working in Prof. David Horsley's research group at U.C. Davis. Current research topics include Piezoelectric MEMS transducers with a focus on Aluminum Nitride devices. | | | | |
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| | Ikhlaq Sidhu is the founding director of UC Berkeleys Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology and the 2009 Emerging Area Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley. He is an authority on the process of innovation and technology management.
Within industry, he has held senior executive and technology leadership positions at U.S. Robotics Corporation, 3Com Corporation, and Cambia Networks. He was awarded 3Coms “Inventor of the Year” award in 1999, and has been granted over 50 US Patents in fundamental and broadly used areas of networking technology, IP telephony, and PDA functionality. Technology and intellectual property from his work has been cross-licensed to Palm Computing, 3Com, and UT Starcom. He was a founding member and Board Director of the SIP Forum organization.
Dr. Sidhu received his bachelors degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his masters degree and doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University.See also: http://cet.berkeley.edu/wiki/index.php?title=People:_Ikhlaq_Sidhu | | | | |
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| | Philip Stephanou is a co-founder of Harmonic Devices Inc. (HDI) and a co-inventor of its core intellectual property. He earned a Ph.D degree in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley in the area of microfabricated RF systems, where he co-developed a new class of AlN contour-mode vibrating microstructures for RF communications. In connection with HDI’s activities, he has been profiled in Red Herring magazine and Business Week Online, and has served on the technical committees of an microsystem conferences. See also: http://www.qualcomm.com/qmt/ | | | | |
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| | Eri Takahashi Dr. Takahashi is the founder and CEO of E&M Devices. For her PhD thesis (Dec 2008), she developed a miniature electromagnetic stepper-motor for fuel-metering valves with Professor Pisano at UCB ME department. She was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company Tokyo for 5 years and worked with industry-leading companies in automotive, semiconductor and mobile communication industries. See also: http://www.ecoharvester.com | | | | |
| |  | | Justin Valley Justin K. Valley received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2006, and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2008. He is currently working towards his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include the areas of optical and biological MEMS, microfluidics, and photonics. | | | | |
| |  | | John Vig is President and CEO of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) worldwide. IEEE is the worlds largest scientific, educational and professional society with over 370,000 members in more than 160 countries. Through its members, the IEEE is a leading authority in areas ranging from aerospace, computers and telecommunications to biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics.
John Vig received the B.S. degree from CCNY, in 1964 and the Ph.D. in Physics from Rutgers - The State University, in 1969. He joined the Electronic Components Laboratory at Fort Monmouth, NJ, USA, in 1969. Throughout his professional career, working as an electronics engineer and program manager, he performed and led research aimed at developing precision clocks, sensors and low-noise oscillators. In 1988, he was elected Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to the technology of quartz crystals for precision frequency control and timing. He retired in 2006 and is now working as a consultant.
He has been awarded 55 patents, and has published more than 100 papers and nine book chapters. He serves as a volunteer in his home town - as an Environmental Commissioner and trustee of the Friends of the Library. In his spare time, he and his wife of 45 years enjoy ballroom dancing.
IEEE Activities – (M’72-SM’84-F’89) OFFICES: Board of Directors, 2008-09, 2005, 2002-03 IEEE President, 2009 IEEE President-Elect, 2008 Vice President, Technical Activities, 2005 Director, Division IX, 2002-2003.
COMMITTEES/BOARDS: Investment AdHoc Committee, 2003 Investment Committee, 2002-03 Marketing and Sales Committee, 2005-07 Trust & Communications Working Group, 2003 Technical Activities Board (TAB), 1998-2005 TAB Chair, 2005 SPARC Chair, 2004 Ethics & Conflict Resolution Committee, 2006 TAB Representative to Investment Committee, 2004 Chair, Investment Advisory Ad Hoc Committee, 2003-04 Nominations & Appointments Committee, 2002-03 Finance Committee, 2001 Electronic Products & Services Committee, 2002 Business Simplification Team, 2002-03 New Technology Directions Committee, 1998-2002 Ad Hoc Committee on Globalization, 1999 Focus Group on Public Image of Engineers, 1999 New Financial Model, 1999 Membership Development Committee, 1999 Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Sensors, 1998-99. Standards Coordinating Committee 27 on Time & Frequency: Chair, 1995-99 Vice-chair, 2000-07.
SOCIETIES/COUNCILS: Sensors Council: Main proponent, 1998-99 Founding President, 2000-01 Associate Editor, Sensors Journal, 2003-05 Senior Editor, Sensors Journal, 2006-08 Special Issue Guest Editor, 2005 AdCom member representing the UFFC-S, 2006-07 VP, Conferences, 2002 Publicity Chair, 2001-08 Exhibits Chair, 2002-03 Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Society (UFFC-S): President, 1998-99 AdCom (elected twice), 1995-97, 1986-89 Transactions on UFFC, Associate Editor, 2002-07 Special Issues Guest Editor, 1998, 1987-88 Publicity Chair, 2006-07 Constitution & Bylaws Review Committee, 2005-08, 1995-98 Founding Web Editor-in-Chief, 1996-2004 Nominating Committee, 1986-92 Publications Committee, 1997-2003 Frequency Control Standing Committee, 1983-2006 Standards Committee Vice-chair, 1998-2007 Time and Frequency Standards Subcommittee, Chair, 1988-99 History Committee, 2006 Instrumentation & Measurement Society: Committee on Time and Frequency (TC-3): Chair, 1999-2001 Vice-chair, 1979-99.
CONFERENCES: Int’l Frequency Control Symposium: General Chair, 1996-97, 1983-88 Technical Program Committee (TPC), 1972-2007 TPC Chair, 2002 Editorial, Chair, 1989-2003 Ultrasonics Symposium, Technical Program Committee, 1986-2006 Sensors Council VP for Conferences, 2002 IEEE SENSORS 2003: TPC and Publicity Chair, 2003 IEEE-NANO TPC, 2001-02.
REPRESENTATIVE: Hoover Medal Board of Award, 1991-2005.
AWARDS: Sensors Council 2007 Meritorious Service Award UFFC-S Distinguished Service Award, 2005 UFFC-S Achievement Award, 2000 C. B. Sawyer Memorial Award, 2006 W. G. Cady Award, 1990 UFFC-S Distinguished Lecturer, 1992-93 IEEE Fellow, 1989.
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| | Thomas Watteyne Thomas worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center, University of California in Berkeley, working in Prof. Kristofer S.J. Pister's team. He has initiated OpenWSN, an open-source initiative to promote the use of fully standards-based protocol stacks in M2M applications. From October 2005 to September 2008, he was a research engineer at France Telecom R&D/Orange Labs working on energy efficiency and self-organizing for wireless multihop networks, together with the CITI Laboratory, France. At that time, he has also been a member of the Student Activity and Award and Recognitions Committees, while serving as the Electronic Communications Coordinator of IEEE Region 8 (Europe, Africa, Middle-East and Russia). He obtained his PhD in Computer Science (2008) and MSc in Telecommunications (2005) from INSA Lyon, France. He has published several journal and conference papers, holds two patents, has contributed to three books, has given several international short-courses, and participated in standardization activities. He has been TPC member and member of the organizing committee of various conferences. He is reviewer for numerous IEEE and non-IEEE journals and a Member of the IEEE. See also: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~watteyne/ | | | | |
| |  | | Chen Yang received the PhD degree from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2008, in Microelectronics. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center, University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include MEMS packaging, high-frequency integrated devices and smart sensors. Dr. Yang received the IEEE Electron Devices Society PhD Student Fellowship Award in 2007. | | | | | |
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| Bernhard E. Boser graduated from ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in 1984 and received the MSEE & PhD degrees from Stanford University (1985/1988). He joined UC Berkeley in 1991 where he is Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and Co-Director of BSAC. He conducted Industrial research as Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ, (1988-1991) where he worked on adaptive systems, hardware implementations for neural network applications, including special purpose integrated circuits, and digital signal processors, and simulation of neural networks on parallel processors. He has been Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, from 2002-2004. Dr. Boser has served on the program committees of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, the Transducers Conference, and the VLSI Symposium. Current research interests include analog and digital circuit design and micromechanical sensors and actuators.
See also: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~boser/ | | |
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| David A. Horsley received a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1998 for his work on the design and control of a microfabricated actuator for magnetic hard disk drives. Upon graduation, Dr. Horsley joined Dicon Fiberoptics, where he initiated the development of passive fiber-optics components based on MEMS technology. From 1999-2000, Dr. Horsley was a member of Hewlett Packard Laboratories, where he and his colleagues developed a MEMS-based storage device based on scanning probe technology. In 2000, Dr. Horsley joined start-up Onix Microsystems, where he was one of the core team that conceived and designed a large fiber-optic cross-connect switch based on optical beamsteering. Since July 2003, Dr. Horsley has been a member of the Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at UCD where he is continuing to work on precision-controlled micromechanical devices.
See also: http://mae.ucdavis.edu/dahorsley/ | | |
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| John M. Huggins Executive Director, Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center, UC Berkeley since September 2002. MS, Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota 1973 Stanford High Tech Executive Institute Founder and CEO of TDK Systems Inc. VP, Advanced Development, Silicon Systems Inc. Telecom development manager, Intel Corporation. Guest Editor and Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits Technical Program Committee, International Solid State Circuits Conference 5 years. Chair, PCMCIA communications standards subcommittee. Five U.S. Patents. Research and professional interests: mixed signal CMOS integrated circuits electronic communications and telecommunications high tech business development.
See also: http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/project/list_projects_by_director.php?PersonID=1086 | | |
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| Ali Javey received a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Stanford University in 2005, and served as a Junior Fellow of Harvard Society of Fellows from 2005 to 2006. He then joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley where he is currently an associate professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.
Professor Javey's research interests encompass the fields of chemistry, materials science and electrical engineering. His work focuses on the integration of nanoscale electronic materials for various technological applications, including novel nanoelectronics, flexible circuits and sensors, and energy generation and harvesting. For his contributions to the field, he has received a number of awards, including the IEEE Nanotechnology Early Career Award (2010); Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2010); Mohr Davidow Ventures Innovators Award (2010); National Academy of Sciences Award for Initiatives in Research (2009); Technology Review TR35 (2009); NSF Early CAREER Award (2008); U.S. Frontiers of Engineering by National Academy of Engineering (2008); and the Peter Verhofstadt Fellowship from the Semiconductor Research Corporation (2003).
See also: http://nano.eecs.berkeley.edu/ | | |
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| Luke P. Lee is a 2010 Ho-Am Laureate. He is Arnold and Barbara Silverman Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley, the Director of the Biomedical Institute of Global Healthcare Research & Technology (BIGHEART) and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center. He was Chair Professor in Systems Nanobiology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH, Zurich). He received his B.A. in Biophysics and Ph.D. in Applied Science & Technology: Applied Physics (major) / Bioengineering (minor) from UC Berkeley. He has more than ten years of industrial experience in integrated optoelectronics, Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices (SQUIDs), and biomagnetic assays. His current research interests are bionanoscience, nanomedicine for global healthcare and personalized medicine, and Bioinspired Photonics-Optofluidics-Electronics Technology and Science (BioPOETS) for green building with living skin. Prof. Lee has authored and co-authored over 250 papers on bionanophotonics, microfluidics, single cell biology, quantitative biomedicine, molecular diagnostics, optofluidics, BioMEMS, biosensors, SQUIDs, SERS, and nanogap junction biosensor for label-free biomolecule detection.
URL: http://biopoets.berkeley.edu
See also: http://biopoems.berkeley.edu | | |
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| Dorian Liepmann received his PhD from UC San Diego in Applied Mechanics. Following ten years industrial research experience at Jet Propulsion Labs and Institute for Non-Linear Science, joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 1992 where he is currently Chair, Department of Bioengineering and Professor, Departments of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering Co-Director of BSAC Lester John and Lynne Dewar Lloyd Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering. Vice Chair of Undergraduate Affairs. Dorian's research Interests include BioMEMS, microfluid dynamics, experimental biofluid dynamics, hemodynamics associated with valvular heart disease and other cardiac and arterial flows.
See also: http://bioeng.berkeley.edu/people/cv?facultyid=3034 | | |
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| Liwei Lin is the Chancellor's Professor and Vice Chair of Graduate Studies in the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley, and a Co-Director of BSAC. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1991 and 1993, respectively. He joined BEI Electronics from 1993 to 1994 in research and development of microsensors. From 1994 to 1996 he was an Associate Professor at the Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University. From 1996 to 1999 he was an Assistant Professor at the Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics Department at the University of Michigan. Prof. Lin is the recipient of the 1998 NSF Career Award for research in MEMS Packaging and the 1999 ASME Journal of Heat Transfer best paper award for his work on micro-scale bubble formation. He led the effort in establishing the MEMS division in ASME and is the founding Chairman of the Executive Committee and an ASME Fellow. He is a subject editor for IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems as well as the North and South America Editor for Sensors and Actuators A Physical. He holds 8 US patents in the area of MEMS. His research interests are in micro/nano electromechanical systems, including design, modeling and fabrication of micro/nano structures, micro/nano sensors and micro/nano actuators.
See also: http://www.me.berkeley.edu/faculty/lin/index.html | | |
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| Michel M. Maharbiz is an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley for his work on microbioreactor systems under Professor Roger T. Howe (EECS) and Professor Jay D. Keasling (ChemE). His work led to the foundation of Microreactor Technologies, Inc. which was acquired in 2009 by Pall Corporation. From 2003 to 2007, Michel Maharbiz was an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the co-founder of Tweedle Technologies and served as vice-president for product development at Quswami, Inc. from July 2010 to June 2011. Prof. Maharbiz was the recipient of a 2009 NSF Career Award for research into developing microfabricated interfaces for synthetic biology. Dr. Maharbiz has been a GE Scholar and an Intel IMAP Fellow. Professor Maharbizs current research interests include building micro/nano interfaces to cells and organisms and exploring bio-derived fabrication methods. His group is also known for developing the worlds first remotely radio-controlled cyborg beetles. This was named one of the top ten emerging technologies of 2009 by MITs Technology Review (TR10) and was in Time Magazeines Top 50 Inventions of 2009. Michels long term goal is understanding developmental mechanisms as a way to engineer and fabricate machines.
See also: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~maharbiz/ | | |
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| Richard S. Muller is a professor in the Dept. of Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley and Co-Founding Director of BSAC. He earned his MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and physics from the California Institute of Technology. He joined the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962 where his research focus was on the physics of integrated circuit devices. Together with Dr. T.I. Kamins of Hewlett-Packard Company, Prof. Muller published Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits in 1977. In the late 1970s he began research in the area now known as MEMS, and with R.M. White founded the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center in 1986. He proposed and serves as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE JMEMS. A member of the US National Academy of Engineering and an IEEE Life Fellow, he received the career MEMS Award at TRANSDUCERS 97, as well as the IEEE Brunetti Award (1998 with R.T. Howe), a Fulbright Professorship, and a von Humboldt Research Award at TU Berlin in 1994. Other Awards include the Berkeley Citation, the IEEE Millennium Medal, and the Renaissance Award from Stevens Institute of Technology. Prof. Muller served as a Trustee of Stevens Institute of Technology from 1996 to 2005.
See also: http://bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/~muller/ | | |
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| Clark T.-C. Nguyen is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and BSAC Co-Director. He was previously Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan and a DARPA Program Manager in the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO). He managed many DARPA programs including Micro Power Generation (MPG), Chip-Scale Atomic Clock (CSAC), MEMS Exchange (MX), Harsh Environment Robust Micromechanical Technology (HERMiT), Micro Gas Analyzers (MGA), Radio Isotope Micropower Sources (RIMS), RF MEMS Improvement (RFMIP), Navigation-Grade Integrated Micro Gyroscope (NGIMG) and Micro Cryogenic Coolers (MCC).
Prof. Nguyen received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989, 1991, and 1994, respectively. In 1995 he joined the faculty of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His technical interests focus on microelectromechanical systems and include integrated vibrating micromechanical signal processors and sensors, merged circuit/micromechanical technologies, RF communication architectures and integrated circuit design and technology. Prof. Nguyen and his students have garnered numerous Best Paper Awards at prestigious conferences including the 1998 and 2003 IEEE International Electron Devices Meetings, the 2004 IEEE Ultrasonics Symposium, the 2004 DARPA Tech Conference, and the 2004 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference.
In 2001, Prof. Nguyen founded Discera, Inc., a company aimed at commercializing communication products based upon MEMS technology, with an initial focus on the vibrating micromechanical resonators pioneered by his research in prior years. He served as Vice President and Acting Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Discera from 2001 to mid-2002.
See also: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ctnguyen/ | | |
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| Albert P. Pisano Albert (Al) P. Pisano served as the Faculty Head of the Program Office for Operational Excellence (http://coe.berkeley.edu) at UC Berkley. Before this position, he served as the Acting Dean of the College of Engineering. He is also a Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC) and has recently completed six years as Professor and Chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, having been appointed Chair in July 2004. He joined the University of California in 1983. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001. A member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, he was elected to Fellow status in 2004. In 2008, he was named among the 100 Notable People by the Medical Devices and Diagnostic Industry (MD&DI) Magazine. In Mechanical Engineering, Professor Pisano holds the FANUC Chair of Mechanical Systems in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, with a joint appointment to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has previously served as Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory, the largest organized research unit on the UC Berkeley campus (with over $73 million in research funds each year). Professor Pisano received his B.S. (1976), M.S. (1977) and Ph.D. (1981) degrees from Columbia University in the City of New York in Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, he held research positions with Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Singer Sewing Machines Corporate R&D Center and General Motors Research Labs. From 1997-1999, he served as Program Manager for the MEMS program at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, VA, where he expanded the MEMS research portfolio to 83 contracts awarded nationwide with a total MEMS research expenditure in excess of $168 million distributed over 3 fiscal years. His research interests and activities at UC Berkeley include MEMS for a wide variety of applications, including RF components, power generation, drug delivery, strain sensors, biosensors, micro inertial instruments, disk-drive actuators and nanoimprinted sensors & circuits. Professor Pisano is the co-inventor of nearly 30 patents in MEMS and has authored or co-authored more than 320 archival publications. Since 1983, he has graduated approximately 75 Ph.D. and 75 MS students. He is a founder in nine start-up companies in the areas of transdermal drug delivery, transvascular drug delivery, sensorized catheters, MEMS manufacturing equipment, MEMS RF devices and MEMS motion sensors.
See also: http://www.me.berkeley.edu/faculty/pisano | | |
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| Kristofer S.J. Pister received a B.A. degree in applied physics from the University of California, San Diego, in 1982, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989 and 1992. From 1992 to 1997 he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1997, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, where he is currently a Professor and Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center. He created the term "Smart Dust" and pioneered the development of ubiquitous networks of communication sensors, a concept that has since become a vital sector of technology R&D. During 2003 and 2004 he was on industrial leave as CEO and then CTO of Dust Networks, a company that he co-founded to commercialize low-power wireless sensor networks. In addition to wireless sensor networks, his research interests include MEMS-based microrobotics and low-power circuit design.
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| Richard M. White received his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in Applied Physics. He conducted microwave device research at General Electric before joining the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, in 1962. He is a Founding Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (1986). He holds numerous U.S. patents, has co-authored texts and reference books on Solar Cells (1983), Acoustic Wave Sensors (1997), and Electronics (2001). In addition to the 2003 Rayleigh Award of the IEEE for seminal contributions to surface acoustic wave technology, Prof. White is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is the recipient of many academic awards including the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award (1986), U.C. Berkeley Chancellor's Professorship, and the 2003 U.C. Berkeley Community Service citation award. Research interests have included microwave devices, thermoelastic and ultrasonic phenomena and devices. Current research interests include wireless microsensors and energy scavenging devices for use in electric power systems and a portable particulate matter monitor for measuring concentrations of airborne aerosols and diesel exhaust particulates.
See also: http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/project/list_projects_by_director.php?PersonID=705 | | |
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| Ming C. Wu is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC) at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also Chief Scientist of CITRIS and Director of the Berkeley Microfabrication Laboratory.
Prof. Wu received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985 and 1988, respectively. From 1988 to 1992, he was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey. From 1992 to 2004, he was a professor in the Electrical Engineering department at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he also served as Vice Chair for Industrial Affiliate Program and Director of Nanoelectronics Research Facility. He has been a faculty member at Berkeley since 2004. His research interests include MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems), MOEMS, semiconductor optoelectronics, nanophotonics, and biophotonics. He has published 7 book chapters, over 155 journal papers and 300 conference papers. He is the holder of 19 U.S. patents. Prof. Wu is a Fellow of IEEE, and a member of Optical Society of America. He was a Packard Foundation Fellow from 1992 to 1997. He received the 2007 Paul F. Forman Engineering Excellence Award from Optical Society of America.
See also: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~wu/ | | |
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