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EE-Electrophysics Seminar

Speaker: Meisam Honarvar, California Institute of Technology

Talk Title: From Tera-Scale Communication to Lab-in-the-Body: Challenges and Opportunities for CMOS Technology

Abstract: Combining the high level of integration offered by CMOS and micro/nanofabrication technology enables complex and compact sensing systems. During the first part of the presentation, the opportunities for integrated microsystems for implantable health monitors will be explored. The combination of power and data telemetry and physiological sensors within small chips enables us to contemplate new microsystems for healthcare monitoring that serve as closed loop therapy systems and allow for the remote management of patients. Such systems could be implanted as continuous glucose monitors (CGM), neural prosthetics and other metabolic and physiological measurement tools and will enable a new class of continuous digital health monitors that leads to preventative healthcare at lower cost. As an example of such systems, I will present my research on implantable CGM microsystems.
Over the past couple of decades we have witnessed a tremendous growth in computational capability owing to the rapid advances in CMOS technology. Additionally smart devices and their social apps, as well as cloud storage and computation have resulted in a tremendous growth in big data infrastructures. With this increase in the computation, a corresponding scaling in data communication bandwidth is inevitable. The bandwidth of the current physical channels not only limits the communication between chips, it also imposes serious problem for on-chip interconnection. In the second part of my talk, I will go over new low-power circuit techniques that enable massively parallel electrical and optical communication to address the bandwidth requirement of the future networks.


Biography: Meisam Nazari received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from California Institute of Technology, Pasadena in 2009 and 2013, respectively. He is currently a staff scientist in the department of electrical engineering at California Institute of Technology. His research interests include high-performance mixed-signal integrated circuits, with the focus on biomedical and medical circuits and systems as well as high-speed and low-power optical and electrical interconnects. He is the recipient of 2008 Brian L. Barge Award for excellence in microsystems integration, 2010 AMD/CICC Student Scholarship Award, the 2012 Solid-State Circuits Society Pre-doctoral Achievement Award, and the 2012 Circuits and Systems Society Pre-doctoral Scholarship.

Host: EE-Electrophysics

Location: Kaprielian Hall (KAP) - 209

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Marilyn Poplawski