Members
Faculty
Arjang Hassibi received the B.S. degree with honors from the University of Tehran, Iran in 1997 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in 2001 and 2005, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From March 2005 to August 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. Since August 2006 he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Texas at Austin where he is currently an Assistant Professor. He has also held research positions in Barcelona Design, Stanford Genome Technology Center, Panorama Research Institute, and Xagros Genomics which he co-founded in 2001. His areas of interest are biosensors and bioelectronics, integrated sensors, integrated microarrays, biomedical VLSI systems, and spectroscopy.
Office: ACES 3.140 • Tel: (512) 232-7916 • Fax: (512) 471-8967
Email: arjang [at] mail [dot] utexas [dot] edu
Students
Byungchul (Brandon) Jang is working towards his Ph.D degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UT Austin. His current research interests are in analog/mixed signal IC design/modeling, biosensors and integrated microarrays. Byungchul received his B.S. degree from the University of Nevada at Reno and M.S. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2001 and 2003 respectively, both in Electrical Engineering.
He did internship in Samsung Electronics (System LSI), Jamtech, and Texas Instruments (HPA) to design many different analog systems such as high speed data converters and class D audio amplifiers. In addition to circuit design, He worked on communications and signal processing area in his master program. He holds FE, won the 3rd place in IEEE undergraduate paper contest, and received national scholarship by the Ministry of commerce, industry, and energy from South Korea.
Office: ACES 3SE02D• Tel: (512) 232-7925 • Fax: (512) 471-8967
Email: bjang [at] mail [dot] utexas [dot] edu
Arun Manickam is a Ph.D. student is Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of UT Austin. His research interests are IC design for biomedical applications and interface modeling. His current research is on developing models for electrodes used in bioelectronic systems and a the design of an impedance spectroscopy SoC. He completed his undergraduate in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 2006 from Anna University, India.
Office: ACES 3SE02F • Tel: (512) 232-7925 • Fax: (512) 471-8967
Email: mmarun [at] mail [dot] utexas [dot] edu
Shreepriya Das is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UT Austin. He is interested in stochastic modeling and efficient CAD for biosensor technologies and biomedical ICs. Shreepriya received his B.Tech in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, in 2007.
Office: ACES 3.130 • Tel: (512) 232-7923 • Fax: (512) 471-8967
Email: shree [at] mail [dot] utexas [dot] edu
Aaron Chevalier is currently a Masters student in Biomedical Engineering of UT Austin. He completed his B.A. in Physics from The University of Texas at Austin in 2007. His research interests are in biosensor assay development and real-time microarrays.
Office: ACES 2.424A • Tel: (512) 232-7925 • Fax: (512) 471-8967
Email: achevalier [at] mail [dot] utexas [dot] edu
Sahar Ayazian received her B.S. degree from University of Tehran in 2001 and her M.S. degree from Sharif University of Technology in 2003, both in electrical engineering. She is now a PhD candidate at the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of UT Austin. Her current research project focuses on infra-red-based implants and challenges related to in-vivo integrated biosensor.
Office: ACES 3SEo2D • Tel: (512) 232-7925 • Fax: (512) 471-8967