Title: Emerging Research in Microsystems: Opportunities and Challenges for Societal Impact
Speaker: Yogesh B. Gianchandani, Professor of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Time: April 24, 2013, 1:30pm
Location: Joint Institute Conference room (2nd floor)
时间：4月24号星期三，下午1点30分
地点：密西根学院会议室（二楼电子阅览室内）
Abstract:
Microsystems technologies hold the promise for transforming healthcare, communication, entertainment, and other important aspects of modern life. Research at the Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSensing and Systems (WIMS2) currently involves more than 40 faculty and 70 graduate students spread across several different departments and colleges at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. This presentation will review selected research efforts and highlight a few of the opportunities and challenges. Examples of current efforts include sensor-enhanced medical implants and surgical tools; portable microsystems for gas chromatography and other enabling technologies for environmental sensing; and wireless microsystems for structural health monitoring. Taken together, these applications in healthcare, environmental monitoring, and infrastructure monitoring drive basic research in sensing, stimulation, signal conditioning, communication and control circuits, packaging, and power management. A systems perspective helps to keep the research focused, accelerating and amplifying the societal gain with available resources.
Bio:
Yogesh B. Gianchandani is a Professor at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a primary appointment in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department and a courtesy appointment in the Mechanical Engineering Department. Prof. Gianchandani serves as Director for the Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSensing and Systems (WIMS2) at the University of Michigan. From 2007 to 2009, he served at the National Science Foundation, as the program director for Micro and Nano Systems within the Electrical, Communication, and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division. He was a Chief Co-Editor of Comprehensive Microsystems: Fundamentals, Technology, and Applications, published in 2008. Dr. Gianchandani is a Fellow of IEEE.