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ESE Fall Seminar – “The Circuit Frontier: Innovating and Expanding ASIC Solutions for Enhanced Biosensing and Seamless Wireless Communication”
November 7 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
The BU Wireless Integrated Systems and Extreme Circuits (WISE-Circuits) group blends integrated circuits with energy-constrained applications to pioneer breakthroughs in information theory, bioengineering, and communications. Our research focuses on the development of Cyber-Secure Biological Systems, leveraging living sensors constructed from engineered biological entities seamlessly integrated with solid-state circuits. This unique synergy harnesses the advantages of biology while incorporating the reliability and communication infrastructure of electronics, offering a unique solution to societal challenges in healthcare and environmental monitoring.
Additionally, our research extends to the realm of all-in-one data decoders, where we employ novel cross-layer techniques spanning algorithms to low-power integrated circuits. This innovative decoding approach facilitates ultra-low-energy wireless communications, a critical requirement for the success of these systems and numerous other applications. In this seminar, I will delve into the intricacies of our interdisciplinary approach and the longer-term vision of the WISE-Circuits research, spotlighting the potential of energy-efficient integrated circuits in the domains of biosensing and wireless communications. These collaborative research projects involve MIT BE/MechE, BU ECE/BME, and MIT RLE-Northeastern University.
Rabia Tugce Yazicigil
Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University | Network Faculty, Sabanci University
Rabia Tugce Yazicigil is an Assistant Professor of ECE Department at Boston University and a Network Faculty at Sabanci University. She was a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT and received her Ph.D. degree from Columbia University in 2016. Her research interests lie at the interface of integrated circuits, bio-sensing, signal processing, security, and wireless communications to innovate system-level solutions for future energy constrained applications. She has received numerous awards, including the NSF CAREER Award (2024), Early Career Excellence in Research Award for the Boston University College of Engineering (2024), the Catalyst Foundation Award (2021), Boston University ENG Dean Catalyst Award (2021), and “Electrical Engineering Collaborative Research Award” for her Ph.D. research (2016). Dr. Yazicigil is an active member of the Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) Women-in-Circuits committee and is a member of the 2015 MIT EECS Rising Stars cohort. She was selected as an IEEE SSCS Distinguished Lecturer for the 2024-2026 term and elected to the IEEE SSCS AdCom as a Member-at-Large in 2024. She was selected as a member of the 2024 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) US Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) cohort. She serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I (TCAS-I) and the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Artificial Intelligence (TCASAI). Additionally, she is the Workshop Co-Chair of the IEEE ESSERC 2024, and a Technical Program Committee member of the IEEE ISSCC, RFIC, and DAC.