Professor Kensall D. Wise Past Doctoral Students
 

Past Doctoral Students
John Michael Borky
Thesis Title:  Silicon Diaphragm Pressure Sensors with Integrated Electronics
Graduation:  1977
Positions Held:  Faculty, Air Force Institute of Technology; Head, Rome Air Development Center; Vice President, Technology and Logistics, BDM Federal; Principal Engineering Fellow, Raytheon Corporation; Colonel, United States Air Force (ret.); Visiting Professor of Aerospace Engineering, UCLA.

Thomas Nelson Jackson
Thesis Title:  A Novel Submicron-Gate GaAs MESFET Fabrication Technique
Graduation:  1980
Positions Held:  IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (12 years); Robert E. Kirby Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
Gholamhassan Roientan Lahiji
Thesis Title:  A Monolithic Thermopile Detector Fabricated using Integrated-Circuit Technology
Graduation:  1981
Positions Held:  Professor of Electrical Engineering, Teheran Institute of Science and Technology; Lecturer III in Electrical Engineering, The University of Michigan

Yong Surk Lee
Thesis Title:  A Silicon Capacitive Pressure Transducer: Performance Characteristics and Limitations
Graduation:  1981
Positions Held:  Sperry-Univac; Intel Corporation; Professor, Yonsei University, Korea
Sea-Chung Kim
Thesis Title:  A Batch-Fabricated High-Performance Piezoresistive Pressure Sensor
Graduation:  1981
Positions Held:  MTS, Bell Telephone Laboratories; Executive Vice President and General Manager, Memory Product and Technology Development Division, Hyundai Corporation; Founder and President, ARISTech, Ltd, Seoul, Korea.

Chang-Lee Chen
Thesis Title:  Characterization of GaAs MESFETs Fabricated Using Ion-Beam Etching Technology
Graduated 1982
Positions Held:  MTS, RF Technology Group, MIT Lincoln Laboratories
Ki Won Lee
Thesis Title:  Modeling and Simulation of Solid-State Pressure Sensors
Graduation:  1982
Positions Held:  Bell Telephone Laboratories; Allied-Signal Corporation; IBM T. J. Watson Research Center; General Manager of Corporate R&D, Director of Communication Systems, General Manager of Media Products Division (Semiconductor Business Unit); Senior Executive Vice President, Corporate Technology Operations, Samsung Electronics, Korea

John Edward Bertsch
Thesis Title:  Temperature Sensitivity in MOS Operational Amplifiers
Graduation:  1983
Positions Held:  MTS, IBM-Burlington; GE Healthcare; (now deceased)

Jammy Chin-Ming Huang     
Thesis Title:  A Monolithic pH/Pressure/Temperature Sensor for Esophageal Studies
Graduated:  1983
Positions Held:  MIT Lincoln Laboratories; Associate Vice President and Head, Camera Module Business Unit, Quanta Computer

Yong-Eue Park          
Thesis Title:  An MOS Switched-Capacitor Interface for Capacitive Pressure Sensors
Graduated:  1983
Positions Held:  Senior Vice President, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.; Chairman, and President & Chief Executive Officer, Integrated Memory Logic, Inc.
Kukjin Chun
Thesis Title:  A High-Performance Silicon Tactile Imager Based on a Capacitive Cell
Graduated:  1986
Positions Held:  Asst. Professor, Washington State University; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director, Center for Advanced Transceiver Systems, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Il Hyun Choi
Thesis Title:  A Silicon-Based Thermopile Infrared Detector Array Containing On-Chip Readout Circuitry
Graduated:  1986
Positions Held:  Allied/Bendix Corporation; Senior Executive Vice President and Director of R&D, Dong-bu Electronics, Ltd.; Executive Advisor, Siliconfile Technologies Inc., Seoul Korea
Khalil Najafi
Thesis Title:  Multielectrode Intracortical Recording Arrays with On-Chip Signal Processing
Graduated:  1986
Positions Held:  Schlumberger Professor and Chair, Division of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Kenneth Lloyd Drake
Thesis Title:  A Planar Multisite Microprobe for Recording Simultaneous Single-Unit Cortical Activity
Graduated:  1987
Positions Held:  VP and General Manager, Concero, Inc.; CEO, Savantage; Founder/CEO/CTO, Seralogix, LLC, Austin, TX.

Hin-Leung (Kevin) Chau
Thesis Title:  An Ultraminiature Solid-State Pressure Sensor for a Cardiovascular Catheter
Graduated:  1987
Positions Held:  Senior Research Engineer, Foxboro Corporation; Senior Project Leader, Program Manager, and Technical Strategic Manager – Inertial MEMS, Analog Devices; Director of MEMS Engineering, LV Engineering; Vice President, MEMStaff.

Leland Joseph “Chip“ Spangler
Thesis Title: A Process Technology for Single-Crystal Silicon-on-Insulator Sensors and Circuits
Graduated:  1988
Positions Held:  Engineering Manager, Ford Motor Company; Design Engineer, Intel; Principal Engineer, Coventor; Vice President of Operations, President and CTO, Aspen Technologies; President, Aspen Microsystems

Jin Ji
Thesis Title:  A Scaled Electronically-Configurable Active CMOS Recording Array
Graduated:  1990
Positions Held:  Engineer, IBM-Yorktown; Vice President, SoC Design, R&D, and System Engineering, Spreadtrum Communications, Shanghai
Euisik Yoon
Thesis Title:  An Integrated Mass Flow Sensor with On-Chip CMOS Interface Circuitry
Graduated:  1990
Positions Held:  MTS, National Semiconductor Corporation; MTS, Silicon Graphics; Professor, Korean Advanced Institute for Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea; Professor, University of Minnesota; Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Michigan.

Christy Lynn Johnson
Thesis Title:  Ultra-Thin-Film Monolithically-Integrated Silicon-Based Gas Detectors*
*Co-Chair with Johannes Schwank, Chemical Engineering
Graduated:  1990
Positions Held:  Research Engineer, IBM-Burlington
Steve T. Cho
Thesis Title: An Ultrasensitive Silicon Pressure-Based Microflow Sensor
Graduated:  1991
Positions Held:  C.S. Draper Laboratory; Abbott Laboratories; Surfect Technologies; Vice-President, Engineering, Cube Technology, Inc.; Lecturer in Technological Entrepreneurship and Manage-ment, Arizona State University.
Mahmoud Ghazzi
Thesis Title:  Single-Unit Recording from the Hypothalamus using Multichannel Silicon Microprobes*
     *Co-Chair with A. Rees Midgley, Developmental Biology
Graduated:  1991
Positions Held:  Warner-Lambert/Pfizer Research; President, Pharmaceutical Development and Global Head of Development, Daiichi Sankyo R&D; Clinical Development, Regulatory, Safety and Pharmacovigilance, MMS Holdings, Inc.

Arnold C. Hoogerwerf
Thesis Title:  A Three-Dimensional Neural Recording Array
Graduated:  1992
Positions Held:  ASCOM, Neuchatel; Section Head, Comlab, MEMS, Nanotechnology and Life Sciences, CSEM

Steven J. Tanghe
Thesis Title:  A Multichannel CMOS Stimulating Electrode Array for use in Neural Prostheses
Graduated:  1992
Positions Held:  MTS, IBM-Burlington; Senior Design Engineer, Linear Technology

Nader Najafi
Thesis Title:  A Generic Integrated Sensing System based on a Multi-Element Gas Analyzer
Graduated:  1992
Positions Held:  IBM-Burlington; Founder, President, and CEO, Integrated Sensing Systems, Ypsilanti, Michigan

Lai-Cheng Kong
Thesis Title:  A Silicon Micromachined Force Sensor for Scanning Force Microscopy
     *Co-chair with Bradford G. Orr, Physics
Graduated:  1993
Positions Held:  MTS, Applied Materials
Yafan Zhang
Thesis Title:  Non-Planar Diaphragm Structures for High-Performance Silicon Pressure Sensors
Graduated:  1994
Positions Held:  Engineer GM Delco Electronics; Vice President, Technology, Integrated Sensing Systems; Director of Technology, Evigia Systems, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Changhyun Kim
Thesis Title:  A 64-Site Multiplexed Low-Profile Neural Probe with On-Chip CMOS Circuitry for use in Neural Prostheses
Graduated:  1994
Positions Held: Samsung Fellow, Memory Products Planning Team Manager, Vice President, and Executive Vice President, Semiconductor Research Center, Electro-Mechanics Company Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd

Paul L. Bergstrom
Thesis Title:  A Microfabricated Work-Function Gas Sensor  for Semiconductor Process Gas Detection
Graduated:  1996
Positions Held:  MTS, Motorola Semiconductor; Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Director, Muilt-Scale Technologies Institute, Michigan Technological University

Jingkuang Chen
Thesis Title:  A Multifunction Neural Probe and Related Devices using Buried Silicon Microchannels
Graduated:  1996
Positions Held:  MTS, Xerox Wilson Research Center; Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of New Mexico; Principal Engineer Johnson & Johnson

Janet K. Robertson
Thesis Title:  An Electrostatically-Actuated Integrated Microflow Controller
Graduated:  1996
Positions Held:  Assistant Professor, Lafayette College; MTS, Standard MEMS; MTS, Membrane Assays

Jennifer L. Lund
Thesis Title:  Performance Characteristics of Active Silicon Microelectrode Arrays
Graduated:  1996
Positions Held:  MTS, IBM-Yorktown Heights; MTS, Medtronic; Founder and Executive Director, Hero Dogs, Inc.

Andrew D. Oliver
Thesis Title:  A 1024-Element Uncooled Silicon Thermal Imaging Array for Semiconductor Process Control
Graduated:  1997
Positions Held:  MTS, Advanced Microsystems, Sandia National Laboratories; Industrial Liaison, WIMS ERC, The University of Michigan; MTS, Program Manager, Freescale Semiconductor

Richard J. DeSouza
Thesis Title:  Silicon Micromachined Tactile Imagers for use in Live-Scan Fingerprinting and Credit Card Applications
Graduated:  1997
Positions Held:  MTS, Motorola Semiconductor; Senior MTS, Freescale Semiconductor

Tracy Elizabeth Bell Verhoeven
Thesis Title:  A Cochlear Implant Fabricated Using a Bulk Silicon Surface Micromachining Process
Graduated:  1998
Positions Held:  MTS, Hewlett-Packard/Agilent Technologies

Jinsoo Kim
Thesis Title:  Polymerization Monitoring in Plasma Etching Systems
Graduated:  1998
Positions Held:  MTS, Hughes Research Laboratories; Samsung Semiconductor; (now deceased)

Qing Bai
Thesis Title:  A Micromachined Three-Dimensional Neural Recording Array with On-Chip CMOS Signal Processing Circuitry
Graduated:  1999
Positions Held:  MTS, Guidant Corporation; MTS, Agilent Techno-logies, Inc.

Uksong Kang
Thesis Title:  A High-Speed Capacitive Humidity Sensor with On-Chip Thermal Reset
Graduated:  1999
Positions Held:  MTS, IDT Corporation; Samsung Semiconductor; Memory Technologist, Intel Corporation
Abhijeet V. Chavan
Thesis Title:  An Integrated High-Resolution Barometric Pressure Sensing System
Graduated:  2000
Positions Held:  MTS, Delphi Automotive Systems; Senior Director, R&D, Medtronic; Manager, Research & Technology, Cardiac Rhythm Management, Guidant/Boston Scientific; Vice President, Research, Product Development and Manufacturing Operations, Corventis; Vice-President, Engineering-R&D, Senseonics

Collin A. Rich
Thesis Title:  A Thermopneumatically-Actuated Silicon Microvalve and Integrated Microflow Controller
Graduated:  2000
Positions Held:  MTS, Integrated Sensing Systems; Founder, Sonetics Ultrasound; Founder, Accuri Cytometers (acquired by Becton-Dickinson)

Andrew J. Mason
Thesis Title:  Portable Wireless Multi-Sensor Microsystems for Environmental Monitoring
Graduated:  2000
Positions Held:  Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky; Professor of Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University
Demetrios Papageorgiou
Thesis Title:  A Shuttered Probe with In-Line Flowmeters for Chronic In-Vivo Drug Delivery
Graduated:  2001
Positions Held:  Senior Project Engineer, MEMSIC; Asst. Professor, Worcester Polytechnic University; Asst. Professor, Northeastern University; Founder, President, Solid-State Research, Inc.
Marcus D. Gingerich
Thesis Title:  Multi-Dimensional Microelectrode Arrays with On-Chip CMOS Circuitry for Neural Stimulation and Recording
Graduated:  2002
Positions Held:  Research Health Scientist, Center for Innovative Visual Rehabilitation, Veterans Administration Boston Healthcare System

Patty Chang-Chien
Thesis Title:  Wafer-Level Packaging and Frequency Trimming using Localized Mass Deposition
Graduated:  2002
Positions Held:  Wafer-Scale Assembly Integrated Product Team Lead, Director of Advanced Antennas & Apertures, ‎Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
Brian G. Jamieson
Thesis Title:  Highly-Parallel Recordings of Unit and Local Field Potentials with Active and Passive Neural Probes in Freely-Moving Animals
Graduate:   2003
Positions Held:  MEMS Group Leader at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; Founder and President, Scientific & Biomedical Microsystems

Andrew David DeHennis
Thesis Title:  Remotely-Powered Wireless Monitoring Systems
Graduated:  2004
Positions Held:  Director of Engineering, Research and Development, Senseonics, Inc.
Roy H. Olsson III
Thesis Title:  Silicon Recording Arrays with Integrated Circuitry for In-Vivo Neural Data Compression
Graduated:  2004
Positions Held:  Principal Member of Technical Staff, Sandia National Laboratories; Program Manager, Microsystems Technology, DARPA

David Frederick Lemmerhirt
Thesis Title:  A Multi-Sensor Microsystem for Autonomous Data Gathering
Graduated:  2005
Positions Held:  MTS, Sonetics Ultrasound, Inc.

Masoud Agah
Thesis Title:  Low-Power Temperature-Programmed Micro Gas Chromatography Columns
Graduated:  2005
Positions Held:  Virginia Microelectronics Consortium Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech

Ying Yao
Thesis Title:  A 1024-Site Neural Stimulating Array with On-Chip Current Generation
Graduated:  2005
Positions Held:  Free Solar; Apple, Inc.

Pamela Tridandapani Bhatti
Thesis Title:  A High-Density Thin-Film Electrode Array for a Cochlear Prosthesis
Graduated:  2006
Positions Held:  Software Engineer, Microware Corporation; Network Applications Engineer, Motorola Semiconductor; Drug Delivery Systems Engineer, Alza Corporation; Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology

Joseph Allen Potkay
Thesis Title:  A Low-Power Pressure- and Temperature-Programmed Separation System for a Micro Gas Chromatograph
Graduated:  2006
Positions Held:  Investigator, Advanced Platform Technology Center, U.S. Veterans Administration

Helena K. L. Chan
Thesis Title:  A Microfabricated Preconcentrator for Sample Extraction and Injection in Microscale Gas Chromatography
Graduated:  2006
Positions Held:  Systems Engineer, Northrup-Grumman Information Systems

Yang Li
Thesis Title:  An Integrated Drug Delivery Probe with an In-Line Flowmeter
Graduated:  2006
Positions Held:  Seagate Corporation; San Jose Research Center, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies

Jianbai “Jenn” Wang
Thesis Title:  An Integrated Position-Sensing System for a MEMS-Based Cochlear Prosthesis
Graduated:  2007
Positions Held:  Electrical Design Engineer, Texas Instruments; Associate Patent Attorney, Morgan Lewis

Gayatri Eadara Perlin
Thesis Title:  A Fully-Implantable Integrated Front-End for Neural Recording Microsystems
Graduated:  2008
Positions Held:  MIT Lincoln Laboratories; Charles Stark Draper Laboratory

Kyusuk Baek
Thesis Title:  Integrated Microvalves for Cortical Drug Delivery at the Cellular Level
Graduated:  2008
Positions Held: Engineer, Hospira; Chief Technology Officer, Cubiq, Inc.

Mikhail Pinelis
Thesis Title:  A High-Throughput Method for In-Vitro Generation and Studies of Oxygen Microgradients
     *Co-chair with Michel Maharbiz, UC-Berkeley
Graduated:  2009
Positions Held:  President, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief, MEMS Journal

Mary Elizabeth Merriam
Thesis Title:  A Three-Dimensional Bidirectional Interface for Neural Mapping Studies
Graduated:  2010
Positions Held:  Teacher, St. Dominic Savio Catholic High School, Austin, TX.

Razi-ul Muhammad Haque
Thesis Title:  An Implantable Microsystem for Autonomous Intraocular Pressure Monitoring Based on a Glass-in-Silicon Reflow Process
Graduated:  2011
Positions Held:  Founder and President, Structured Microsystems; Director Applied MEMS Research, Dose Medical; Research Engineer, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Angelique C. Johnson
Thesis Title:  An Active Thin-Film Cochlear Electrode Array with Monolithic Backing and Curl
Graduated:  2011
Positions Held:  University of Louisville; President and CEO, MEMSTIM
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