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Professor Albert P. Pisano Albert ("Al") P. Pisano is a Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC) and currently serves 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. At UCB, 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 $163 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 and disk-drive actuators. Professor Pisano is the co-inventor listed on 20 patents in MEMS and has authored or co-authored more than 190 archival publications. Since 1983 he has graduated over 33 Ph.D. and 64 MS students. He is a founder in six 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. Email : appisano AT me DOT berkeley DOT edu |
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Wonchul Lee Won Chul Lee received a B.S. (1999) and M.S. (2001) degrees from the Mechanical Engineering Department of KAIST, Korea, and a Ph.D. degree from the Biosystems Department of KAIST (2006). His research interests are focused on biomedical nano/micro devices based on nanobio sensors, micro/nano fluidics, and bio-compatible/bio-functional materials. Email : wclee AT EECS DOT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Debbie Senesky Debbie G. Senesky received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 2001. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. From 2007 to 2008, she was a MEMS design engineer for GE Sensing (formerly known as NovaSensor). Her research interests include the development of silicon carbide (SiC) thin-film technology, harsh environment sensors, and vacuum encapsulation. Email : dsenesky AT eecs DOT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Jim Cheng Jim is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at University of California, Berkeley who received his B. Eng at McMaster University, Canada (2004) and M.S. at University of California, Berkeley (2006), both in Electrical Engineering. His research interest is in novel biomimetic, polymer-based biosensors using nano/microelectromechanical systems technology. Email : chengjcm AT eecs DOT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Ayden Maralani Ayden Maralani received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Mississippi State University in 2009. His research interest includes Analog/Mixed Signal IC design and design of circuits and systems for MEMS, harsh environment, and power management applications. Prior to joining BSAC, he has held design engineer positions with I/O Center of Excellence group of Cypress Semiconductor and Semisouth Laboratories designing Silicon Carbide (SiC) JFET based analog/digital blocks for high temperature and power management applications. Email : maralani AT EECS DOT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Tim Brackbill Tim received his B.S/M.S Degree from Rochester institute of Technology. His work there focused on fundamentals of fluid flow with roughness in microchannels. He currently is working on BioMEMS research. Email : tim DOT brackbill AT GMAIL DOT COM |
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Matthew Chan He received his B.S. at UC Berkeley (May of 2007) and is currently working towards his M.S./PhD at UC Berkeley in mechanical engineering with a MEMS and Design emphasis. His research interest include Silicon Carbide Harsh Environment Sensors, Inductive heating for Rapid Bonding of SiC Sensors, and sputtering systems. He also loves to Mountain Bike. Email : mattchan AT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Ya-Mei Chen She received B.S. in National Taiwan University (2002) and M.S. in National Taiwan University (2004) both in Mechanical Engineering. Her research interesting is in the MicroGimbal and RF filter modeling and optimization. Email : yameichen AT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Sun Choi Sun Choi is currently a MS/Ph.D student in mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley. His Research interests are involved with Bio-MEMS/Nano Devices, Microfluidics, IC Devices and integration of them. He joined BMAD since November, 2007. Mr.Choi received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering in Seoul National University(SNU) in Aug, 2006. He likes to go travelling and has been to more than 30 countries so far. If there anybody who would like to play ping-pong, please talk to him!! Email : sunchoi AT eecs DOT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Michael Demko Michael Demko received his B.S and M.S degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D degree in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include MEMS applications of nanotechnology. Email : demko AT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Navdeep Dhillon He recieved his B.Tech degree from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India (2004) and his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, West Lafayette (2006). His research interest is in MEMS based Micro and nano-fluidic systems for heat transfer applications. Email : ndhillon AT me DOT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Yegan Erdem Yegan Erdem received the B.Sc. degree in Mechatronics Engineering from Sabanci University, Turkey in 2006. She received the M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of Washington, Seattle, WA in 2008. She is currently a Ph.D. student in mechanical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests include microactuators, droplet based microfluidic systems, bio-MEMS and nanotechnology. Email : yeganerdem AT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Fabian Goericke Fabian T. Goericke received his M.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2007 and will receive his Dipl.-Ing. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany in 2008. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley and a Graduate Student Researcher for the Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center. His research interests include micro sensors, mechanics and heat transfer at small scales, and MEMS materials. Email : fabian AT eecs DOT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Christopher Hogue He received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley in 2003. His research interests include microscale thermophysics, phase change heat transfer, novel cooling technology, and the origins of ancient religious thought. Email : chogue AT uclink DOT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Chih-Ming (Gimmy) Lin He received his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering (2001) and M.S. degree in Applied Mechanics (2003) from National Taiwan University in Taiwan. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley. His research interests focus on RF MEMS, N/MEMS resonators, filters, and CMOS-compatible N/MEMS technologies. Email : cmlin AT eecs DOT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Chris McCoy Chris McCoy is a current Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, where he also received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Dec. 2005). His research interests lie in MEMS flexure design, MEMS integration into millimeter-scale rotary engines, and high-tech entrepreneurship. Email : mccoy AT eecs DOT Berkeley DOT edu |
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David Myers David Myers received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA in 2004. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering at University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include SiC for MEMS resonant sensors, temperature compensation of microresonators, as well as nanoscale fabrication and heat transfer. Email : dmyers AT me DOT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Gabriele Vigevani Gabriele Vigevani received the B.S. and Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 2004. In 2001 he was a visiting Scholar at NTNU (Norway) within the Erasmus exchange program. He developed his final project at the Technion of Haifa on a multi DOF micro scanning mirror under the supervision of Prof. I. Bucher and A. Cigada. From 2004 to 2006 he worked at the EATON Automotive (Torino) as design engineer in the Advanced Valve Train Developement where his work was focused on Variable Valve Actuation and Cost Reduction Design. In 2006 he started his PhD at Berkeley where he joined Prof. Pisano's research group. His current field of research is Thermo Piezo Elastic Damping and MEMS AlN Resonant Accelerometers. Email : vigevani AT eecs DOT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Sarah Wodin-Schwartz Sarah Wodin-Schwartz received the B.S in engineering from Smith College. Automotive fuels and alternative energy research interests. Email : swodin AT gmail DOT com |
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Ting-Ta (Ernest) Yen Ernest Ting-Ta Yen is currently a MS/Ph.D student in mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley. His research interests including RF MEMS, RF communication architectures,microfabrication and nano technology. Yen reveived his double B.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and electrical engineering from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 2004. He is also a violinist and first prize winner of two nationalwide violin competitions in Taiwan when he is young. Email : ttyen AT eecs DOT Berkeley DOT edu |
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Nuo Zhang Nuo Zhang received her B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University (2008). She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree in University of California, Berkeley. Her research interest is in polymer-based biosensors systems. Email : nuozhang AT eecs DOT Berkeley DOT edu |