IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine - Summer 2017 - 47

Recent Silicon Valley SSCS Chapter Activities:
Seminars, Webinars, and DL Talks

The IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society
Santa Clara Valley Chapter (SCVSSCS) held a number of seminars,
webinars, and Distinguished Lecturer
(DL) talks in the spring of this year.
This article highlights recent events
held and sponsored by the Chapter. Please feel free to contact us
if you are interested in presenting
at o u r m e et i ng s , w o u ld l i ke to
attend the Chapter events, or wish
to volunteer. More information on
Chapter activities and upcoming
seminars is available on the Chapter website.

"On the Relationship Between
Nyquist Rate and Health Care:
Silicon Systems to Close the
Sub-Sampling Gap in Health
Screening and Monitoring"
This seminar, presented on 20 April
2017 by Prof. Amin Arbabian, Stanford University, focused on biomedical applications of silicon integrated
systems in which Arbabian outlined
his research on medical sensing and
imaging devices that focus on increasing the sampling rate of health screening tests to approach a Nyquist rate.
This Chapter had also hosted Arbabian in 2014 on a different research area,
"Innovations in RF Systems," on Internet-of-Everything applications. These RF
systems include mm-wave Tb/s links,
radar imaging and gesture detection,
mm-wave arrays/systems, medical imaging with microwave signals, and various wireless sensors.
The talk began with an overview
of fundamental health-care problems
including unsustainable cost trajectories and poor outcomes for a variety of
disease states due to a lack of access to
frequent monitoring. The introduction
continued into the difference of precision health versus precision medicine
from the Stanford medical school point
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MSSC.2017.2713129
Date of publication: 25 August 2017

Prof. Amin Arbabian explaining biomedical imaging techniques at the SCV-SSCS.

SSCS webinar program speaker, Prof. Amin Arbabian, receiving the certificate of
appreciation from Silicon Valley SSCS/EMBS Chapters at Texas Instruments in Santa Clara.

of view, leading to opportunities for
new technologies as possible solution.
Arbabian covered three main
projects in his group with different approaches: 1) Medical Tricorder, a multiphysics approach for a new portable
imaging and screening technology,
2) Screening the GI Tract, new monitoring platforms for personalized and precision screening, and 3) Electroceuticals,
implantable devices for personalized

closed-loop neuromodulation treatments that replace pharmaceuticals.
Demo videos were included, showing
real in vivo and in vitro applications in
phantom and animal models. The talk
concluded with a Q&A session.
This seminar attracted professionals from academia and industry in Silicon Valley and was cosponsored by
the IEEE Silicon Valley Engineering in
Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS).

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