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Text Box: If you already have a M.S. from a reputable institution, have excellent GPA in B.S. and M.S., been involved in research and have publications, ready to work hard towards your goals, advancement of science and engineering, especially helping people with disabilities, please contact me. Text Box: Alumni: Text Box: Xueliang Huo 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. Now he is working for his Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interest is analog/digital circuit design for biomedical application and bio-inspired robotics. His ongoing project is the Tongue Drive System. 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: Jeremy Thomson Jeremy is a Computer Engineering student from Savannah, GA. He was born in 1989 and lived in Georgia his entire life. He started at Georgia Tech in the summer of 2008. He is interested in pursuing at least a MS degree, and looking to get research experience in any field involving computers. He is currently developing an interface between the Tongue Drive System and a robotic arm. Text Box: Farzad Inanlou Farzad received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering at Ferdowsi University, Mashhad, Iran in 2006.  At Ferdowsi University he worked on the development of CAD tools for Analog IC Design. In 2006 he joined M.S. program at Boston University. His research there was mainly focused on the development of a Fully-Differential Current-Mode Analog Cochlea. During summer-2008 he was with Boston Scientific Neuromodulation working on Spinal Cord Stimulators. He joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech and the GT-Bionics Lab in Fall 2008 where he is currently working toward a PhD degree.  His research interest is mainly the design of Analog/RF Integrated Circuits for health-improvement and medical applications. 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: 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 Jim Simpson, 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: Jose Vidal 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). Currently, he is developing an Inductively Powered Switched-Capacitor Stimulator for Deep-Brain Stimulation in the GT-Bionics group. Text Box: Arashk Norouzpour-Shirazi Arashk received his B.S and M.S degrees both in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Circuits and Systems at the University of Tehran, Iran in 2006 and 2008, respectively. At the University of Tehran, IC Design Laboratory, he worked on design of a High-speed Time-Interleaved Pipelined Analog-to-Digital Converter for communication applications. In summer 2009, he joined the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech, and GT-Bionics lab where he is currently working toward his PhD degree. His research interest is RF/Mixed-signal circuit and system design for biomedical applications. He is currently working on a Pharmaceutical Compliance Monitoring system. 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: Chih-Wen Cheng Chih-Wen was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1983. He received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from National Chung Cheng University, Chiayi, Taiwan, in 2005, and the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology, GA, in 2009. He joined GT-Bionics Lab in Spring 2009 and now is working towards his PhD degree at the Georgia Tech. His research interests include Signal Processing for Biomedical application and his ongoing projects include Tongue Tracking and Tongue Drive System. Text Box: Jeremy Jones Jeremy was born in 1987, in Madison GA. His research interests are in analog and digital circuit design, as well as systems control theory. He will graduate in the spring of 2010 with a B.S. in electrical engineering. He will then be attending law school to study intellectual property and patent law. He is currently developing an interface between the Tongue Drive System and a robotic arm. Text Box: Felipe Salazar Felipe started at Georgia Tech in fall 2007 and expects to graduate in summer 2010. He is interested in computer engineering with an emphasis in embedded systems design and implementation. He is currently developing a wireless interface between the Tongue Drive System and a smartphones. Text Box: Sandhya Rajaraman Sandhya started at Georgia Tech in fall 2007 and expects to graduate in 2011. She is interested in computer engineering programming and digital signal processing. He is currently developing a wireless interface between the Tongue Drive System and a smartphones. 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: Behnaz Yousefi Behnaz received her B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering - Telecommunication in 2004 at Khajeh Nasir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, and her M.S. degree in Electromagnetics – Microwave and Optical Communication, in 2006, at Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran. After working as a Microwave Engineer for nearly 3 years, she decided to change her major to bioengineerg and joined the GT-Bionics Lab at Georgia Tech in fall 2009 to pursue her studies toward PhD. She is currently working on the Tongue Drive System.