Electronics for Healthcare and Neuroscience
Find out more about subscribing to add all events.
Electronics for Healthcare and Neuroscience
Wed, 20/11/2019 - 14:30 to 15:30
Location:
Speaker:
Dr Srinjoy Mitra
Affiliation:
Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Sensors, University of Edinburgh
Synopsis:
Driven by the consumer electronics industry, silicon integrated circuits have followed Moore’s law to deliver ever powerful, smaller and cheaper computer processors. However, in contrast to the conventional Moore’s law, there exists a More-than-Moore axis in the industry roadmap. Not limited by the bottlenecks of Moore’s law, this axis has proven to be extremely important in bringing richness and diversification in modern silicon circuits and systems. Recent advances in medical and neural-electronics are a result of such activities. I will first discuss about my work on neuromorphic systems and ambulatory healthcare devices (EEG, ECG, bioimpedance). I will then present the advances in neural recording circuits developed by our group in the recent past. We have helped develop the highest density CMOS probes available for animal experiment. Finally, I will discuss some ongoing work on point-of-care medical devices.
Biography:
Srinjoy Mitra received his B.S. degree in physics and electronics from Calcutta, India and his M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India. After spending a short time in electronics industry he received his Ph.D. from the Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich in 2004. Between 2008 and 2010 he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA. He then joined the medical electronics team at IMEC, Belgium and worked there as a senior scientist until early 2016. At IMEC he had taken up lead roles in various projects related to bio-potential recording. Electro-encephalography (EEG) measurement ICs developed by him have been successfully validated in clinical environment and are now commercialized. For the last few years Dr. Mitra led multiple projects on neural implants for central and peripheral nervous system. Dr. Mitra returned to academia as a Lecturer in the Biomedical Engineering Division at the University of Glasgow. In 2017 he moved to the Institute for Integrated Micro and Nano Sensors, University of Edinburgh as a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor).