More Sustainable Bio/CMOS Interfaces for Remote Human Health Slides
Creators: Sandro Carrara
Publisher: name: IEEE
Year: 2024

ISCAS 2024 Keynote
Abstract: The emerging era of wearable devices will lead to a real development of distributed diagnostics by through several personal devices that allow remote monitoring and actuation for better human health. This typically means remote monitoring and actuation of human vital signs, including at molecular level as required by the modern concept of precision medicine. To that aim, new and definitely more reliable and specific tools need to be developed in terms of portable, wearable, and also implantable devices. Therefore, we will discuss in this keynote the constrain of the required advanced approaches to fruitfully address such request for new personal technology for health. Such new technology is required to be so minimally invasive to became almost ¨hidden¨ or ¨forgot¨ by the end user, including electronics dusts (see, for example, the concept of neural dust). Furthermore, many different new features need to be included in these new devices, including while not limited to edge-computing and in-memory computing. So, the present keynote will present a series of recent advancements in the field of portable, wearable, and also implantable Bio/CMOS interfaces, with applications to diseases monitoring in precision medicine and prosthetic devices, with capability of local computation. On the other hand, one of the present challenges of the worldwide humanity is designing more sustainable technologies in all the field of application. Therefore, this keynote will also address this issue by showing a series of new advancements in developing more sustainable approaches for Bio/CMOS interfaces.
Biography: Sandro Carrara is an IEEE Fellow of the Circuits and Systems Society. He also is the recipient of the IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award. He is Professor at the EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland), and head of the Bio/CMOS interfaces laboratory. He is a former professor at the Universities of Genoa and Bologna (Italy). He holds a PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics, a Master degree in Physics, and a diploma in Electronics. His scientific interests are on electrical phenomena of nano-bio-structured films, and include CMOS design of biochips based on proteins and DNA. Along his carrier, he published 7 books, one as author in 2013 (2nd Edition in 2024) with Springer/NATURE on Bio/CMOS interfaces, and a Handbook of Bioelectronics with Cambridge University Press. He has now 400 publications and 17 patents. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems. He is former Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Sensors Journal, and founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the journal BioNanoScience by Springer. He was a member of the Board of Governors (BoG) of the IEEE CAS Society, and currently is Vice President Publications for the IEEE Sensors Council. He has been appointed IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of the CAS Society in 2012. His work received several other international recognitions as best-cited papers and best conference papers. in 2014, he has been the General Chairman of the Conference IEEE BioCAS, the premier conference in the field of circuits and systems for biomedical applications.