This division covers a broad range of topics from the manufacturing of integrated circuits to their applications in real world systems.
Current research includes:
- adaptive circuits
- radio frequency circuits
- hardware security
- VLSI design
- co-packaged photonic circuits for AI acceleration and reconfigurable computing
- acoustic sensing in harsh environments
- microwave device and interconnect modeling
- IC test, and modeling of materials,components and circuits for high-frequency power electronics
- bioelectronics
- energy harvesting circuits
Faculty
Area Chair: Hamed Dalir
Erin Patrick
Instructional Associate Professor Undergraduate Coordinator
Biography
Primary Research Area
Electrophysics
Research Interests
Biophysical modeling of electric-field effects on cells (non-excitable and excitable), semiconductor-device modeling and simulation, neural interfaces
Selected Publications:
A. Furniturewalla, P. Rustogi, E. Patrick, J. Judy, “Modeling the Recording of Intraneural Action Potential with Microelectrodes Using FEM and Point-Source Methods, IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering, San Francisco, March, 2019.
E.E. Patrick, S. Currlin, A. Kundu, F. Delgado, A. Fahmy, R. Madler, N. Maghari, R. Bashirullah, A. Gunduz, K. Otto, “Design and assessment of stimulation parameters for a novel peripheral nerve interface,” 40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), Honolulu, HI, pp. 5491-5494, 2018.
E. E. Patrick, N. Rowsey, M. E. Law, “Total Dose Radiation Damage: A Simulation Framework,” IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol 64, no. 4, p. 1650-7, 2015.
E. E. Patrick, M. Choudhury, F. Ren, S. J. Pearton, M. E. Law, “Simulation of Radiation Effects in AlGaN/GaN HEMTs, ECS J. Solid State Sci. Technol. Vol. 4, no. 3, Q21-Q25, 2015.
Gloria J. Kim, Erin E. Patrick, R. Srivastava, Mark E. Law, “Perspective on Flipping Circuits I,” IEEE Trans. Ed., vol. 57, no. 3, pp. 188-192, 2014.
Sankar, V., Patrick, E., Dieme ,R., Sanchez, J.C., Prasad, A. and Nishida, T., “Electrode impedance analysis of chronic tungsten microwire neural implants: understanding abiotic vs. biotic contributions.” Front. Neuroeng. 7:13, 2014.
E. Patrick, M. Orazem, J. Sanchez, and T. Nishida, “Corrosion of Tungsten Electrodes used in Neural Recording Applications,” Journal of Neuroscience Methods, v. 198, pp. 158–171, 2011.
Honors and Awards
ECE Service Excellence Award, 2025
Faculty of the Year (Student Choice), 2024
Education
PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, 2010
BSEE, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, 2002