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Maysam Ghovanloo

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

85 Fifth St. NW, Room 419-TSRB Phone/Fax/Mobile: (404) 385-7048 / (404) 849-4701 / (605) 644-6826

Atlanta, GA 30308 email: mgh@gatech.edu http://www.gatech.edu/~mghovan

Professional Interests

• Low power analog/digital/mixed-mode circuit design for wireless, biomedical, sensor, and RF applications.

• System integration and interface design for operating micro, nano, and bio-systems.

• Innovation and leadership in the field of implantable devices, neural interfaces, and assistive technologies.

• Smart, wireless, and wearable systems for healthy living and improved quality of life

Education

2000 ~ 2004 University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Ph.D. in electrical engineering, major in circuits and microsystems, minor in solid-states.

Faculty advisor: Prof. Khalil Najafi

Thesis: A Wireless Microsystem for Neural Stimulating Microprobes

(Nominated for the Rackham graduate school distinguished dissertation award in 2004)

2000 ~ 2003 University of Michigan, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Master’s in electrical engineering, major in circuits and microsystems, minor in solid-states.

Faculty advisor: Prof. Khalil Najafi

1994 ~ 1997 Amirkabir Institute of Technology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tehran, Iran

Master’s in biomedical engineering, major in bioelectrics.

Thesis: Design and Development of a Multi-Site Physiologic Recording System for

Investigation of the Neural Assemblies

Faculty advisor: Prof. M.R. Hashemi Golphayegani

1990 ~ 1994 University of Tehran, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tehran, Iran

Bachelor’s in electrical engineering, major in electronics

Senior Project: An 8kW Microcontrolled Power Supply for Nd-YAG Lasers

Faculty advisor: Prof. S. Farhangi

1983 ~ 1990 Allame-Helli School, National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET)

High school diploma, major in mathematic and physics

Academic and Industrial Experience

February 2017 ~ Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of

Present Technology, Atlanta, GA

July 2011 ~ Associate Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of

Present Technology, Atlanta, GA

May 2012 ~ Adjunct Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering (BMED),

Present Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, Atlanta, GA

July 2012 ~ Co-Founder and CTO, Bionic Sciences Inc., Atlanta, GA, GT-Bionics Lab spinoff

Present specializing on design and development of state-of-the-art medical research instruments

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Dec. 2010 ~ Program Faculty, Multidisciplinary Bioengineering Graduate Program, Georgia Institute of

Present Technology, Atlanta, GA

June 2007 ~ Faculty Member, Georgia Electronic Design Center (GEDC), Georgia Institute of Technology,

Present Atlanta, GA

Apr. 2013 ~ Faculty Member, Graphics, Visualization, and Usability (GVU) Center, Georgia Institute of

Present Technology, Atlanta, GA

June 2007 ~ Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of

June 2011 Technology, Atlanta, GA

Dec. 2004 ~ Affiliated Program Faculty, UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering,

May 2007 Raleigh, NC

Aug. 2004 ~ Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, NC State University, Raleigh, NC

May 2007

Feb. 2004 ~ Consultant, Nitinol Devices and Components, a J&J company, Fremont, CA

Feb. 2006 Design and development of implantable biomedical devices.

Jan. 2000 ~ Research Assistant, Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSystems (WIMS),

Jul. 2004 Electrical Engineering and Compute Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

May 2002 ~ Technical Intern, Advanced Bionics Corporation, Santa Clarita, CA

Aug. 2002 Mixed-signal circuit design for the Spinal-Cord Stimulator.

Dec. 1998 ~ Founder and CEO, Sabz Nagar Rayaneh Co. LTD, Tehran, Iran

Dec. 1999 Design and manufacturing of physiology and pharmaceutical research laboratory equipments

such as precision bio-amplifiers, isolated stimulators, rotarod, tail flick, cell counter, biological

data acquisition and signal processing hardware and software systems.

Mar. 1997 ~ Senior Engineer, Center for Repair and Reconstruction of Medical Devices, Tehran, Iran

Nov. 1998 Design and development of a compact cell counter. Repair and reconstruction of a wide range of

medical devices from centrifuges to portable X-ray machines.

Oct. 1994 ~ Senior Research Engineer, IDEA Co. LTD, Tehran, Iran

Dec. 1999 Design and development of the first modular “Patient Care Monitoring System” in Iran

equipped with ECG, NIBP, SpO2, RESP, and TEMP modules.

Jan. 1994 ~ Teaching Assistant, University of Tehran, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tehran, Iran

Aug. 1995 Electronic circuit design and solid-state devices.

Mar. 1991 ~ Technical Intern, Etrat Institute of Technology, Tehran, Iran

Jan. 1993 Design and development of computer interfaces for control of automotive industrial robots.

Honors, Awards, Editorial Boards

• Most Impactful Rehabilitation Technology for “A Multimodal Tongue Drive System,” from the American

Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM), 2017.

• Silver Award in the 2015, 11th Samsung Electro-Mechanics Best Paper Awards, Byunghun Lee, Pyungwoo

Yeon, and Maysam Ghovanloo for paper titled “A Multi-Cycle Q-Modulation Technique for Wirelessly-

Powered Biomedical Implants.”

• Best Demonstration Award in 2015 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, “A Smart

Homecage System with Behavior Analysis and Closed-Loop Optogenetic Stimulation Capabilities,” Yaoyao

Jia, Zheyuan Wang, Abdollah Mirbozorgi, and Maysam Ghovanloo

• IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2015-2016

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME), 2011 - Present

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TNSRE), 2010 – Present

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• Senior Editorial Board, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS),

2018 – Present

• Best Demonstration Award in 2012 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, “Intraoral Tongue

Drive System,” Hangue Park, Jeonghee Kim, and Maysam Ghovanloo

• Silver Award in the 18th Samsung Humantech Thesis competition, Samsung Electronics, Hyung-Min Lee

and Maysam Ghovanloo for paper, “An Adaptive Reconfigurable Active Voltage Doubler/Rectifier for

Extended Range Inductive Power Transmission.”

• Silver Award in the 16th Samsung Humantech Thesis Prize competition, Samsung Electronics, Hyung-min

Lee and Maysam Ghovanloo for paper “An Integrated Power-Efficient Active Rectifier with Offset-

Controlled High Speed Comparators for Inductively-Powered Applications.”

• “Leo” People’s Choice Award, da Vinci Awards, National Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Society, Sep. 2010

• Galaxy of Stars, Barrier Breaker Award for Innovation, Tommy Nobis Center, May 2010.

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, (Dec 2007 – Dec 2011)

• CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF), March 2010.

• Gold Tower Award, Georgia Tech’s Faculty Communicator of the Year, Nov. 2009.

• Association for Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage (APSIH), “Distinguished Young Scholar

Award for outstanding achievement in advancement of engineering,” May 2009.

• Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Marquis, 2006-2010.

• Nominated for the Rackham graduate school distinguished dissertation award in 2004 by the University of

Michigan Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.

• 41st DAC/ISSCC student design contest third place award in operational category, “A modular 32-site

wireless neural stimulating microsystem,” June 2004.

• 40th DAC/ISSCC student design contest honorable mention award in operational category, “Towards a

button-sized 1024-site wireless cortical microstimulating array,” June 2003.

• Outstanding graduate student. Ranked 1st in the class of 1997 biomedical engineering department,

Amirkabir University of Technology, Feb. 1997.

• Outstanding undergraduate student. Ranked 4th in the class of 1994 electrical engineering department,

University of Tehran, Aug. 1994.

• Ranked 49th in the national Iranian university entrance exam out of over 300,000 participants in Math and

Physics, May 1990.

• Candidate for the Iranian team in the 21st International Physics Olympiad in 1990. One of 30 students

selected through a nationwide examination for a one-year special training program, Aug. 1989.

Funded Research Projects

Ongoing projects:

• M. Ghovanloo (Co-I), Ying Zhang (PI, Georgia Tech), “Adaptive Thermal Management for Next-

Generation Implantable Devices,” NSF ECCS-1711447, 6/1/17 – 7/30/20, US $330,000. (Ghovanloo’s

share: $145,715)

• M. Ghovanloo (Co-I), P. Vela (PI, Georgia Tech), “ViGoMan - A Vision-Based Ego-Centric Robot Arm

for Assisting Persons with Tetraplegia (PI: Vela),” NSF CBET-1605228, 9/1/16 – 8/31/19, US $298,503.

(Ghovanloo’s share: $100,000)

• M. Ghovanloo (Co-I), Brian Liu (Co-I), Seyedabdollah Mirbozorgi (PI, Bionic Sciences Inc.), “SBIR

Phase-I: Developing a Standalone Tongue Drive System,” SBIR-I, National Science Foundation, 9/1/2016

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– 6/31/2018, US $224,481.

• M. Ghovanloo (Co-PI), Rupal Patel (PI, Northeastern U.), Raymond Fu (Co-PI, Northeastern U.),

“Multimodal Speech Translation for Assistive Communication, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging

and Bioengineering-NIH,” 1R21, 9/1/14 – 8/31/18, US $412,831 (Ghovanloo’s share: $158,043).

• M. Ghovanloo (Co-PI), Rupal Patel (Co-PI, Northeastern U.), “Collaborative: EAGER: Low-Cost Wireless

Sensing of Lingual Kinematic-Acoustic Data to Enhance Speech,” NSF IIS, 9/1/14 – 8/31/18, US

$300,000. (Ghovanloo’s share: $150,000)

• M. Ghovanloo (Co-PI), Wen Li (PI, Michigan State U.), “Collaborative Research: Implantable, Wireless,

and Power-Efficient Trimodal Neural Interface for Electro-Optogenetic Manipulation of Visual Cortex in

Small Freely Behaving Animals,” NSF ECCS-1407880, 9/1/14 – 8/31/18, US $400,000. (Ghovanloo’s

share: $200,000)

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), R. Rainnie (Co-PI, Emory U.), “A Smart Wireless Homecage for High Throughput

Longitudinal Animal Studies,” National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering-NIH,”

1R21EB018561-01A, 1/1/15 – 6/30/17, US $420,179 (Ghovanloo’s share: $368,615).

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), Leanne West (Co-I, GTRI), “Continuous Proportional Control using Voluntary Tongue

Motion, Wireless Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center (wRERC) App Factory,” 11/1/13 – 10/30/18,

$28,269.

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), Yong-Mi Choi (Co-I), “GARDE: Feasibility and Usability Assessment of an Intraoral

Inconspicuous Control Surface, National Science Foundation,” CBET-1264624, 9/1/13 – 8/31/18, US

$269,435.

Completed projects:

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), Boris Prilutsky (Co-PI, Georgia Tech, AP), Andrew Butler (Co-PI, Georgia state

University), “A Tongue Operated Robotic Rehabilitation System for Upper Extremities,” Marcus

Foundation, 3/1/16 – 2/28/17, US $25,000.

• M. Ghovanloo (Co-I), Levent Degertekin (PI, Georgia Tech, ME), “CMUT based MRI-Safe 3-D

Intracardiac Echocardiography for Cardiovascular Intervention,” National Heart Lunch and Blood Institute-

NIH, 1U01HL121838-01, 5/1/14 – 4/28/17, US $690,000.

• M. Ghovanloo (Co-PI), Lohitash Karumbaiah (PI, University of Georgia), “Transcranial Direct Current

Stimulation for Traumatic Brain Injuries, Regenerative Medicine Seed Grant,” Georgia Partners in

Regenerative Medicine, 9/1/15 – 8/31/16, US $35,000.

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), “ECCS: Biomedical Circuits and Systems 2015 Conference Attendance Award for

Domestic Students,” NSF ECCS, 6/23/15 – 6/22/16, US $10,000.

• M. Ghovanloo (Co-I), Kimberly Wilson (PI, Bionic Sciences Inc.), “Improving Articulatory Precision in

Neurologically Compromised Adults Using Audiovisual Biofeedback,” SBIR-I, National Institute of

Deafness and Communication Disorders-NIH, 1/1/2015 – 2/28/2016, US $149,985.

• M. Ghovanloo (Co-PI), Helmut Eckhardt (PI, Premitec Inc.), “Fully Implantable, Ultra-Flexible Wireless

Electrode Array for Brain Activity Mapping,” STTR-I, NSF IIP-1346416, 12/6/2013 – 12/5/2015, US $212,116 (Ghovanloo’s share: $95,001).

• M. Ghovanloo (Co-PI), Levent Degertekin (Co-PI, Georgia Tech, ME), “Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging

Guidewire with Wireless Readout, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering-NIH,”

1R21EB017365 - 01A1, 4/1/14 – 3/28/16, US $387,595 (Ghovanloo’s share: $250,000).

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), “Brain-Tongue-Computer Interfacing,” National Science Foundation, IIS-0953107,

3/1/10 – 2/28/16, US $548,666.

• M. Ghovanloo (Co-I), Larry Anderson (PI, Emory University), “Develop Biomarkers of RSV Disease

Severity for Vaccine Trials,” Gates Foundation, 7/1/14 – 6/30/16, US $38,500.

• M. Ghovanloo (Co-PI), Alan Sokoloff (Co-PI, Emory), “Optimization, Biocompatibility and Safety

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Assessment of Tongue Implants for a Tongue-Operated Assistive Technology, National Institute of

Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering-NIH,” 1R21EB016662-01A1, 9/1/13 – 8/31/16, US $428,645

(Ghovanloo’s share: $145,005).

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), Mehdi Kiani (Entrepreneurial lead), Colin Ake and Roberto Casas (Business Mentors)

Highly-Efficient Adaptive Wireless Power Transmission and Management, NSF I-Corps IIP-1439426,

4/7/2014 – 10/6/2015, US $50,000.

• M. Ghovanloo (Co-PI), Andrew Butler (Co-PI, GSU), Accelerating Upper Limb Rehabilitation in Stroke

Patients by Engaging Synchronous Tongue and Wrist Motion, Emory-Georgia Tech Healthcare Innovation

Program (HIP), 9/1/13 – 8/31/15, $49,994 (Ghovanloo’s share $41,794).

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), Uei-Ming Jow (Co-PI, Bionic Sciences Inc.), Wireless Instrumentation for Preclinical

Research on Small Freely Behaving Animals, SBIR-I, National Science Foundation, IIP-1315626, 6/6/2013

– 12/31/2014, US $149,999.

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), Yong-Mi Choi, Mark Braunstein, Shri Deshpande, Brandon Aylward, Roshan George,

An Ecosystem for Objectively Monitoring and Improving Medication Adherence in Adolescent Transplant

Recipients, Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) and Children’s Hospital of Atlanta (CHOA),

11/1/13 – 10/30/14, $49,994.

• M. Ghovanloo (Co-I), Helmut Eckhardt (PI, Premitec Inc.), Novel High Density Interconnects for Flexible

Neural Prostheses, SBIR-II, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke-NIH, 5R42NS055430-

03, 8/18/2011 – 7/31/2014, US $111,501.

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), Richard diMonda (Consultant), Tongue Tracking Systems, GRA Ventures Phase-1

Proposal (Bioinic Sciences Inc.), 124312, 1/1/14 – 6/30/14, $25,000.

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), Anne Laumann, Eliot Roth, Michael Jones, Dennis West, Elizabeth Bailey, ARRA:

Development and Translational Assessment of A Tongue-Based Assistive Technology, National Institute

of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering-NIH, RC1EB010915-01, 9/30/09 - 8/31/12, US $999,769

(Ghovanloo’s share $516,593).

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), J. Manns (Emory University), EnerCage: A Scalable Array of Intelligent Wireless

Sensor Modules to Energize and Track Miniature Inductively-Powered Devices in Small Freely Moving

Animals, National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering-NIH, 1R21EB007356-01A2, 9/1/09

– 8/31/12, US $414,972.

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), Wireless Tracking of Tongue Movements for Wheelchair Control and Computer

Access, National Science Foundation, RAPD-0828882, 1/1/09 – 12/31/11, US $263,337.

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), M. Shinohara (Georgia Tech), Exploring the Use of Tongue Motor Output in Human-

System Integration to Augment Arm and Hand Functions, Army Research Office, 9/1/08 – 5/31/09, US

$50,000.

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), J. Manns (Emory University), A Multichannel Wireless Implantable Neural Recording

and Stimulating System, National Science Foundation, ECCS-0824199, 9/15/08 – 8/31/13, US $332,219.

• M. Ghovanloo, K. Oweiss (PI-Michigan State University), A. Mason (Michigan State University), A

Wireless, Multiscale, Distributed Interface to the Cortex, National Institutes of Health, NINDS, R01

NS062031-02, 8/1/08 – 7/31/12, US $408,615 (Ghovanloo’s Share).

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), Floating Gate Building Blocks for High Performance Operational Amplifier Circuits,

GTronix, 7/1/08 – 12/31/08, US $19,546.

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), Use of Tongue Movements as a Substitute for Arm/Hand Functions in Quadriplegics,

Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, 9/1/07 – 8/31/09, US $149,564.

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), Tongue Drive: A Tongue Operated Magnetic Sensor Based Assistive Technology For

People With Severe Disabilities, National Science Foundation, IIS-0803184, 8/1/07 – 7/31/08, US

$119,818.

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), Analytical Monitoring of Pharmaceutical Compliance, Dow Chemical Company,

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Midland, MI, 1/1/06 – 12/31/07, US $74,000.

• M. Ghovanloo (Instructor), Donation of 6 ASIC design fabrication in AMI-0.5um and AMI-1.5um standard

CMOS processes for an advanced graduate-level circuit design course (ECE-703 Integrated Bioelectronic

Circuits), MOSIS Educational Program, Fall 2006, valued at US $15,000.

• M. Ghovanloo (Advisor), Gautham Krishnamurthy, Chris Thomas, Donation of two high speed data

acquisition cards and their accessories, Equipment Grant Program, National Instruments, Austin, TX, Fall

2005, valued US $4,000.

• M. Ghovanloo, Unrestricted gift for the support of research in Gastro-Intestinal pacing devices, Endopace

(a subsidiary of GI Supply), Camp Hill, PA, Sep. 2005, US $35,000.

• M. Ghovanloo (Instructor), Donation of 6 ASIC design fabrication in AMI-0.5um and AMI-1.5um standard

CMOS processes for an advanced graduate-level circuit design course (ECE-703 Instrumentation Circuits),

MOSIS Educational Program, Fall 2005, valued at US $15,000.

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), O. Favorov (University of North Carolina), M. Tommerdahl (University of North

Carolina), R. Murrow (University of North Carolina), “Development Of A Switched-Capacitor Based

Neurostimulating System For Low-Power Head-Mounted Deep Brain Stimulators,” Multidisciplinary

Faculty Research and Professional Development Fund (FR&PD), NCSU, 4/1/05 - 3/31/06, US $20,000.

• M. Ghovanloo (PI), “Increasing Bandwidth in Wirelessly Powered Implantable Biomedical Devices,”

Individual Faculty Research and Professional Development Fund (FR&PD), NCSU, 1/1/05 – 12/31/05,

US $6,000.

• M. Ghovanloo, Unrestricted gift for the support of research in implantable microelectronic devices, Nitinol

Devices and Components (a subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson), Fremont, CA, Jan. 2005, US $20,000.

• M. Ghovanloo (Advisor), Frankie Meyers, Jim Simpson, Chris Thomas, “Utilizing a PDA and a USB-

Controller to Generate a High-Rate Serial Data Bit-Stream to Communicate with Wireless Biomedical

Implants,” Undergraduate Research Award, NCSU, Spring/Summer 2005-06, US $5,000.

Publications

Book Chapters

1. H. Park and M. Ghovanloo, (2016) “A Wireless Intraoral Tongue–Computer Interface,” Wireless Medical

Systems and Algorithms: Design and Applications, Eds. P. Salvo and M. Hernandez-Silveira, CRC press,

ISBN-13: 978-1498700764

2. M. Ghovanloo, (2016) “Biological Sensor Systems” A Short History of IEEE Circuits and Systems

Society, Eds. F. Maloberti and A.C. Davis, River Publishers Series in Circuits and Systems, ISBN:

9788793379718

3. M. Kiani and M. Ghovanloo, (2016) “Inductive Power Transmission Systems,” Wiley Encyclopedia of

Electrical and Electronics Engineering, DOI: 10.1002/047134608X.W8306

4. M. Kiani and M. Ghovanloo, (2015) “Centimeter-Range Inductive Radios,” in Ultra-Low-Power Short-

Range Radios, Eds. P.P. Mercier, A.P. Chandrakasan, Springer, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-14714-7_10

5. H.-M. Lee and M. Ghovanloo, (2015) “Energy Management Integrated Circuits for Wireless Power

Transmission,” in Implantable Biomedical Microsystems: Design Principles and Applications, Eds. S.

Bhunia, M. Sawan, and S. Majerus, Ch. 5, Elsevier Science & Technology, ISBN: 978-0-323-26208-8,

doi:10.1016/B978-0-323-26208-8.09992-1

6. M. Kiani and M. Ghovanloo, (Apr. 2014) “Near-Field Wireless Power and Data Transmission to

Implantable Neuroprosthetic Devices,” in Neural Computation, Neural Devices, and Neural Prosthesis, Ed.

Z. Yang., Ch. 8, Springer, ISBN-13: 9781461481508

7. M. Ghovanloo and X. Huo, (Sep. 2014) “Wearable and Non-invasive Assistive Technologies,” In

Wearable Systems, Eds. E. Sazonov and M. Neuman, Elsevier Inc., ISBN-13: 9780124186620, e-Book:

9780124186668

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8. M. Ghovanloo and M. Kiani, (Sep. 2014) “Inductive Coupling,” in Handbook of Biomedical Telemetry,

Ed. K.S. Nikita, Ch. 7, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., ISBN-13: 9781118388617

9. M. Ghovanloo, (Dec. 2013) “Tongue Drive System,” McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science & Technology

2014, pp. 383-386, ISBN 978-0071831062.

10. M. Ghovanloo, (July, 2008) “Integrated circuits for neural interfacing: Neural stimulation,” In VLSI

Circuits for Biomedical Applications, Ed. K. Iniewski, Norwood, MA: Artech House, Inc., ISBN-13:

9781596933170

11. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, (January 2007) “Towards a button-sized 1024-site wireless cortical

microstimulating array,” in Handbook of Neural Engineering, Ed. M. Akay, Ch. 23, Hoboken: John Wiley

& Sons, Inc., ISBN-13: 978-0470056691

12. M. Ghovanloo and G. Lazzi, (April 14, 2006) “Transcutaneous magnetic coupling of power and data,” In

Wiley Encyclopedia of Biomedical Engineering, Ed. M. Akay, Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [Online]

http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/ebe/articles/ebs1372/bibliography-fs.html, ISBN: 9780471740360,

DOI: 10.1002/9780471740360

Journal papers

1. Y. Jia, W. Khan, B. Lee, B. Fan, F. Madi, A. Weber, W. Li, and M. Ghovanloo, “Wireless opto-electro

neural interface for experiments with small freely behaving animals” Submitted to Journal of Neural

Engineering, Jan. 2018.

2. B. Lee, M.K. Koripalli, Y. Jia, J. Acosta, Y. Choi, and M. Ghovanloo, “An implantable peripheral nerve

recording and stimulation system for experiments on freely moving animal subjects,” Submitted to

Scientific Reports, Nov. 2017.

3. M.N. Sahadat, S. Dighe, F. Islam, and M. Ghovanloo, “An embedded wireless tongue-driven assistive

technology for access and mobility,” Submitted to IEEE Trans. on Human-Machine Systems, Oct. 2017.

4. J. Lu, K.Z. Okkelberg, Z. Yang, and M. Ghovanloo, “Automated multimodal scoring of unimpaired

gradient matching speech,” Submitted to IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, May 2017.

5. B. Lee, and M. Ghovanloo, “An adaptive averaging low noise front-end for central and peripheral nerve

recording,” Accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, June 2017.

6. G. Jung, C. Tekes, A. Pirouz, F.L. Degertekin, and M. Ghovanloo, “Supply-doubled pulse-shaping high

voltage pulser for CMUT arrays,” Accepted for publication in IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, Apr.

2017.

7. H.-M. Lee, B. Howell, W. Grill, and M. Ghovanloo, “Stimulation efficiency with decaying exponential

waveforms in a wirelessly powered switched-capacitor discharge stimulation system,” Accepted for

publication in IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Engineering, Mar. 2017.

8. Z. Wang, S.A. Mirbozorgi, and M. Ghovanloo, “An automated behavior analysis system for freely moving

rodents using depth image,” Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing, Accepted/Published Online

Mar. 2018. DOI: 10.1007/s11517-018-1816-1

9. A. Jafari, N. Buswell, M. Ghovanloo, and T. Mohsenin, “A low-power wearable stand-alone tongue drive

system for people with severe disabilities,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, vol. 12, no. 1,

pp. 58-67, Feb. 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2017.2757031

10. M.N. Sahadat, A. Alreja, and M. Ghovanloo, “Simultaneous multimodal PC access for people with

disabilities by integrating head tracking, speech recognition, and tongue motion,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed.

Circuits and Systems, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 192-201, Feb. 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2017.2771235

11. J. Lim, B. Lee, and M. Ghovanloo, “Optimal design of a resonance-based voltage boosting rectifier for

wireless power transmission,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Electronics, vol. 65, no. 2, pp. 1645-1654, Feb.

2018. DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2017.2733456

12. J. Lu, Z. Yang, K. Okkelberg, and M. Ghovanloo, “Joint magnetic calibration and localization based on

expectation maximization for tongue tracking,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Engineering, vol. 65, no. 1, pp.

52-63, Jan. 2018. DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2017.2688919

13. P. Yeon, S.A. Mirbozorgi, J. Lim, H. and M. Ghovanloo, “Feasibility study on active back telemetry and

power transmission through an inductive link for millimeter-sized biomedical implants,” IEEE Trans. on

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Biomed. Circuits and Systems, vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 1366-1376, Dec. 2017. DOI:

10.1109/TBCAS.2017.2775638

14. U. Guler and M. Ghovanloo, “Power Management in Wireless Power-Sipping Devices: A Survey,” IEEE

Circuits and Systems Magazine, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 64-82, Nov. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/MCAS.2017.2757090

15. N. Sebkhi, D. Desai, M. Islam, J. Lu, K. Wilson, and M. Ghovanloo, “A multimodal speech capture

system for speech rehabilitation and learning,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Engineering, vol. 64, no. 11, pp.

2639-2649, Nov. 2017. DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2017.2654361

16. Y. Jia, S.A. Mirbozorgi, Z. Wang, C.-C. Hsu, T. E. Madsen, D. Rainnie, and M. Ghovanloo, “Position and

orientation insensitive wireless power transmission for EnerCage-homecage system,” IEEE Trans. on

Biomed. Engineering, vol. 64, no. 10, pp. 2439-2449, Oct. 2017.

17. S. Sargolzaei, H. Elahi, A.J. Sokoloff, and M. Ghovanloo, “A dual-mode magnetic-acoustic system for

monitoring fluid intake behavior in animals,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Engineering, vol. 64, no. 9, pp.

2090-2097, Sep. 2017.

18. T. Prioleau, E. Moore, and M. Ghovanloo, “Unobtrusive and wearable systems for automatic dietary

monitoring,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Engineering, vol. 64, no. 9, pp. 2075-2089, Sep. 2017.

19. S. A. Mirbozorgi, P. Yeon, and M. Ghovanloo, “Robust wireless power transmission to mm-sized free-

floating distributed implants,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 692-702,

June 2017.

20. J. Lim, C. Tekes, F. Levent Degertekin, and M. Ghovanloo, “Towards a reduced-wire interface for

CMUT-based intravascular ultrasound imaging systems,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems,

vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 400-410, Apr. 2017.

21. Y. Cheng, G. Wang, and M. Ghovanloo, “Analytical modeling and optimization of small solenoid coils for

mm-sized biomedical implants,” IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Technology, vol. 65, no. 3,

pp. 1024 - 1035, Mar. 2017.

22. S. Ostadabbas, S.N. Housley, N. Sebkhi, K. Richards, D. Wu, Z. Zhang, M. Garcia-Rodriguez, L. Warthen,

C. Yarbrough, S. Balagaje, A.J. Butler, and M. Ghovanloo, “A tongue-controlled robotic rehabilitation:

preliminary evidence for function and quality of life improvement in stroke survivors,” J. Rehabilitation

Research and Development, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 989-1006, Nov. 2016.

23. S.A. Mirbozorgi, Y. Jia, D. Canales, and M. Ghovanloo, “A wirelessly-powered homecage with

segmented copper foils and closed-loop power control,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, vol.

10, no. 5, pp. 979-989, Oct. 2016.

24. P. Yeon, S.A. Mirbozorgi, B. Ash, H. Eckhardt, and M. Ghovanloo, “Fabrication and microassembly of a

mm-sized floating probe for a distributed wireless neural interface,” MDPI Micromachines, vol. 7-154, no.

9, pp. 1 - 17, Sep. 2016. doi:10.3390/mi7090154

25. S. Ostadabbas, N. Sebkhi, M. Zhang, S. Rahim, L.J. Anderson, F.E.H. Lee, and M. Ghovanloo, “A vision-

based respiration monitoring system for passive airway resistance estimation,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng.,

vol. 63, no. 9, pp. 1904 - 1913, Sep. 2016.

26. T.M. Carpenter, M.W. Rashid, M. Ghovanloo, D.M.J. Cowell, S Freear, F.L. Degertekin, “Direct digital

demultiplexing of analog TDM signals for cable reduction in ultrasound imaging catheters,” IEEE Trans.

on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, vol. 63, no. 8, pp. 1078-1085, Aug. 2016.

27. B. Lee, P. Yeon, and M. Ghovanloo, “A multi-cycle Q-modulation for dynamic optimization of inductive

links,” IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, vol. 63, no. 8, pp. 5091 - 5100, Aug. 2016.

28. X. Tong and M. Ghovanloo, “Multichannel wireless neural recording AFE architectures analysis,

modeling, and tradeoffs,” IEEE Design & Test, vol. 33, no. 4, pp. 24 - 36, July 2016. DOI: 10.1109/

MDAT.2015.2504367

29. S. Mimche, D. Ahn, M. Kiani, H. Elahi, K. Murray, K. Easley, A.J. Sokoloff, M. Ghovanloo, “Tongue

implant for assistive technologies: test of migration, tissue reactivity and impact on tongue function,”

Archives of Oral Biology, vol. 71, no. 8, pp. 1 - 9, June 2016. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/

j.archoralbio.2016.06.019

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30. B. Lee, D. Ahn, and M. Ghovanloo, “Three-phase time-multiplexed planar power transmission to

distributed implants,” IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Power Electronics, vol. 4, no. 1,

pp. 263 - 272, Mar. 2016.

31. B. Lee, M. Kiani, and M. Ghovanloo, “A triple-loop inductive power transmission system for biomedical

applications,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and

Systems, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 128 - 148, Feb. 2016.

32. D. Ahn and M. Ghovanloo, “Optimal design of wireless power transmission links for millimeter-sized

biomedical implants,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 125 - 137, Feb.

2016.

33. J. Kim, H. Park, J. Bruce, D.P. Rowles, J. Holbrook, B. Nardone, D.P. West, A. Laumann, E. Roth, M.

Ghovanloo, “Assessment of the Tongue Drive System using a computer, a smartphone, and a powered-

wheelchair by people with tetraplegia,” IEEE Trans. on Neural Sys. and Rehab. Eng., vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 68

- 78, Jan. 2016.

34. S.B. Lee, B. Lee, M. Kiani, B. Mahmoudi, R. Gross, and M. Ghovanloo, “An inductively-powered

wireless neural recording system with a wide-swing dual-slope charge sampling analog front-end,” IEEE

Sensors Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 475 - 484, Jan. 2016. DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2015.2483747

35. M. Kiani, B. Lee, P. Yeon, and M. Ghovanloo, “A Q-modulation technique for efficient inductive power

transmission,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 50, no. 12, pp. 2839 - 2848, Dec. 2015.

36. A. Bedri, H. Sahni, P. Thukral, T. Starner, D. Byrd, P. Presti, G. Reyes, M. Ghovanloo, Z. Guo, “Toward

silent-speech control of consumer wearables,” IEEE Computer, vol. 48, no. 10, pp. 54 - 62, Oct. 2015,

DOI: 10.1109/MC.2015.310

37. S. Ostadabbas, A.J. Butler, and M. Ghovanloo, “Developing a tongue controlled exoskeleton for a wrist

tracking exercise: a preliminary study”, Journal of Medical Devices, vol. 9, no. 3, 030912, Sep. 2015. DOI:

030912-030912-3. doi:10.1115/1.4030605.

38. H.-M. Lee and M. Ghovanloo, “Power-efficient wireless neural stimulating system design for implantable

medical devices” IEIE Trans. Smart Proc. Computing, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 133 - 140, July 2015, DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/IEIESPC.2015.4.3.133

39. K.Y. Kwon, H.M. Lee, M. Ghovanloo, and W. Li, “Design, fabrication, and packaging of an integrated,

wirelessly-powered optrode array for optogenetics application,” Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, vol. 9,

pp. 1 - 12, May 2015. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2015.00069

40. B. Lee, M. Kiani, and M. Ghovanloo, “A smart wirelessly-powered homecage for long-term high-

throughput behavioral experiments,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 4905 - 4916, May 2015.

41. X. Tong and M. Ghovanloo, “An energy-efficient switching scheme in SAR ADC for biomedical

electronics,” Electronics Letters, vol. 51, no. 9, pp. 676 - 678, Apr. 2015.

42. S. Viseh, M. Ghovanloo, and T. Mohsenin, “Towards an ultra low power on-board processor for Tongue

Drive System,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 62, no. 2, pp. 174 - 178, Feb. 2015.

43. M. Kiani and M. Ghovanloo, “A 13.56-Mbps pulse delay modulation based transceiver for simultaneous

near-field data and power transmission,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 1-

11, Jan. 2015.

44. A. Laumann, J. Holbrook, J. Minocha, D. Rowles, B. Nardone, D. West, J. Kim, J. Bruce, E.J. Roth, M.

Ghovanloo, “Safety and efficacy of medically performed tongue piercing in people with tetraplegia for use

with tongue-operated assistive technology,” Topics in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation, vol. 21, no. 1, pp.

61-76, Winter 2015.

45. H.-M. Lee, K. Kwon, B. Howell, W. Li, W. Grill, and M. Ghovanloo, “A power-efficient switched-

capacitor stimulating system for electrical/optical deep brain stimulation,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State

Circuits, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 360-374, Jan. 2015.

46. H. Park and M. Ghovanloo, “Wireless communication with intraoral devices using off-the-shelf antennas,”

IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 62, no. 12, pp. 3205-3215, Dec. 2014.

47. H. Park and M. Ghovanloo, “An arch-shaped intraoral tongue drive system with built-in tongue-computer

interfacing SoC,” Sensors, vol. 14, pp. 21565-21587, Nov. 2014, doi:10.3390/s141121565.

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48. J. Kim, H. Park, J. Bruce, D. Rowles, D. Pucci, J. Holbrook, B. Nardone, D.P. West, A.E. Laumann, E.

Roth, E. Veledar, and M. Ghovanloo, “Qualitative assessment of tongue drive system by people with high-

level spinal cord injury,” Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 451–466,

Aug. 2014.

49. D. Ahn, M. Kiani, and M. Ghovanloo, “Enhanced wireless power transmission using strong paramagnetic

response,” IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, vol. 50, no. 3, Article#: 8000308, Mar. 2014.

50. M. Kothari, P. Svensson, J. Jensen, T. Davidsen-Holm, M. Skorstengaard, Feldbek-Nielsen, M.

Ghovanloo, L. Baad-Hansen, “Tongue controlled computer game: A new approach for rehabilitation of

tongue motor function,” Archives of Phys. Med. and Rehabilitation, vol. 95, no. 3, pp. 524-530, Mar. 2014.

51. U. Jow, P. McMenamin, M. Kiani, J.R. Manns, and M. Ghovanloo, “EnerCage: A smart experimental

arena with scalable architecture for behavioral experiments,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 61, no. 1, pp.

139-148, Jan. 2014.

52. J.S. Minocha, J.S. Holbrook, D.P. West, M. Ghovanloo, A. Laumann, “Development of a tongue-piercing

method for use with assistive technology,” J. Am. Med. Association (JAMA) Dermatology, vol. 150, no. 4,

pp. 453-454, Apr. 2014, Published online, Nov. 27, 2013. DOI:10.1001/jamadermatol.2013.7165

53. J. Kim, H. Park, J. Bruce, E. Sutton, D. Rowles, D. Pucci, J. Holbrook, J. Minocha, B. Nardone, D. West,

A. Laumann, E. Roth, M. Jones, E. Veledar, and M. Ghovanloo, “Tongue enables computer and

wheelchair access for the people with high-level disabilities,” Science Translational Medicine, vol. 5, no.

213, p. 213ra166, Nov. 2013. DOI: 10.1126/scitranslmed.3006296

54. X. Huo, H. Park, J. Kim, and M. Ghovanloo, “A dual-mode human computer interface combining speech

and tongue motion for people with severe disabilities,” IEEE Trans. on Neural Sys. Rehab, vol. 21, no. 6,

pp. 979-991, Nov. 2013.

55. M. Kiani and M. Ghovanloo, “A figure-of-merit for designing high performance inductive power

transmission links,” IEEE Trans. on Industrial Eng., vol. 60, no. 11, pp. 5292-5305, Nov. 2013.

56. X. Huo, A.N. Johnson-Long, M. Ghovanloo, and M. Shinohara, “Motor performance of tongue with a

computer integrated system under different levels of background physical exertion,” Ergonomics, vol. 56,

no. 11, pp. 1733–1744, Sep. 2013.

57. H.M. Lee and M. Ghovanloo, “A power-efficient wireless capacitor charging system through an inductive

link,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-II, vol. 60, no. 10, pp. 707-711, Sep. 2013.

58. H.M. Lee, H. Park, and M. Ghovanloo, “A power-efficient wireless system with adaptive supply control

for deep brain stimulation,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 48, no. 9, pp. 2203-2216, Sep. 2013.

59. M. Kothari, P. Svensson, J. Jensen, A. Kjærsgaard, J. Kim, M. Ghovanloo, L. Baad-Hansen, “Training-

induced cortical plasticity compared between three tongue-training paradigms,” Neuroscience, vol. 246, pp.

1-12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.04.040, Aug. 2013.

60. M. Kiani and M. Ghovanloo, “A 20 Mbps pulse harmonic modulation transceiver for wideband near-field

data transmission,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 382-386, July 2013.

61. S.B. Lee, M. Yin, J.R. Manns, and M. Ghovanloo, “A wideband dual-antenna receiver for wireless

recording from animals behaving in large arenas,” IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 1993-

2004, July 2013.

62. Y.M. Choi and M. Ghovanloo, “Challenges to a persistent medication adherence monitoring system for

seniors,” J. Neuroscience and Neuroengineering, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 250-254, June 2013. DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jnsne.2013.1055

63. U. Jow and M. Ghovanloo, “Geometrical design of a scalable overlapping planar spiral coil array to

generate a homogeneous magnetic field,” IEEE Trans. on Magnetics, vol. 49, no. 6, pp. 2933-2945, June

2013.

64. H.M. Lee and M. Ghovanloo, “A high frequency active voltage doubler in standard CMOS using offset-

controlled comparators for inductive power transmission,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems,

vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 213-224, June 2013.

65. H. Park and M. Ghovanloo, “A 13-bit noise shaping SAR–ADC with dual-polarity digital calibration,”

Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, No. 75, pp. 459–465, DOI 10.1007/s10470-013-0050-x,

May 2013.

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66. H. Park, M. Kiani, H.M. Lee, J. Kim, B. Gosselin, and M. Ghovanloo, “A wireless magnetoresistive

sensing system for an intraoral tongue-computer interface,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems,

vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 571–585, Dec. 2012.

67. U. Jow, M. Kiani, X. Huo, and M. Ghovanloo, “Towards a smart experimental arena for long-term

electrophysiology experiments,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 414–423,

Oct. 2012.

68. X. Huo and M. Ghovanloo, “Tongue Drive: A wireless tongue-operated means for people with severe

disabilities to communicate their intentions,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 50, no. 10, pp. 128–

135, Oct. 2012.

69. M. Kiani and M. Ghovanloo, “The circuit theory behind coupled-mode magnetic resonance based wireless

power transmission,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems-I, vol. 59, no. 9, pp. 2065-2074, Sep. 2012.

70. H.M. Lee and M. Ghovanloo, “An adaptive reconfigurable active voltage doubler/rectifier for extended-

range inductive power transmission,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 59, no. 8, pp. 481-485,

Aug. 2012.

71. J. Kim, X. Huo, J. Minocha, J. Holbrook, A. Laumann, and M. Ghovanloo, “Evaluation of a smartphone

platform as a wireless interface between Tongue Drive System and electric-powered wheelchairs,” IEEE

Trans. Biomed. Eng., vol. 59, no. 6, pp. 1787–1796, June 2012.

72. B. Yousefi, X. Huo, J. Kim, E. Veledar, and M. Ghovanloo, “Quantitative and comparative assessment of

learning in a tongue-operated computer input device – Part II: Navigation tasks,” IEEE Trans. Info. Tech.

in Biomedicine, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 633-643, July 2012.

73. A.N. Johnson, X. Huo, M. Ghovanloo, and M. Shinohara, “Dual-task motor performance with a tongue-

operated assistive technology compared with hand operations,” J. NeuroEng. Rehab., vol. 9,

doi:10.1186/1743-0003-9-1, Jan. 2012.

74. M. Kiani, U. Jow, and M. Ghovanloo, “Design and optimization of a 3-coil inductive link for efficient

wireless power transmission,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 579-591,

Dec. 2011.

75. M. Kothari, P. Svensson, X. Huo, M. Ghovanloo, L. Baad-Hansen, “Force and complexity of tongue task

training influences behavioral measures of motor learning,” European J. Oral Sciences, vol. 119, DOI:

10.1111/j.1600-0722.2011.00894.x, Dec. 2011.

76. B. Yousefi, X. Huo, E. Veledar, and M. Ghovanloo, “Quantitative and comparative assessment of learning

in a tongue-operated computer input device,” IEEE Trans. Info. Tech. in Biomedicine, vol. 15, no. 5, pp.

747-757, Sep. 2011.

77. H.M. Lee and M. Ghovanloo, “An integrated power-efficient active rectifier with offset-controlled high

speed comparators for inductively-powered applications,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 58,

no. 8, pp. 1749-1760, Aug. 2011.

78. F. Inanlou, M. Kiani, and M. Ghovanloo, “A 10.2 Mbps pulse harmonic modulation based transceiver for

implantable medical devices,” IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 46, no. 6, pp. 1296-1306, June 2011.

79. M. Yin and M. Ghovanloo, “A low-noise clockless simultaneous 32-channel wireless neural recording

system with adjustable resolution,” Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 66, no. 3, pp.

417-431, March 2011.

80. F. Inanlou and M. Ghovanloo, “Wideband near-field data transmission using pulse harmonic modulation,”

IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 58, no. 1, pp. 186-195, Jan. 2011.

81. S.B. Lee, H.M. Lee, M. Kiani, U. Jow, and M. Ghovanloo, “An inductively powered scalable 32-channel

wireless neural recording system-on-a-chip for neuroscience applications,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed.

Circuits and Systems, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 360-371, Dec. 2010.

82. U. Jow and M. Ghovanloo, “Optimization of data coils in a multiband wireless link for neuroprosthetic

implantable devices,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 301-310, Oct. 2010.

83. M. Kiani and M. Ghovanloo, “An RFID-based closed loop wireless power transmission system for

biomedical applications,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems II, vol. 57, no. 4, pp. 260-264, Apr. 2010.

84. X. Huo and M. Ghovanloo, “Evaluation of a wireless wearable tongue computer interface by individuals

with high level spinal cord injuries,” Journal of Neural Engineering, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 026008, Apr. 2010.

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85. U. Jow and M. Ghovanloo, “Modeling and optimization of printed spiral coils in air, saline, and muscle

tissue environments,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 339-347, Oct. 2009.

86. M. Yin and M. Ghovanloo, “Using pulse width modulation for wireless transmission of neural signals in

multichannel neural recording systems,” IEEE Trans. on Neural Sys. Rehab. Eng., vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 354-

363, Aug. 2009.

87. G. Bawa and M. Ghovanloo, “Analysis, design and implementation of a high efficiency fullwave rectifier

in standard CMOS technology,” Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, vol. 60, pp. 71-81,

Aug. 2009.

88. X. Huo and M. Ghovanloo, “Using unconstrained tongue motion as an alternative control surface for

wheeled mobility,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Eng, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 1719-1726, June 2009.

89. M. Ghovanloo and S. Atluri, “An Integrated full-wave CMOS rectifier with built-in back telemetry for

RFID and implantable biomedical applications,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 55, no. 10, pp.

3328-3334, Nov. 2008.

90. X. Huo, J. Wang, and M. Ghovanloo, “Introduction and preliminary evaluation of tongue drive system: a

wireless tongue-operated assistive technology for people with little or no upper extremity function,”

Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development, vol. 45, no. 6, pp. 921-938, Nov. 2008.

91. X. Huo, J. Wang, and M. Ghovanloo, “A magneto-inductive sensor based wireless tongue-computer

interface,” IEEE Trans. on Neural Sys. Rehab. Eng., vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 497-504, Oct. 2008.

92. G. Bawa and M. Ghovanloo, “An active high power conversion efficiency rectifier with built–in dual–

mode back telemetry in standard CMOS technology,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, vol.

2, no. 3, pp. 184-192, Sep. 2008.

93. X. Huo and M. Ghovanloo, “A wireless pharmaceutical compliance monitoring system based on magneto-

inductive sensors,” IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 7, no. 12, pp. 1711-1719, Dec. 2007.

94. M. Ghovanloo and S. Atluri, “A wideband power-efficient inductive wireless link for implantable

microelectronic devices using multiple carriers,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 54, no. 10,

pp. 2211-2221, Oct. 2007.

95. U. Jow and M. Ghovanloo, “Design and optimization of printed spiral coils for efficient transcutaneous

inductive power transmission,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Circuits and Systems, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 193-202,

Sep. 2007.

96. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “A wireless implantable multichannel microstimulating system-on-a-chip

with modular architecture,” IEEE Trans. on Neural Sys. Rehab. Eng., vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 449-457, Sep.

2007.

97. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “A compact large voltage compliance high output impedance programmable

current source for biomedical implantable microstimulators,” IEEE Trans. on Biomed. Eng, vol. 52, no. 1,

pp. 97-105, Jan. 2005.

98. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “A wideband frequency shift keying wireless link for inductively powered

biomedical implants,” IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems I, vol. 51, no. 12, pp. 2374-2383, Dec. 2004.

99. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “A modular 32-site wireless neural stimulation microsystem,” IEEE Journal

on Solid-State Circuits, vol. 39, no. 12, pp. 2457-2466, Dec. 2004.

100. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “Fully integrated wide-band high-current rectifiers for wireless biomedical

implants,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 39, no. 11, pp. 1976-1984, Nov. 2004.

Conference Papers

1. Y. Jia, W. Khan, S.A. Mirbozorgi, Y. Guo, W. Li, and M. Ghovanloo, “A mm-sized free-floating

wirelessly-powered implantable optical stimulating system-on-a-chip” Accepted for presentation at the

IEEE Intl. Solid State Cir. Conf., San Francisco, Feb. 2018.

2. G. Jung, M.W. Rashid, T.M. Carpenter, C. Tekes, D.M.J. Cowell, S. Freear, F.L. Degertekin, and M.

Ghovanloo, “Single-chip reduced-wire active catheter system with programmable transmit beamforming

and receive time-division multiplexing for intracardiac echocardiography” Accepted for presentation at

the IEEE Intl. Solid State Cir. Conf., San Francisco, Feb. 2018.

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3. G. Jung, C. Tekes, A. Pirouz, L. Degertekin, and M. Ghovanloo, “Beyond supply-voltage bootstrapped

pulser for driving CMUT arrays in ultrasound imaging,” Proc. of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and

Systems Conference (BioCAS 2017), pp. 192-195, Oct. 2017.

4. P. Yeon, J. Gonzalez, M. Zia, S. Kochupurackal Rajan, G. May, M. Bakir, and M. Ghovanloo,

“Microfabrication, assembly, and hermetic packaging of mm-sized free-floating neural probes,” Proc. of

the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS 2017), pp. 608-611, Oct. 2017.

5. Y. Jia, W. Khan, Y. Guo, W. Li, and M. Ghovanloo, “A wireless opto-electro neural interface for

experiments with small freely-behaving animals,” Proc. of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Conference (BioCAS 2017), pp. 284-287, Oct. 2017.

6. P. Feng, P. Yeon, M. Ghovanloo, and T. Constandinou, “Millimeter-scale integrated and wirewound

coils for powering implantable neural microsystems,” Proc. of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and

Systems Conference (BioCAS 2017), pp. 488-491, Oct. 2017.

7. Z. Wang, K. Murnane, and M. Ghovanloo, “An automated tracking system for Y-maze behavioral test

using Kinect depth imaging,” Proc. of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS

2017), pp. 640-643, Oct. 2017.

8. A. Jafari, M. Ghovanloo, and T. Mohsenin, “An embedded FPGA accelerator for a stand-alone dual-

mode assistive device,” Proc. of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS 2017),

pp. 705-708, Oct. 2017.

9. Y. Cheng, D. Xuan, G. Qian, G. Chen, M. Ghovanloo, and G. Wang, “Modeling of mm-sized solenoid

coils with ferrite tube core for biomedical implants,” Proc. of the IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Conference (BioCAS 2017), pp. 196-199, Oct. 2017.

10. S.A. Mirbozorgi, C. Tekes; A. Pirouz, O. Kocaturk, R. Lederman, M. Ghovanloo, F.L. Degertekin, “A

feasibility study for MRI guided CMUT-based intracardiac echocardiography catheters,” Proc. of the

IEEE Intl. Ultrasonics Symp. (IUS), Sep. 2017.

11. U. Guler, M.S.E. Sendi, and M. Ghovanloo, “A dual-mode passive rectifier for wide-range input power

flow,” Proceedings of the IEEE Midwest Symp. on Circ. Sys., pp. 1376-1379 Aug. 2017.

12. F. Kong, S.A. Mirbozorgi, B. Lee, and M. Ghovanloo, “Towards a robust data link for intraoral Tongue

Drive System using triple bands and adaptive matching,” Proceedings of the IEEE Midwest Symp. on

Circ. Sys., pp. 491-494, Aug. 2017.

13. P. Yeon, A. Kumar, and M. Ghovanloo, “Wireless coil array sensors for monitoring hermetic failure of

millimeter-sized biomedical implants,” Proceedings of the IEEE Midwest Symp. on Circ. Sys., pp. 631-

634, Aug. 2017.

14. Y. Jia, B. Lee, S.A. Mirbozorgi, W. Khan, W. Li, and M. Ghovanloo, “Towards a free-floating wireless

implantable optogenetic stimulating system,” Proceedings of the IEEE Midwest Symp. on Circ. Sys., pp.

381-384, Aug. 2017.

15. A. Jafari, M. Ghovanloo, and T. Mohsenin, “A real-time embedded FPGA processor for a stand-alone

dual-mode assistive device,” Proc. of the IEEE International Symp. Field-Programmable Custom

Computing Machines (FCCM), pp. 199, May 2017.

16. M. Ghovanloo, M.N. Sahadat, Z. Zhang, F. Kong, and N. Sebkhi, “Tapping into tongue motion to

substitute or augment upper limbs,” Proc. SPIE 10194, Micro- and Nanotechnology Sensors, Systems,

and Applications IX, 1019413 (May 18, 2017); doi:10.1117/12.2262109

17. S.N. Housley, D. Wu, S. Belagaje, M. Ghovanloo, A.J. Butler, “Improving upper extremity impairments

with tongue driven robotic assisted rehabilitation: A pilot study,” In: J. Ibáñez, J. González-Vargas, J.M.

Azorín, M. Akay, J.L. Pons, eds. Converging clinical and engineering research on neurorehabilitation ii:

Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on neurorehabilitation (ICNR2016), Springer

International Publishing, 2017, pp. 1181-1186, Oct. 2016.

18. N. Sebkhi, D. Desai, A. Khan, N. Prasad, S. Banerjee, J. Eng, K.R. Wilson, and M. Ghovanloo,

“Towards a wireless multimodal speech capture system,” Proc. of the IEEE Biomed. Circ. and Sys.

Conf., pp. 82-85, Oct. 2016.

19. Y. Cheng, G. Wang, and M. Ghovanloo, “Modeling and optimization of mm-sized solenoid coils for

biomedical implants,” Proc. of the IEEE Biomed. Circ. and Sys. Conf., pp. 324-327, Oct. 2016.

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20. P. Yeon, S.A. Mirbozorgi, and M. Ghovanloo, “Optimal design of a 3-coil inductive link for millimeter-

sized biomedical implants,” Proc. of the IEEE Biomed. Circ. and Sys. Conf., pp. 396-399, Oct. 2016.

21. M.W. Rashid, T. Carpenter, C. Tekesy, A. Pirouzy, G. Jung, D. Cowellz, S. Freearz, M. Ghovanloo,

F.L. Degertekin, ” Front-end electronics for cable reduction in Intracardiac Echocardiography (ICE)

catheters,” Proc. of the IEEE Intl. Ultrasonics Symp. (IUS), Sep. 2016. DOI: 10.1109/ULTSYM.2016.

7728506.

22. P. Yeon, X. Tong, B. Lee, S.A. Mirbozorgi, B. Ash, H. Eckhardt, and M. Ghovanloo, “Toward a

distributed free-floating wireless implantable neural recording system,” Proc. IEEE Eng. in Med. and

Biol. Conf., pp. 4495-4498, Aug. 2016.

23. Y. Jia, Z. Wang, D. Canales, M. Tinkler, C.-C. Hsu, T.E. Madsen, S.A. Mirbozorgi, D. Rainnie, and M.

Ghovanloo, “A wirelessly-powered homecage with animal behavior analysis and closed-loop power

control,” Proc. IEEE Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 6323-6326, Aug. 2016.

24. T. Olubanjo, E. Moore, and M. Ghovanloo, “Detecting food intake acoustic events in noisy recordings

using template matching,” Proc. of the Intl. Conf. Biomed Health Informatics, pp. 388 - 391, Feb. 2016.

25. Z. Zhang, S. Ostadabbas, M.N. Sahadat, N. Sebkhi, D. Wu, A.J. Butler, and M. Ghovanloo,

“Enhancements of a tongue-operated robotic rehabilitation system,” Proc. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and

Systems Conf., pp. 25-28, Oct. 2015.

26. R. Chai, Y. Zhang, M. Ghovanloo, “Joint power and thermal management for implantable devices,”

Proc. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conf., pp. 65-68, Oct. 2015.

27. B. Lee, P. Yeon, and M. Ghovanloo, “A multi-cycle Q-modulation technique for wirelessly-powered

biomedical implants”, Proc. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conf., pp. 73-76, Oct. 2015.

28. M. Sahadat, A. Alreja, P. Srikrishnan and M. Ghovanloo, “A multimodal human computer interface

combining head movement, speech and tongue motion for people with severe disabilities”, Proc. IEEE

Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conf., pp. 157-160, Oct. 2015.

29. Y. Jia, Z. Wang, S.A. Mirbozorgi, and M. Ghovanloo, “A closed-loop wireless homecage for

optogenetic stimulation experiments,” Proc. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conf., pp. 426-429,

Oct. 2015.

30. J. Lim, E. F. Arkan, G. Jung, F. L. Degertekin, and M. Ghovanloo, “On-chip reduced wire transceiver

for high frequency CMUT imaging system,” Proc. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conf., pp.

643-646, Oct. 2015.

31. T.M. Carpenter, M.W. Rashid, M. Ghovanloo, D. Cowell, S. Freear, F.L. Degertekin, “Time-division

multiplexing for cable reduction in ultrasound imaging catheters,” Proc. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and

Systems Conf., pp. 651-654, Oct. 2015.

32. Z. Wang, S.A. Mirbozorgi, and M. Ghovanloo, “Towards a Kinect-based behavior recognition and

analysis system for small animals,” Proc. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conf., pp. 683-686,

Oct. 2015.

33. A. Liutkus, T. Olubanjo, E. Moore, and M. Ghovanloo, “Source separation for target enhancement of

food intake acoustics from noisy recordings,” to be presented at the IEEE Workshop on Applications of

Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA’15), New Paltz, NY, Oct. 2015.

34. B. Lee, D. Ahn, and M. Ghovanloo, “Towards a three-phase time-multiplexed planar power

transmission to distributed implants,” Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1770-1773,

May 2015.

35. S. Ostadabbas, A. J. Butler, and M. Ghovanloo, “Developing a tongue controlled exoskeleton for a wrist

tracking exercise: a preliminary study,” 14th Annual Design of Medical Devices Conference (DMD’15),

Apr. 2015.

36. M. Kiani, B. Lee, P. Yeon, and M. Ghovanloo, “A power-management ASIC with Q-modulation

capability for efficient inductive power transmission,” Digest of technical papers IEEE Intl. Solid State

Cir. Conf., pp. 414-415, Feb. 2015.

37. A. Ayala-Acevedo and M. Ghovanloo, “Smartphone-compatible robust classification algorithm for the

Tongue Drive System,” Proc. IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conf., pp. 161-164, Oct. 2014.

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38. M. Kiani and M. Ghovanloo, “A PWM-IR-UWB transceiver for low-power data communication,” Proc.

IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conf., pp. 436-439, Oct. 2014.

39. M.W. Rashid, C. Tekes, M. Ghovanloo, F.L. Degertekin, “Design of frequency-division multiplexing

front-end receiver electronics for CMUT-on-CMOS based intracardiac echocardiography,” Proc. IEEE

Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Symp., pp. 1540 - 1543, Sep. 2014. DOI:

10.1109/ULTSYM.2014.0381

40. S. Lee, B. Lee, B. Gosselin, and M. Ghovanloo, “A dual slope charge sampling analog front-end for a

wireless neural recording system,” Proc. IEEE Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 3134-3137, Aug. 2014.

41. S. Ostadabbas, C. Bulach, D.N. Ku, L.J. Anderson, and M. Ghovanloo, “A passive quantitative

measurement of airway resistance using depth data,” Proc. IEEE Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 5743-

881, Aug. 2014.

42. J. Lim, E.F. Arkan, F.L. Degertekin, and M. Ghovanloo, “Toward a reduced-wire readout system for

ultrasound imaging” Proc. IEEE Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 5080-5084, Aug. 2014.

43. T. Olubanjo and M. Ghovanloo, “Tracheal activity recognition based on acoustic signals,” Proc. IEEE

Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 1436-1439, Aug. 2014.

44. B. Lee, M. Kiani, and M. Ghovanloo, “A smart homecage system with 3D tracking for long-term

behavioral experiments,” Proc. IEEE Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 2016-2019, Aug. 2014.

45. H.-M. Lee, K. Kwon, W. Li, and M. Ghovanloo, “A wireless implantable switched-capacitor based

optogenetic stimulating system” Proc. IEEE Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 878-881, Aug. 2014.

46. T. Olubanjo and M. Ghovanloo, “Real-time swallowing detection based on tracheal acoustics,” IEEE

Intl. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Proc. (ICASSP’14), pp. 4417-4421, May 2014.

47. S. Viseh, A. Ayala-Acevedo, M. Ghovanloo, and T. Mohsenin, “Towards a low power FPGA

implementation for a stand-alone intraoral tongue drive system,” Government Microcircuits and Critical

Technologies Conf. (GOMACTech’14), Charleston, SC, Apr. 2014.

48. H.M. Lee, K.Y. Kwon, W. Li, and M. Ghovanloo, “A power-efficient switched-capacitor stimulating

system for electrical/optical deep-brain stimulation,” Digest of technical papers IEEE Intl. Solid State

Cir. Conf., pp. 414-415, Feb. 2014.

49. K.Y. Kwon, H.M. Lee, and M. Ghovanloo, and W. Li, “A wireless slanted optrode array with integrated

micro LEDs for optogenetics,” Proceedings of the IEEE MEMS Conf., pp. 813-816, Jan. 2014.

50. S. Eiring, Y.M. Choi, and M. Ghovanloo, “Privacy in medication adherence and personal emergency

response systems,” Intl. Conf. Design Principles and Practices. Vancouver, Canada, vol. 8, Jan. 2014.

51. P. McMenamin, U. Jow, M. Kiani, J.R. Manns, and M. Ghovanloo, “A smart cage for behavioral

experiments on small freely behaving animal subjects,” Proc. IEEE Neural Eng. Conf., pp. 985-988,

Nov. 2013.

52. J. Kim, C. Bulach, K.M. Richards, D. Wu, A.J. Butler, and M. Ghovanloo, “An apparatus for improving

upper limb function by engaging synchronous tongue motion,” Proc. IEEE Neural Eng. Conf., pp. 1574-

1577, Nov. 2013.

53. T. Xu, C. Tekes, S. Satir, E. Arkan, M. Ghovanloo, and F. L. Degertekin, “Design, modeling and

characterization of 35 MHz 1-D CMUT phased array,” Proc. IEEE Intl. Ultrasonic Symp., July 2013.

54. Y.M. Choi, T. Olubanjo, A. Farajidavar, and M. Ghovanloo, “Potential barriers in adoption of a

medication compliance neckwear by elderly population,” Proc. IEEE 35th Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf.,

pp. 4678-4681, June 2013.

55. P. Markondeya Raj, U-M. Jow, J. Dai, K. P. Murali, H. Sharma, D. Mishra, T. D. Xiao, S. Gandhi, M.

Ghovanloo, and R. Tummala, “3D IPAC — A new passives and actives concept for ultra-miniaturized

electronic and bioelectronic functional modules,” Proc. Electr. Components Technol. Conf., pp. 517-522,

May. 2013.

56. P. McMenamin, U. Jow, M. Kiani, and M. Ghovanloo, “Real time control of a wireless powering and

tracking system for long-term and large-area electrophysiology experiments,” Proc. IEEE Biomed. Circ.

and Sys. Conf., pp. 240-243, Nov. 2012.

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57. M. Kiani, and M. Ghovanloo, “Pulse delay modulation (PDM) a new wideband data transmission

method to implantable medical devices in presence of a power link,” Proc. IEEE Biomed. Circ. and Sys.

Conf., pp. 256-259, Nov. 2012.

58. X. Huo, H. Park, and M. Ghovanloo, “Dual-mode tongue drive system: using speech and tongue motion

to improve computer access for people with disabilities,” Proc. Wireless Health Conf., pp. 47-54, Oct.

2012.

59. H. Park, J. Kim, X. Huo, I. Hwang, and M. Ghovanloo, “Development and preliminary evaluation of an

intraoral Tongue Drive System,” Proc. IEEE 34th Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 1157-1160, Sep.

2012.

60. A. Ayala-Acevedo and M. Ghovanloo, “Quantitative assessment of magnetic sensor signal processing

algorithms in a wireless tongue-operated assistive technology,” Proc. IEEE 34th Eng. in Med. and Biol.

Conf., pp. 3692-3695, Sep. 2012.

61. A. Farajidavar, J.E. Block, and M. Ghovanloo, “A comprehensive method for magnetic sensor

calibration: a precise system for 3-D tracking of the tongue movements,” Proc. IEEE 34th Eng. in Med.

and Biol. Conf., pp. 1153-1156, Sep. 2012.

62. M. Kiani and M. Ghovanloo, “A figure-of-merit for design of high performance inductive power

transmission links for implantable microelectronic devices,” Proc. IEEE 34th Eng. in Med. and Biol.

Conf., pp. 847-850, Sep. 2012.

63. J. Kim, H. Park, and M. Ghovanloo, “Tongue-operated assistive technology with access to common

smartphone applications via Bluetooth link,” Proc. IEEE 34th Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 4054-

4057, Sep. 2012.

64. S.B. Lee, J.R. Manns, and M. Ghovanloo, “Wireless hippocampal neural recording via a multiple input

RF receiver to construct place-specific firing fields,” Proc. IEEE 34th Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp.

763-766, Sep. 2012.

65. H. Park, B. Gosselin, M. Kiani, H. Lee, J. Kim, X. Huo, and M. Ghovanloo, “A wireless

magnetoresistive sensing system for an intra-oral tongue-computer interface,” Digest of technical papers

IEEE Intl. Solid State Cir. Conf., pp. 124-125, Feb. 2012.

66. H.M. Lee and M. Ghovanloo, “An adaptive reconfigurable active voltage doubler/rectifier for extended

range inductive power transmission,” Digest of technical papers IEEE Intl. Solid State Cir. Conf., pp.

286-287, Feb. 2012.

67. U. Jow, M. Kiani, X. Huo, and M. Ghovanloo, “Towards A smart experimental arena for long-term

electrophysiology experiments,” Proc. IEEE Biomed. Circuits and Systems, pp. 121-124, Nov. 2011.

68. X. Huo, and M. Ghovanloo, “Using speech recognition to enhance the Tongue Drive System

functionality in computer access,” Proc. IEEE 33rd Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 6393-6396, Sep.

2011.

69. M. Ghovanloo, “An overview of the recent wideband transcutaneous wireless communication

techniques,” Proc. IEEE 33rd Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 5864-5867, Sep. 2011.

70. B. Yousefi, X. Huo, and M. Ghovanloo, “Preliminary assessment of Tongue Drive System in medium

term usage for computer access and wheelchair control,” Proc. IEEE 33rd Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf.,

pp. 5766-5769, Sep. 2011.

71. E.B. Sadeghian, X. Huo, and M. Ghovanloo, “Command detection and classification in tongue drive

assistive technology,” Proc. IEEE 33rd Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 5465-5468, Sep. 2011.

72. H. Park, J. Kim, X. Huo, I. Hwang, and M. Ghovanloo, “New ergonomic headset for Tongue-Drive

System with wireless smartphone interface,” Proc. IEEE 33rd Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 7344-

7367, Sep. 2011.

73. M. Kiani, K.Y. Kwon, F. Zhang, K. Oweiss, and M. Ghovanloo, “Evaluation of a closed loop inductive

power transmission system on an awake behaving animal subject,” Proc. IEEE 33rd Eng. in Med. and

Biol. Conf., pp. 7658-7661, Sep. 2011.

74. B. Gosselin and M. Ghovanloo, “A high-performance analog front-end for an intraoral tongue-operated

assistive technology,” Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 2613-2616, May 2011.

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75. F. Inanlou, M. Kiani, and M. Ghovanloo, “A novel pulse-based modulation technique for wideband low

power communication with neuroprosthetic devices,” Proc. IEEE 32nd Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp.

5326-5329, Sep. 2010.

76. B. Yousefi, X. Huo, and M. Ghovanloo, “Using Fitts’s law for evaluating tongue drive system as a

pointing device for computer access,” Proc. IEEE 32nd Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 4403-4406,

Sep. 2010.

77. J. Kim, X. Huo, and M. Ghovanloo, “Wireless control of smartphones with tongue motion using tongue

drive assistive technology,” Proc. IEEE 32nd Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 5250-5253, Sep. 2010.

78. J. Vidal and M. Ghovanloo, “Towards a switched-capacitor based stimulator for efficient deep-brain

stimulation,” Proc. IEEE 32nd Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 2927-2930, Sep. 2010.

79. X. Huo, U.M. Jow, and M. Ghovanloo, “Radiation characterization of an intra-oral wireless device at

multiple ISM bands: 433 MHz, 915 MHz, and 2.42 GHz,” Proc. IEEE 32nd Eng. in Med. and Biol.

Conf., pp. 1425-1428, Sep. 2010.

80. A.N. Johnson, X. Huo, C.W. Cheng, M. Ghovanloo, and M. Shinohara, “Effects of additional load on

hand and tongue performance,” Proc. IEEE 32nd Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 6611-6614, Sep.

2010.

81. G. Bawa, A. Huang, and M. Ghovanloo, “An efficient 13.56 MHz active back-telemetry rectifier in

standard CMOS technology,” IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1201-1204, June 2010.

82. S.B. Lee, H.M. Lee, M. Kiani, U. Jow, and M. Ghovanloo, “An inductively powered scalable 32-ch

wireless neural recording system-on-a-chip with power scheduling for neuroscience applications,” Digest

of technical papers IEEE Intl. Solid State Cir. Conf., pp. 120-121, Feb. 2010.

83. M. Kiani and M. Ghovanloo, “A closed loop wireless power transmission system using a commercial

RFID transceiver for biomedical applications,” Proc. IEEE 31st Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 3841-

3844, Sep. 2009.

84. C. Cheng, X. Huo, and M. Ghovanloo, “Towards a magnetic localization system for 3-D tracking of

tongue movements in speech-language therapy,” Proc. IEEE 31st Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 563-

566, Sep. 2009.

85. X. Huo, C. Cheng, and M. Ghovanloo, “Evaluation of the tongue drive system by individuals with high-

level spinal cord injury,” Proc. IEEE 31st Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 555-558, Sep. 2009.

86. U. Jow and M. Ghovanloo, “Modeling and optimization of printed spiral coils in air and muscle tissue

environments,” Proc. IEEE 31st Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 6387-6390, Sep. 2009.

87. M. Yin, S.B. Lee, and M. Ghovanloo, “In vivo testing of a low noise 32-channel wireless neural

recording system,” Proc. IEEE 31st Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 1608-1611, Sep. 2009.

88. M. Ghovanloo, “Novel technologies for wireless interfacing with the central nervous system,”

International Conference for Bioeconomy, Beijing, China, June 2009.

89. X. Huo, J. Bruce, and M. Ghovanloo, “Preliminary evaluation of a tongue operated assistive technology

by individuals with high-level SCI for computer access and wheeled mobility,” Proc. RESNA

Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 2009.

90. F.T. Abu-Nimeh, A. Kamboh, M. Aghagolzadeh, U. Jow, A. Mason, M. Ghovanloo, and K. Oweiss, “A

highly modular, wireless, implantable interface to the cortex,” Proc. 4th Intl. IEEE/EMBS Conf. on

Neural Engineering, pp. 375 - 378, May 2009.

91. M. Yin and M. Ghovanloo, “A flexible 32-channel simultaneous wireless neural recording system with

adjustable resolution”, Digest of technical papers IEEE Intl. Solid State Cir. Conf., pp. 432-433, Feb.

2009.

92. U. Jow and M. Ghovanloo, “Optimization of a multiband wireless link for neuroprosthetic implantable

devices,” Proc. IEEE Biomed. Circuits and Systems, pp. 97-100, Nov. 2008.

93. M. Yin and M. Ghovanloo, “A low-noise receiver for multichannel wireless neural recording,” Proc.

IEEE 30th Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 4222-4225, Aug. 2008.

94. J. Wang, X. Huo, and M. Ghovanloo, “A quadratic particle swarm optimization method for magnetic

tracking of tongue motion in speech disorders,” Proc. IEEE 30th Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 4222-

4225, Aug. 2008.

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95. X. Huo, J. Wang, and M. Ghovanloo, “Wireless control of powered wheelchairs with tongue motion

using tongue drive assistive technology,” Proc. IEEE 30th Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 4199-4202,

Aug. 2008.

96. X. Huo, J. Wang, and M. Ghovanloo, “Using Tongue Drive system as a new interface to control

powered wheelchairs,” Proc. RESNA Conference, Washington, DC, June 2008.

97. J. Wang, X. Huo, and M. Ghovanloo, “Tracking tongue movements for environment control using

particle swarm optimization,” Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp.1982-1985, May 2008.

98. M. Yin and M. Ghovanloo, “A wideband PWM-FSK receiver for wireless implantable neural recording

applications,” Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1556-1559, May 2008.

99. G. Bawa and M. Ghovanloo, “A back telemetry-capable active high efficiency rectifier in standard

CMOS process,” Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 2514-2517, May 2008.

100. M. Yin and M. Ghovanloo, “A clockless ultra low-noise low-power wireless implantable neural

recording system,” Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1756-1759, May 2008.

101. U. Jow and M. Ghovanloo, “Design and optimization of printed spiral coils for efficient inductive power

transmission,” Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Elec., Circuits and Systems, pp. 70-73, Dec. 2007.

102. X. Huo and M. Ghovanloo, “A magnetic sensor based wireless drug compliance monitoring system,”

Proc. IEEE Sensors Conference, pp. 1077-1080, Oct. 2007.

103. X. Huo, J. Wang, and M. Ghovanloo, “Using magneto-inductive sensors to detect tongue position in a

wireless assistive technology for people with severe disabilities,” Proc. IEEE Sensors Conference, pp.

732-735, Oct. 2007 (First Place Poster Award).

104. M. Ghovanloo, “Tongue operated assistive technologies,” Proc. IEEE 29th Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf.,

pp. 4376-4379, Aug. 2007.

105. X. Huo, J. Wang, and M. Ghovanloo, “A wireless tongue-computer interface using stereo differential

magnetic field measurement,” Proc. IEEE 29th Eng. in Med. and Biol. Conf., pp. 5723-5726, Aug. 2007.

106. M. Yin and M. Ghovanloo, “Wideband flexible transmitter and receiver pair for multichannel wireless

neural recording applications,” Proc. IEEE 50th Midwest Symp. Circuits and Sys., pp. 85-88, Aug. 2007.

107. G. Bawa, U. Jow, and M. Ghovanloo, “A high efficiency full-wave rectifier in standard CMOS

technology,” Proc. IEEE 50th Midwest Symp. Circuits and Sys., pp. 81-84, Aug. 2007.

108. X. Huo, J. Wang, and M. Ghovanloo, “Use of tongue movements as a substitute for arm and hand

functions in people with severe disabilities,” Proc. RESNA Conference, Phoenix, AZ, June 2007.

109. J. Simpson and M. Ghovanloo, “An experimental study of voltage, current, and charge controlled

stimulation front-end circuitry,” Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 325-328, May 2007.

110. M. Yin and M. Ghovanloo, “Using pulse width modulation for wireless transmission of neural signals in

a multichannel neural recording system,” Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. Circuits Systems, pp. 3127-3130, May

2007.

111. M. Yin and M. Ghovanloo, “A low-noise preamplifier with adjustable gain and bandwidth for

biopotential recording applications,” Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 321-324, May

2007.

112. S. Atluri and M. Ghovanloo, “Incorporating back telemetry in a full-wave CMOS rectifier for RFID and

biomedical applications,” Proc. IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 801-804, May 2007.

113. X. Huo, J. Wang, and M. Ghovanloo, “A magnetic wireless tongue-computer interface,” Proc. 3rd Intl.

IEEE/EMBS Conf. on Neural Engineering, pp. 322-326, May 2007.

114. F.B. Myers, J.A. Simpson, and M. Ghovanloo, “A wideband wireless neural stimulation platform for

high-density microelectrode arrays,” IEEE 28th Eng. in Med. and Biol. 2006, pp.4404-4407, Aug. 2006.

115. A.M. Sodagar, K. Najafi, K.D. Wise, M. Ghovanloo, “Fully-integrated CMOS power regulator for

telemetry-powered implantable biomedical microsystems,” Proc. of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits

Conf., pp. 659-662, Sep. 2006.

116. P. Swaroop, A.J. Vasani, and M. Ghovanloo, “A high-voltage output driver for implantable biomedical

stimulators and I/O applications,” Proc. of the IEEE 49th Midwest Symp. Circuits and Sys., Aug. 2006.

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117. M. Yin, R.M. Field, and M. Ghovanloo, “A 15-channel wireless neural recording system based on time

division multiplexing of pulse width modulated signals,” IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conf. on

Microtechnologies in Med. and Biol., pp. 221-224, May 2006.

118. R.M. Field and M. Ghovanloo, “Finite element analysis of planar micromachined silicon electrodes for

cortical stimulation,” IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conf. on Microtechnologies in Med. and Biol., pp. 297-

300, May 2006.

119. S. Atluri and M. Ghovanloo, “A wideband power-efficient inductive wireless link for implantable

biomedical devices using multiple carriers,” IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 1131-1134,

May 2006.

120. G. Krishnamurthy and M. Ghovanloo, “Tongue Drive: A tongue operated magnetic sensor based

wireless assistive technology for people with severe disabilities,” IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and

Systems, pp. 5551-5554, May 2006.

121. M. Ghovanloo, “Switched-capacitor based implantable low-power wireless microstimulating systems,”

IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, pp. 2197-2200, May 2006.

122. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “A three-dimensional microassembly structure for micromachined planar

microelectrode arrays,” IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conf. on Microtechnologies in Med. and Biol., pp.

112-115, May 2005.

123. S. Atluri and M. Ghovanloo, “Design of a wideband power-efficient inductive wireless link for

implantable biomedical devices using multiple carriers,” Proc. 2nd Intl. IEEE/EMBS Conf. on Neural

Engineering, pp. 533-537, Mar. 2005.

124. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “A tri-state FSK demodulator for asynchronous timing of high-rate

stimulation pulses in wireless implantable microstimulators,” Proc. 2nd Intl. IEEE/EMBS Conf. on

Neural Engineering, pp. 116-119, Mar. 2005.

125. K. Najafi and M. Ghovanloo, “A multichannel monolithic wireless microstimulator,” IEEE 26th EMBS

Conf., pp. 4197-4200, Sep. 2004.

126. M. Ghovanloo, K.J. Otto, D.R. Kipke, and K. Najafi, “In vitro and in vivo testing of a wireless

multichannel stimulating telemetry microsystem,” IEEE 26th EMBS Conf., pp. 4294-4294, Sep. 2004.

127. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “A modular 32-site wireless neural stimulating microsystem,” Digest of

technical papers IEEE Intl. Solid-State Circuits Conf., pp. 226-227, Feb. 2004.

128. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “A small size large voltage compliance programmable current source for

biomedical implantable microstimulators,” IEEE 25th EMBS Conf. Proc., pp. 1979-1982, Sep. 2003.

129. T. Moon, M. Ghovanloo, and D.R. Kipke, “Buckling strength of coated and uncoated silicon

microelectrodes,” Proc. IEEE 25th EMBS Conf. Proc., pp. 1944-1947, Sep. 2003.

130. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “A high data-rate frequency shift keying demodulator chip for the wireless

biomedical implants,” IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, vol. 5, pp. 45-48, May 2003.

131. M. Ghovanloo, K.D. Wise, and K. Najafi, “Towards a button-sized 1024-site wireless cortical

microstimulating array,” 1st Intl. IEEE/EMBS Conf. on Neural Engineering, pp. 138-141, Mar. 2003.

132. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “A fully digital frequency shift keying demodulator chip for the wireless

biomedical implants,” IEEE Southwest Symposium on Mixed-Signal Design, pp. 223-227, Feb. 2003.

133. R. Navid, P. Valizadeh, and M. Ghovanloo, "A high-sensitivity, intermodulation-based accelerometer,"

IEEE Conf. Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD), Dec. 2002.

134. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “A BiCMOS wireless stimulator chip for micromachined stimulating

microprobes,” IEEE 2nd joint EMBS-BMES Conf., pp. 2113-2114, Oct. 2002.

135. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “A high data transfer rate frequency shift keying demodulator chip for the

wireless biomedical implants,” IEEE 45th Midwest Symp. Circuits and Sys., vol. 3, pp. 433-436, Aug.

2002.

136. M. Ghovanloo, K. Beach, K.D. Wise, and K. Najafi, “A BiCMOS wireless interface chip for

micromachined stimulating microprobes,” IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conf. on Microtechnologies in

Med. and Biol., pp. 277-282, May 2002.

137. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “Fully integrated power-supply design for wireless biomedical implants,”

IEEE-EMBS Special Topic Conf. on Microtechnologies in Med. and Biol., pp. 414-419, May 2002.

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Editorials

1. A. Burdett, P. Mohseni, R. Genov, and M. Ghovanloo, “Selected Papers from the 2017 IEEE International

Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol.

11, No. 6, pp. 1173 – 1175, Dec. 2017.

2. P. Mercier, S. Gambini, and M. Ghovanloo, “Selected Papers from the 2013 IEEE International Solid-

State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 7, No. 6,

pp. 733 – 734, Dec. 2013.

3. A. Burdett and M. Ghovanloo, “Selected Papers from the 2012 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits

Conference (ISSCC),” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 521 –

522, Dec. 2012.

4. P. Mohseni and M. Ghovanloo, “Closing the Loop via Advanced Neurotechnologies,” IEEE Transactions

on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 407 – 409, July 2012.

5. E. Topsakal, M. Ghovanloo, and R. Bashirullah, “AWPL special cluster on wireless power and data

telemetry for medical applications,” IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters, vol. 11, pp. 1638 –

1641, 2012.

6. A. Wang, K. Takeuchi, T. Karnik, M. Ghovanloo, and S. Shigematsu, “Introduction to the Special Issue on

the 2011 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol.

47, No. 1, pp. 3 – 7, Jan. 2012.

7. M. Ghovanloo and D. Ham, “Selected Papers from the 2011 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits

Conference (ISSCC),” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 5, No. 6, pp. 501 –

502, Dec. 2011.

Presentations

1. Invited talk on “Fundamental Building Blocks for Efficient Power and Wideband Data Transmission to

mm-Sized Implantable Microelectronic Devices,” Tsinghua University’s Winter School on Biomedical

Circuits and Systems, Beijing, China, Dec. 10, 2017.

2. Invited talk on “Wirelessly-Powered Switched Capacitor Based Neuromodulation Systems,” PINS

Corporation, Beijing, China, Dec. 9, 2017.

3. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” UT Austin, Austin, TX, Dec. 6, 2017.

4. Invited talk on “Efficient Power and Wideband Data Transmission in Near Field,” UT Austin, Austin, TX,

Dec. 6, 2017.

5. Seminar on “A Wireless Tongue & Lips Tracking System for Speech Rehabilitation,” Co-presented with N.

Sebkhi and K. Wilson, American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) Annual Convention, Los

Angeles, CA, Nov. 9, 2017.

6. Seminar on “A Multimodal Tongue Drive System,” American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine

(ACRM), Oct. 25, 2017. (Award for Most Impactful Rehabilitation Technology)

7. Invited talk on “A Wirelessly-Powered Experimental Arena for Electrophysiology and Behavioral

Neuroscience Research on Small Freely Behaving Animals,” UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, May 1, 2017.

8. Invited talk on “A Wirelessly-Powered Experimental Arena for Electrophysiology and Behavioral

Neuroscience Research on Small Freely Behaving Animals,” UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, May 1, 2017.

9. Invited talk on “Tapping into tongue motion to substitute or augment upper limbs,” Human Interface

Sensors and Electronics, SPIE Defense + Security, Anaheim, CA, Apr. 10, 2017.

10. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, Apr. 7, 2017.

11. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Dec. 23, 2016.

12. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Dec. 23, 2016.

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13. Invited talk on “Efficient Power and Wideband Data Transmission in Near Field,” Singapore Institute for

Neurotechnology, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Dec. 21, 2016.

14. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology, National University of Singapore, Singapore,

Dec. 20, 2016.

15. Invited talk on “Efficient Power and Wideband Data Transmission in Near Field,” University of Macau,

Macau, Dec. 19, 2016.

16. Keynote speech on “Fundamental Building Blocks for Efficient Power and Wideband Data Transmission to

mm-Sized Implantable Microelectronic Devices,” Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference, UT-Arlington,

Arlington, TX, Oct. 10, 2016.

17. Invited talk on “Implantable Devices for the Brain: Efficient Power and Wideband Data Transmission in

Near Field,” IEEE Sensors Council Summer School, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 12, 2016.

18. Keynote speech on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for

People with Disabilities,” Keynote Speech, PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME)

Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, June 28, 2016.

19. Invited talk on “Efficient Power and Wideband Data Transmission in Near Field,” Instituto Superior

Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal, June 27, 2016.

20. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” Stanford University, Mountain View, CA, May 10, 2016.

21. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” University of Los Angeles, CA, May 9, 2016.

22. Keynote speech on “A Wearable Brain-Tongue-Computer Interface to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Physical Disabilities,” Keynote Speech, Symposium on Engineering, Medicine, and Biology

Applications (SEMBA’16), Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 24, 2016.

23. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” 7th Integrated Circuit Design Summer School and IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecture

Program, University of Concepcion, Concepcion, Chile, Jan. 11, 2016.

24. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecture Program, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, Dec. 28,

2015.

25. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecture Program, Khaje Nasir Toosi University, Tehran, Iran,

Dec. 27, 2015.

26. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecture Program, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran,

Iran, Dec. 26, 2015.

27. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecture Program, University of Posts and

Telecommunications, Xi’an, China, Dec. 21, 2015.

28. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecture Program, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Dec.

17, 2015.

29. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecture Program, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, Shanghai,

China, Dec. 16, 2015.

30. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecture Program, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, Dec. 15,

2015.

31. Invited talk on “Efficient Power and Wideband Data Transmission in Near Field,” 2nd Workshop on RF

and Microwave Technologies and IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecture Program, Federal University of Santa

Catarina, Florianopolis, Brazil, Nov. 27, 2015.

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32. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecture Program, University of Sao Paolo, Sao Paolo, Brazil,

Nov. 25, 2015.

33. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities,” IEEE CAS Distinguished Lecture Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver,

British Columbia, Canada, Oct. 30, 2015.

34. Invited talk on “The Tongue, A New Human Computer Interface,” ENVISION Program (Leadership-

Scholarship-Career), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, July 2015.

35. Invited talk on “Brain-Tongue-Computer Interfacing,” NeuroHAM – Neural Processing in Humans,

Animals, and Machines, Boston, MA, June 12, 2015.

36. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities” Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City,

UT, Jan. 25, 2015.

37. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities” Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL,

Sep. 2014.

38. Invited talk on “Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People

with Disabilities” Kilby Labs, Texas Instruments Corp., Dallas, TX, June 2014.

39. Plenary lecture at IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), “Invasion of the Body Sensors,” June

2014.

40. Invited talk and demonstration on “Tongue Drive System” NIBIB Discoveries in Technology, National

Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC, Apr.

2014.

41. Invited talk on “From Implantable Microelectronic Devices to Modern Assistive Technologies”

Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, Apr. 2014.

42. Invited talk on “Tongue Drive System,” Quality of Life for Senior Citizens Task Force, Georgia Tech

Research Institute, Atlanta, GA, Feb. 2014.

43. Invited talk on “Technologies for Wireless Biosystems” Bioelectronics Tutorial, IEEE Sensors’13,

Baltimore, MD, Nov. 2013.

44. Invited talk on “Transcutaneous Power and Data Transmission to Implantable Microelectronic Devices”

RF-Assisted Medicine Workshop, IEEE IMS/RFIC’13, Seattle, WA, June 2013.

45. Invited talk on “Transcutaneous Power and Data Transmission to Implantable Neuroprosthetic Devices”

Towards Long Term Cortical Neuro-Interfaces, Bernstein Sparks Workshop, Delmenhorst, Germany, Mar.

2013.

46. Invited talk on “From Implantable Microelectronic Devices to Modern Assistive Technologies”

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, Jan. 2013.

47. Invited talk on “Tongue Drive System: Accessing the World via Tongue Motion” Industrial Technology

Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Nov. 2012.

48. Invited talk on “The Tongue: A New Human Computer Interface” TEDx Peachtree, Atlanta, GA, Nov.

2012.

49. Invited talk on “Transcutaneous Power and Data Transmission to Implantable Microelectronic Devices”

Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN, Sep. 2012.

50. Invited talk on “From Implantable Microelectronic Devices to Modern Assistive Technologies” University

of Ulm, Germany, July 2012.

51. Invited talk on “From Implantable Microelectronic Devices to Modern Assistive Technologies” Center for

Microelectronics (IMTEK), University of Freiburg, Germany, June 2012.

52. Invited talk on “From Implantable Microelectronic Devices to Modern Assistive Technologies” Johnson

School of Engineering and Computer Sciences, Dallas, TX, Mar. 2012.

53. Invited talk on “From Implantable Microelectronic Devices to Modern Assistive Technologies” Weldon

School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, Mar. 2012.

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54. Tutorial on, “Transcutaneous Power and Data Transmission to Implantable Microelectronic Devices,”

IEEE Biomed. Circuits and Systems, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2011.

55. Invited talk on “From Implantable Microelectronic Devices to Modern Assistive Technologies” Harvard

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Boston, MA, Nov. 2011.

56. Invited talk on “From Implantable Microelectronic Devices to Modern Assistive Technologies” Ming

Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Oct.

2011.

57. Tutorial on, “Implantable/Wearable Biomedical Circuits and Systems,” (with S. Sonkusale and P. Mohseni)

IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, Boston, MA, Sep. 2011.

58. Invited talk on “Tongue Drive System: Accessing the world via tongue motion,” No Barriers University,

No Barriers USA Summit, Winter Park, CO, July 2011.

59. Invited talk on “Connecting the inside and outside worlds: wideband communication across the skin,” Body

Area Network Technology and Applications Workshop, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA,

June 2011.

60. Platform presentation on “Assessment of Tongue Drive System for computer access and wheelchair

control,” Rehab. Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America, Toronto, CA, June 2011.

61. Invited talk on “Novel Technologies for Improving the Quality of Life for People with Severe Disabilities,”

ARC Broward Achievement and Rehabilitation Centers, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Nov. 2009.

62. Invited talk on “Novel Technologies for Improving the Quality of Life for People with Severe Disabilities,”

The Academy of Persian Physicians, Palm Desert, CA, Oct. 2009.

63. Invited talk on “Wireless Neural Interfacing Technology,” School of Aerospace, Tsinghua University,

Beijing, China, July 2009.

64. Invited talk on “Novel Technologies for Improving the Quality of Life for People with Severe Disabilities,”

School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University, Miami, FL, Mar. 2009.

65. Invited talk on “Novel Technologies for Improving the Quality of Life for People with Severe Disabilities,”

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, Nov. 2008.

66. Invited talk on “Tongue motor output in human-system integration,” Army Research Office, Workshop on

Research Efforts and Future Directions in Neuroergonomics and Neuromorphics, College Park, MD, Oct.

2008.

67. Invited talk on “Improving the quality of life for people with severe disabilities,” School of Electrical and

Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech, ECE Advisory Board Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2008.

68. Invited talk on “Tongue Drive, A Tongue-Operated Magnetic Sensor Based Assistive Technology for

People with Severe Disabilities,” Quality of Life Technology (QoLT), NSF Engineering Research Center

Educational Seminar, Pittsburgh, PA, Jan. 2008.

69. Invited talk on “A tongue operated magnetic sensor based assistive technology for people with severe

disabilities,” Interagency Committee on Disability Research (ICDR), Interagency Subcommittee on

Technology, National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, Sep. 2007.

70. Invited talk on “Development of a switched-capacitor based neurostimulating system for low-power head-

mounted deep brain stimulators,” at Neuroengineering Now Conference, University of Texas at Dallas, TX,

June 2006.

71. Invited talk on “How to energize and communicate with the micro/nano mechanical systems in medicine

and biology,” at the MEMS Alliance Mid Atlantic conference, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics

Laboratory, Apr. 2006.

72. Overview presentation on “Implantable microelectronic devices,” at the Annual Open House and Power

Management Seminar, arranged by NCSU Semiconductor Power Electronics Center (SPEC), Apr. 2005.

73. Award presentation on “A modular 32-site wireless neural stimulating microsystem,” 41st DAC/ISSCC

student design contest, 2004 DAC conference, San Diego, CA, June 2004.

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Poster Presentations

1. Poster presentation (with K.R. Wilson) on, “Use of Technology in Treatment of Motor Speech Disorders:

Perspectives from Treating Clinicians,” Annual Convention of the American Speech-Language Hearing

Association (ASHA), Philadelphia, PA, November 18, 2016.

2. Poster presentation (with S. Ostadabbas, J. Kim, D. Wu, K. Richards, A. J. Butler) on, “Harnessing tongue

movement to decrease RMSE in wrist tracking exercise using exoskeletal assistance,” Society for

Neuroscience Annual Conference, Washington DC, November 15, 2014.

3. Poster presentation on “A Smart Wirelessly-Powered Homecage for Long-Term High-Throughput

Behavioral Experiments (EnerCage-HC),” National Institutes of Health, Neural Interfaces Conference,

Dallas, TX, Jun. 2014.

4. Poster presentation on “An Inductively-Powered Multichannel Wireless Implantable Neural Recording

System-on-a-Chip,” National Institutes of Health, Neural Interfaces Conference, Dallas, TX, Jun. 2014.

5. Poster presentation on “A Wireless Implantable Switched-Capacitor Based Optogenetic Stimulating

System,” National Institutes of Health, Neural Interfaces Conference, Dallas, TX, Jun. 2014.

6. Poster presentation on “An Efficient Wirelessly-Powered Switched-Capacitor Based Stimulating System

with Decaying Exponential Stimuli,” National Institutes of Health, Neural Interfaces Conference, Dallas,

TX, Jun. 2014.

7. Poster presentation on “Older adults’ opinions about wearable health technologies,” the Annual Meeting of

the Gerontological Society of America, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 2013, With E. Gonzalez, A. Jones, L.

Harley, Y.M. Choi, D. Burnham, C. Fausset, and B. Fain.

8. Poster presentation on “A Smart Experimental Setup for Wireless Power Transmission and Data

Communication to Bioinstrumentation Implanted in Small Freely Behaving Animal Subjects,” National

Institutes of Health, Neural Interfaces Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, Jun. 2012.

9. Poster presentation on “Evaluation of a Closed Loop Inductive Power Transmission System on an Awake

Behaving Animal Subject,” National Institutes of Health, Neural Interfaces Conference, Salt Lake City,

UT, Jun. 2012.

10. Poster presentation on “Dual-Center Clinical Assessment of the Tongue Drive System,” National Institutes

of Health, Neural Interfaces Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, Jun. 2012.

11. Poster presentation on “Mapping Place-Specific Hippocampal Neural Firing Fields Using a Multichannel

Wireless Integrated Neural Recording System (WINeR),” National Institutes of Health, Neural Interfaces

Conference, Salt Lake City, UT, Jun. 2012.

12. Poster presentation on “New ergonomic headset for Tongue Drive System with wireless smartphone

interface,” Rehab. Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America, Toronto, CA, June

2011.

13. Poster presentation on “An inductively powered multichannel wireless implantable neural recording

system-on-a-chip for neuroscience research applications,” National Institutes of Health, Neural Interfaces

Conference, Long Beach, CA, Jun. 2010.

14. Poster presentation on “Brain-tongue-computer interfacing,” National Institutes of Health, Neural

Interfaces Conference, Long Beach, CA, Jun. 2010.

15. Poster presentation on “An RFID-based closed loop wireless power transmission system for biomedical

applications,” National Institutes of Health, Neural Interfaces Conference, Long Beach, CA, Jun. 2010.

16. Poster presentation on “A multichannel wireless implantable neural recording system on a chip,” National

Institutes of Health, Neural Interfaces Conference, Cleveland, OH, Jun. 2008.

17. Poster presentation on “A multi-band wireless link for high performance neuroprosthetic applications,”

National Institutes of Health, Neural Interfaces Conference, Cleveland, OH, Jun. 2008.

18. Poster presentation on “Tongue Drive: A Wireless unobtrusive brain-tongue-computer interface,” National

Institutes of Health, Neural Interfaces Conference, Cleveland, OH, Jun. 2008.

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19. Poster presentation on “MagneTrace: A Magnetic Sensor-based Wireless Pharmaceutical Compliance

Monitoring System” Suddath Drug Design Symposium, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA,

Mar. 2008.

20. Poster presentations on “NC Bionics Laboratory projects and research activities” at the 2nd annual NC State

University Economic Development Forum, Raleigh, NC, May 2007.

21. Poster presentation on “A wideband power-efficient wireless link for implantable biomedical devices using

multiple carriers” at the annual Neural Interfaces Workshop, National Institute of Neurological Disorders

and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD, Sep. 2006.

22. Poster presentation on “A switched-capacitor based neurostimulating system for low-power head-mounted

deep brain stimulators” at the annual Neural Interfaces Workshop, National Institute of Neurological

Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD, Sep. 2006.

23. Poster presentation on “Tongue Drive: A tongue operated magnetic sensor based wireless assistive

technology for people with severe disabilities” at the annual Neural Interfaces Workshop, National Institute

of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD, Sep. 2006.

24. Poster presentation on “A wideband analog simultaneous 15-channel implantable neural recording system”

at the annual Neural Interfaces Workshop, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH,

Bethesda, MD, Sep. 2006.

25. Poster presentation on “A 15-channel wireless neural recording system,” at Neuroengineering Now

Conference, University of Texas at Dallas, TX, June 2006.

26. Poster presentation on “A wideband power-efficient inductive wireless link for implantable biomedical

devices using multiple carriers” at the annual Neural Interfaces Workshop, National Institute of

Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD, Sep. 2005.

27. Poster presentation on “Development of a switched-capacitor based neurostimulating system for low-power

head-mounted deep brain stimulators” at the annual Neural Interfaces Workshop, National Institute of

Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD, Sep. 2005.

28. Poster presentation on “A modular 32-site wireless neural stimulating microsystem,” 41st DAC/ISSCC

student design contest, 2005 ISSC conference, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2005.

29. Poster presentations on “A wireless microsystem for neural stimulating microprobes” at the annual Neural

Interfaces Workshop, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD, Nov.

2001-2004.

30. Poster presentations on “A wireless microsystem for neural stimulating microprobes” at the biannual

Industrial Advisory Board Meeting, Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems, EECS Department,

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 2001-2004.

31. Poster presentation on “Towards a button-sized 1024-site wireless cortical microstimulating array,” 40st

DAC/ISSCC student design contest, 2004 ISSC conference, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2004.

Demo Presentations

1. Y. Jia, S. A. Mirbozorgi, B. Lee, W. Khan, F. Madi, A. J. Weber, W. Li, and M. Ghovanloo, “A mm-Sized

Free-Floating Wirelessly-Powered Optical Stimulating System-on-a-Chip,” To be presented at the IEEE

International Solid-State Circuits Conference, Feb. 2018.

2. A. Jafari, N. Buswell, A. Page, T. Mohsenin, M.N. Sahadat, and M. Ghovanloo “Live Demonstration:

Towards an Ultra Low Power On-board Processor for Tongue Drive System,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits

and Systems Conference (BioCAS’15), pp. 193, Oct. 22, 2015.

3. M.N. Sahadat, Z. Zhang, A. Alreja, P. Srikrishnan, S. Ostadabbas, N. Sebkhi, and M. Ghovanloo, “Live

Demonstration: A Tongue-Operated Multimodal Human Computer Interface and Robotic Rehabilitation

System,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS’15), pp. 172, Oct. 22, 2015.

4. Y. Jia, Z. Wang, S.A. Mirbozorgi, and M. Ghovanloo, “Live Demonstration: A Smart Homecage System

with Behavior Analysis and Closed-Loop Optogenetic Stimulation Capabilities,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits

and Systems Conference (BioCAS’15), pp. 192, Oct. 22, 2015. [Best Live Demo Award]

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5. Invited demonstration on “Tongue Drive System” NIBIB Discoveries in Technology, National Institute of

Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC, Apr. 2014.

6. H. Park, B. Gosselin, M. Kiani, H-M. Lee, J. Kim, X. Huo, and M. Ghovanloo, “A Wireless

Magnetoresistive Sensing System for an Intra-Oral Tongue-Computer Interface,” IEEE International Solid-

State Circuits Conference, Feb. 2012.

7. H. Park, J. Kim, and M. Ghovanloo, “Intraoral Tongue Drive System,” IEEE Biomedical Circuits and

Systems Conference, Oct. 2012.

8. Demonstrational presentation on “Tongue Drive System,” at the Enabling Environments open house

(http://www.healatgt.org/projects/tongue-drive-system-tds/), Atlanta, GA, Apr. 2010.

9. Demonstrational presentation on “Tongue Drive System,” at the Abilities Expo, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2009.

10. Demonstrational presentation on “Tongue Drive: A tongue operated magnetic sensor based wireless

assistive technology for people with severe disabilities” at the WakeMed Rehabilitation Hospital, Raleigh,

NC, Apr. 2007.

11. Demonstrational presentation on “Tongue Drive: A tongue operated magnetic sensor based wireless

assistive technology for people with severe disabilities” at the 16th annual Tech 2006 Conference, Council

for Entrepreneurial Development, Raleigh, NC, Oct. 2006.

Patents and Invention Disclosures

1. M. Ghovanloo, G. Jung, J. Lim, and L. Degertekin, “CMUT-on-CMOS based guidewire intravascular

imaging,” ID# 7599, Office of Technology Licensing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Aug. 2017.

2. M. Ghovanloo, Yaoyao Jia, Seyed-Abdollah Mirbozorgi, “EnerCage-Homecage System with Location and

Orientation Insensitive Wireless Power Transmission for Long-Term Behavioral Experiments, ID# 7482,

Office of Technology Licensing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dec. 14, 2016.

3. M. Ghovanloo and Seyed-Abdollah Mirbozorgi, “Wireless Power Transmission for A High Throughput

Smart Multi-Cage Data Acquisition System with Dynamic Closed-Loop Power Control and Free-Floating

Distributed Implants, ID# 7061, Office of Technology Licensing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Aug.

10, 2015.

4. L. Degertekin and M. Ghovanloo, “CMUT-on-CMOS based guidewire intravascular imaging,” U.S. patent

9,259,206, Applied: Feb. 20, 2013, Granted: Feb. 16, 2016.

5. M. Ghovanloo and M. Kiani, “Wideband data and power transmission using pulse delay modulation,” U.S.

patent 9,094,913, Applied: Nov. 20, 2012, Granted: July 28, 2015.

6. M. Ghovanloo, “Systems and Methods for Multichannel Wireless Implantable Neural Recording,” U.S.

patent 8,958,868, Applied: May 18, 2009, Granted: Feb. 17, 2015.

7. M. Ghovanloo and F. Inanlou, “Pulse harmonic modulation systems and methods,” U.S. patent 8,774,291,

Applied: Dec. 9, 2009, Granted: July 8, 2014.

8. M. Ghovanloo and M. Kiani, “A Quality-Factor Modulation Technique for High Efficiency Inductive

Power Transmission,” ID# 6459, Office of Technology Licensing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Aug.

2013.

9. M. Ghovanloo and H. Park, “Multimodal Optical Tongue Drive System,” ID# 6435, Office of Technology

Licensing, Georgia Institute of Technology, July 2013.

10. M. Ghovanloo and J. Block, “Wireless Real-Time Tongue Tracking for Speech Impairment Diagnosis,

Speech Therapy with Audiovisual Biofeedback, and Silent Speech Interfaces,” ID# 6367, Office of

Technology Licensing, Georgia Institute of Technology, May. 2013.

11. M. Ghovanloo, D. Ahn, and M. Kiani, “Enhanced Inductive Power and Data Transmission using Hyper

Resonance,” ID# 6291, Office of Technology Licensing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Mar. 2013.

12. M. Ghovanloo and X. Huo, “Tongue Operated Magnetic Sensor Systems and Methods,” U.S. patent

8,242,880B2, Applied: May 29, 2009, Granted: Aug. 14, 2012.

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13. M. Ghovanloo and H. Lee, “A Distributed Stimulating System with Reduced Number of Interconnects,”

ID# 6165, Office of Technology Licensing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Aug. 2012.

14. M. Ghovanloo and M. Kiani, “Wideband Data Transmission Using Pulse Delay Modulation,” ID# 6075,

Office of Technology Licensing, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2012.

15. B. Boyan, L. Degertekin, and M. Ghovanloo, “Flexible Miniature Ultrasound Systems for Remote

Monitoring of Bone Healing,” ID# 5981, Office of Technology Licensing, Georgia Institute of Technology,

March 2012.

16. L. Degertekin and M. Ghovanloo, “Miniature IVUS Imaging System with Wireless Data Readout,” ID#

5943, Office of Technology Licensing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Feb. 2012.

17. M. Ghovanloo and G. Krishnamurthy, “Tongue Operated Magnetic Sensor based Wireless Assistive

Technology,” U.S. patent 8,044,766, Applied: Oct 31, 2006, Granted: Oct 25, 2011.

18. M. Ghovanloo and X. Huo, “A Multi-Modal, Multi-Functional, and Multi-Purpose Wireless Assistive

Technology for People with Different Levels of Disabilities,” ID# 5683, Office of Technology Licensing,

Georgia Institute of Technology, June 2011.

19. M. Ghovanloo, “System and method for providing wireless power to a portable unit,” U.S. 2011/0074349,

Mar. 2011.

20. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “Demodulator, Chip and Method for Digitally Demodulating an FSK

Signal,” U.S. patent 7,881,409, Applied: Jan 21, 2005, Granted: Feb 1, 2011.

21. M. Ghovanloo and B. Gosselin, “Multi-Slope Charge Sampling Amplifier,” ID# 5496, Office of

Technology Licensing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Nov. 2010.

22. M. Ghovanloo and F. Inanlou, “Wideband Data Transmission Using Pulse Harmonic Modulation,” ID#

5016, Office of Technology Licensing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Oct. 2009.

23. M. Ghovanloo, “RFID-MagneTrace,” ID# 4742, Office of Technology Licensing, Georgia Institute of

Technology, Jan. 2009.

24. M. Ghovanloo and M. Yin, “A multichannel wireless implantable neural recording (WINeR) system-on-a-

chip,” ID# 4654, Office of Technology Licensing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Sep. 2008. Patent

pending.

25. M. Ghovanloo, “A wireless array of sensor modules to energize and track implantable devices in freely

moving animals,” ID# 4367, Office of Technology Licensing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dec. 2007.

Patent pending.

26. M. Ghovanloo, “integrated full-wave CMOS rectifier with built-in back telemetry,” Tech Transfer Office,

North Carolina State University, Aug. 2006.

27. M. Ghovanloo and K. Mercure, “Analytical monitoring of pharmaceutical compliance using magnetic

sensors,” Tech Transfer Office, North Carolina State University, Dec. 2005. PCT 64720A, Patent pending.

28. M. Ghovanloo and G. Krishnamurthy, “Tongue Drive: A tongue operated magnetic sensor based wireless

assistive technology for quadriplegics,” No. 06-058, Tech Transfer Office, North Carolina State University,

Oct. 2005, 12/084,227, Patent pending.

29. M. Ghovanloo, “A multi-carrier wireless link for efficient power and wideband bidirectional data transfer

to implantable microelectronic devices,” No. 06-023, Tech Transfer Office, North Carolina State

University, July 2005.

30. M. Ghovanloo, “A switched-capacitor based low-power microstimulating system,” No. 05-094, Tech

Transfer Office, North Carolina State University, April 2005.

31. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “A compact large voltage compliance high output impedance programmable

current source,” Tech Transfer Office, University of Michigan, file No. 2684, Aug. 2003.

32. M. Ghovanloo, K. Najafi, and K.D. Wise, “Shatter-proof microprobes,” Tech Transfer Office, University

of Michigan, file No. 2662, Aug. 2003. WO2005028019A1.

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33. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “Three dimensional microassembly structures for micromachined planar

microelectrode arrays,” Tech Transfer Office, University of Michigan, file No. 2551, Mar. 2003.

34. M. Ghovanloo and K. Najafi, “Frequency shift keying demodulation methods for wireless biomedical

Implants,” Tech Transfer Office, University of Michigan, file No. 2525, Feb. 2003.

Professional Activities

• Senior Editorial Board, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS),

(Jan 2018 – Present)

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (TBME), (Dec 2011 – Present)

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (TBioCAS), (Dec 2010 – Present)

• Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II, (Dec 2007 – Dec 2011)

• Member of Technical Program Subcommittee on Analog Circuits, IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits

Conference (CICC) (May. 2017 – Present)

• Member of Subcommittee on Imagers, MEMS, Medical and Displays (IMMD), IEEE International Solid

States Circuits Conference (ISSCC) (Feb. 2009 – Feb. 2014)

• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Special Issue on ISSCC 2017 (Dec.

2017) (with Allison Burdett, Pedram Mohseni, and Roman Genov)

• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Special Issue on ISSCC 2013 (Feb.

2014) (with Patrick Mercier and Simone Gambini)

• Co-Organizer and Co-Chair, IEEE Neural Engineering, Pre-Conference Symposium on Problems at the

Neural Interface 2013, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2013 (with Dominique Durand)

• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Special Issue on ISSCC 2012 (Dec.

2012) (with Alison Burdett)

• Guest Editor, IEEE Antenna and Wave Propagation Letters, Special Issue on Wireless Power and Data

Telemetry for Medical Applications (Dec. 2012) (with Rizwan Bashirullah and Erdem Topsakal)

• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, Special Issue on

Closing the Loop via Advanced Neurotechnologies (July 2012) (with Pedram Mohseni)

• Guest Editor, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Special Issue on ISSCC 2011 (Jan. 2012) (with Alice

Wang, Ken Takeuchi, Tanay Karnik, and Satoshi Shigematsu)

• Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, Special Issue on ISSCC 2011 (Dec.

2011) (with Danhee Ham)

• Founding director of the GT-Bionics Laboratory at the Georgia Tech-ECE (Sep. 2007 – present),

http://www.gtbionics.org

• Founding director of the NC-Bionics Laboratory at the NCSU-ECE (Feb. 2006 – May 2009),

http://www.ncbionics.org

• Special Session Co-Chair, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Hsinchu, Taiwan,

November 2012.

• Workshop Co-Organizer, Brain Machine Body Interface (BMBI), IEEE Engineering in Medicine and

Biology Conference (EMBS’12), San Diego, CA, Aug. 2012 (with Gert Cauwenberghs and Jose Millan).

• Organizer and Chair, Special Session on Modern Assistive Technologies for Rehabilitation and Daily

Living, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, San Diego, CA, September 2012.

• Technical Review Committee, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, San Diego, CA,

September 2012.

• Full-Day Tutorial Co-Organizer, Implantable/Wearable Biomedical Circuits and Systems, IEEE

Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, September 2011 (with Pedram Mohseni and Sameer

Sonkusale).

• Forum Co-Organizer, Towards personalized medicine and monitoring for healthy living, International

Solid States Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2011.

• Evening Session Co-Organizer, Can we rebuild them? bionics beyond 2010, International Solid States

Circuits Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2010.

• Forum Co-Organizer, Circuits for portable medical electronic systems, International Solid States Circuits

Conference (ISSCC), Feb. 2010.

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• Special Session Organizer, Wireless Sensors and Telemetry, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology

Conference (EMBS’09), Minneapolis, MN, Sep. 2009.

• Special Session Organizer, Neural Microsystems, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference

(EMBS’09), Minneapolis, MN, Sep. 2009.

• Special Session Organizer, Advanced Neural Microsystems, IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems,

Seattle, WA, May 2008.

• Special Session Organizer, Neuroengineering Circuits and Microsystems, IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and

Systems, New Orleans, LA, May 2007.

• Special Session Organizer, Modern Assistive Technologies, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology

Conference, Lyon, France, August 2007.

Committees and Panels Membership:

• Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Cleveland, OH, Oct.

2018.

• Special Session/Tutorial Co-Chair, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Torino, Italy, Oct.

2017.

• Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Shanghai, China, Oct.

2016.

• Steering Program Committee, IEEE Virtual Conference on Applications of Virtual Sensors (VCAVS), Apr.

2016.

• General Chair, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 2015.

• Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland,

Oct. 2014.

• National Institutes of Health (NIH), SBIR/STTR Review Panels (2013-present)

• National Science Foundation (NSF), Several Review Panels, (2009-present).

• Samsung Research Funding Center for Future Technology, Samsung Electronics, Reviewer 2013.

• Technical Program Committee, IEEE Neural Engineering Conference, San Diego, CA, Nov. 2013.

• Theme Co-Chair, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Nov. 2012.

• Theme Co-Chair, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Neural and Rehabilitation

Engineering, San Diego, CA, August 2012.

• Track Co-Chair, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Wearable Systems for

Neurorehabilitation, Boston, MA, September 2011.

• Track Co-Chair, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Smart Clothes, Boston, MA,

September 2011.

• Track Co-Chair, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Wearable Sensors Principle and

Technology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2010.

• Track Co-Chair, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Wearable Sensor Application,

Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2010.

• Track Co-Chair, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Implantable Sensors Principle

and Technology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 2010.

• Technical Review Committee, IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’10), Paris, France, June

2010.

• Track Co-Chair, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Neural Microsystems,

Minneapolis, MN, September 2009.

• Track Co-Chair, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Wireless Sensors and Telemetry,

Minneapolis, MN, September 2009.

• Technical Review Committee, IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’09), Taipei, Taiwan,

May 2009.

• Technical Program Committee, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems conference, Baltimore, MD,

November 2008.

• Technical Review Committee, IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’09), Seattle, WA, May

2008.

• Technical Program Committee, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems conference, Montreal, Canada,

November 2007.

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• Technical Program Committee, Bioengineering, IEEE Midwest Symp. on Circuits and Systems, Montreal,

Canada, August 2007.

• Technical Review Committee, IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Lyon, France,

August 2007.

• Technical Review Committee, IEEE Intl. Symp. on Circuits and Systems, New Orleans, LA, May 2007.

• SMART Scholarship for Service Evaluation Panel, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE),

March 2007.

• Member of NCSU-ECE undergraduate research committee, Spring 2006 – Fall 2007.

• Member of NCSU-ECE graduate studies committee, Spring 2006 – Fall 2007.

• UW-Milwaukee’s Research Growth Initiative Review Panel round of funding in 2006.

• North Carolina State Science Fair Judge in 2007.

• NC Student Academy of Science State Competition Judge in 2006 and 2007.

• Department of Veterans Affairs, Rehabilitation Research and Development (RR&D) Merit Review Panels,

(2009-Present).

• National Science Foundation (NSF), Review Panel for unsolicited proposals, Integrative, Hybrid, and

Complex Systems and Human Centered Computing (2005-2010).

• Kentucky Science & Engineering Foundation (KSEF), Review Panel for Research and Development

Excellence round of funding in 2004.

Reviewer for the Following Journals and Conferences: • Neuron (2015 – Present)

• PLOS One (2015 – Present)

• Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (2015 – Present)

• The Lancet (2012 – present)

• IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (2002 – present)

• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems (2003 – present)

• IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (2007 – present)

• IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering (2003 – present)

• IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine (2004-present)

• IEEE Transactions on VLSI (2005-present)

• IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics (2013-present)

• IEEE Sensors Journal (2004-present)

• IEEE/ASME Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems (2005-present)

• Institute of Physics, Journal of Neural Engineering (2006-present)

• Institute of Physics, Measurement Science and Technology (2006-present)

• IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (2009-present)

• IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (2004-present)

• IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference (2004-present)

• IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering (2017-present)

Department Committees and Services:

• Faculty Recruitment Committee, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,

Fall 2017 – Present

• BioEngineering Program Faculty Advisory Committee, Georgia Institute of Technology, Spring 2015 –

Present

• Undergraduate Committee, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall

2013 – Present

• Graduate Student Recruitment Committee, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of

Technology, Fall 2015 – Fall 2017

• Graduate Committee, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 2012 –

Spring 2013

• Graduate Student Recruitment Committee, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of

Technology, Fall 2009 – Spring 2012

• Student/Faculty Committee, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall

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2007 – Spring 2009

Consulting Services:

• Nitinol Devices and Components, A J&J company, Fremont, CA Feb. 2004 - Feb. 2006

• Beche Group, IP Services, San Francisco, CA, Expert witness July-Aug. 2015

• Bionic Sciences Inc., Atlanta, GA, CTO July 2012 - Present

Personal and Professional Affiliations

• American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009-present)

• Senior Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Jan 2000-April 2010-present)

• IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (2000-present)

• IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (2000-present)

• IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (2000-present)

• Rehab Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America (2007-present)

• Member Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society (2004-present)

• Member Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering Honor Society (2003-present)

Courses Taught

Term Course Name Students

Enrollment

Number of

Responses

Teaching

Effectiveness

Spring 2018 ECE 6414

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

System Design

N/A N/A N/A

Fall 2017 ECE 8803/4803

(GaTech)

(New Course)

Implantable

Microelectronic

Devices1

14 10 4.1

Spring 2017 ECE 6414

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

System Design

24 16 4.6

Fall 2016 ECE 3400

(GaTech)

Analog

Electronics

18 7 4.8

Summer

2016

ECE 3400

(GaTech)

Analog

Electronics

5 2 3.0

Spring 2016 ECE 6414

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

System Design

11 8 4.9

Fall 2015 ECE 8803/4803

(GaTech)

(New Course)

Implantable

Microelectronic

Devices1

11 5 4.7

Fall 2015 ECE 3400

(GaTech)

Analog

Electronics

31 5 4.3

Spring 2015 ECE 6414

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

System Design

20 14 3.9

Fall 2014 ECE 4430

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

Circuits

28 20 4.4

Spring 2014 ECE 6414

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

System Design

15 14 3.5

Fall 2013 ECE 3400 Analog 44 29 3.54

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(GaTech) Electronics

Spring 2013 ECE 6414

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

System Design

20 10 3.75

Fall 2012 ECE 4430

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

Circuits

20 14 4.3

Spring 2012 ECE 6414

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

System Design

24 14 4.7

Fall 2011 ECE 4430

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

Circuits

21 10 4.5

Spring 2011 ECE 6414

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

System Design

20 14 4.3

Fall 2010 ECE 4430

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

Circuits

24 24 4.5

Spring 2010 ECE 3050

(GaTech)

Analog

Electronics

26 22 4.2

Fall 2009 ECE 4430

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

Circuits

13 11 4.3

Spring 2009 ECE 6414

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

System Design3

13 11 3.8

Fall 2008 ECE 4430

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

Circuits

27 26 4.0

Spring 2008 ECE 3050

(GaTech)

Analog

Electronics

39 18 2.3

Fall 2007 ECE 4430

(GaTech)

Analog Integrated

Circuits

24 11 3.8

Spring 2007 ECE 792j

(NCSU)

(New Course)

Implantable

Devices1

11 11 4.7

Fall 2006 ECE 703

(NCSU)

Integrated

Bioelectronic

Circuits2

16 N/A 4.6

Spring 2006 ECE 302

(NCSU)

Microelectronics 27 N/A 3.0

Fall 2005 ECE 703

(NCSU)

Instrumentation

Circuits3

11 N/A 4.0

Spring 2005 ECE 302

(NCSU)

Microelectronics 51 N/A 2.7

Fall 2004 ECE 703

(NCSU)

Instrumentation

Circuits4

18 N/A 4.5

1 Developed a new course. 2 Received approval to change the course title to better represent its contents. 3 Initiated design, layout, and fabrication of application specific integrated circuits (ASIC) as part of the course

projects through MOSIS educational program (MEP). 4 Created course materials from scratch.

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Current Graduate Students

Name Degree Dates Thesis Title

Md. Nazmus Sahadat Ph.D. Started Fall

14

Standalone and Multimodal Tongue Drive System1

Yaoyao Jia Ph.D.

Started Fall

14

Switched-Capacitor based Power-Efficient Wireless

Neural Stimulating System1

Pyungwoo Yeon Ph.D. Started Fall

14

Wireless Power Transmission and Communication with

Distributed Implants1

Gwangrok Jung Ph.D. Started Fall

14

MRI-Safe Intra-Cardiac Echocardiography1

Nordine Sebkhi Ph.D. Started

Spring 15

Wireless Tongue Tracking System for Speech and

Language Pathology1

Zhenxuan Zhang Ph.D. Started

Spring 15

Tongue Operated Robotic Exoskeleton for Post-Stroke

Rehabilitation1

Fanpeng Kong Ph.D. Started Fall

15

Intraoral Tongue Drive System1

Ahmad Rezvanitabar Ph.D. Started

Spring 17

Reduced-Wire Readout Systems-on-Chip for High-

Frequency Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging 1

Yen-Pang Lai Ph.D. Started Fall

17

A Wireless Implantable Neural Recording System1

1 Tentative 2 Co-Advisors: Prof. Levent Degertekin and Prof. Jennifer Hasler

Current Post-Doctoral Fellows

Name From Start Date Project Title

Dr. Abdollah

Mirbozorgi

ECE, Laval

University

July 2014 Wireless Power and Data Transmission, MRI-Safe

Intra-Cardiac Echocardiography

Current Visiting Scholars

Name From Start Date Project Title

Dr. Ulkuhan

Guler

National Research

Inst. of Electronics

& Cryptology,

TUBITAK, Turkey

July 2015 Wireless Power and Data Transmission, MRI-Safe

Intra-cardiac echocardiography

Graduated Students

Name Degree Dates Current Position Thesis Title

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M. Wasequr

Rashid

Ph.D.

Co-Adv

Degertekin

Started Fall

11, Grad.

Summer 17

Senior Analog

Design Engineer,

Impinj Inc.

Electronics Design for High Density

CMUT Array Based Ultrasound Imaging

System

Byunghun Lee Ph.D. Started Fall

11, Grad.

Spring 17

Assist. Professor,

Incheon National

University, Korea

A Robust Wirelessly-Powered

Recording and Stimulation System for a

Freely-Moving Animal Subject

Jaemyung Lim Ph.D. Started Fall

11, Grad.

Spring 17

Senior Engineer,

Apple Inc.

Reduced-Wire Readout Systems-on-chip

for High-Frequency Intravascular

Ultrasound Imaging

Temiloluwa

Olubanjo

Ph.D. Started Spring

12, Grad.

Summer 16

Post-Doc, ECE

Rice University

Towards Automatic Food Intake

Monitoring Using Wearable Sensor-

Based

Systems

Seung-Bae Lee Ph.D. Started Spring

08, Grad.

Spring 14

Texas Instruments

Kilby Labs

An Inductively Powered Multichannel

Wireless Implantable Neural Recording

System (WINeR)

Farzad M.

Inanlou

Ph.D.

Co-Adv

Cressler

Started Fall

2008 Grad.

Spring 14

Research Eng.,

JPL

Innovative Transceiver Approaches for

Low-power Near-field and Far-field

Applications

Hyung-Min Lee Ph.D. Start Fall 09

Grad. Spring

14

Post-Doc, ECE

MIT

A Power-Efficient Wireless Neural

Stimulating System with Inductive Power

Transmission

Mehdi Kiani Ph.D. Start Spring

09

Grad. Fall 13

Assistant Prof.

ECE, Penn State

Wireless Power and Data Transmission

to High-performance Implantable

Medical Devices

Uei-Ming Jow Ph.D. Start Fall 2007

Grad. Spring

13

Senior Engineer

at Qualcomm

A Multiband Inductive Wireless Link for

Implantable Medical Devices and Small

Freely Behaving Animal Subjects

Xueliang Huo Ph.D. Start Fall 2006

Grad. Fall 11

Senior Engineer

at Microsoft

Tongue Drive: A Magnetic Sensor Based

Assistive Technology for People with

Severe Disabilities

Ming Yin Ph.D. Start Fall 2004

Grad. Spring

09

Assistant Prof.

(Research) at

Brown U.

Design and Development of a Multiple

Channel Wireless Neural Recording

System

Daniel

Burnham

M.S. Start Spring

13

Grad. Fall 14

Senior Engineer

at St. Jude Med.

Wearable Sensing Modalities for A

Neck-Based Health Monitoring System

Jose Vidal M.S. Graduated

Spring 10

Senior Engineer

at Medtronic

Development of a Switched-Capacitor

based Wireless Microstimulating System

Gaurav Bawa M.S. Graduated

Summer 08

Analog IC

Designer at TI

Development of a Switched-Capacitor

based Stimulator

Jia Wang M.S. Graduated

Summer 08

Product Manager

at Ventyx-ABB

Tongue Drive: A Magnetic Sensor Based

Assistive Technology for People with

Severe Disabilities

Suresh Atluri M.S. Graduated

Summer 06

Senior Engineer

at IDT

A Wideband Power-Efficient Inductive

Wireless Link for Implantable

Biomedical Devices Using Multiple

Carrier Frequencies

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Previous Post-Doctoral Fellows

Name From Dates Current Position Project

Jun Lu ECE,

Guangdong

University of

Technology

July 2015 - July

2016

Assistant Prof.

Guangdong

University of

Technology

A Multi-Modal Speech Capture

System, Magnetic Tongue Tracking

System

Sarah

Ostadabbas

BME, UT

Dallas

Jan. 2014 – July

2015

Assistant Prof.

ECE, North-

eastern University

Measuring Airway Resistance with

MS-Kinect, WEAMS, TDS-Hand

Mentor for post-stroke rehab

Mehdi Kiani ECE, Georgia

Institute of

Technology

Jan. 2014 – Aug.

2014

Assistant Prof.

ECE, Penn State

University

Wireless Power and Data

Transmission to High-performance

Implantable Medical Devices

Dukju Ahn ECE, KAIST

South Korea

Jan. 2013 – Jan.

2014

Post-doc fellow at

UC San Diego

Wireless Power Transfer, Tongue

Implantation Feasibility

Aydin

Farajidavar

BME, UT

Arlington

Aug. 2011 –

Sep. 2012

Assistant Prof.

BME, NY Tech

Tongue Drive System, WEAMS

Benoit Gosselin ECE, U.

Montreal

Jan. 2010 – Jan.

2011

Assistant Prof.

ECE, Laval U.

Wireless Neural Recording, iTDS

Previous Visiting Scholars

Name From Dates Project Title

Dr.

Zhaoping

Zeng

ECE, Lixing

University

Sep. 2016 – Sep.

2017

A Wideband Software Defined Radio Receiver

for Wireless Implantable Neural Recording

Systems

Dr. Zhang

Zhang

ECE, Heifei

University of

Technology, Heifei,

China

Apr. 2016 – Apr.

2017

Design and Development of a Wireless Switched-

Capacitor Based Neural Stimulating System

Dr. Hong

Chen

ECE, Tsinghua

University, Beijing,

China

Apr. 2016 – Apr.

2017

Design and Development of a Wireless

Multichannel Neural Recording System

Dr. Yuhua

Cheng

ECE, Hangzhou

Dianzi University,

Hangzhou, China

Oct. 2015 – Oct.

2016

Design and Optimization of Miniature Solenoid

Coils for Injectable Implantable Devices

Dr.

Xingyuan

Tong

ECE, Xi’an

University of Posts

and Telecommuni-

cations, China

Sep. 2014 – Aug.

2015

Wireless Integrated Neural Recording System,

Ultra low-power SAR ADC for Biomedical

Applications

Dr.

Seonghan

Ryu

Hannam University,

Seoul, South Korea

July 2013 – June

2014

Wireless Integrated Neural Recording System

Dr. Yumei

Huang

Fudan University,

Shanghai, China

Jan. 2013 – Jan.

2014

Wireless Integrated Neural Recording and

Stimulation System, Ultra low power RF link for

implantable devices

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Thesis or Dissertation Committees (PhD)

• Shanta Murthy Prem Swaroop (Kevin Gard), “Agile Predistortion for Multi Standard Wireless Systems”,

ECE, NC State University, June 2006

• Xiaoming Duan (Alex Huang), “High Performance Integrated Controller for Switching DC-DC Converters

with Variable Frequency Control”, ECE, NC State University, Oct. 2006

• Xuemin Yang (Kevin Gard), “90nm CMOS Direct-Conversion Transmitter Design for WCDMA”, ECE,

NC State University, Aug. 2008

• Sheng-Yu Peng, (Jennifer Hassler), “Charge-Based Analog Circuits Toward Reconfigurable Smart Sensory

Systems”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Aug. 2008

• David N. Abramson (Jennifer Hassler), “A MITE Based Translinear FPAA and Its Practical

Implementation”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dec. 2008

• Jin Liu, (Rao Tummala and Zhong Lin Wang) “Zinc Oxide Nanowires for Sensing and Power Generation

For System-On-Package Technology”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dec. 2008

• Ryan W. Robuci, (Jennifer Hassler), “Development of a Computational Image Sensor with Applications in

Integrated Sensing and Processing”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Jan. 2009

• Swaminathan Rajaraman (Mark Alan), “Micromachined Three-Dimensional Electrod Arrays for In-Vitro

and In-Vivo Electrogenic Cellular Networks”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2009

• Bo Marr, (Jennifer Hassler), “Learning, Probabilistic, and Asynchronous Technologies for an Ultra

Efficient Datapath”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Oct. 2009

• Ashwin Samarao (Farrokh Ayazi), “Compensation and Trimming for Silicon Micromechanical Resonators

and Resonator Arrays for Timing and Spectral Processing”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Feb.

2010

• Ali Asghar Eftekhar (Ali Adibi), “Nanoscale Light-Matter Interactions in the Near-Field of High-Q

Microresonators”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Feb. 2010

• Chengyuan Ma (Chin-Hu Lee), “A Detection-Based Pattern Recognition Framework and Its Applications”,

ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Mar. 2010

• Huseyin Dinc, (Jennifer Hassler), “A High-Speed Two-Step Analog-To-Digital Converter with an Open-

Loop Residue Amplifier”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, May. 2011

• James S. Hall, (Jennifer Michaels), “Adaptive Dispersion Compensation and Ultrasonic Imaging For

Structural Health Monitoring”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Aug. 2011

• Gokce Gurun (Levent Degertekin), “Integrated Electronics Design for High-Frequency Intravascular

Ultrasound Imaging”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dec. 2011

• Mauricio Pardo Gonzalez (Farrokh Ayazi), “MEMS-based Phase-Locked-Loop Clock Conditioner”, ECE,

Georgia Institute of Technology, Jan. 2012

• Muhammad Tariqus Salam (Mohamad Sawan), “Implantable Micro-Device for Epilepsy Seizure Detection

and Subsequent Treatment”, ECE, École Polytechnique De Montréal, Apr. 2012

• Chung Hyuk Park (Ayanna Howard), “Robot-based Haptic Perception and Telepresence for the Visually

Impaired”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, June 2012

• Jeremy R. Tolbert (Saibal Mukhopadhyay), “Energy-Efficient Digital Design of Reliable, Low-Throughput

Wireless Biomedical Systems”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, July 2012

• Milap Dalal, (Farrokh Ayazi), “Low Noise, Low Power Interface Circuits and Systems for High Frequency

Resonant Micro-Gyroscopes”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Aug. 2012

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• Brian P. Degnan (Jennifer Hassler), “Temperature Robust Programmable Subthreshold Circuits through a

Balanced Force Approach”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dec. 2012

• Karim Abdelhalim (Roman Genov), “Wireless Neural Recording and Stimulation SoCs for Monitoring and

Treatment of Intractable Epilepsy”, ECE, University of Toronto, Dec. 2012

• Namhun Cho (Miroslav Begovic), “Allocation of Individual Harmonic Emission Limits in Accordance

With the Principles of IEC/TR 61000-3-6”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, June 2013

• Sharanya Arcot Desai (Robert Gross and Steve Potter), “Multielectrode Microstimulation for Temporal

Lobe Epilepsy”, BME, Georgia Institute of Technology, Dec. 2013

• Suhwan Kim (Gabriel A. Rincón-Mora), “Mixed-source Charger-Supply CMOS IC”, ECE, Georgia

Institute of Technology, Feb. 2014

• Fahad Ahmed (Linda Milor), “Invasive and Non-Invasive Detection of Bias Temperature Instability” ECE,

Georgia Institute of Technology, Apr. 2014

• Stephen Nease (Jennifer Hassler), “Neural and Analog Computation on Reconfigurable Mixed-Signal

Platforms”, ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, May. 2014

• Meysam Zargham (Glenn Gulak), “Fully Integrated Wireless Power Transfer System for Biomedical

Applications”, ECE, University of Toronto, June 2014

• Chao Song (Mark Alen), “Micromachined Flow Sensors for Velocity and Pressure Measurement” ECE,

Georgia Institute of Technology, June 2014

• Luan Song (Timothy Constandinou), “Integrated Electronics for Targeted Intraspinal Microstimulation,”

ECE, Imperial College London, Aug. 2014

• Sarp Satir (Levent Degertekin), “Modeling and Optimization of Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic

Transducers,” ME, Georgia Institute of Technology, Oct. 2014

• [Proposal] Nathan Parrish (David Anderson), “Multimodal Signal Processing in Assistive Technology for

Patients with Cervical Spinal Cord Injuries,” ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Oct. 2014

• [Proposal] Carlos Solis (Gabriel Rincon-Mora), “Battery-Sourced Switched−Inductor Multiple−Output

CMOS Power-Supply Systems,” ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Jan. 2016

• [Proposal] Scott Thourson (Christine Payne), “Conductive Polymer Nanowires for Single Cell Electrical

Stimulation,” BME, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2016

• Song Hu (Hua Wang), “Mixed-Signal CMOS RF Power Amplifiers with Efficiency and Linearity

Enhancement Techniques,” ECE, Georgia Institute of Technology, Mar 2017

• Morris Huang (Steven Sprigle), “Development of a Dynamic Wheelchair Model with Empirical Validation

by a Robotic Testbed,” Bioengineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Sep. 2017

• Ali Jafari (Tinoosh Mohsenin), “A Low Power Embedded Stand-alone Processor for Real-time Multimodal

Assistive Devices,” ECE, University of Maryland-Baltimore County, Nov. 2017

Graduate Mentoring Activities

1. Akshay Bindiganavale, Independent Study (Fall 2004), “Cells on CCD”

2. Junho Song, Independent Study (Fall 2004-Spring 2005), “DC-DC converters for biomedical applications”

3. Ankit Surati, Independent Study (Summer 2005), “Wireless microcontroller”

4. George Feller, Independent Study (Summer 2005), “Gastrointestinal pacing system”

5. Gautham Krishnamurthy, Individual Topics in EE (Spring 2005 – Fall 2006), “A tongue operated assistive

device”

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6. Supreet Bakshi, Individual Topics in EE (Summer 2005), “Signal processing algorithms for a GI pacing

system”

7. Lei Wang, Independent Study (Summer 2006), “Simulation of drug compliance monitoring system”

8. Craig Hyatt, Independent Study (Summer 2006), “Babinski's reflex detection to reduce false alarms in

neonatal monitoring”

9. Po-Chih Lin, Independent Study (Spring 2006 – Spring 2007), “Design and development of an ultra

wideband transceiver using commercial off-the-shelf components”

10. Hossein Aghababa, Independent Study (Spring 2007), “Design of a switched capacitor based deep brain

stimulator”

11. Rui Sun, Special Problem (Fall 2007), “Design and development of a USB interface for a wireless neural

microstimulating system”

12. Ramaldo Martin, Special Problem (Fall 2008 - Spring 2009), “Design and development of a magnetic

wireless tongue tracking algorithm”

13. Vidya Sukumar, Special Problem (Summer 2008-Fall 2009), “A Wireless Wearable Pharmaceutical

Compliance Monitoring System”

14. Chihwen Cheng, Special Problem (Fall 2008-Fall 2009), “Three Dimensional Tracking of Tongue Motion”

15. Jose Vidal, Special Problem (Fall 2008-Spring 2010), “Development of a Switched-Capacitor based

Stimulator”

16. Farzad Inanlou, Special Problem (Fall 2008-Fall 2010), “Design and Development of a Multichannel

Wireless Neural Stimulation System”

17. Aaron Albin, Special Problem (Spring 2009), “Design and development of a magnetic wireless tongue

tracking algorithm”

18. Arashk Norouz Pour Shirazi, Special Problem (Summer 2009-Summer 2010), “Development of a

Pharmaceutical Compliance Monitoring System”

19. Behnaz Yousefi, Special Problem (Fall 2009-Spring 2011), “Tongue Human Factors and Neuromuscular

Control”

20. Paragkumar Thadesar, Special Problem (Spring 2010), “Design and Development of A Wireless

Intracranial Pressure Measurement System”

21. Jeonghee Kim, Special Problem (Spring 2010-Fall 2013), “Tongue Drive System, Environmental Access

and Usability Assessment”

22. Ashish Dembla, Special Problem (Spring 2010), “Design and Development of An Optical Transcutaneous

Data Transmission Link”

23. Hangue Park, Special Problem (Summer 2010-Fall 2013), “Intraoral Tongue Drive System”

24. In-O Hwang, Thesis Co-Advisor (Summer 2010-Spring 2011), “Design and Development of an

Ergonomic Headset for the Tongue Drive System”, with Dr. Stephen Sprigle, College of Architecture

25. Sergio Carlo, Special Problem (Spring 2011), “Development of a Pharmaceutical Compliance Monitoring

System”

26. Ashita Mathew, Special Problem (Spring 2011), “Design and Development of A Wireless Intracranial

Pressure Measurement System”

27. Xueli Xiao, Independent Study (Spring 2011), “Industrial Design and Prototyping of a Charger for a

Tongue-Operated Environmental Controller”

28. Hae Youn Joung, Independent Study (Spring 2011), “Design and Development of a Socially Acceptable

and Appealing Wireless Pharmaceutical Compliance Monitoring System in the form of a Necklace”

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29. Elnaz Banan Sadeghian, Special Problem (Fall 2010-Fall 2011), “Advanced Signal Processing for the

Tongue Drive System”

30. Pallavi Prasad, Independent Study (Spring 2013), “FPGA-Based Wideband Parallel Data Acquisition from

Large Magnetic Sensor Array”

31. Jacob Block, Independent Study and Special Problem (Fall 2011-Summer 2013), “Wireless Tongue

Tracking System”

32. Abner Ayala-Acevedo, Special Problem (Fall 2011-Spring 2014), “Advanced Signal Processing for the

Tongue Drive System”

33. Christoph Bulach, Visiting Graduate Student (Fall 2012-Fall 2013), “Noninvasive Measurement of the

Airway Resistance Using Microsoft Kinect”

34. Priyanka Sadananda, Independent Study (Fall 2013-Spring 2014), “Adding Proportional Control to the

Tongue Drive System”

35. Seyed Hasan Elahi, Summer Internship (Apr. 2014-Present), “Optical Tongue Drive System”

36. Sukumar Varadpande, Independent Study (Summer 2014-Spring 2015), “Real-Time Automatic Tracking of

Small Freely Behaving Animals Using Kinect 3D Imaging System” and “Wideband Receive for Multi-

Channel Wireless Neural Recording System”

37. Sajith Mohan Chakkadath, Independent Study (Summer 2014), “Power Wheelchair Interface for Tongue

Drive based on Beagle Bone Embedded Platform”

38. Anupama Govinda Raj, Independent Study (Summer 2014), “User Interface Development for Tongue

Drive-Hand Mentor Post-Stroke Rehabilitation System”

39. Pooja Srikrishnan, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2014 – Spring 2015), “Hardware Design for a

Multimodal Tongue Drive System (mTDS)”

40. Nordine Sebkhi, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2014 – Spring 2015), “Hardware Design and DSP

Algorithms for Improving the Post-Stroke Upper Limb Rehabilitation Using TDS and Hand Mentor”

41. Zhenxuan Zhang, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2014 – Spring 2015), “Hardware Design and User

Interface for Improving the Post-Stroke Upper Limb Rehabilitation Using TDS and Hand Mentor”

42. Dhyey Desai, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Spring 2015), “Hardware Design and Calibration Algorithm

for a Tongue Tracking System (TTS)”

43. Arish Alreja, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Spring 2015 – Fall 2015), “Software Design for a Adding

Head Tracking to the Multimodal Tongue Drive System (mTDS)”

44. Amrit Kashyap, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Spring 2015), “Developing Nonlinear Algorithms for A

Silent Speech Synthesizer”

45. Zheyuan Wang, Visiting Graduate Student, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (Spring 2015), “A Behavioral

Analysis Algorithm for a Smart Wireless Homecage”

46. Amir Khan, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Spring 2015), “Hardware Design for Wireless and Wearable

Adherence and Emergency Monitoring System”

47. Feng Tian, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Spring 2015), “Design and Exploration of SAR ADC for A

Neural Recording System”

48. Nischal Prasad Bangalore, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Summer 2015), “Signal Processing Algorithms

for a Multimodal Tongue Drive System”

49. Sherjeel Khan, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Summer 2015), “Firmware Design and Development for

Wireless and Wearable Adherence and Emergency Monitoring System”

50. Edgar Garay, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2015 - Spring 2016), “Design and Development of a

Wireless Implantable Neural Recording System”

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51. Fanpeng Kong, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2015 - Spring 2016), “Design and Development of an

Intraoral Tongue Drive System”

52. Agrata Kumar, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Spring 2016), “Sensor Signal Processing Algorithms for the

Tongue Drive System”

53. Gaurish Nadkarni, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Spring 2016), “Ultrasound-Based Brain Imaging

System”

54. Mohammad Eslampanah Sendi, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Spring 2016), “Wireless Transcranial DC

Stimulation Compatible with EnerCage System”

55. Shreyas Dighe, Independent Study BME (Summer 2016), “Regulatory Requirements for Tongue Drive

System”

56. Alex Akins, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2016), “Relative Positioning of Two or More Inductively-

Coupled Coils”

57. Jaehoo Choi, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2016), “Design of a Wideband Dual Antenna Receiver for

a Neural Recording System Based on Software-Defined Radio (SDR) Technology”

58. Emanuel Testa, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2016), “Design and Prototyping of an Ergonomic

Headset for a Multimodal Speech Capture System”

59. Hewon Jung, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2016), “Developing Efficient Signal Processing

Algorithm for a Wireless Implantable Neural Recording System”

60. Ankit Kaul, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2016, Spring 2017), “Design and development of A

Wearable Wireless Multimodal Speech Capture System”

61. Varsha Sankar, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2016), “Wireless Neural Recording and Stimulation,

Post-Layout Simulations and Enhancements”

62. Xue Yang, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Spring 2017), “Improving A 2D Tongue Proportional Control

Algorithm of Mouse Cursor and Complete Evaluation/Comparison with Touchpad”

63. Asma Beevi Kuriparambil Thekkumpate, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Spring 2017), “Functional

Ultrasound Brain Imaging”

64. Yanling Wu, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Spring 2017, Summer 2017), “Dual Band Antenna Design at

433 MHz and 915 MHz for Intra-oral Tongue Drive System”

65. Xiangyu Mao, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Spring 2017), “CMUT Interface Design”

66. Chaejung Lim, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Spring 2017), “Power/Data Relay Headstage Design for

Distributed Free-Floating Wireless Implantable Neural Recording System”

67. Ahmad Rezvanitabar, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Spring 2017), “Design an Ultrasonic Transceiver

Analog Front-End in the IR-PWM Wireless Data Link”

68. Jacob Kimball, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2017), “Adaptive Thermal Management for Implantable

Medical Devices”

69. Foroozan Karimzadeh, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2017), “Reducing the Number of Magnetic

Sensors Needed for Localization of a Magnetic Dipole without Reducing the Localization Accuracy”

70. Soroush Ghodrati, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2017), “Testing and characterization of a reduced-

wire interface for CMUT-based intravascular ultrasound imaging system”

71. Yen-Pang Lai, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2017), “Characterization and Verification of Sub-

Circuits in the WINeR – v8.1 System-on-a-Chip”

72. Karthiga Mahalingam, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2017), “Design and Development of an

Electroencephalogram-Tongue Drive System (EEG-TDS) Combined with a Rehabilitation Robot”

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73. Aiyappa Byrajanda Naniappa, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2017), “Measurement and

Characterization of Blocks in WINeR – 8.1 SoC”

74. Chirag Agrawal, Independent Study ECE 8903 (Fall 2017), “Design and Development of a Wireless

Activity Monitoring System Based on Raspberry Pi3 Platform”

Undergraduate Mentoring Activities

• Jessica Mandujano, Greta Sparks, Timothy Wheaton, Devon Shelton, Senior design project (Spring 2005),

“Utilizing a PDA & a USB-Controller to Generate a High-Rate Serial Data Bit Stream to Communicate

with Wireless Biomedical Implants”

• Frankie Myers, Jim Simpson, Undergraduate Research Award (Spring/Summer 2005), Chris Thomas,

“User interface and USB microcontroller system for high-speed control of the Interestim-2B neurological

microstimulator array”

• Fadi Al Sayed, Ali R. Darouei, Ann Lai, Thanh Nguyen, Senior design project (Fall 2005), “Developing a

wireless biopotential recording system using a CMOS microcontroller with US transmitter”

• Bronwyn Duffield [UNC-CH], Jameson Holden [UNC-CH], Bobby Lee [UNC-CH], Senior design project

(Spring 2006), “Developing a robotic system for automatic 3-D mapping of potential and temperature

gradients in fluids”

• C. Brandon Frederick [UNC-CH], Senior design project (Spring 2006), “Developing a wireless bio-

potential recording system using a CMOS RISK microcontroller and a 2.4 GHz ISM-band transceiver”

• Alan Rogers, Christopher Muller [UNC-CH], Senior design project (Spring 2006), “Developing a

biomedical electrochemistry setup (potentiostat) for measurement of neurotransmitter concentrations”

• Chris Thomas, Eric Phillips, Senior design project (Spring 2006), “Developing versatile programmable and

highly efficient DC-DC converters for application in deep brain stimulation”

• Frankie Myers, Jim Simpson, Senior design project (Spring 2006), “A demonstrational wireless visual

prosthesis system using a dual carrier inductive link for power and data transmission”

• Leo Suarez, Anshuman Mukerji, Senior design project (Spring 2006), “Developing a wireless blood

pressure monitoring system using a CMOS microcontroller with UHF transmitter”

• Jim Simpson, Alliance for Graduate Education and Professoriate (AGEP) Bridging Mentor (Spring 2006),

“A closed loop multi-site gastrointestinal pacing system”

• Ryan Field, Undergraduate Research Award (Spring/Summer 2006), “Finite element analysis of planar

micromachined silicon electrodes for cortical stimulation”

• Frankie Myers, Jim Simpson, Undergraduate Research Award (Spring/Summer 2006), “A closed loop

multi-site gastrointestinal pacing system”

• Ryan Field, University Honors Program (Spring/Summer 2006), “Finite element analysis of current

distribution in the neural tissue for deep brain stimulation application”

• Paul Sheeran, University Honors Program (Fall 2006), “Design and development of an efficient DC-DC

converter for implantable microelectronic devices”

• Chintan Shah, Robert Swords, Andrew Warren, Senior Design Project (Fall 2006), “A wireless blood

pressure monitoring system”

• Chuck Amundu, Josh Humphrey, Kaustubh Pimbutkar, Shaunak Joshi, Senior Design Project (Spring

2007), “A portable multi-parameter personal health monitoring system”

• Donald Patterson, Kenicko Degree, Steven Chheda, Wayne Taylor, Senior Design Project (Spring 2007),

“A wireless blood pressure monitoring system”

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• Ryan Field, Michael Oakley, Paul Sheeran, Senior Design Project (Spring 2007), “Developing a robotic

system for automatic 3-D mapping of potential and temperature gradients in fluids”

• Christopher Burdette, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (Spring/Summer 2008), “Pneumatic

tactile sensory input device for the blind”, Mentor: Xueliang Huo

• Jeremy Jones, Asma Qureshi, Jeremy Thompson, Opportunity Research Scholar’s Program (Spring 2009),

“Controlling a robotic arm using the Tongue Drive system”, Mentor: Xueliang Huo

• Juan A. Santiago, Summer Undergraduate Research Program (Summer 2009), “A comparison between

sip’n’puff and Tongue Drive systems”

• Jeremy Jones and Jeremy Thompson, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (Fall 2009), “Control

of a Robotic Arm Using Tongue Drive System”

• Felipe Salazar and Sandhya Rajaraman, Opportunity Research Scholar (Fall 2009), “Developing an

Interface between a Cellphone and Tongue Drive System”, Mentor: Xueliang Huo

• Temi Olubanjo, Summer Undergraduate Research Program (Summer 2010), “A comparison between

Tongue Drive System and 4 other Assistive Technologies: Sip’n’Puff, Eye Tracker, Voice Control, and

Head Mouse”

• Kevin Moore and Mark Pinturak, Opportunity Research Scholar (Fall 2010/Spring 2011), “A comparison

between Tongue Drive System and other Assistive Technologies”, Mentor: Hangue Park

• Aaron Fan and Ese Urhuogo, Opportunity Research Scholar (Fall 2010/Spring 2011), “Closed-Loop

Inductive Power Transfer and Energy Scavenging”, Mentor: Mehdi Kiani

• Mingjie Zhou, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (Spring-Summer 2011), “Using FPGA to

Control a Wireless Microstimulating System”, Mentor: Mehdi Kiani

• Jecolia Longtchi, Summer Undergraduate Research Program (Summer 2011), “A comparison between

Tongue Drive System and 4 other Assistive Technologies: Sip’n’Puff, Eye Tracker, Voice Control, and

Head Mouse”

• Chukwuyem (Doyle) Emelue, Opportunity Research Scholar (Summer 2011), “Developing an Interface for

controlling the EnerCage System using Ethernet”, Mentor: Uei-Ming Jow

• Peter McMenamin, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (Summer 2011), “Developing an

Interface for controlling the EnerCage System using Digital I/O Cards”, Mentor: Uei-Ming Jow

• Rui Ding, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (Summer 2011), “Signal Processing Algorithms

for the Tongue Drive System”, Mentor: Elnaz Sadeghian

• Aaron Garofano, Opportunity Research Scholar (Spring 2012-2013), “Wireless microcontroller

programming”, Mentor: Mehdi Kiani

• Daniel Burnham, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (Summer 2012), “Environmental Control

for the Tongue Drive System”, Mentor: Abner Ayala-Acevedo

• Jessica Block, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (Summer 2012), “Designing Passive RFID

Tags for a Wireless Emergency and Adherence Monitoring Systems”, Mentor: Aydin Farajidavar

• Sylmarie Dávila-Montero, Summer Undergraduate Research Program (Summer 2012), “Universal

Graphical User Interface Design for the Tongue Drive System” Mentors: Jeonghee Kim and Abner Ayala-

Acevedo

• Jessica Block and Mallika Sen, Opportunity Research Scholar (Fall 2012-Spring 2013), “RFID-based

pharmaceutical compliance monitoring”, Mentor: Jacob Block

• Aaron Garofano and Brendan Lynch, Opportunity Research Scholar (Fall 2012-Spring 2013), “Freely

behaving animal tracking in the EnerCage system”, Mentor: Mehdi Kiani

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• Satya Bhattacharya, Christopher Anderson, Derric Alabi, Tonny Lee, Vivin Sachdeva, Prabha

Viswanathan, Senior Design Project – ECE (Fall 2012), “Robotic Arm Control using the Tongue Drive

System and the Android Platform”

• Devon King, Upekha Ruwanara-Ananda, Armin Jamaleddin, Dixita Patel, Senior Design Project – BME

(Fall 2012), “Tongue-Operated Rehabilitation Robotic Interface”

• Bryan Cheung and Christopher Wang, Opportunity Research Scholar (Fall 2013-Fall 2014), “Test and

Evaluation Structure for a Wireless and Wearable Emergency and Adherence Monitoring System”, Mentor:

Daniel Burnham

• Stuart Kent, Independent Study (Fall 2013), “Wireless Tongue Tracking System”

• Shurjo Banerjee, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (Spring 2013-Summer 2014),

Undergraduate Researcher (Fall 2014 – Fall 2015), “Wireless Tongue Tracking System”

• Justin Eng, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (Spring 2014), Undergraduate Researcher (Fall

2014 – Fall 2015), “Wireless Tongue Tracking System”

• Brian Kuo, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (Spring 2014-Summer 2014), “3D Tracking of

Small Behaving Animals within the EnerCage System Using Microsoft Kinect”

• Kyle Murray, BMED 2699/4699, Undergraduate Research (Spring 2014-Spring 2015), “Data Acquisition

and Analysis from a Lickometer System Following Tongue Implantation in Rats”

• Arjun Sadanand, Aidan Dowdle, Suyoung Jang, Kevin Berman, and Myron Lee, Senior Design Project –

ECE 4011 & ECE 4012 (Fall 2014 – Spring 2015), “Visual-Based Passive Airway Resistance Estimation

(VB-PARE),” Mentor: Sarah Ostadabbas

• Daniel Canales, Iris Colendrino, Morgan Tinkler, and James Zhang, Opportunity Research Scholar (Fall

2014-Spring 2015), “Wirelessly Powering an Opto-Stimulator Device by a Home-Cage System”, Mentor:

S. Abdollah Mirbozorgi

• Zhongtao Yang, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (Spring 2015), “Source Separation

Algorithm for Wireless and Wearable Emergency and Adherence Monitoring System”

• Salman Rahim, Undergraduate Research (Fall 2014 – Spring 2015), “Visual-Based Passive Airway

Resistance Estimation (VB-PARE),” Mentor: Sarah Ostadabbas

• Cici Zhang, Presidential Undergraduate Researcher Award (Spring 2015), “Visual-Based Passive Airway

Resistance Estimation (VB-PARE), ” Mentor: Sarah Ostadabbas

• Zhongtao Yang, Presidential Undergraduate Researcher Award (Summer 2015 – Fall 2015), “Signal

Processing Algorithms for Wireless and Wearable Adherence and Emergency Monitoring System”

• Ziran Ling, Presidential Undergraduate Researcher Award (Summer 2015 – Fall 2015), “Graphical User

Interface for a Wireless Tongue Tracking System,” Mentor: Nordine Sebkhi

• Sridhar Sivapurapu, Arjun Karunagath Rajendran, George Vellaringattu, Kitti Tiamsuwan, Mohit Tandon,

R. Rajaganapathy Sankar, Senior Design Project – ECE 4011 & ECE 4012 (Spring 2015 - Fall 2015),

“Smart Insole: Orthotic Shoe Insole for Diabetic Patients,” Co-Advisor: Stephen Sprigle, GT-Industrial

Design

• Alexander Gregor, Tsz Chun Lau, Pahul Matharu, Tyler Prusisz, Kamran R. Fardanesh, Senior Design

Project – ECE 4011 & ECE 4012 (Spring 2015 - Fall 2015), “Lightweight, Low-Power, Bluetooth EEG

System,” Co-Advisor: Kevin Murnane, College of Pharmacy, Mercer University

• Bridget Lee, Daniel Fulford, James Fulford, Renato Maues, ECE 4812 (Fall 2015), “VIP: EnerCage

System,” Mentor: S. Abdollah Mirbozorgi

• Nima Mikail, ECE 4699 (Fall 2015 – Spring 2016), “Ergonomic and Robust Headset and Enclosure Design

for the Tongue Drive System,” Mentor: M.D. Nazmus Sahadat

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• Daniel Canales and Morgan Tinkler, Opportunity Research Scholar (Fall 2015-Spring 2016), “Wirelessly

Powering an Opto-Stimulator Device by a Home-Cage System”, Mentor: S. Abdollah Mirbozorgi

• Lingyi Li, CS 2699 (Spring 2016), “Graphical User Interface for a Wireless Tongue Tracking System,”

Mentor: Nordine Sebkhi

• Payman Shabbaki, ECE 4903 (Spring 2016), “Design and Execution of an Evaluation Procedure for the

Multimodal Tongue Drive System,” Mentor: M.D. Nazmus Sahadat

• Bridget Lee, Daniel Fulford, James Fulford, Renato Maues, Abhirav Joshi, Antony Samuel, Benjamin

Lloyd, Catherine Schlueter, Jea Du Kim, Lucas Dellabella, Shashank Singh, Venkat Natarajan, Yamilex

Avila-Stanley, ECE 4812 (Spring 2016), “VIP: EnerCage System,” Mentor: S. Abdollah Mirbozorgi,

Mohammad Sendi, Zheyuan Wang

• Bao Bui, Erick Cardenas, Vivian Chew, Taylor Eyre, Nhatnam Phan, Alex Ritchie, Senior Design Project –

ECE 4011 & ECE 4012 (Summer 2016 - Fall 2016), “Wireless EEG System for Use in Laboratory Animal

Testing,” Co-Advisor: Kevin Murnane, College of Pharmacy, Mercer University

• Fatima Islam, ECE 4699 (Summer 2016 - Fall 2016), “Design, Execution, and Data Analysis of Usability

of a Tongue-Operated Assistive Technology,” Mentor: M.D. Nazmus Sahadat

• Bridget Lee, Raoul Rao, Catherine Schlueter, Jea Du Kim, Lucas Dellabella, Shashank Singh, Yamilex

Avila-Stanley, Lauren Sullivan, Danyang Dang, Ja’Quan Taylor, ECE 4812 (Fall 2016), “VIP: EnerCage

System,” Mentor: S. Abdollah Mirbozorgi, Mohammad Sendi, Zheyuan Wang

• Daniel Canales, Delgermaa Nerguri, and Alisa D. Allaire, Opportunity Research Scholar (Fall 2016-Spring

2017), “Wirelessly Powering an Opto-Stimulator Device by a Home-Cage System”, Mentor: S. Abdollah

Mirbozorgi

• Daniel Canales, Curtis Ezell, Delgermaa Nerguri, Julio Morales-Perez, Jake Ramey, Senior Design Project

– ECE 4011 & ECE 4012 (Fall 2016 – Spring 2017), “Design of a Wireless Neural Mini-Headstage for

Mice,” Mentor: S. Abdollah Mirbozorgi

• Xiannan Di, ECE 3952 (Fall 2016 – Spring 2017), “A Stand-Alone Tongue Drive System Using nRF52

Wireless Microcontroller” Mentor: Zhenxuan Zhang

• Catherine Schlueter, Jea Du Kim, Shashank Singh, Lauren Sullivan, Danyang Dang, Ja’Quan Taylor,

Daisha K. Braxton, Reddy Srinidhi Palwayi, Raoul A. Rego, Dylan Verstandig, Leo Chen, Tyler A. Brown,

Elizabeth R. Price, Varun S. Rajagopal, ECE 4812 (Spring 2017), “VIP: EnerCage System,” Mentor: S.

Abdollah Mirbozorgi, Mohammad Sendi, Zheyuan Wang

• Alex Alty, Jake Ashmore, Jesse McLaughlin, Sara Srivastav, Senior Design Project – ECE 4011 & ECE

4012 (Spring 2017 – Fall 2017), “Near Field Magnetic Localization of Small Coils in 3D Space,” Mentor:

Zheyuan Wang

• Catherine Schlueter, Shashank Singh, Yamilex Avila-Stanley, Daisha K. Braxton, Palwayi, Reddy Srinidhi,

Raoul A. Rego, Dylan Verstandig, Leo Chen, Tyler A. Brown, Elizabeth R. Price, Varun S. Rajagopal,

Gabriel A. Cruz, Sanjana R. Kadiveti, Thomas C. Schmelzle, Jaidev A. Sharma, ECE 4812 (Fall 2017),

“VIP: EnerCage System,” Mentor: S. Abdollah Mirbozorgi, Zheyuan Wang

• Kedeng Pan, Xiannan Di, Xingyuan Zhu, Yuhao Lin, Zhipeng Shao, – ECE 4011 & ECE 4012 (Fall 2017 –

Spring 2018), “Smart Medication Adherence Phone Case,” Co-Advisor: Dr. Kevin Murnane

High School Mentoring Activities

• Visiting Student (Fall 2011), Revanth Rameshkumar, “Interfacing the Tongue Drive System with Android

Phones for Environmental Control”

• Visiting Student (Spring 2015), Roxana Hojjatie, “Visual-Based Passive Airway Resistance Estimation

(VB-PARE)”