IMG research focuses on micro- and nanosystems for healthcare, energy, security, aerospace, transportation, consumer electronics, and other industries. Efforts include design, fabrication, characterization, and ultimately deployment of micro and nanotechnologies for a wide variety of applications. IMG is playing a leading role in the MIST Center (Multi-functional integrated system technology), an NSF I/UCRC program.
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IMG professor Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian has been awarded the DARPA Director’s Fellowship—a prestigious award usually given to only a very few Young Faculty Award winners each year. Excellent work, and thank you for representing IMG so well!
To read more: https://news.ece.ufl.edu/2021/04/16/tabrizian-receives-2021-darpa-directors-award/
Kartik Sondhi will defend his Ph.D. dissertation entitled: "Materials and methods for fabrication of multi-layer circuits and devices" on Tuesday, March 30th, at 2:00 pm
Zoom link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/92062153399?pwd=TC95TExwWHBqdTRscGZiNGhyQkhMZz09
Meeting ID: 920 6215 3399
Passcode: 137314
Haoran Wang will defend his dissertation entitled "Development of piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers (pMUTs) for endoscopic photoacoustic imaging applications" at 12:00 pm on March 23rd.
Zoom link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/3296998262
Meeting ID: 329 699 8262
IMG members will be making a great showing at IEEE ISAF 2021 this year! Kartik Sondhi (advised by Dr. Nishida and Dr. Fan), and Troy Tharpe, Sushant Rassay, and Shaurya Dabas (all advised by Dr. Tabrizian) have had papers accepted to present at the virtual conference this May! Congratulations!
Dingkang Wang will defend his dissertation entitled "Quasi-static Scanning and Monolithic Forward Scanning Electrothermal MEMS Mirrors for LiDAR" at 10:00 am on March 18th.
Zoom link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/97561177511
Meeting ID: 97561177511
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the election of Z. Hugh Fan, Ph.D., Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, to its College of Fellows. Dr. Fan was nominated, reviewed, and elected by peers and members of the College of Fellows for significant contributions to the field of microfluidics, particularly in device development and biomedical applications.
Renuka Bowrothu will defend her dissertation entitled "Energy Efficient Passives for 5G and Millimeter Wave Applications" at 2:00 pm on March 16th.
Zoom link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/97465468198?pwd=NEVEU2hTYk5WeFV2YXF3RWsxU054UT09
Meeting ID: 974 6546 8198
Passcode: 594252
Check out this article from UF on IMG professor Dr. Saeed Moghaddam that discusses his group’s research on a new graphene-oxide hemodialysis membrane! Awesome work!
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Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian, IMG and ECE professor, has been awarded the 2020-21 Pramod P. Khargonekar Award for the most outstanding junior faculty member undergoing tenure and promotion review this past fall! Excellent work, and congratulations!
For more: https://news.ece.ufl.edu/2021/02/19/tabrizian-receives-2020-21-khargonek...
Congratulations to IMG member Richard Rode, advised by Dr. Saeed Moghaddam, for their latest paper on using graphene oxide as an active membrane in dialysis applications that was featured on the cover of Advanced Materials Interfaces!
Check it out here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/admi.202001985
