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ECE Seminar Series: Wednesday, February 19

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Free Public Seminar - Wednesdays at 10:30 AM - Micron Engineering Center, Room 114

Featuring Nicole McFarlane, Associate Professor in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Tennessee 


Technologies for Biosensing Applications

Lab-on-chip and implantable sensor systems have been widely sought as a means to provide long-term minimally invasive, portable, and low-cost sensing solutions. The University of Texas's micriobioelectronics lab combines advanced microfabrication techniques with CMOS readout to enable the development of low-cost sensing systems. One example being the Glucose monitoring system.

The Glucose monitoring system combines insulin pumps and control algorithms, which can act as an artificial pancreas (AP). Key challenges of implementing an AP system include data security, improving glucose sensor sensitivity at the microscale, integrating electrodes with low-power, low-noise readout, modeling and predicting glucose fluctuations with a patient’s dynamic physiological conditions, and implementing complex algorithms to mimic natural glucose regulation.

This presentation will explore the development and integration challenges of a two-chip CMOS-carbon nanostructures based glucose sensing system and low-power instrumentation for continuous physiological data.

SPEAKER BIO |  Nicole McFarlane has served on organizing committees and is a member of the IEEE CASS Board of Governors. The core topics of her research are developing electrochemical sensing systems, new electrodes for cell-based sensing, CMOS based neutron detection, lab-on-chip cell-based sensing, multi-modal sensing, energy, and power tradeoffs, and hardware and biosensor security.




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