Overview Lectures

Xinmiao Zhang received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Minnesota. She joined The Ohio State University as an Associate Professor in 2017. She was previously a Timothy E. and Allison L. Schroeder Associate Professor at Case Western Reserve University. Between her academic positions, she was a Senior Technologist at Western Digital/SanDisk Corporation. Her research focuses on VLSI architecture design, digital storage and communications, security, and signal processing. Dr. Zhang received an NSF CAREER Award in 2009. She authored the book “VLSI Architectures for Modern Error-Correcting Codes” and published 90 papers on related topics. She was elected to serve on the Board of Governors 2019-2021 and is a member of the VSA and CASCOM TCs of IEEE CASS. She is also a Vice-Chair of the Data Storage TC of the IEEE Communications Society 2017-2020. She served on the committees of many conferences, including ISCAS, SiPS, ICC, GLOBECOM, GlobalSIP, and GLSVLSI.

Firat is VP and Head of Research Devices and Technology Development at Galvani Bioelectronics, a joint venture between GSK (GlaxoSmithKline) and Verily (former Google Lifesciences). Working in Neuromodulation Devices, he joined GSK Bioelectronics in 2015 after spending 13 years at imec, Europe’s largest independent research centre in microelectronics and nanoelectronics. He has developed devices and technologies for medical-grade wearable and implantable biomedical devices, including wireless cardiac monitoring patches, wearable EEG monitoring headsets and implantable neural probes for high density recording. Firat was also involved in the creation of a San Francisco-based wearable healthcare start-up, Bloom Technologies.

With a Ph.D. from KU Leuven in Belgium, Firat has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications along with 20 patents, including a book on low-power biomedical microsystems. He has served on the technical program committees of European Solid State Circuits Conf (ESSCIRC), International Solid State Circuits Conf (ISSCC), and Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conf (BioCAS) and remains Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. of Biomedical Circuits and Systems..

Ravinder Dahiya is a Professor of Electronics and Nanoengineering at the University of Glasgow. His group (Bendable Electronics and Sensing Technologies (BEST)) conducts fundamental research on high-mobility materials based on flexible electronics leading to electronic skin and their application in robotics and wearable systems.

Prof. Dahiya has published more than 280 research articles, 4 books, and 15 patents submitted/granted. He has given more than 140 invited/plenary talks. He has led many international projects (~ £30M) funded by the European Commission, EPSRC, The Royal Society, The Royal Academy of Engineering, and The Scottish Funding Council.

He is Fellow of IEEE, President-Elect (2020-21) and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council. He is serving on the editorial boards of several leading journals. He holds EPSRC Fellowship and received in past the Marie Curie Fellowship and Japanese Monbusho Fellowship. He also received the 2016 IEEE Sensor Council Technical Achievement Award and the 2016 Microelectronic Engineering Young Investigator Award (Elsevier).

Andreia Cathelin started electrical engineering at the Polytechnic Institute of Bucarest, Romania and graduated from ISEN Lille, France in 1994. In 1998 and 2013 respectively, she received PhD and “habilitation à diriger des recherches” (French highest academic degree) from the Université de Lille 1, France. Since 1998, she has been with STMicroelectronics (STM), Crolles, France, now Technology R&D Fellow. Her focus areas are in the design of advanced RF/mmW/THz and ultra-low-power circuits and systems. She is as well one of the pioneers of FD-SOI CMOS design.

Andreia has had numerous IEEE responsibilities since more than 15 years: at ISSCC, VLSI Symposium and ESSCIRC for TPC and Executive/Steering Committees respectively, and is an SSCS elected Adcom member. She will be the TPC chair of ESSCIRC2020 in Grenoble.

Alberto Rodríguez-Pérez, received the B.S. degree in telecommunication engineering and the PhD degree in Microelectronics from the University of Seville, Spain, in 2007 and 2013, respectively. During his PhD research, devised at the Institute of Microelectronics of Seville from 2008 to 2012, he completed the design of complete System-on-Chip neural recorder interfaces with embedded data compression that got significant international impact. His Phd work, besides published in prime line journals, was awarded the Extraordinary PhD Award of the University of Sevilla. In 2013, he joined THE R&D department of NXP Semiconductors in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, where he worked on the design of new and efficient topologies for high-speed serial interfaces transceivers for wireline communications. In 2014, he joined KDPOF S.L., a start-up company settled in Madrid, Spain, which produces high-speed optical communication systems. There, he started and leads the Analog & Mixed Signal department, in charge of developing the optoelectronics and the analog front-end for the optical transceivers. He was also an Associate Professor at the University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain from 2015 to 2018. He has authored and co-authored more than 30 papers, 3 book chapters and 8 patent applications. Currently, his main research interests are in the design of high-speed optical and wirelines transceivers, covering advanced modulation and equalization techniques, high-speed ADCs, VCSEL and LED drivers and trans-impedance amplifiers.