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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

Burak Kahraman received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the Middle East Technical University (METU), Ankara, Turkey, in 2021. In 2019 summer, he conducted a summer internship in TUBITAK with a focus on PCB design with Altium Designer. In the 2020 summer, he also conducted a summer internship at ASELSAN Inc. with a focus on a GUI design with C#. During his senior year, he worked as a candidate engineer at ASELSAN Inc. with a focus on RF design. He joined the Ph.D. program of ECE at WPI in the fall of 2021. His Ph.D. research focus at ICAS Lab is on transcutaneous blood gas monitoring.

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

Parisa Saadatmand Hashemi received her bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran in September 2019. Following her graduation, Parisa started working as an electronic intern and engineer in a start-up firm in Tehran for a year. In this firm, she contributed to designing and implementing magnetic field measurement circuits with the application in navigation systems and metal detector devices. During her experience, she gained valuable hands-on skills in analog and digital circuits design. Additionally, she analyzed a metal detector device through reverse-engineering its circuits and obtained innovative analog circuit design methods. more

Miguel Gonzalez received a B.S. in Electromechanical Engineering from the Technological University of Panama, Panamá City, Panamá, in 2021. He previously worked as an electrical design engineer for T.Y.Lin International for one year. In March 2022 he was awarded the Fulbright scholarship. Now, he plans to receive an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from WPI in 2024. Miguel is interested in IC design and power.

John Matthews graduated from WPI with a B.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) in May 2023 and will complete his M.S. in ECE in May 2024. For the past two summers, he has interned at CommScope, gaining experience in both RF circuit design and test engineering for hybrid fiber-coaxial devices. This coming year, he will complete research in the ICAS lab to further the exploration of new methods for transcutaneous carbon dioxide measurement. 

Nate Reppucci will receive a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2024. In summer of 2022 and 2023, he interned at Generac Power Systems as an electrical engineer working on the design and implementation of solar inverters and optimizers. He is currently working toward his M.S. degree with the Integrated Circuits and Systems (ICAS) Lab with his primary research focus on Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) systems for implantable and wearable medical devices.

Kosti Pano will receive a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in December of 2023. His interests include analog/mixed-signal circuits and FPGA design. He previously interned at Draper Labs as a Mixed-Signal Design Engineer during the summer of 2023 and will join the lab full-time in December. Kosti is also working on improving the Transcutaneous Carbon Dioxide Monitoring device so that it can do onboard processing for his MQP. 

Evan Apinis is an undergraduate student receiving his B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the spring of 2024. He also plans to receive his M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at WPI in the spring of 2025. He has experience working as a Hardware Engineer intern at Viasat with a focus on Programmable Logic. His research at ICAS Lab is on transcutaneous carbon dioxide sensing. 

Naisargi Mehta is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), graduating in Spring 2024. Alongside this, she is working towards her Master’s in ECE, aiming to complete it by Spring 2025. She has experience as a Hardware Systems Engineer at Analog Devices and as a Systems Engineer at Dräger Medical Systems.

Ali Attaa is an undergraduate student receiving his B.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Biomedical Engineering (BME) in the spring of 2024. He has experience working as a Medical Devices Service Engineer at AMSA, and as an ECE Undergraduate Tutor at WPI. His interests are in Analog Design and Digital Signal Processing.

Livvey Kendzulak is an undergraduate student receiving her B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the spring of 2024. She has experience working as an Applications Engineer intern at Intel focusing on FPGA design and customer service, as well as a Hardware Engineer intern at BAE Systems with a focus on schematic verification. Her interests are in digital signal processing and FPGAs.

Ryan McSweeney will receive a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the Spring of 2024. He is interested in microelectronics and embedded software. Ryan previously interned at White River Technologies as an Embedded Software Engineer.