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https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/smarter-implantable-devices-with-%c2%b5sensors-and-%c2%b5actuators/

The development of chronically reliable and multifunctional implantable and surgical devices is an enormous challenge in biomedical engineering with significant economic and clinical implications. Once in the body, implants often suffer from substantial performance degradation and premature failures due to various abiotic and biotic failure modes. Enabling technologies that improve the functionality, and the lifetime...

Speaker: Hyowon (Hugh) Lee
Associate Professor
Purdue University

Hyowon “Hugh” Lee is a Professor at the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering and the Director of the Center for Implantable Devices at Purdue University. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in biomedical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2008 and 2011, respectively, under the guidance of Jack Judy. Before joining Purdue, he worked as a senior process engineer for St. Jude Medical’s Implantable Electronic Systems Division where he worked on manufacturing challenges associated with implantable electronic devices such as pacemakers, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, deep brain stimulators, and spinal cord stimulators. His current research interest centers around improving the reliability and functionality of implantable sensors and actuators. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award and he recently co- founded two medical devices startups. His lab is supported by NINDS, NHLBI, NIDA, NSF, Indiana CTSI, Samsung, and Eli Lilly.

https://ece.ncsu.edu/seminar/novel-sensing-and-wireless-communication-systems-using-dynamic-metasurfaces/

Uninterrupted wireless communications with high data rates face challenges due to signal blockage and diffraction by various surfaces in the propagation environment. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS) offer a solution to this issue by redirecting wireless signals toward intended users. RISs create a smart electromagnetic environment where signal blockage can be avoided, security can be enhanced,...

Speaker: Mohammadreza Imani
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University

Mohammadreza F. Imani received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan (USA) in 2013. From 2014 to 2020, he worked as a Postdoc and Research Scientist at Duke University. In 2020, he joined the School of Electrical, Computer, and Energy Engineering at Arizona State University as an Assistant Professor. He has over a decade of experience working on metamaterials and metasurfaces for designing novel antennas and devices for a wide array of applications, including super-resolution sensors, highly efficient wireless power transfer systems, fast security screening systems, synthetic aperture radar, and (MIMO) wireless communication. He has authored and co-authored over 70 journal publications and holds 7 patents. His research interests include analytical and applied electromagnetics, metamaterials and metasurfaces, computational imaging and sensing, wireless power transfer, antenna analysis and synthesis, and wireless communication systems.