Maysam Ghovanloo was born in January 1973. He received his B.Sc. in electrical engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran in 1994. His undergraduate research was focused on developing an 8kW microprocessor-controlled power supply for Nd -YAG Lasers. As an undergrad intern at the Etrat institute of technology, he worked on PC-Interfacing for industrial automotive robotic applications. He received his M.Sc. in biomedical engineering from Amirkabir Institute of Technology, Tehran, Iran in 1997. His master's thesis was on development of a multi-site physiologic recording system for investigation of the neural assemblies. From 1994 to 1998 he worked part-time at the Industrial Development for Electronic Application Inc., where he participated in the design and development of a modular patient care monitoring system. In December 1998 he founded Sabz Negar Rayaneh Co. Ltd., where he manufactured physiology and pharmacology research laboratory instruments such as precision bio-amplifiers and isolated stimulators.
He started his Ph.D. at the EECS department of the University of Michigan in January 2000 with a major in circuits and microsystems and a minor in solid-states. During summer-2002 he was with the Advanced Bionics Inc. working on the spinal-cord stimulator project. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering in July 2004. In his Ph.D. research, he developed a wireless microsystem for neural stimulating microprobes, which can be used in a variety of neuroprosthetic applications. He was a faculty of the NC State University from 2004-2007 at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He joined the faculty of Georgia Institute of Technology in June 2007 where he is currently an assistant professor and the director of the GT-Bionics Laboratory in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Ghovanloo has been a member of the technical program committee at the IEEE Midwest Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS-2007) and Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS-2007) conferences. He has organized special sessions on Neuroengineering Circuits & Microsystems at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS’07) and Modern Assistive Technologies at the 29th IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS-2007) conferences. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and IEEE Solid-State Circuits, Circuits and Systems, and Engineering in Medicine and Biology societies. He currently serves on the Analog Signal Processing (ASP), Sensory Systems (SSTC), and Biomedical Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) technical committees of the IEEE Circuits and Systems society.
Professional Interests
• Low power analog/digital/mixed-mode circuit design for wireless, biomedical, sensor, and RF applications.
• System integration and interface design for operating micro, nano, and bio-systems.
• Innovation and leadership in the field of implantable devices, neural interfaces, and assistive technologies.
Academic and Industrial Experience
June 2007 ~ Assistant Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of
Present Technology, Atlanta, GA
Dec. 2004 ~ Affiliated Program Faculty, UNC/NCSU Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering,
May 2007 Raleigh, NC
Aug. 2004 ~ Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, NC State University, Raleigh, NC
May 2007
Feb. 2004 ~ Consultant, Nitinol Devices and Components, a J&J company, Fremont, CA
Feb. 2006 Design and development of implantable biomedical devices.
Jan. 2000 ~ Research Assistant, Center for Wireless Integrated MicroSystems (WIMS),
Jul. 2004 Electrical Engineering and Compute Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
May 2002 ~ Technical Intern, Advanced Bionics Corporation, Santa Clarita, CA
Aug. 2002 Mixed-signal circuit design for the Spinal-Cord Stimulator.
Dec. 1998 ~ Founder and CEO, Sabz Nagar Rayaneh Co. LTD, Tehran, Iran
Dec. 1999 Design and manufacturing of physiology and pharmaceutical research laboratory equipments
such as precision bio-amplifiers, isolated stimulators, rotarod, tail flick, cell counter, biological
data acquisition and signal processing hardware and software systems.
Mar. 1997 ~ Senior Engineer, Center for Repair and Reconstruction of Medical Devices, Tehran, Iran
Nov. 1998 Design and development of a compact cell counter. Repair and reconstruction of a wide range of
medical devices from centrifuges to portable X-ray machines.
Oct. 1994 ~ Senior Research Engineer, IDEA Co. LTD, Tehran, Iran
Dec. 1999 Design and development of the first modular “Patient Care Monitoring System” in Iran
equipped with ECG, NIBP, SpO2, RESP, and TEMP modules.
Jan. 1994 ~ Teaching Assistant, University of Tehran, Department of Electrical Engineering, Tehran, Iran
Aug. 1995 Electronic circuit design and solid-state devices.
Mar. 1991 ~ Technical Intern, Etrat Institute of Technology, Tehran, Iran
Jan. 1993 Design and development of computer interfaces for control of automotive industrial robots.
Honors and Awards
• Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, Marquis, 2006-2009
• Nominated for the Rackham graduate school distinguished dissertation award in 2004 by the University of
Michigan Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.
• 41st DAC/ISSCC student design contest third place award in operational category, “A modular 32-site
wireless neural stimulating microsystem,” June 2004.
• 40th DAC/ISSCC student design contest honorable mention award in operational category, “Towards a
button-sized 1024-site wireless cortical microstimulating array,” June 2003.
• Outstanding graduate student. Ranked 1st in the class of 1997 biomedical engineering department, Amir
Kabir University of Technology, Feb. 1997.
• Outstanding undergraduate student. Ranked 4th in the class of 1994 electrical engineering department,
University of Tehran, Aug. 1994.
• Ranked 49th in the national Iranian university entrance exam out of over 300,000 participants in Math and
Physics, May 1990.
• Candidate for the Iranian team in the 21st International Physics Olympiad in 1990. One of 30 |
