Associate Professor Intelligent Sensory Microsystems Laboratory The Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto

10 King's College Road Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G4 Canada 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.

Information for Prospective Graduate Students:

Some of the openings listed below are still available (UPDATED ON MARCH 31, 2011). 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 received a NSERC graduate scholarship in 2011, 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 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/Electrical_and_Computer_Engineering-Graduate-Canada-application.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.