Jun-Chau Chien is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC). His research focuses on analog/mixed-signal integrated circuits, bioelectronics, and RF/mmWave high-speed ICs. He is also interested in biosensor designs, molecular engineering, and techniques to couple semiconductor technologies with advanced biotechnologies for new platform development.
Prior to joining BSAC, Professor Chien was an Assistant Professor at National...
William (Shihong) Dong received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2023. Now pursuing Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering advised by Professor Clark T-C. Nguyen.
Kadircan received his B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey in 2021. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Quantum Devices Group at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. Alp Sipahigil.
Nikita Lukhanin is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in MEMS at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this, he obtained a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois as well as an A.S. in Engineering Science from College of DuPage.
Kristofer S.J. Pister is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center.
Professor Pister's research interests include Autonomous microsystems: silicon micro-robots and wireless sensor networks. MEMS, low power circuits, energy scavenging.
Prior to joining the faculty at UC Berkeley, Professor Pister was an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of...
Alp Sipahigil is the Chang Hui Faculty Fellow and an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He has joint appointments as a Faculty Scientist at the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a supporting appointment at UC Berkeley Physics. His research is in solid-state quantum technologies, with a focus on hybrid quantum devices based on superconducting qubits, nanomechanics, nanophotonics, and atom-like defects in solids. Prior to joining Berkeley in 2021, he was...
Megan Teng is a Ph.D. student in Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley, specializing in MEMS, sensor design, and machine learning. Her research focuses on PMUT-based volumetric environment sensing. She holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering and International Business from National Taiwan University and is a recipient of the Katherine & James Lau Fellowship.
Ya-Chen (Justine) Tsai is now a second year PhD student in EECS Department, UC Berkeley. She received her B.S. in National Taiwan University, Department of Electrical Engineering in 2023. Her research interest focuses on CMOS-based microsystems for biosensing, especially the application catered to electrochemical aptamer-based sensing.
