Congratulations to Dr. Saransh Sharma for being elected among the winners of the 2023 Demetriades-Tsafka-Kokkalis Prize!
The Demetriades – Tsafka – Kokkalis Prizes are awarded annually to PhD candidates selected for the best thesis, publication, or discovery in select fields. Saransh Sharma, advised by Professor Azita Emami, has received the prize in Biotechnology or Related Fields for his research in developing ultra-low power and highly miniaturized medical electronics for in-vivo localization and tracking.

 

https://www.eas.caltech.edu/news/winners-of-the-2023-demetriades-tsafka-kokkalis-prizes-announced

 

Congratulations to Fatima Aghlmand for presenting her biosensor work at ISSCC 2023.

F Aghlmand, C. Hu, S. Sharma, K. K. Pochana, R. M. Murray, A. Emami, “A 65nm CMOS Living-Cell Dynamic Fluorescence Sensor with 1.05fA Sensitivity at 600/700nm Wavelengths“, International Solid-State CCircuits Conference (ISSCC), 2023

 

Nature Electronic Paper on GI tract motility monitoring is now available online. Link to the full article. Here is a Caltech story, MIT News, and NYU News.   S. Sharma, K.B. Ramadi, N.H. Poole, S.S. Srinivasan, K. Ishida, J. Kuosmanen, J. Jenkins, F. Aghlmand, M.B. Swift, M.G. Shapiro, G. Traverso, A. Emami, “Location-aware ingestible microdevices […]

Congratulations to Arian Hashemi for his successful PhD Defense.

Congratulations to Saransh, Hayward, and Liliana for the acceptance of their CICC paper: a fully integrated low-power 3D magnetic sensor. This paper has been also nominated for the best student paper award!