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Associate Professor Intelligent Sensory
Microsystems Laboratory Electrical and Computer
Engineering |
10 King's College Road Phone: (416) 946-8666 Fax: (416) 971-2286 roman[AT]eecg.utoronto.ca |
Research
Interests
I am heading the Intelligent Sensory Microsystems
Laboratory at the University of Toronto. Members of our laboratory conduct
research on analog and digital VLSI circuits, systems and algorithms for
energy-efficient signal processing with applications to electrical, chemical
and photonic sensory information acquisition, biosensor arrays, brain-chip
neural interfaces, CMOS imagers, parallel signal processing, adaptive
computing, and implantable and wearable biomedical electronics.
News
February 4, 2012:
Two papers from our research team have been accepted for publication as follows:
· M. Nazari, H. Jafari, L. Leng, A. Guenther, R. Genov, “CMOS Neurochemical Microarray: 96-Channel Integrated Potentiostat with On-die Microsensors,” accepted with minor revisions, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.
· R. Singh, L. Leng, A. Guenther, R. Genov, “A CMOS-Microfluidic Chemiluminescence Contact Imaging Microsystem,” conditionally accepted with major revisions, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
January 23 2012:
Two papers by members of our research team
have been submitted to IEEE
Symposium on VLSI Circuits held in
Honolulu in June 2012.
January 10 2012:
Four papers by members of our research team
have been accepted for oral presentations at IEEE
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems held in Seoul, Korea in May 2012.
November 12, 2011:
A paper co-authored by Hamed Jafari, a PhD candidate in our research team, titled “CMOS Impedance Spectrum Analyzer with Dual-Slope Multiplying ADC “ won the Best Paper Award as the top ranked paper among 199 submitted papers at IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference in San Diego.
November 10, 2011:
Professor Genov gave an invited plenary tutorial talk titled “Amperometric Electrochemical Sensing in CMOS: Applications, Methods and Implementations” (with P. Mohseni) at IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference in San Diego.
June 21, 2011:
Professor Genov gave an invited talk titled “CMOS Intelligent Sensory Microsystems for Biomedical Applications” at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta.
Information for Prospective Graduate
Students:
Some of the
openings listed below are still available (UPDATED ON FEBRUARY 02, 2012). If you are looking to apply for a PhD degree (or in some
cases MASc degree) at this time please contact me by email. If you have
received a NSERC or OGS graduate scholarship in 2012, please inform me of this.
Openings include research
assistantships in the areas of:
1.
Brain
implants for diagnostics and treatment of neurological disorders
1.1. CMOS implantable wireless integrated circuits for brain
neural activity monitoring and modulation (including RF transceiver
design, inductive powering circuit design, ADC/DAC design, on-chip mixed-signal
VLSI signal processing, integration with MEMS microelectrodes, and in vivo
experimentation with animals)
1.2. CMOS wireless brain implants with on-chip artificial
intelligence
(including studying machine learning algorithms and mapping them onto
integrated circuits for on-line data classification and pattern recognition in
neural recordings)
1.3. CMOS brain implants that image, monitor and modulate
brain neurochemistry (including sensory information acquisition circuit
design, circuits and systems for cyclic voltammetry, amperometry and impedance
spectroscopy, ADC/DAC design, on-chip mixed-signal VLSI signal processing, RF
transceiver circuits, post-CMOS on-chip microelectrode fabrication and
integration with microfluidic structures);
2.
Electronic
fully-wireless single-chip disposable DNA analysis microarrays
2.1. CMOS optical DNA microarrays - wireless integrated
circuits for on-chip fluorescent DNA analysis (including spectrum
sensing photosensor arrays design, sensory information acquisition circuit
design, ADC/DAC design, on-chip mixed-signal VLSI signal processing, RF
transceiver circuits, high-voltage CMOS circuit design, post-CMOS on-chip
microelectrode fabrication and integration with microfluidic/photonic
structures);
2.2. CMOS electrochemcial DNA microarrays - wireless
integrated circuits for on-chip amperometric DNA analysis (including sensory information acquisition circuit
design, circuits and systems for cyclic voltammetry, amperometry and impedance
spectroscopy, ADC/DAC design, on-chip mixed-signal VLSI signal processing, RF
transceiver circuits, post-CMOS on-chip microelectrode fabrication and
integration with microfluidic structures);
3.
Implantable,
wearable and disposable integrated circuits for biochemical sensing
3.1. CMOS high-throughput drug screening chips - integrated
circuits for patch-clamp electrophysiology
3.2.
CMOS
optical biosensors – fluorescence, bio- and chemi-luminescence contact imagers
4.
Single-chip
wireless gas sensors - integrated circuits with on-chip gas sensory arrays (single-chip integrated
circuits for sensing a variety of gases in an urban/industrial/home wireless
sensory network).
All projects are
collaborative with participants from multiple other disciplines.
Qualified students
interested in joining our lab are encouraged to apply for admission into our
Ph.D. or M.A.Sc. degree programs as well as the post-doctoral stream.
Applicants with a Bachelor degree can enroll directly into the Ph.D. program
immediately or upon successful completion of the first two semesters of
studies. Admitted students generally receive full financial support for the
duration of their studies. The general application process is outlined at http://www.ece.utoronto.ca/Graduate_Studies/Admission.htm
You can also
contact me, Prof. Roman Genov, by email at roman[AT]eecg.utoronto.ca. Please
attach your CV/resume in pdf format (with clearly GPA stated) and your
transcript if available. Sometimes I am not able to answer all email inquiries but will keep them
on file until the graduate office has received all of your application
materials.
