BioCAS 2015 Award Winners
NSF-EECS Student Attendance Award
Valerie Binns, Kansas State University
Jared William Hansen, North Dakota State University
Christopher Heelan, Brown University
Jacob Komar, Brown University
Johanna Neuber, University of Texas at Austin
Chinwe Nyenke, Michigan State University
Vira Oleksyuk, Temple University
Adam Page, University of Maryland
IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Student Travel Grant Initiative
Yu-Min Lin, National Taiwan University
Muhammad Awais Bin Altaf, Masdar Institute of Science and Technology
Piyakamal Dissanayaka Manamperi, RMIT University
Nóra Gáspár, Imperial College
Mami Sakata, Yokohama National University
IEEE CAS Charles Desoer Life Science Systems Student Attendance Grant
Jingna Mao, Tsinghua University
Elham Shabani Varaki, University of Western Sydney
Medtronic Industry Choice Award
Mahdi Rasouli, National University of Singapore
Best Demo
A Smart Homecage System with Behavior Analysis and Closed-Loop Optogenetic Stimulation Capacibilities
Yaoyao Jia, Zheyuan Wang, Abdollah Mirbozorgi, Maysam Ghovanloo
Georgia Institute of Technology
Best Paper – 1st Place Winner
A 12-Channel Bidirectional Neural Interface Chip with Integrated Channel-Level Feature Extraction and PID Controller for Closed-Loop Operation
Xilin Liu, Milin Zhang, Andrew Richardson, Timothy Lucas, Jan Van der Spiegel
University of Pennsylvania
Best Paper – 2nd Place Winner
A Wireless Optogenetic Headstage with Multichannel Neural Signal Compression
Gabriel Gagnon-Turcotte, Yoan Lechasseur, (Doric Lenses Inc.), Cyril Bories, Yves De Koninck, Benoit Gosselin
Université Laval
Best Paper – 3rd Place Winner
32k Channels Readout IC for Single Photon Counting Detectors with 75 µm Pitch, ENC of 123 e- rms, 9 e- rms Offset Spread and 2% rms Gain Spread
Pawel Grybos, Piotr Kmon, Piotr Maj, Robert Szczygiel
AGH University of Science and Technology