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Canada Research Chair in Smart Biomedical Microsystems
and the ReSMiQ Microsystems Strategic Alliance in Quebec. We acknowledge support from the W. Garfield Weston
Foundation and the Weston Brain Institute, as well as from
the Sentinel North Strategy at UniversitÃ© Laval and from the
Canada First Research Excellence Fund.
Gabriel Gagnon-Turcotte (S'15) received
the B.E. degree in Computer Engineering
from Laval University, Quebec City, Canada, in 2014, the M.Sc. degree in Electrical
Engineering from Laval University, in
2015, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering from Laval University in 2019. Currently, he is
working as a research professional engineer at the Biomedical Microsystems Laboratory, Laval University, Quebec City, Canada. His main research interests are neural
compression algorithms, wireless implantable biomedical
systems, mixed-signal/analog IC design, system-level digital design and VLSI signal processing. Since his master's
degree, he has won several awards, including the BioCAS'15 and LSC'18 Best Paper Award (runner up), the Canadian Governor General's Academic Gold Medal, and the
Brian L. Barge Microsystems Integration Award.
Gu illau me Bilo de au re ceive d t he
B.Eng. in electrical engineering in 2018
and started his M. Sc. in electrical engineering at Laval University where, in
2019, he made the passage to the Ph.D.
degree in electrical engineering with
the Biomedical Microsystems Laboratory with Prof. B.
Gosselin. His main research interests include mixed-signal/analog IC design, wireless biomedical sensors, digital signal processing and embedded system design.
Olivier Tsiakaka (M'15) received the
B.Sc. degree in electronics engineering
and the M.Sc. degree in electrical and
computer engineering from Pierre and
Marie-Curie University, France, in 2012
and 2014, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical, electronics and biomedical engineering from Sorbonne University, France, in 2018. He is
currently pursuing as a postdoctoral researcher at the
Biomedical Microsystems Laboratory, Laval University,
Quebec City, Canada. His research mainly includes biomedical engineering and instrumentation.
Benoit Gosselin (S'02-M'08) obtained the Ph.D. degree
in Electrical Eng. from Ãcole Polytechnique de MontrÃ©al
in 2009, and he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at the
Georgia Institute of Technology in 2010. He is currently a
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Full Professor at the Depart. of ECE at
UniversitÃ© Laval, where he holds the
Canada Research Chair in Smart Biomedical Microsystems. His research interests
include wireless microsystems for brain
computer interfaces, analog/mixed-mode
and RF integrated circuits for neural engineering, interface
circuits of implantable sensors/actuators and point-of-care
diagnostic microsystems for personalized healthcare. Dr
Gosselin is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on
Biomedical Circuits and Systems and he is Chair and Founder of the IEEE CAS/EMB Quebec Chapter (2015 Best New
Chapter Award). He served on the committees of several
int'l IEEE conferences including BIOCAS, NEWCAS, EMBC,
LSC and ISCAS. He was Program Chair of EMBC 2020, the
first virtual EMBC in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
His significant contribution to biomedical microsystems
research led to the commercialization of the first wireless
microelectronic platform to perform optogenetics and electrophysiology in parallel with his partner Doric Lenses Inc.
He is Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and
he has received several awards, including the prestigious
NSERC Brockhouse Canada Prize, and the Prix GÃ©nie Innovation of the Quebec professional engineering association OIQ.
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