Participating in four new BRAIN Initiative awards from NIH
The Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies® (BRAIN) Initiative is aimed at revolutionizing our understanding of the human brain. By accelerating the development and application of innovative technologies, researchers will be able to produce a revolutionary new dynamic picture of the brain that, for the first time, shows how individual cells and complex neural circuits […]
Columbia Magazine article on biological electronics
Columbia Engineering researchers have, for the first time, harnessed the molecular machinery of living systems to power an integrated circuit from adenosine triphosphate (ATP), the energy currency of life. They achieved this by integrating a conventional solid-state complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) integrated circuit with an artificial lipid bilayer membrane containing ATP-powered ion pumps, opening the door […]
Bio-Powered Chips Might One Day Fit Inside Cells
IEEE Spectrum – For the first time, researchers have developed a microchip that is powered by the same energy-rich molecules that fuel living cells, researchers say. This advance could one day lead to devices that are implanted within cells and harvest biological energy to operate. The molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP) stores chemical energy and is used inside cells […]
What’s That Science Thing: Bacteria Edition
This camera chip’s electrochemical imaging process is something like “taking a movie” over time, said Dr. Ken Shepard, a professor of electrical engineering and biomedical engineering and one of the researchers on the project. By recording the chemical activities of the bacteria, the researchers are able to learn more about the mechanisms that individual cells […]
2012
- (11/2012) Ferric Semiconductor in the news
- (7/2012) Congratulations for Mike Lekas for being a 2012 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship winner.
- (3/2012) Jacob Rosenstein’s Nature Methods paper on high-speed nanopore-CMOS bioelectronic interfaces gets press attention: EurekAlert, Bio-Medicine, Physorg.com, IEEE Spectrum, Nature Methods News & Views, GenomeWeb
- (3/2012) Columbia University and SRC Breathe New Life into Scalability by Integrating Voltage Regulators Directly onto ICs
- (2/2012) EE Times talks about Noah Sturcken’s paper at ISSCC 2012.
2010
- (1/2010) Professor Shepard has been awarded $2.8 million from the DOE to develop energy-efficient computer chips. Read more at Columbia School of Engineering, EE Times, Columbia Research News
2009
- (5/2009) Matt Johnston explains on-chip mass sensors to Forbes.com in a short segment highlighting breakout technologies. See video
- (5/2009) Professor Shepard is quoted in Discover Magazine, June 2009 issue.
2008
- (12/2008) Inanc Meric presented his paper “RF performance of top-gated, zero-bandgap graphene field-effect transistors” in the 2008 International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco.
- (11/2008) Congratulations to Inanc Meric, whose paper “Current saturation in zero-bandgap, top-gated graphene field-effect transistors” has just appeared in Nature Nanotechnology.
- (10/2008) Columbia will receive $4 million to develop and evaluate graphene for use in field-effect transistors (FETs). Prof. Shepard is the PI on the grant.” details
- (7/2008) Columbia has been award a new $3M IGERT training grant by the National Science Foundation, “Optical Techniques for Actuation, Sensing, and Imaging of Biological Systems.” Prof. Shepard is the PI on the grant and will be directing the IGERT program.
- (6/2008) Prof. Shepard is named a finalist in the 2008 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists given by the New York Academy of Sciences. details
2007
- (11/2007) Prof. Ken Shepard has been elected a Fellow of the IEEE.
- (10/2007) Congratulations to Leina Lei for having her paper accepted to the 2008 International Solid-State Circuits Conference.
- (6/2007) Congratulations to Zheng Xu, Peter Levine, and David Huang for having four papers accepted to the 2007 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference.
- (4/2007) Congratulations to David Schwartz for having his paper accepted to VLSI Symposium 2007
2006
- (8/2006) Congratulations to Yee Li (Ph. D., 2005, now at Intel) for winning the ISLPED Low Power Design Contest for his Ph. D. work on low-power DSPs.
- (6/2006) Congratulations to Steven Chan (Ph. D., 2005, now at IBM Watson) for winning IBM’s 2005 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award for his January, 2005 paper “Uniform-phase, uniform-amplitude resonant-load global clock distributions”, published in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits.
- (3/2006) Prof. Ken Shepard has been recognized as a 2005 Distinguished Professor by the New York State Office of Science, Technology, and Academic Research (NYSTAR).
2005
- (1/2005) EE Times article on our ISSCC 2005 paper on resonant clocking
- (1/2005) Resonant clock work featured on IBM Research’s home page
- (9/2005) EE Times article discussing our contributions to Cadence’s Assura RCX-PL product
2003
- (12/2003) R&D Magazine article in the December, 2003 issue discussing our active CMOS biochip research
- (12/2003) R&D Magazine article in the December, 2003 issue discussing our on-chip sampling oscilloscope designs (see inset)
1999
- (1/1999) Electronics Times article on CadMOS Design Technology. CadMOS, co-founded by Prof. Shepard, was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2001.
