[vc_row full_height=”yes” columns_placement=”stretch” equal_height=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1468516724800{margin: 0px !important;border-width: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_custom_heading text=”News & Updates” google_fonts=”font_family:Montserrat%3Aregular%2C700|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal” link=”url:http%3A%2F%2Felectronics.eecs.yorku.ca%2Fnews-and-updates%2F|||”][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” message_box_color=”success” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-smile-o” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”]February 2018: Hossein received ISSCC 2017 Jack Kilby outstanding paper award for his paper “All-wireless 64-channel 0.013 mm 2/ch closed-loop neurostimulator with rail-to-rail DC offset removal“.

Photo Courtesy of ISSCC

[/vc_message][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” message_box_color=”success” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-smile-o” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”]October 2017: Our paper “50nW 5kHz-BW Opamp-Less ΔΣ Impedance Analyzer for Brain Neurochemistry Monitoring” is accepted for presentation in IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), San Francisco, Feb 2018.

[/vc_message][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-info” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”]September 2017: Graduate Research Open Positions (starting Jan. or Sept. 2018).

We have multiple positions available for motivated and talented Master’s or PhD students. If you are interested to join our lab, please contact Hossein Kassiri with your resume and transcript and a brief statement of interest for the project(s) you want to work on.[/vc_message][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” message_box_color=”success” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-child” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”]September 2017: Alireza Dabbaghian and Tayebeh Yousefi started their M.A.Sc. in ICSL.

 [/vc_message][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” message_box_color=”success” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-smile-o” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”]September 2017: Our paper “Rail-to-Rail-Input Dual-Radio 64-channel Closed-Loop Neurostimulator” is accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits.

[/vc_message][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” message_box_color=”success” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-check” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”]August 2017: Hossein presented two of our papers in IEEE Midwest Symposium on circuits and systems 2017, Boston, MA.

[/vc_message][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” message_box_color=”success” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-child” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”]June 2017: Yonghang Tian started his internship in ICSL. He joined us from University of Electronic Science & Technology of China(UESTC).

His research project will focus on design and implementation of backend digital signal processing of a wireless wearable EEG recording system.

[/vc_message][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” message_box_color=”success” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-child” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”]May 2017: Sam Guraya and Mary Choi started their internship in ICSL.

Sam will work on a multi-channel fully flexible wireless wearable EEG recording system with motion artifact removal.

Mary will work on power-spectral analysis and feature extraction of EEG signals of epileptic subjects.

[/vc_message][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” message_box_color=”success” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-smile-o” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”]May 2017: Our paper “Fully Discrete-Time Neural Recording Front-Ends” is accepted for lecture presentation in IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Boston, August 2017.

[/vc_message][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” message_box_color=”success” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-smile-o” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”]May 2017: Our paper “An Area- and Power-Efficient Mixed-Mode Fully Programmable FIR Filter for Biomedical Interface Microsystems” is accepted for lecture presentation in IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Boston, August 2017.

[/vc_message][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” message_box_color=”success” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-smile-o” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”]April 2017: Our paper “Closed-Loop Neurostimulators: A Survey and A Seizure-Predicting Design Example for Intractable Epilepsy Treatment” is accepted for publication in IEEE Transaction on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.

[/vc_message][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” message_box_color=”success” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-check” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”]February 2017: Hossein presented “All-Wireless 64-channel 0.013mm2/ch Closed-Loop Neurostimulator with Rail-to-Rail DC Offset Removal” in IEEE ISSCC 2017.

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November 8th, 2016 : Our work was featured as one of the national success stories by Canadian Microelectronic Corporations (CMC).

More detail here: Micro-device offers potential to stop seizures before they start
[/vc_message][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”]October 2016: Undergraduate Summer 2017 Internship Open Positions

We have a few positions in the areas of “neural signal processing” and “FEM-based electromagnetic modeling” for undergraduate research interns. Please email me with your CV and transcript if you are interested.[/vc_message][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”]August 2016: Graduate Research Open Positions (starting Jan. or Sept. 2017).

We have three positions available for motivated and talented Master’s and PhD students. If you are interested to join our lab, please contact Hossein Kassiri with your resume and transcript and a brief statement of interest for the project(s) you want to work on.[/vc_message][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” message_box_color=”success” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-smile-o” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”] June 8th, 2016 : Hossein was selected as one of the 16 featured graduates of the University of Toronto for the Year 2016.

More details here: http://news.engineering.utoronto.ca/grads-watch-16-global-engineering-leaders/[/vc_message][vc_message message_box_style=”3d” message_box_color=”success” icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-smile-o” css_animation=”bottom-to-top”] June 2016 : Best Paper Award, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) 2016

Our paper, “H. Kassiri, N. Soltani, M. T. Salam, R. Genov, J. P. Velazquez, Battery-less Modular Responsive Neurostimulator for Prediction and Abortion of Epileptic Seizures”, was selected as the the top Biomedical Circuits and Systems Technical Committee paper (1687 papers submitted).[/vc_message][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_separator][vc_single_image image=”4″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d” onclick=”custom_link” css_animation=”bottom-to-top” link=”http://eecs.lassonde.yorku.ca/ “][vc_single_image image=”71″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d” onclick=”custom_link” css_animation=”bottom-to-top” link=”http://thebergeroncentre.ca/”][vc_single_image image=”100″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_shadow_3d” onclick=”custom_link” css_animation=”bottom-to-top” link=”http://lassonde.yorku.ca/”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]