MTL Annual Report

research scientist

• L. Turicchia, EECS

Postdoctoral associate

• R. Daniel, EECS

Graduate Students

• S. Arfin, Research Assistant, EECS
• W. Wattanapanitch, Research Assistant, EECS
• B. Rapoport, Research Assistant, EECS
• B. Do Valle, Research Assistant, EECS
• D. Kumar, Research Assistant, EECS
• D. Adams, Research Student, EECS

Support Staff

• S. Davco, Administrative Assistant

Publications

R. Sarpeshkar, “Ultra Low Power Bioelectronics: Fundamentals, Biomedical Applications, and Bio-inspired Systems,” Cambridge University Press, February 2010.

S. Mandal, L. Turicchia, and R. Sarpeshkar, “A Low-Power Battery-Free Tag for Body Sensor Networks,” IEEE Pervasive Computing, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 71-77, 2010.

M. Tavakoli, L. Turicchia, and R. Sarpeshkar, “An Ultra-Low-Power Pulse Oximeter Implemented with an Energy-Efficient Transimpedance Amplifier,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 27-38, 2010.

K.H. Wee, L. Turicchia, and R. Sarpeshkar “Biologically inspired silicon vocal tract,” Invited Paper, SPIE Newsroom, International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2010.

S. Mandal and R. Sarpeshkar, “Circuit Models of Stochastic Genetic Networks,” 2009 IEEE Symposium on Biological Circuits and Systems (BioCAS), Beijing, China, pp. 109-112, 2009.

S. Mandal, S. Zhak, and R. Sarpeshkar, “A Bio-Inspired Active Radio-Frequency Silicon Cochlea,” IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 44, no. 6, pp. 1814-1828, 2009.

S. K. Arfin, M. A. Long, M. S. Fee, and R. Sarpeshkar, “Wireless Neural Stimulation in Freely Behaving Small Animals,” Journal of Neurophysiology, vol. 102, no. 1, pp. 598-605, 2009.

S. Mandal and R. Sarpeshkar, “Log-Domain Circuit Models of Chemical Reactions,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Taipei, Taiwan, 2009, pp. 2697-2700.

L. Turicchia, S. Mandal, M. Tavakoli, L. Fay, V. Misra, J. Bohorquez, W. Sanchez, and R. Sarpeshkar, “Ultra-low-power Electronics for Non-invasive Medical Monitoring,” Invited Paper, Proceedings of the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC 2009), pp. 85-92, San Jose, California, USA, 2009.

L. Fay, V. Misra, and R. Sarpeshkar, “A Micropower Electrocardiogram Amplifier,” IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 312-320, 2009.

B.I. Rapoport, W. Wattanapanitch, H.L. Penagos, S. Musallam, R.A. Andersen, R. Sarpeshkar, “A Biomimetic Adaptive Algorithm and Low-Power Architecture for Implantable Neural Decoders,” Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2009 Minneapolis), pp. 4214-4217, 2009.

S. Mandal, L. Turicchia, R. Sarpeshkar, “A Battery-Free Tag for Wireless Monitoring of Heart Sounds,” Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks (BSN 2009), pp. 201-206, Berkeley, CA, USA, 2009.