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Ulkuhan Guler received the B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1999. She received the M.Sc. degree in 2003, in Electronics Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, and the Ph.D. degree in Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2014. She joined the National Research Institute of Electronics & Cryptology, TUBITAK, Turkey, in 2006. Until 2015 summer, she was with the Semiconductor Technologies Research (YITAL) group in TUBITAK as a principal design engineer. She worked as a post-doc research fellow in GT-Bionics Lab, Georgia Institute of Technology from 2015 to 2018.  more

Tuna Berk Tufan received the B.Sc. degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, in 2020 and the M.S. degree in electrical and computer engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, USA, in 2022. He interned at Analog Devices as a mixed-signal design engineer during the summer of 2022. He is currently working toward the Ph.D. degree with the Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) Lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His Ph.D. research focuses on the analog and mixed-signal design for wearable, noninvasive sensors for monitoring respiratory functions. more

Amin Hazrati Marangalou received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Urmia University, Urmia, Iran, in 2016 and his M.Sc. degree in Integrated circuit (IC) design from Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, in 2019. During his Master’s program, he focused on the design of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC) and the development of tunable RF filters for RF receivers. From 2019 to 2021, he worked as a junior scientist, conducting research in RFIC design at the research unit “Frontend Integrated Circuits and Systems” at Silicon Austria Labs (SAL) in Villach, Austria. more

Vladimir Vakhter received his Specialist (a 5.5-year) Degree in Electronics & Automation of Physical Machines from the Ural Federal University (UrFU), Russia in 2016. Being awarded a Fulbright grant, he received his M.S. degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), the U.S. in 2021. For two and a half years, Vladimir conducted research on luminescent and scintillation materials at UrFU. Thereafter for two years, he developed a special magneto-optical system for the analysis of ferromagnets at the Russian Academy of Sciences. more

Işıl Işıksalan earned her B.Sc. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey, in February 2023. She completed an internship as a digital circuit design engineer at ATEK MIDAS during the spring break of 2020. In the Fall semester of 2021, she gained experience in semiconductor technologies while working as an external employee at TU-WIEN Institute of Solid State Electronics, during her Erasmus Mobility. During her senior year, Işıksalan began a long-term internship at TUBITAK BILGEM YITAL (Semiconductor Research Laboratory) with a focus on Technology Computer-Aided Design (TCAD). more

Gokalp Cevik received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Istanbul Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 2024. During his senior year, he worked on hardware-accelerated (FPGA-based) machine learning algorithms for computational fluid dynamics. He also completed his summer internship at the Integrated Circuits Research Group at Istanbul Bilgi University in 2023. Before that, he worked on real-time graphics on FPGAs and PDMS-based flexible piezoresistive strain sensors. He joined the Ph.D. program in ECE at WPI in the fall of 2024. His research at the Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) Lab is focused on transcutaneous blood gas monitoring.

KyungRyeol Ko received his B.S. degree in Mechatronics and Electronic Engineering from Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea, in 2024. During his senior year, he worked on embedded IoT sensing platforms for real-time environmental monitoring, gaining experience in sensor signal processing and system integration. He then gained industry experience at Coupang, contributing to large-scale data quality assurance and workflow automation to support reliable commercial operations. He joined the Ph.D. program in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in the spring of 2026 and is currently with the Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) Lab. His research interests include wearable biosensing and low-power mixed-signal IC design for continuous physiological monitoring.

Miriam Centella earned her bachelor’s degree in Electromechanical Engineering from the Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá in 2023. She is a Fulbright-SENACYT scholar, currently pursuing a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). With a year of experience as a maintenance engineer in the food industry, Miriam is now focused on integrating her engineering expertise with advancements in medical devices to drive biomedical innovation. 

Edison Doko received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in 2024. He is currently working toward the M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI, where he is a member of the Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) Lab. From 2023 to 2025, he held roles as an ECE Teaching Assistant, Analog and Power Electronics Intern, and later as an Analog and Power Electronics Engineer at Raytheon, where he worked on inductive DC/DC converters, control circuits, linear regulators, and sensors for radar systems. His M.S. thesis focuses on the design of power management integrated circuits (PMICs) for wearable applications. His interests include mixed-signal integrated circuit design and power management ICs.

Catija I. Abdula received the B.Sc. degree in Management Informatics at the Instituto Superior Politécnico e Universitário (ISPU), currently Universidade À Politécnica, Maputo, Mozambique, in 2010. She received an M.S. degree in Leadership Development in Information and Communication Technologies and the Knowledge Society from the University of Mauritius in 2017 and a Graduate Diploma in Leadership Development in ICT and THE Knowledge Society – Dublin City University in 2015. Currently pursuing a PhD by Research in IoT with a focus on Embedded Computing Systems at the University of Rwanda in 2022. Her Ph.D. research focuses on designing a wearable to monitor and predict the menstrual cycle. She joined the Ph.D program at the Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) Lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Matvey Didenko is an undergraduate student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) pursuing a B.S. degree in Computer Science and is expected to graduate in 2026. He has experience working with embedded systems and has worked with ICAS lab since 2024 on their Transcutaneous Oxygen Monitor. Putting the experience he gained from building his own IoT based products to good use on his research in the 25-26 year, which will focus on enhancing and prolonging CO2 Monitoring in the existing sensors.

Sofia Xie is an undergraduate student receiving her B.S./M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and is expected to graduate in 2026. Motivated by a passion for engineering, she shares her expertise through her work as an Engineering Ambassador and ECE Teaching Assistant. With internship experience in RF circuit testing and system engineering she is focused on developing efficient technology for biomedical innovation.

Dariga Rakhat is an undergraduate student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), pursuing a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, expected graduation date of May 2026. Originally she is from Kazakhstan. Dariga excels in hardware and software integration, specializing in embedded systems, circuit design, and programming.  Her technical skills extend to tools like LTSpice, MATLAB, and soldering. On-campus she is a part of the Eta Kappa Nu Honor Society, Chess, Running, IEEE and SWE clubs. Dariga is now focused on working with wireless power transfer.