Prof. Julius Georgiou, Ph.D.
Pushing the Boundaries of Modern Key-Enabling Technologies from Research to Innovation
Silicon-based KETs have revolutionized the way that we live in that small devices can sense, process and provide information about the status of our bodies, but also that of our environment. Miniaturized silicon-based sensors can detect inertia, rotation, electromagnetic waves etc, whilst silicon based transistors can amplify these signals and process them in a meaningful manner in order to produce an output, once again based on silicon technology. This talk explores how these silicon-based KETs start in a research laboratory and lead to innovations that improve our quality of life. Examples will be taken in the from the area of medical devices but also from generic technologies such as reconfigurable metasurfaces. The talk will also touch upon translational issues between research and commercialisation.
CV & Research Summary
Julius Georgiou (IEEE M’98-SM’08) is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus. He received his M.Eng degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Ph.D. degree from Imperial College London in 1998 and 2003 respectively. For two years he worked as Head of Micropower Design in a technology start-up company, Toumaz Technology. In 2004 he joined the Johns Hopkins University as a Postdoctoral Fellow, before becoming a faculty member at the University of Cyprus from 2005 onwards. In parallel, he has been involved in the founding of multiple medical device startup companies, based on patents stemming from his research.
Prof. Georgiou is a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, was the Chair of the IEEE Biomedical and Life Science Circuits and Systems (BioCAS) Technical Committee, as well as a member of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Analog Signal Processing Technical Committee. He served as the General Chair of the 2010 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference and was the Action Chair of the EU COST Action ICT-1401 on “Memristors-Devices, Models, Circuits, Systems and Applications - MemoCIS”. Prof. Georgiou was an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2016-2017. He is also was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems and Associate Editor of the Frontiers in Neuromorphic Engineering Journal. He is a recipient of a best paper award at the IEEE ISCAS 2011 International Symposium and at the IEEE BioDevices 2008 Conference. In 2016 he received the 2015 ONE Award from the President of the Republic of Cyprus for his research accomplishments.
His research interests include Low-power analog and digital ASICs, implantable biomedical devices, bioinspired electronic systems, ElectroUteroGraph hardware, ElectroUteroGram signal processing, electronics for space, brain-computer-interfaces (BCIs), memristive devices, inertial and optical sensors and related systems.