Past Meetings
2024 MEETINGS
Mar. 27th, 2024
Title: Nonlinear Resonance In MEMS and Its Implication for MEMS Performance (Video)
Speaker: Dr. Hanna Cho, Associate Professor at Ohio State University
Location: Zoom
Feb. 28th, 2024
Title: Optical MEMS Technology (Video)
Speaker: Dr. Asif A. Godil, CEO & Founder of AG Microsystems
Location: Texas Instruments, 2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95051
Building, Room: Building E, 1st Floor, Conference Center (ECC1)
Jan. 31st, 2024
Title: Unleashing the Power of Mechanics on CMOS: Hafnia Nanoelectromechanical Systems for RF Frequency Control (Video)
Speaker: Dr. Roozbeh Tabrizian, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Florida
Location: Zoom
2023 MEETINGS
Nov. 29th, 2023
Title: Semiconductor Ecosystem Accelerator (Video)
Speaker: Dr. Mitchell Hsing, CEO & Founder of InchFab
Location: Texas Instruments, 2900 Semiconductor Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95051
Building, Room: Building E, 1st Floor, Conference Center (ECC1)
Aug. 30th, 2023
Title: Photonic MEMS Inertial Sensors: Challenges and Opportunities (Video)
Speaker: Dr. Ying Lia Li (Lia), CEO & Founder of Zero Point Motion (ZPM)
Location: Zoom
Jul. 26th, 2023
Title: Control System Cybersecurity: Beyond Network Security to Safeguard Sensors
Speaker: Mr. Joe Weiss, Managing Director at Applied Control Solutions and ISA Fellow
Location: Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053.
Building, Room: Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation (SCDI), 1308.
Jun. 21st, 2023
Fireside Chat with Kurt Petersen (video)
Speaker: Dr. Kurt Petersen, Co-Chair of HardTech Group at Silicon Valley Band of Angels
Location: Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054
Apr. 26th, 2023
Breakthrough Materials for Compact RF Front-end Filters (video)
Speaker: Dr. Benjamin Griffin, Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) Program Manager at DARPA
Location: Zoom
Mar. 29th, 2023
A Review of Piezoelectric Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) Resonator and Filter Technology
Speaker: Dr. David A. Feld, R&D Manager at Skyworks Solutions
Location: Skyworks Solutions, Inc., & Zoom
Feb. 22nd, 2023
From Zero- to First-Order Gas Sensors: Anticipated and Unanticipated Advances (video)
Speaker: Dr. Radislav A. Potyrailo, Principal Scientist at GE Research
Location: Zoom
2022 MEETINGS
Nov. 30th, 2022
MEMS Industry Commercialization Report Card (video)
Speaker: Mr. Roger H. Grace, President of Roger Grace Associates
Location: ZOOM
October 27th, 2022
Aluminum Scandium Nitride Thin Films and Microdevices for Next Generation Nonvolatile Memory, Radio Frequency Filters, and Magnetoelectric Sensors
Speaker: Dr. Troy Olsson, Professor at University of Pennsylvania
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center (ECC1), 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051
October 5th, 2022
Silicon Carbide and Wide-Bandgap Materials MEMS/NEMS: Fundamentals, Progress, and Emerging Applications
Speaker: Dr. Philip Feng, Professor at University of Florida
Location: ZOOM
August 31st, 2022
Polymer Implantable Electrode (PIE) Interfaces to the Nervous System
Speaker: Dr. Ellis Meng, Professor at University of Southern California
Location: ZOOM
Video: link passcode: jzlr+aj9
July 27th, 2022
XBAW Technology – Enabling Next Generation Resonators and Filter Solutions from MHz to GHz range applications
Speaker: Dr. Abhay Kochhar, Staff Device Engineer at Akoustis
Location: ZOOM
March 30th, 2022
Invited Talk: Solving the Advanced Challenges of MEMS Inertial Sensor Design (video)
Speaker: Mr. Brian Van Dyk, Senior Manager in the Computational Products Division at Coventor
Location: ZOOM
February 23rd, 2022
Invited Talk: Integrated Acoustic Wave Microsystems for Nonreciprocal RF and Photonic Signal Processing (video)
Speaker: Dr. Siddhartha Ghosh, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University
Location: ZOOM
January 26th, 2022
Invited Talk: A Future Enabled By Sensors (video)
Speaker: Ilya Gurin, Sr. Staff Sensor Specialist at TDK-InvenSense
Location: ZOOM
2021 MEETINGS
November 17th, 2021
Invited Talk: Ultra-low jitter voltage-controlled BAW oscillators for 5G communications (video)
Speaker: Dr. Ernest Yen, MEMS technologist at Texas Instruments Kilby Labs
Location: ZOOM
September 29th, 2021
Invited Talk: Nonlinear MEMS: Generation, Characterization and Applications of the Chaotic Regime (video Passcode: 9*!?%I@B no space before and after)
Speaker: Dr. Martial Defoort, CNRS researcher at TIMA Laboratory
Location: ZOOM
July 28th, 2021
Invited Talk: “Tiny-but-tough” Gallium Nitride Sensors for Extreme Harsh Environments (video Passcode: hs8.@E1I no space before and after)
Speaker: Dr. Debbie G. Senesky, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Location: ZOOM
Jun 30th, 2021
Invited Talk: Advancing Quantum Computation and Communication with MEMS (video)
Speaker: Dr. Alp Sipahigil, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Location: ZOOM
May 26th, 2021
Invited Talk: Towards Ubiquitous, Passive and Long-Range Mems-Based Tags for Widespread Monitoring (video)
Speaker: Dr. Cristian Cassella, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University
Location: WEBEX
April 28th, 2021
Invited Talk: Introduction to UltraSense Systems Technology (video)
Speaker: Dr. Sina Akhbari, Co-Founder and Chief Sensor Architect at UltraSense Systems Inc
Location: WEBEX
March 31st, 2021
Invited Talk: The Best Reciprocal Resonators Make the Best Non-Reciprocal Systems (video)
Speaker: Dr. Sunil Bhave, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University
Location: WEBEX
January 27th, 2021
Invited Talk: Radio Frequency Microsystems for 5G and IoT Applications: From Acoustic Filters and Circulators to Mechanically Driven Antennas
Speaker: Dr. Songbin Gong, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Location: WEBEX
2020 MEETINGS
August 26th, 2020
Invited Talk: Piezoelectric Films for Microelectromechanical Systems
Speaker: Dr. Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Pennsylvania State University
Location: WEBEX
Slides: Piezoelectric Films for Microelectromechanical Systems (video)
August 15th, 2020
Invited Talk: Advanced Capabilities of Tactical Grade Accelerometers
Speaker: Mr. Bill Goodman, Founder and CTO at Applied Physics Systems
Location: WEBEX
Slides: Advanced Capabilities of Tactical Grade Accelerometers (video)
July 29th, 2020
Invited Talk: MEMS Sensors: The Path to Mass Production
Speaker: Mr. Paul Pickering, Managing Director at Microtech Ventures
Location: WEBEX
Slides: MEMS Sensors: The Path to Mass Production (video)
February 19th, 2020
Invited Talk: Microresonator-based Optical Frequency Combs: New Material Platforms and Uncharted Frequency Windows
Speaker: Dr. Hossein Taheri, Professor at University of California, Riverside (UCR)
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051.
January 22nd, 2020
Invited Talk: Broad-Spectrum Electronic Biomolecular Sensing
Speaker: Dr. Roger T. Howe, Professor at Stanford University
Location: Qualcomm, Inc., Building B Cafeteria, 3165 Kifer Road, Santa Clara, CA 95051.
2019 MEETINGS
November 20th, 2019
Invited Talk: Biosensors and Nonreciprocal MEMS with Enhanced Wave-Matter Interactions
Speaker: Dr. J. Sebastian Gomez-Diaz, Professor at University of California, Davis
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051.
October 23rd, 2019
Invited Talk: Inside Smart Medicines and Leads
Speaker: Dr. Mark Zdeblick, CTO and Co-Founder of Proteus Digital Health
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051.
June 19th, 2019
Invited Talk: Overview of PRIGM, SHRIMP, & AMEBA Followed by a Discussion on MEMS Related Research Interests
Speaker: Dr. Ronald Polcawich, Program Manager at DARPA MTO office
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051.
May 22nd, 2019
Invited Talk: Microchemical Sensors for Environmental and Process Monitoring
Speaker: Prof. Roya Maboudian, Professor at Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051.
February 20th, 2019
Invited Talk: Sensors/RF Digitization for IoT-Applications Using All-Digital-Very-Scalable-ADC TAD
Speaker: Dr. Takamoto Watanabe, Research at DENSO CORP, Advanced Technology research Labs
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051.
2018 MEETINGS
November 28th, 2018
Invited Talk: Evolution of NextInput as a Sensing Company While Creating a Market
Speaker: Ali Foghi, CEO and co-Founder of NextInput
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051.
November 7th, 2018
Invited Talk: Next Generation neural interfaces: from physical implants to virtual implants
Speaker: Dr. Maysam Chamanzar, Prof. at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051.
September 26th, 2018
Invited Talk: Learn how to leverage Cloud CAE to minimize cost, risk, and time-to-market for new MEMS technologies
Speaker: Ian Campbell, CEO of OnScale
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051.
Slides: Learn how to leverage Cloud CAE to minimize cost, risk, and time-to-market for new MEMS technologies
August 22nd, 2018
Invited Talk: Near-Zero Power Sensors and RF Receivers for Persistent Sensing and Communication in Energy Starved Environments
Speaker: Dr. Troy Olsson, Manager at DARPA Microsystems Technology Office (MTO)
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051.
July 25th, 2018
Invited Talk: Paradigm Shift in MEMS toward Multi-Functional and Near-Zero Power Integrated Microsystems
Speaker: Prof. Matteo Rinaldi, Associate Professor at North-eastern University, Boston, MA
Location: Qualcomm, Inc., Building B Cafeteria, 3165 Kifer Road, Santa Clara, CA 95051.
May 30th, 2018
Invited Talk: MEMS Start-ups in Silicon Valley
Speaker: Dr. Kurt Petersen, KP-MEMS & Silicon Valley Band of Angels
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051.
Slides: MEMS Start-ups in Silicon Valley
April 25th, 2018
Invited Talk: Speeding Ahead with a Bright Light on Texas Instruments Digital Miro-Mirror Device (DMD)
Speaker: Dr. Rick Oden, Texas Instruments Inc.
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051.
Slides: Speeding Ahead with a Bright Light on Texas Instruments Digital Miro-Mirror Device (DMD).
March 27th, 2018
Invited Talk: Bringing True Medical-grade Data to your Fingertips through a Next Generation Wearable
Speaker: Kevin Zhao, Profusa
Location: NVIDIA, 2800 Scott Blvd., Building E, Santa Clara, CA
February 28th, 2018
Invited Talk: Bringing advanced MEMS Technologies from Concept to Market
Speaker: Marcellino Gemelli, Bosch Sensortec
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95052.
Slides: Bosch Sensortec – Bringing Advanced MEMS Technologies from Concept to Market
January 17th, 2018
Invited Talk: Puny Sensors in a Big Data World
Speaker: Dr. John Suh, Hyundai Ventures
Location: Texas Instruments Building E Conference Center, 2900 Semiconductor Dr., Santa Clara, CA 95051.
2017 MEETINGS
November 15th, 2017
Chapter Elections and Invited Talk: Disruptive Peristaltic Pump Technology Using Flow Channels Formed of Stiff Materials
Speaker: Dr. Phil Barth
September 20th, 2017
Invited Talk: Next Generation MEMS Manufacturing
Speakers: Dr. Alissa Fitzgerald
Slides: 170920 IEEE-SVBA AMFitzgerald_Next Generation MEMS Manufacturing_final
August 23rd, 2017
Invited Talk: Hybrid CMOS/NEMS for Neuromorphic Electronics
Speakers: Professor Rajit Manohar
July 26th, 2017
PARC’s MicroAssembler Project
Speakers: Dr. Eugene Chow
May 17th, 2017
The Importance of Seeing Earnestly or how Detectors and the Precision Power Paradigm Alter our View
Speakers: Dr. Meg Abraham
April 19th, 2017
SmallTech Consulting on Three MEMS Topics
Speakers:Dr. Leslie Fields, Dr. Mateusz Bryning, and Dr. Phil Barth
March 22, 2017
The ‘How & Why’ a Deceptively Simple Acoustic Resonator Became the Basis of a Multi-Billion Dollar Industry
Speaker: Richard Ruby, Director of Technology at Broadcom
February 22, 2017
Human-Robot Interaction and Whole-Body Robot Sensing
Speaker:Professor Vladimir Lumelsky, University of Wisconsin-Madison, IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
January 25, 2017
Bonding Technology for Hybrid Integration
Speaker:Dr. Guilian Gao, Invensas
2016 MEETINGS
November 30, 2016
The Kidney Project
Speaker:Professor Shuvo Roy, UCSF
October 13, 2016
IEEE Workshop on Flexible/Printed/Fabric Sensors and Systems
Organizers:
Roger Grace, Roger Grace Associates, General Chair (rgrace@rgrace.com)
Ramesh Ramadoss, IEEE, Technical Chair (Dr.Ramesh.Ramadoss@ieee.org)
Brent Lunceford, IEEE, Exhibits Chair (brent.lunceford.us@ieee.org)
Rick Davis, Northeastern University, Alumni and Marketing Chair
Host:PK Agarwal, Regional Dean and CEO, Northeastern University-Silicon Valley
September 20, 2016
How Will LiDAR Improve Self-Driving Cars?
Speaker: Pieter Kerstens, VP Velodyne Lidar
August 10, 2016
The Future of the Commodity MEMS Design and Manufacturing
Pre-meeting slides
Speaker: Dr. Stephen R. Breit, VP Engineering, Coventor, Inc
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June 22, 2016
Trillion Sensors, Foundation for Global Exponential Economy (Click for Slides)
Speaker: Dr. Janusz Bryzek, TSensors and eXo Systems
May 18th, 2016
The “new” Internet of Things
Speaker: Peter Hartwell, Invensense Inc.
Apr. 20th, 2016
Piezoelectric micromachined ultrasonic transducers in consumer electronics; the next little thing?
Speaker: Prof. David Horsley, U.C. Davis
Mar. 2nd, 2016
IEEE MEMS & BSAC jointly present
2016 Spring Research Review and IAB Meeting
Feb. 24th, 2016
The long path from MEMS Resonators to Timing Products
Slides
Speaker: Prof. Tom Kenny, Stanford University
Jan. 27th, 2016
Metal Oxide Sensor and Signal Conditioning for Indoor Air Quality Sensing; Gas Sensor Principles, Technology, and Application for Consumer Indoor Air Quality.
Speaker: John Bergstrom, Manager, Environmental Sensors, ZMD America Inc.
2015 MEETINGS
Dec. 15th, 2015
IEEE MEMS, NIST & TI jointly present
MEMS revolution in Atomic Sensing — from Tiny Atomic Clocks to Ultra-sensitive Magnetometry
Speakers: Drs. John Kitching, NIST and Rahul Mhaskar, Geometrics, Inc.
Oct. 28th, 2015
IEEE & SEMI joint workshop on
MEMS Standards – Current Status and Future
Sept. 23rd, 2015
Title: Low Power MEMS-Enabled Wireless Transceivers.
Speaker: Prof. Clark Nguyen, UC Berkeley.
Jul. 22nd, 2015
Title: Gallium Nitride: A New Platform for Sensing Technology
Speaker: Prof. Debbie Senesky, Stanford University.
Jun. 17th, 2015
Title: Zero-Power Sensors for the Trillion Sensor Universe.
Speaker: Dr. Joseph R. Stetter, KWJ Engineering Inc. and SPEC Sensors LLC.
Apr. 1st, 2015
Title: MEMS are becoming 3D and atomically precise
Speaker: Prof. Andrei Shkel, UC Irvine
Sponsor: Google Inc.
Feb. 25th, 2015
Title: Building Successful MEMS Company: From Start to IPO
Speaker: Mr. Steve Nasiri, Nasiri Ventures
Sponsor: Google Inc.
Jan. 28th, 2015
Title: Lab-on-Chip Technologies Beyond the Diffraction Limit: Ebola Detection and Cancer Diagnostics
Speaker: Prof. Ahmet Ali Yanik, UC Santa Cruz
2014 MEETINGS
Nov. 19th, 2014
Title: Innovative Pressure Sensing Solutions.
Speaker: Mr. Holger Doering, Chief Operating Officer, Silicon Microstructures, Inc.
Sponsor: SoftMEMS LLC
Oct. 22nd, 2014
Title: MEMS enabled microscopes for in-vivo studies of cancer biology.
Speaker: Prof. Olav Solgaard, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University.
Sponsor: Acuity Inc.
Aug. 27th, 2014
Title: RF MEMS: From Research to Products.
Speaker: Prof. Gabriel Rebeiz, Wireless Communications Industry Chair Professor, University of California San Diego.
June 25th, 2014
Title: MEMS on Alternate Substrates: A Case Study with Biometric Sensors.
Speaker: Dr. KG Ganapathi, General Manager, MEMS Sensors Business Unit, Lenovo Group.
May 28th, 2014
Title: MEMS in SEMI – The Role of a Global Industry Association in Advancing the MEMS Industry.
Speaker: Bettina Weiss, Vice President, Business Development, SEMI.
April 30th, 2014
Title: MEMS Wars: A New Hope.
Speaker: Dr. Kurt Petersen, Palios Inc.
March 18th, 2014
Title: Coupled-Filed MEMS Simulations.
Speaker: Dr. Metin Ozen, ANSYS Inc.
February 26th, 2014
Title: FBAR and FMOS Technology from a MEMS Perspective.
Speaker: Dr. Stephen Gilbert, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Avago Technologies Inc.
Short Talk: Advanced Metal Eutectic Bonding for High Volume MEMS Packaging (Sumant Sood, SUSS-MicroTech)
January 22nd, 2014
Title: Emergence Trillion Sensors Movement.
Speaker: Dr. Janusz Bryzek, VP Development, MEMS and Sensing Solutions, Fairchild Semiconductor Inc.
Affiliate Meetings:
May 20th, 2015 (Wednesday) 8:00 AM-5:00 PM.
13th Annual MEPTEC MEMS Technology Symposium
May 21st, 2015 (Thursday) 8:00 AM-5:00 PM.
First Annual Internet of Things Symposium
Apr. 2nd, 2015 (SCV-Reliability and SFBA-MEMS)
Title: Surface and Materials Engineering for Enhanced MEMS Reliability
Speaker: Prof. Roya Maboudian, Dept of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley.
Dec. 10th, 2014 (SCV-CPMT and SFBA-MEMS)
Title: Tools for Thermal Analysis: Thermal Test Chips
Speaker: Tom Tarter, Package Science Services LLC.
April 24th, 2014 (SCV-CPMT and SFBA-MEMS)
Title: The Evolution of Laser Singulation – for ICs, MEMS, LEDs, yield, grooving, recent advances.
Speaker: Devin Martin, Manager of Technology Development, Disco Hi-Tec America
April 21st, 2014 (SCV-CAS and SCV-SSC)
Title: Ultrasonic 3D Rangefinder on a Chip – signal path, frames, range error; MEMS, ASIC
Speakers: Dr. Richard Przybyla, Chirp Microsystems.
February 27th, 2014 (SCV-CPMT and SFBA-MEMS)
Title: Probing Interfacial Contact via MEMS-based Microinstrumentation.
Speaker: Dr. Roya Maboudian, Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, UC-Berkeley.
October 24th, 2013 (SCV-CPMT and SFBA-MEMS)
Title: MEMS and BioMEMS in Laminates.
Speaker: Prof. Mark Bachman, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California-Irvine.