Team

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2017-18
We are chip experts. We engineer innovative technologies at the micro and nano scales. We harness the power of microchips. We design. We fabricate. We simulate. We manufacture. We package. We apply. We do all that while having great fun

Recent Graduates

Maisy Lam

Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering

Maisy received her bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Finance at the University of Miami. Her research interests included MEMS, sensing devices and machine learning for application in implantable medical devices (IMDs). Maisy is currently pursuing her PhD at MIT with an NSF Graduate Fellowship

Berk Basarer

Undergraduate, Electrical Engineering

Berk Basarer received a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Miami. His research interests at the lab included VLSI, nanotechnology, and MEMS devices. He also worked on electrical and computer interfaces for biosensor applications. He is currently employed at Apple

Burak Yildirim

PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Burak received his M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Bridgeport, CT. His PhD research interests included MEMS devices, microfluidics, nanotechnology, biosensors, SAW devices, and characterization of zinc oxide thin film. He is currently an Assistant Professor at Bartin University, Turkey.

PhD Alumni

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  • Dr. Sukru U. Senveli

    PhD Dissertation: Novel Acoustic Wave Microsystems for Biophysical Studies of Cells, May 2016

    He is currently working at Qualcomm 

  • Dr. Alperen Toprak

    PhD Dissertation: MEMS Scale CMOS Compatible Energy Harvesters Using Piezoelectric Polymers for Sustainable Electronics, Aug. 2017  

    He is currently working at Apple 

  • Dr. Randil Gajasinghe

    PhD Dissertation: MEMS Scale Integrated Lab-On-­a-Chip System for Detection and Analysis of Human Tumor Cells, December 2017

    He is currently working at Intel 

Master's Alumni

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  • Shelly Benaim

    Shelly worked on modeling and simulating ZnO nanowire FET biosensor by determining the proper dimensions of the system

    She is currently working at Apple

  • Jorge Gomez

    Jorge received his BS in Electrical Engineering from FIU where he specialized in computer systems, electronics and power systems

    He is working for Twilio. Before, he worked for NextEra Energy

  • Dr. Yagmur Akin Yildirim

    MS Thesis Title: Integrated Biocompatible Piezoelectric Micropump System with Nanoliter Volume Precision, August 2016

Undergraduate

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  • Conor Gallimore

    Undergraduate Student

    Major: Electrical Engineering

    Conor worked on modeling and animating microstructures as well as programming test equipment for automated measurements

    He is currently working at Northrop Grumman

  • Basile Bougenout


    Undergraduate Student 

    Major: Computer Engineering

    Basile worked on Evolutionary Algorithms on FPGA boards. He completed his MS degree at EPFL. He is currently working at Boeing

  • Jon Dyke

    Graduate Student

    Major: Electrical and Computer Engineering

    He is currently working at Magic Leap

  • Ryan Mortimer


    Undergraduate Student

    Major: Computer Engineering & Computer Science

    Ryan Mortimer worked on modeling of detection methods and lower limits for in vivo coronary artery disease.

    He is currently working at Bloomberg LP as a software engineer

  • Jorge Penas


    Undergraduate Student

    Major: Biomedical Engineering

    Jorge worked on surface functionalization studies of Zinc oxide for cell capture and biosensor applications. He received a Masters of Public Health at Louisiana State University. 

    He is currently working at Abbott

  • Andy Mok

    Undergraduate Student

    Major: Electrical Engineering & Mathematics

    Andy worked on piezoelectric energy harvesters. He studied on an equivalent circuit model and FEM simulation of piezoelectric cantilever beam

    He is currently working for Square as a software engineer

  • Ryan Pearson

    Undergraduate Student

    Major: Premedical Track, Emory University

    Ryan worked on functionalization of zinc oxide surfaces as well as 3D modeling and animation of

    microstructures

    He was a Pre-Med student at Emory University and he worked at JP Morgan as an analyst

  • Daniel Gonzalez

    Undergraduate Student

    Major: Biomedical Engineering & Economics

    Daniel studied the effects of gold nanoparticles under controlled heating conditions on cancer cells.

    He is currently at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Alumni

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  • Samantha Gangi

    Undergraduate Student

    Major: Computer Engineering, University of Miami

    Samantha worked on modeling and animation of microstructures like micropumps as well as reinforcement learning on FPGAs

    She is currently working at Tektronix

  • Marcos Feddersen

    Undergraduate Student

    Major: Electrical Engineering & Applied Physics

    Marcos Feddersen worked on modeling of nanowires for energy harvesting and biosensing applications

    He received his MS degree from Standford University

    He is currently working at Google

  • Rafael M. Braga

    Undergraduate Student

    Major: Electrical Engineering

    Rafael worked on the 3D modeling and animating of microfluidic devices, electronic integration

    He is currently working at Novae as a Business Intelligent Analyst 

  • Miquel Valois-Velez

    Undergraduate Student

    Major: Electrical Engineering, University of Florida

    Miquel worked on a DAQ device as well as helped create 3D modeling and animations of microstructures

    He received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Florida

  • Henry Thomas


    Undergraduate Student

    Major: Biology & Computer Science

    Henry worked on a cancer cell detection using immunological techniques involving antigen-antibody interactions and fluorescent microscopy

    He is currently at Eastern Virginia Medical School for the Medical Master's Program

  • Coby Reimers


    Undergraduate Student

    Major: Physics & Applied Mathematics

    Jacob worked on the synthesis and stabilization of nanoparticles

    He is currently at the University of Rochester for his Ph.D. studies

  • Blake Piccolo

    Undergraduate Student

    Major: Electrical Engineering

    Blake worked on modeling of a tri-layer piezoelectric energy generator constructed of silicon, zinc oxide, and silicon dioxide

    He is currently working at Fast Inc.

  • Andrew Teblum

    Undergraduate Student

    Major: Molecular Biology at UCF

    Andrew was involved with the synthesis of gold coated iron oxide nanoparticles

    He is currently working at Mars Research as project director