meLAB news in 2019 

July 2019

• Four papers from meLAB have been accepted to the 4th UK-China Emerging Technologies Conference (UCET2019). Well done guys, keep uo this momentum.

June 2019

• Hadi has been awarded the 2019 IEEE Sensors Council Young Professional Award. Congratulations!
• Dr Heidari becomes a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
• Our paper titled: "An external capacitor-less low-dropout voltage regulator using a transconductance amplifier" has been accepted for publication to the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs.

• A very warm welcome to Dr Vahid Nabaei who has joined the meLAB team as a Research Assistant and is involved in our EU H2020 FETPROACTIVE HERMES project. 

May 2019

• Our collaborator from the Jilin University, China, has been awarded the Chinese Government Scholarship (CSC) to spend one year with meLAB. Congratulations Jingjie!

• Our collaborative work with Dr Francesco Fioranelli group on “Sensor Fusion for Micro-Gestures Recognition” has been accepted to the IEEE Journal on Electromagnetics, RF, and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology. Well done Haobo!

• Two of our research papers have been accepted to IEEE PRIME 2019 Conference: 1) magnetic biosensors 2) implantable PV cells. Well done Siming and Jinwei!

• IEEE Xplore Innovation Spotlight featured our undergraduate research on the wireless power delivery at the Glasgow College UESTC https://innovate.ieee.org/innovation-spotlight/wireless-power-charge-uav-drone/    

 April 2019

•  Our paper on wireless power transfer for implantable devices has been featured as cover image in the Journal of Low-Power Electronics
• Congratulations to our Siming on awarding the IEEE Circuits and Systems Travel Grant to the ISCAS 2019, Sapporo, Japan.
• Dr Hadi has been elected as a Member-at-Large of the IEEE Sensors Council for the 2020-2021 term.
• A very warm welcome to Dr Rupam! who has joined the meLAB team as a Research Associate and is involved in our EU H2020 FETPROACTIVE HERMES project. 

March 2019

• We are very happy to share a new publication in Nature Scientific Reports Journal, titled "Natural source-Based Graphene as sensitising Agents for Air Quality Monitoring"!
• This month we give a very warm welcome to three additional MSc students,  Kaya, Glauber and Linta! We are very excited to work with you!
• Our new collaborative work on Developing Smart Tourism Destinations with the IoT  https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-13-6339-9_2
• Dr Hamideh Khanbareh from the University of Bath visited our lab and delivered a seminar on novel ferroelectric materials for sensing and energy harvesting.
• Our paper titled: "Investigating the electrical characteristics of a single electron transistor utilizing graphene nanoribbon as the island" has been accepted for publication to the Journal of Material Science: Materials in Electronics.

February 2019 

• Our Research Topic in the Journal of Frontiers in Neuroscience titles “Emerging Technologies and Systems for Biologically Plausible Implementations of Neural Functions” welcome submissions in the field of neuromorphic sensing and computing.
• Dr Hadi presented a lecture on "Thin-Film Spintronics - Sensing and Computing" at the University of the West of Scotland.
• Welcome to Yuchi, our new PhD student. We are glad you are here!
• Our paper titled: "Design, Test, and Optimization of Inductive Coupled Coils for Implantable Biomedical Devices" has been accepted for publication in Journal of Low Power Electronics, American Scientific Publish. Well done Jinwei!

January 2019

• Our paper from meLAB has been accepted for presentation in the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2019 in Sapporo, Japan.
• Our Special Issue on “Applications of Electromagnetics in Biological or Medical Sensors” invites extended papers from IEEE SENSORS 2018 to be submitted in the IEEE Journal of Electromagnetics, RF and Microwaves in Medicine and Biology.