Joint “Sense, Collect and Move Data” DSI Center and CS/EE Networks Seminar
Thin Film Sensors + IoT as Enabling Technologies for Persistent Monitoring
John Kymissis

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Abstract:
Energy-efficient miniature sensors based on thin-film technologies have transformed the ability to add sensing functionalities to a number of embedded applications. Combining these sensors with short and long-range wireless technologies offers the potential to offer persistent monitoring of otherwise invisible parameters, transforming the information available about a variety of natural and engineered environments. At Columbia, our group has been developing miniature sensors including microphones, photodetectors, spectrometers, and chemical sensors which meet the size and power requirements for embedded and IoT applications. Applications that will be discussed include the application of such systems on building energy efficiency, agricultural applications including soil and light measurement, and tracking and physiological monitoring of wild and laboratory animals.

Biography:
Ioannis (John) Kymissis is the Kenneth Brayer Professor of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University. He graduated with his SB, M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. His M.Eng. thesis was performed as a co-op at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab on organic thin-film transistors, and his Ph.D. was obtained in the Microsystems Technology Lab at MIT, working on field-emission displays. After graduation, he spent three years as a postdoc in MIT's Laboratory for Organic Optics and Electronics, working on a variety of organic electronic devices, and also as a consulting engineer for QD Vision. He joined the faculty at Columbia University in electrical engineering in 2006 as an assistant professor. He has won a number of awards for his work, including the NSF CAREER award, the IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport Award, the Vodaphone Americas Foundation Wireless Innovation Award, the MIT Clean Energy Prize, and a Verizon Powerful Answers award. A SID Fellow, he recently served a term as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Society for Information Display and is the treasurer for the society. In addition, he was the general chair for the 2014 Device Research Conference.

Host: Debasis Mitra