Maysam Ghovanloo has been named an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer for a two-year term. Ghovanloo is an associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

The two topics on which he will lecture are "Implantable and Wearable Microelectronic Devices to Improve Quality of Life for People with Disabilities" and "Efficient Power and Wideband Data Transmission in Near Field."



Ghovanloo has been a member of the ECE faculty since 2007. He directs the GT-Bionics Lab, where he and his research team do work in implantable microelectronic devices, wireless neural interfacing, assistive technologies and rehabilitation engineering, smart health and wellbeing, bio-inspired microsystems, medical instrumentation, and low-power analog/digital/mixed-mode integrated circuits.

The purpose of the IEEE CASS Distinguished Lecturer Program is to help the Society's chapters provide interesting and informative programs for the membership, as well as to industry, universities, and other interested organizations.