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Text Box: At GT-Bionics Lab we do research on state-of-the-art medical devices. These are complete systems including biosensors, actuators, ultra low-power circuits, wireless links, signal processing algorithms, data acquisition blocks, and user interfacing software, which are designed, developed, and fully tested in a true multi-disciplinary environment in collaboration with clinicians, physiologists, and neuroscientists. Our research involves a wide range of activities from basic science to theoretical analysis, from modeling and simulations to prototyping, laboratory measurements, testing on animal or human subjects, data analysis, and revising for further enhancements. If you already have a Ph.D. or M.S. from a reputable institution, have excellent GPA in B.S. and M.S., been involved in research and have publications, interested in all the above, and ready to work hard towards your goals, advancement of science and engineering, especially helping people with disabilities, please do not hesitate to contact me with a copy of your detailed CV …. Text Box: Alumni: Text Box: Uei-Ming Jow Uei-Ming received the B.E. degree in electrical engineering from Tatung University, Taiwan, and the M.S. degree in electronic engineering from National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, in 1999 and 2001, respectively. From 2001 to 2006, he joined Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) at Hsinchu, Taiwan, and worked in Electronics Research & Service Organization as a RF engineer. He was involved in analysis and design of electromagnetic compatibility for high speed digital circuit as well as embedded RF circuits packaging technology. He is now working towards his PhD degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His main research interests are neural and bionic implants, integrated analog circuit design, and wireless implantable biomedical systems. Text Box: I have a long track record in working with undergraduate students. If you are in your junior or senior years at the Georgia Institute of Technology, have excellent GPA, are interested to get involved in serious research, interested in the goals and objectives of the GT-Bionics lab, can dedicate at least 15 hours/week to research without affecting your coursework, please contact me. GT-Bionics lab also supports one or two senior design projects each semester. All students in the group are expected to have the above qualifications. Text Box: Seung-Bae Lee Seung-Bae received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea in 2007. He came to Georgia Tech in Aug. 2007 and joined GT-Bionics Lab in May 2008. He is now working towards his PhD degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His is currently working on an ultra low-power RF receiver for biomedical and wearable applications as well as a wireless neural recording system. Text Box: Aaron Fan Aaron is a 2nd year Electrical Engineering major from Ocoee, Florida. His interests currently lie in circuit design, digital logic and embedded programming, and systems and controls. He also enjoys computer science and algorithms. After graduation Aaron plans to pursue a master's degree, and from then on whatever comes up. He is currently working on stable wireless power and data transmission for neural implants. Text Box: Graduate Students: Text Box: Suresh Atluri, M.S., Summer 2006 Suresh was born in India in 1983. He received the B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS, Pilani, Rajasthan, India, in 2004. He has been working towards his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at the North Carolina State University, Raleigh since Fall 2004. He specialized in Analog, Digital, and Microwave Circuit Design. He is now a senior engineer with Integrated Device Technologies Inc., Atlanta, GA. Text Box: Elnaz Banan Sadeghian, PhD, 2011 Sergio Carlo, PhD, 2011 Mingjie Zhou, BS, PURA, 2011 Rui Ding, BS, PURA, 2011 Jecolia Longtchi, BS, SURE, 2011 Behnaz Yousefi, PhD, 2011 Farzad Inanlou, PhD, 2010 Sky Lee, PhD, Post-Doc, 2010 Benoit Gosselin, PhD, Post-Doc, 2010 Ese Urhuogo, BS, ORS, 2010 Temi Olubanjo, BS, SURE, 2010 Jeremy Thomson, BS, ORS, 2010 Sandhya Rajaraman, BS, ORS, 2010 Felipe Salazar, BS, ORS, 2010 Jeremy Jones, BS, ORS, 2010 Arashk Norouzpour-Shirazi, MS, 2010 Chihwen Cheng, PhD, 2009 Vidya Sukumar, MS, 2009 Juan Santiago, BS, SURE, 2009 Asma Qureshi, BS, ORS, 2009 Samuel Shapero, PhD, 2009 Ramaldo Martin, PhD, 2009 Aaron Albin, MS, 2008 Christopher Burdett, BS, PURA, 2008 Gautham Krishnamurthy, PhD, 2006 Ryan Field, BS, 2006 Hossein Aghababa, PhD, 2006 Frankie Myers, BS, MS, 2005 Text Box: Ming Yin, Ph.D., Summer 2009 Ming was born in China, in 1978. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University in Summer 2009. His research interests include Low noise, low power analog/digital/mixed circuit design for wireless/biomedical/RF applications, system integration, and interface design for operating micro, nano, and bio systems. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at Brown University working on a wireless neural recording system. Text Box: Gaurav Bawa, M.S., Summer 2008 Gaurav was born in Punjab, India, in 1981. He received his B.S. in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India, in 2003. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. In the summer of 2002, he was an intern in the Microelectronics Group at University of Udine, Italy, and in fall 2003, at National Instruments, India, in the Motion Control Group. From 2003–2006, he worked as a Design Engineer at ST Microelectronics, India. During this period he was involved in the design and validation of Flash Memory test vehicles in submicron NVM technology, for which he received corporate recognition, and subsequently in the design of Analog–to–Digital Converters for the product division. He is currently a Ph.D. student at the NC State University. Text Box: Jia Wang, M.S., Summer 2008 Jia was born in 1984 in China. She received the B.S. degree in automation and control theory from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2006. She received her M.S. degree from the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University. Her research involved brain-computer interfacing, assistive technologies, and magnetic sensor signal processing algorithms. She is now a senior engineer with Quante Services Inc. Raleigh, NC. Text Box: Mehdi Kiani Mehdi was born in Shiraz, Iran in 1983. He received his B.S. degree at Shiraz University in 2005 and his M.S. degree at Sharif University of Technology in 2008. At Sharif University he worked on the circuit design of Fractional-N Frequency Synthesizers, particularly the Voltage Controlled Oscillators for RF applications. He joined PhD program at Georgia Institute of Technology in Spring 2009. His research interest is Analog/RF integrated circuit design. Now he is working toward his PhD on the design of integrated circuits for biomedical applications in GT-Bionics Lab. Text Box: Hyung-Min Lee Hyung-Min received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Korea University, and his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 2006 and 2008, respectively. At KAIST, he worked on the analog circuit design of the display driver IC for AMLCD/AMOLED applications. He joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech and the GT-Bionics Lab in fall 2009. Now, he is pursuing his PhD degree at Georgia Tech. His research interests include analog/mix-signal integrated circuit design for biomedical applications. He is currently working on the IC design for the inductive power link and the wireless neural recording system. Text Box: Jacob Block Jacob was born in Vernon Hills, IL in 1988. He received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2010. At UIUC he worked on frequency and pattern re-configurable patch antennas. He joined the ECE PhD program at the Georgia Institute of Technology in the fall of 2010 and the GT-Bionics Lab in the fall of 2011. His research interests include electromagnetic field theory, the inverse problem, tracking algorithms, and differential geometry. He is currently working on the Tongue Drive System and real-time DC magnet localization algorithms Text Box: Jeonghee Kim Jeonghee was born in Daegu, Korea, in 1983. She received the B.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering at the Kyungpook National University, Korea and University of Texas at Dallas, in 2007 and 2008, respectively. She completed her M.S. Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer System at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in Dec. 2009. She worked on Biomechanics and Robotics for designing Rehabilitation/Medical application with mobile devices. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. Degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology, GT-Bionics Lab. Her current project is the Tongue Drive System. Text Box: Post-Doctoral Fellows: Text Box: Hangue Park Hangue received both B.S. and M.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Seoul National University at 2006 and 2008, respectively. Before his graduation, he worked for Bluebird Soft from 2001 to 2004 and designed the circuit of industrial PDA, sold to many department stores in Korea. In his master’s work, he held the Capsule Endoscope System project and designed various RF analog blocks including Automatic Gain Control circuit. After his master’s work, he joined Samsung Electronics. He designed High-Q RF bandpass filter for SAW-less receiver and also worked on VCO and HF divider for PLL in cell-phone applications. He is currently pursuing his PhD degree in GT-bionic Lab. His current research interest lies in System and IC design for bio-medical applications, especially in Tongue Drive System. Text Box: Jose Vidal, M.S., Summer 2010 Jose received his B.S. in Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in May 2008 and has continued there in pursuit of an M.S. in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include Analog Integrated Circuit Design for Biomedical Applications - including Power Management and Energy Harvesting. He is currently a Texas Instruments Analog Fellow and has worked in TI's Storage Products Group (Summer 2008) and Medical Group (Summer 2009). He is now a senior engineer with Medtronic Inc., Phoenix, AZ. Text Box: Visiting Students: Text Box: Jaemyung Lim Jaemyung received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea in 2011. He came to Georgia Tech in Aug, 2011. He is now pursuing his MS degree in ECE at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His academic interests include analog/mixed-signal integrated circuit design and system design for biomedical applications. Text Box: Mark Pinturak Mark is a third year Computer Engineering major from Edison, New Jersey and joined the GT Bionics lab in January 2011.  His interests include bioengineering, embedded systems, and computer science. Text Box: Aydin Farajidavar Aydin was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1981. He received the B.Sc. and M.S. degree in biomedical engineering in 2004 and 2007, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in bioengineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2011, where he received the Alfred and Janet Potvin Outstanding Bioengineering Student Award. His Ph.D. research was focused on developing wireless wearable systems for acquiring and processing neurological signals with the central aim of controlling nociception in a closed-loop feedback system. In GT-Bionics Lab, he is developing new applications for the Tongue Drive System (TDS) to offer better diagnostic and therapeutic solutions for speech related disorders. Text Box: Xueli Xiao Xueli received her B.E. degree in industrial design from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China. She came to Georgia Tech in Aug. 2010. Now she is pursuing her master degree in industrial design at Georgia Institute of Technology. She is interested in Interdisciplinary collaboration. She joined the GT-Bionics Lab in Jan. 2011, and is currently working on the industrial design of the Tongue Drive System. Text Box: Chukwuyem (Doye) Emelue Chukwuyem (Doye) was born in Cameroon, Buea Diocese southwest province. He attended Gainesville state college in summer 2008 and transferred to Georgia Tech in Fall 2010. He joined GT-Bionics Lab in spring 2011 and is a senior in Computer Engineering. His interests lie in Embedded Operating systems and microcontrollers. He is currently working on the EnerCage system. Text Box: Peter McMenamin Peter graduated from Johns Hopkins in 2005 and is now pursuing a second bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech. He has always been fascinated by digital and analog circuits and RF design, and was thrilled to discover that he could apply those interests to the field of brain-computer interfacing. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Gamma Beta Phi, and is currently working on the EnerCage system in the GT Bionics lab. After graduation, he intends to pursue a Ph.D. and subsequently devote his life to research in neuroprosthetics. Text Box: Byunghun Lee Byunghun was born in Korea in 1982. He received B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Korea University, Korea, in 2008, and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Technology), Daejeon, Korea, in 2010. Since 2010, he has been working on wireless power transfer system at KAIST as a design engineer. He joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech and the GT-Bionics Lab in fall 2011. Now, he is pursuing his PhD degree at Georgia Tech. His research interests include analog/mixed-signal integrated circuit design and wireless power transfer system for biomedical applications. Text Box: Abner Ayala-Acevedo Abner was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico in 1988. He received his B.S. in Computer Engineering with specialties in Computing Systems, Hardware, and Embedded Systems from the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez in May 2011. During Summer 2011, he joined the Human Ability and Accessibility Center at IBM Austin, TX. In Fall 2011, he started his PhD degree at Georgia Institute of Technology, GT-Bionics Lab. His main interests are assistive technologies, mobile accessibility and brain-computer interfacing. His current research is focusing on sensor signal processing for the Tongue Drive System. Text Box: High School Students: Text Box: Revanth Rameshkumar Revanth Rameshkumar is a senior at Wheeler Magnet, the Center for Advanced Studies in Science, Math, and Technology. Revanth is planning to graduate with a Magnet Seal diploma in May 2012. He is interested in bionics, computer hardware, electronics, robotics, and software development, including Android Application development. He is currently doing research on Tongue Drive System (TDS) at GT-Bionics Lab. He is responsible for establishing Bluetooth connectivity between TDS and Android-based smartphones and developing Android-based applications that would help control electronic appliances. Revanth is also a 2nd degree Black Belt instructor in Taekwondo and his other interests include violin and digital art, and gaming. He is also actively involved in community service and charity organizations that provide disadvantaged children with shelter, food, and education. Text Box: Xueliang Huo, Ph.D., Fall 2011 Xueliang was born in Ningbo, China, in 1981. He received the B.S degree in Mechanical Engineering and M.S degree in Instrument Science and Technology from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He recently received his Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interest is analog/digital circuit design for biomedical application and bio-inspired robotics. He is now working at Microsoft.