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  • Fred Grodins Distinguished Keynote Seminar

    Fri, Feb 07, 2025 @ 03:00 AM - 04:00 PM

    Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Shana O. Kelley, Professor of Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

    Talk Title: Continuous monitoring of protein biomarkers using implantable sensors

    Abstract: To put disease-related biomarkers to work for continuous monitoring of health and disease, new high-performance technologies are needed to enable rapid and sensitive analysis of proteins and other biomarkers. Electrochemical methods providing sensitive and direct biomarker readout have attracted a great deal of attention for this application. Recently we developed reagentless sensors that are powerful detectors for in vivo protein sensing (Nature Chemistry, 2021, J. am. Chem. Soc. 2023, Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 2023) as well as implantable sensors for continuous monitoring (Science 2024, Nature Biomedical Engineering 2025). This talk will summarize the development of these sensors, their application to a variety of clinical problems, and the development of a range of implatable sensors for in vivo monitoring.

    Biography: Dr. Shana Kelley is the President of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago and the Neena B. Schwartz Professor at Northwestern in the Departments of Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics. The Kelley research group has pioneered new methods for tracking molecular and cellular analytes with unprecedented sensitivity. Dr. Kelley’s work has been recognized with the ACS Inorganic Nanoscience Award, the Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award, the Steacie Prize, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award, a NSF CAREER Award, a Dreyfus New Faculty Award, and she was also named a “Top 100 Innovator” by MIT’s Technology Review. Kelley is also a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and the American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors. Her work is extensively cited and she has over 80 papers cited more than 80 times. Kelley is an inventor on over 50 patents issued worldwide. She is a founder of four life sciences companies, GeneOhm Sciences (acquired by Becton Dickinson in 2005), Xagenic Inc. (acquired by General Atomics in 2017), CTRL Therapeutics (founded in 2019) and Arma Biosciences (founded in 2021).

    Host: Maral Mousavi/ Peter Wang

    Location: Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience (MCB) - 102

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Carla Stanard

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  • Repeating EventEiS Communications Hub - Tutoring for Engineering Ph.D. Students

    Fri, Feb 07, 2025 @ 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

    Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs

    Workshops & Infosessions


    Viterbi Ph.D. students are invited to drop by the Hub for instruction on their writing and speaking tasks!  All tutoring is one-on-one and conducted by Viterbi faculty.

    Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 222A

    Audiences: Viterbi Ph.D. Students

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    Contact: Helen Choi

    Event Link: https://sites.google.com/usc.edu/eishub/home

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  • CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

    CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

    Fri, Feb 07, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM

    Information Sciences Institute

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Dr. M.C. Frank Chang, Wintek Chair in Electrical Engineering and Distinguished Professor, UCLA

    Talk Title: Future System-on-Chip for Full Spectrum Utilization from RF to Optics

    Abstract: The ever-increasing bandwidth requirement due to explosively growing 5/6G and AIoT data flows has compelled global commission authorities to release EM-spectra up to millimeter-wave (30-300GHz) and even (sub)-millimeter-wave frequency regimes (>300GHz) for massively expanded sensing and network applications. In this talk, we will exemplify novel CMOS-embedded technologies and methodologies developed at UCLA to enable System-on-Chip (SoC) realizations for multi-broadband radio, wideband radar, contactless/plastic interconnect, 3D-imaging and gas-phase rotational spectrometry at (sub)-mm-Wave frequencies. We will also address challenges encountered in both design and implementations that may hinder further development of such systems, especially the major shortcomings in silicon technologies with limited dynamic range and power handling capabilities. We therefore propose replacing CMOS n-FET’s drain with selectively grown wide bandgap cubic-phase GaN (c-GaN) for >10X improved breakdown voltages to secure desired sensing/communication range/coverage with cost-effectiveness. Additionally, we will elaborate on the possible growth of multi-wavelength light-emitting sources and detectors directly atop n-FinFET’s c-GaN Drain with various indium contents of InGaN/GaN super-lattice for RF-optical combined radio/radar/interconnect applications by creating unprecedented “Photonic System-on-Chip” with full EM-spectrum utilization from RF to optics.

    Biography: Dr. M.C. Frank Chang is the Wintek Chair in Electrical Engineering and Distinguished Professor of UCLA. Throughout his career, he has focused on the research & development of high-speed semiconductor devices and integrated circuits for radio, radar, imager, spectrometer, and AIoT System-on-Chip applications. He is a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the European Academy of Science and Arts, and an academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He also received the IEEE David Sarnoff Award (2006), IET JJ Thomson Medal for Electronics (2017), IEEE/RSE (Royal Society Edinburgh) James Clerk Maxwell Medal (2023), and AASF’s Asian American Pioneer Medal (2024) for his seminal contributions to heterojunction technology and realizations of (sub)-mm-Wave System-on-Chip with unprecedented bandwidth and re-configurability. He also took a leave of absence from UCLA during 2015-2019 to serve as the President of National Chiao Tung University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan. He earned his B.S. in Physics from the National Taiwan University (1972), his M.S. in Material Science from the National Tsing Hua University (1974), and his Ph.D. in Electronics from the National Chiao Tung University (1979).

    Host: Dr. Steve Crago

    More Info: https://www.isi.edu/events/5417/future-system-on-chip-for-full-spectrum-utilization-from-rf-to-optics/

    Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97017422125?pwd=Dbrt8MNMrmBV3xalKQJcAiNsggFJjJ.1&from=addon

    WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97017422125?pwd=Dbrt8MNMrmBV3xalKQJcAiNsggFJjJ.1&from=addon

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Amy Kasmir

    Event Link: https://www.isi.edu/events/5417/future-system-on-chip-for-full-spectrum-utilization-from-rf-to-optics/

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  • Alfred E.Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering - Seminar series

    Fri, Feb 07, 2025 @ 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM

    Alfred E. Mann Department of Biomedical Engineering

    Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars


    Speaker: Shana O. Kelley, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL

    Talk Title: Continuous monitoring of protein biomarkers using implantable sensors

    Abstract: To put disease-related biomarkers to work for continuous monitoring of health and disease, new high-performance technologies are needed to enable rapid and sensitive analysis of proteins and other biomarkers. Electrochemical methods providing sensitive and direct biomarker readout have attracted a great deal of attention for this application. Recently we developed reagentless sensors that are powerful detectors for in vivo protein sensing (Nature Chemistry, 2021, J. am. Chem. Soc. 2023, Angew. Chem. Intl. Ed. 2023) as well as implantable sensors for continuous monitoring (Science 2024, Nature Biomedical Engineering 2025). This talk will summarize the development of these sensors, their application to a variety of clinical problems, and the development of a range of implatable sensors for in vivo monitoring.

    Biography: Dr. Shana Kelley is the President of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Chicago and the Neena B. Schwartz Professor at Northwestern in the Departments of Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering, and Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics. The Kelley research group has pioneered new methods for tracking molecular and cellular analytes with unprecedented sensitivity. Dr. Kelley’s work has been recognized with the ACS Inorganic Nanoscience Award, the Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award, the Steacie Prize, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award, a NSF CAREER Award, a Dreyfus New Faculty Award, and she was also named a “Top 100 Innovator” by MIT’s Technology Review. Kelley is also a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and the American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineering. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Inventors. Her work is extensively cited and she has over 80 papers cited more than 80 times. Kelley is an inventor on over 50 patents issued worldwide. She is a founder of four life sciences companies, GeneOhm Sciences (acquired by Becton Dickinson in 2005), Xagenic Inc. (acquired by General Atomics in 2017), CTRL Therapeutics (founded in 2019) and Arma Biosciences (founded in 2021).

    Host: Maral Mousavi/Peter Wang /WISE

    Location: Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience (MCB) - 101

    Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

    Contact: Carla Stanard

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