Students

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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, then please contact Dr. Ghovanloo.

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 projects include Drug Compliance and Tongue Drive.

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, then please contact Dr. Ghovanloo. GT-Bionics lab also supports one or two senior design projects each semester. All students in the group need 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.

Text Box: Christopher Burdett Chris was born in Landstuhl, Germany in 1986 to American parents who were in the Air Force. His interests lie in analog circuit design tending towards audio applications like power amplifiers, as well as power supply designs for car power amplifiers. He will graduate with B.S. in Spring 09 and attempts to enter graduate school at Georgia Tech towards an M.S. in ECE. In summer 2008 he worked at GT-Bionics Lab on a tactile Braille reader for the blind.

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: Vidya Sukumar Vidya was born in New Delhi, India in 1986. She received her B.S. Degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, University of Delhi, India. She is now working towards her Master’s Degree in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. Her research interests include Electronic Circuit and System Design for Biomedical Applications. She is currently working on Pharmaceutical Compliance Monitoring

Text Box: Samuel Shapero Sam was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1982. In 2001 he was named a Presidential Scholar, one of two from the state. Sam received his B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, in 2005 and 2006. From 2006 to 2008 he worked at Micron Technology as a Flash memory designer, accruing several pending patents. In the fall of 2008, Sam enrolled at the Georgia Institute of Technology as a Presidential and NSF IGERT Fellow to pursue a Ph.D. in Bioengineering. He is currently working in the GT-Bionics lab, designing a wireless power delivery system for implantable electronics. Sam's research interests include Neuromorphic Analog Circuitry, Brain-Computer Interfacing, and Neural Prosthetics.

Maysam Ghovanloo, Ph.D. (Homepage)

Dr. Ghovanloo received his B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 1994. He received a M.S. in biomedical engineering from Amirkabir Institute of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1997. His master's thesis was on development of a multi-site physiologic recording system for investigation of the neural assemblies. From 1994 to 1998 he worked part-time at the Industrial Development for Electronic Application Inc., where he participated in the design and development of a modular patient care monitoring system. In December 1998 he founded Sabz Negar Rayaneh Co. Ltd., where he manufactured physiology and pharmacology research laboratory instruments such as precision bio-amplifiers and isolated stimulators.

Dr. Ghovanloo started his Ph.D. at the EECS department of the University of Michigan in January 2000. During summer-2002 he was with the Advanced Bionics Inc. working on the spinal-cord stimulator project. He received M.S. and Ph.D. in electrical engineering in June 2003 and July 2004, respectively. In his Ph.D. research, he developed a wireless microsystem for neural stimulating microprobes, which can be used in a variety of neuroprosthetic applications. He was a faculty at the NC State University from 2004-2007 at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He joined the faculty of Georgia Institute of Technology in June 2007 where he is currently an assistant professor and the director of the GT-Bionics Laboratory in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.