The “SICE Forum” hosted by the School of Information and Communication Engineering has invited Prof. Minkyu Je of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) to conduct academic exchanges. Below are the details of the event, and interested students and faculty members are welcome to attend.
Topic:Integrated Circuits and Microsystems for Miniaturized Medical Devices and Neural Interfaces
Time:09:30-10:30 (Thursday), November 9, 2023
Place：Research Building Block B, 302 (KB302), Qingshuihe Campus
Speaker:Prof.Minkyu Je
Host：Prof. Jun Zhou, School of Information and Communication Engineering
Introduction：
Many factors, such as extended lifespan, prevailing obesity, and aging population are increasing the healthcare cost dramatically. Recent advances in semiconductor technologies, as well as innovations in IC design techniques, have led to microsystems with sensing and processing capabilities that can supplement, improve, or even entirely replace traditional diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Integrated biomedical solutions based on IC technologies can offer remarkably effective ways of timely diagnosis, treatment, and management of diseases at a very low cost, never seen before.
In this talk, it will be presented how IC technologies and integrated microsystems enable emerging biomedical applications such as miniaturized medical devices and advanced neural interfaces. It will also be shown that the vital role of the IC technology in biomedical microsystems is providing a seamless interface to various sensors and actuators, high-efficiency operation with various energy sources, high-level integration and miniaturization, embedded intelligence, and connectivity.
Speaker’s profile：
Minkyu Je received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees, all in Electrical Engineering, from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea, in 1996,1998, and 2003, respectively. In 2003, he joined Samsung Electronics, Korea. From 2006 to 2013, he was with Institute of Microelectronics (IME), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore. He was an Associate Professor in the Department of Information and Communication Engineering at Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Korea from 2014 to2015. Since 2016, he has been an Associate Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at KAIST, Korea.
His main research areas include smart sensor interface ICs, ultra-low-power wireless communication ICs, high-efficiency energy supply and management ICs, ultra-low-power timing ICs, resource-constrained computing ICs, as well as microsystem integration for emerging applications such as intelligent miniature biomedical devices, ubiquitous wireless sensor nodes, and future mobile devices. He is an editor of 1 book, an author of 6 book chapters, and has more than 360 peer-reviewed international conference and journal publications. He also has more than 70 patents issued or filed. He has served on the Technical Program Committee and Organizing Committee for various international conferences, symposiums, and workshops including IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), IEEE Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference (A-SSCC), and IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits (SOVC). He has also been a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE Circuits and Systems Society from 2020 to 2022.
