People at DMS
Professor
Denise Wilson
Denise Wilson is the director of the Distributed Microsystems Laboratory Her research
emphasizes making sensing systems that work using novel design methodologies, system
frameworks, optimization software, electronic interfaces, and signal processing.
Of special interest to Denise is the modelling of olfactory systems and sensor systems
adjusted to cost-effective environmental monitoring; she is developing an electronic
nose toolbox (of a wide variety of chemical sensor models at different levels of
complexity) to be able to support the modelling of the biological olfactory system.
Denise splits her research between her technical (sensing) interests and research
in engineering education (focused on belonging and affective measures of student
success and fulfillment).
Office: M222 EE1 Bldg - Phone: (206) 221-5238
Graduate Students
Vaibhav Vaidya
Vaibhav is pursuing his PhD in Elecrical Engineering at the University of Washington.
Prior to joining the DMS Lab, Vaibhav did his Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication
Engineering from the College of Engineering, Goa, India. Vaibhav's work at the DMS
lab involves modeling organic transistors in SPICE and investigating hybrid circuits
with organic transistors and integrated organic MEMS components. Vaibhav's interests
include analog circuit design and organic electronics.
Brian Ferguson
Brian joined the DMS lab as an undergraduate and continued his work as a graduate
student. His prior work at the lab included designing a discrete filter bank to
implement two-tone suppression. Brian works to utilize Surface Plasmon Resonance
and Fluorescence to create a portable analysis platform. Such a platform would find
use in the detection of water/soil pollutants and in detection of biological/chemical
attacks with relevance to homeland security. Brian is interested in continuing this
work on sensing systems in future.
Jeff Kissinger
Jeff is studying to get his Masters in electrical engineering at the UW. At the DMS lab, Jeff works on citcuits for fluorescence and SPR sensing, including both driving light sources to illuminate the target and measuring the signal output of the sensing system. Jeff is also working on developing a chip level solution to do these functions, which will, in turn, enable the development of a portable fluorescence system.
Ryan Campbell
Ryan is pursuing his doctorate through the UW Graduate School's interdisciplinary Individual PhD (IPhD) program, in which he combines the Department of Electrical Engineering and the College of Education to create a degree program in the emerging field of Engineering Education. Ryan comes to the UW with an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from SungKyunKwan University, Republic of Korea, and a B.S. in Engineering Science from Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO. Ryan's work in the DMS lab involves course-module development for the integration of humanitarian applications of engineering into existing engineering curricula in an attempt to attract and retain students of greater diversity than has historically been found in engineering schools. Ryan's research interests include: engineering education, humanitarian engineering, appropriate technology, and computer modeling of electric power and renewable energy systems.
Aaron Lombrozo
Aaron is pursuing Graduate studies in Electrical Engineering. At the DMS lab, Aaron works on designing websites for an Engineering Educational Research program.
Alumni
{Contact through Professor Wilson}
Lisa Hansen
Lisa finished her Masters from the DMS lab in the Summer of 2006. Lisa's masters work at the DMS lab involved integrating Surface Plasmon Resonance data processing onto a chip. While at the lab, she interned at Sandia National Laboratories, working on high-voltage circuits and now works full time at Sandia in Nuclear Weapons Safety.
Ranajit Banerjee
Ranajit worked in the DMS lab until summer of 2006. He now works on embedded analog circuit design.
Linda Lee
Linda graduated from the DMS lab in the Summer of 2006. She also has a degree in Law and now practices patent litigation. While at the DMS lab, Linda worked on Surface Plasmon Resonance data processing.
Matthew Liu
Matthew got a dual Undergraduate degree from the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments at the University of Washington. His work at the DMS lab involved design of a software (SLAP) to optimize the mixing of LED spectra to substitute conventional light sources in Surface Plasmon Resonance sensing.
Matthew Johnston
Matt got his Masters degree from the University of Washington. His work involved on-chip data processing for Surface Plasmon Resonance sensing. Matt graduated in 2005 and went to work for Intel at Boston, MA
Andrew Moe
Andrew did his Masters from the DMS Lab, working on LED drivers for Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensing. He went on to work for Microvision Inc, designing Heads-up displays.
