meLAB News 2023
December 2023
Christmas Celebrations: The group and their families celebrate a Christmas night out at COSMO World Buffet.
Laura, Negin, Priyanka and Pari present their latest research at International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), Istanbul, Turkey.
November 2023
We celebrate the successful spin out of Neuranics and say goodbye to three meLAB members, Asfand, Siming and Finlay, with a dinner event in Glasgow.
Welcome Danial to the Team
Congratulations to our new Dr (Judy) Jungang Zhang on passing her viva with flying colors, earning her doctorate!
October 2023
Halloween fun: The meLAB group took part in a Halloween themed bake-off where Katie was crowned the spookiest baker.
Congratulations to Antonia for her first journal publication entitled ‘Spontaneous Muscle Activity Classification with Delay-Based Reservoir Computing‘ publshed in APL Machine Learning.
Professor Heidari and other colleagues from the University of Glasgow speak at Scottish Parliament as part of the Cross-Party Group on Science and Technology.
Negin and the Neuranics team hosted the annual Magnetomyography Workshop. World-leading academics and clinicians in the field came to Glasgow to discuss thier latest work- it was an inspiring event!
September 2023
New academic year. This September we welcome Hossien and Farman as Post-Doctoral researchers on th CryoCMOS project. Michael and Kirsten join meLAB as PhD students, working on energy harvesting devices, and gravitational wave sensors respectively.
Eve McGlynn Viva Success! The group celebrated the success of Dr Eve McGlynn passing her PhD viva. Well done for all your hard work!
August 2023
Dr Carlos Garcia Nunez joins the University of Glasgow as Lecturer in Electronics and Nanoscale Engineering. He also joined meLAB as co-director, leading the research theme on smart materials and energy systems.
EPSRC funded our research project “Superconducting Gatemon Quantum Computing Enabled by CryoElectronics” in collaboration with Quantum Circuits Group to boost our reserach on cryo-CMOS for quantum computing.
July 2023
The President of UESTC visited our University and our labs.
Prof Maryam Shojaei Baghini vists meLAB. Out guest from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay visits the labs of meLB and gives a seminar on the technology behind an affordable and acurate frequency measurement system.
Neuranics team down under. Negin, Siming, Huxi and Hossein visited the University of Sydney.
Crossbrain in Spain. Hadi, Finlay, Laura, Mahdieh and Judy attended the EU Horizon CROSSBRAIN project meeting in San Sebastian.
Dr Haotian Chen from Biomedical Engineering Division at UofG delivered a seminar to our group.
June 2023
NEWCAS: Judy, Mahdeih present their research on smart stents and magnetostrictive devices at the International Conference on New Circuits and Systems (NEWCAS) in Edinburgh. Kevin also presents his work on paramagnetic particle detection at his first ever conference. Well done everyone!
Graduation season: Congratulations to Dr Yuchi Liu, Dr Asfand Tanwear and Dr Hannah Thomson for officially graduating University of Glasgow with their PhDs.
meLAB Away Day: We spent the day at Crieff Hydro reflecting on the previous year, taking part in team building activities and having inspiring discussions to ensure another successful year together.
meLAB Away Day: We spent the day at Crieff Hydro reflecting on the previous year, taking part in team building activities and having inspiring discussions to ensure another successful year together.
Local Celebrity: Maria’s paper is published and gains publicity as she is invited to talk about her research to various news stations. Read an article here: “Glasgow Scientists find possible treatment for drug resistant epilepsy”
Congratulations to our newest Dr Mengyao (Amy) Yuan on successfully passing her viva today with minor correction 🥳 Many thanks to examiners Prof Tughrul Arslan, Dr Mahmoud Wagih and Dr Ola Popoola.
May 2023
Good News! Our article entitled “Bioresorbable Insertion Aids for Brain Implantable Flexible Probes: A Comparative Study on Silk Fibroin, Alginate and Disaccharides” has been accepted to the to Advanced NanoBiomed Research! Well done Maria, Eve, Bhavani, Finlay and the team!
Another good News! Our article entitled “Alignment of Magnetic Sensing and Clinical Magnetomyography,” has been accepted to the to Frontiers of Neuroscience! Congratulations Negin, Huxi, Siming and the team!
Welcome to our team new member Mohammed who will work as PDRA in the Innovate UK CryoCMOS project!
April 2023
Four papers from our group have been accepted to the IEEE NEWCAS 2023 in Edinburgh! Congratulations Mahdieh, Judy, Kevin, Shahid and the team.
Our article titled “Self-powered implantable CMOS photovoltaic cell with 18.6% efficiency” has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices! Well done Jinwei, Pari, Finlay and the team!
March 2023
Good news for acceptance of Judy’s article titled “A compact dual-band implantable antenna for wireless biotelemetry in anteriovenous grafts” to the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation! Well done Judy, Rupam, Huxi and the team!
We celebrate the International Women’s Day (March 8) and embrace equity:
February 2023
Our CROSSBRAIN project gets a lot of attention in the news:
University of Glasgow: UofG RESEARCHERS TO POWER WIRELESS ‘MICROBOT’ IN THE BRAIN
The Engineer: Crossbrain project to tackle seizures using nanobots
FutureScot: Glasgow researchers to create brain bot to combat epileptic seizures
Health tech Newspaper: CROSSBRAIN project aiming to develop robots capable of predicting epileptic seizures
Innovation Origins: Injectable microbots to predict and mitigate epileptic seizures
UK Daily: Glasgow researchers are developing a brain bot to combat epileptic seizures
Congratulations to our newest Dr Asfand Tanwear on successfully passing his viva today with minor correction 🥳 Many thanks to examiners Prof Pantelis Georgiou, Dr Andrew Feeney and Dr JeffKettle.
January 2023
Welcome to our team new member Laura who will work as PhD in the EU CROSSBRAIN project!
One paper from meLAB have been accepted for presentation at the IEEE ISCAS 2023 conference in South Korea. Well done Stavroula and Meraj!
Analog Device Ireland visited our lab and discussed the ASIC design advancements to our School.