Principal Investigator

Prof. Amit Lal
Phillips Hall 118
Email: amit.lal@cornell.edu Ithaca, NY 14853

Prof. Lal obtained his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Caltech in 1990. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of California, Berkeley. He conducted his doctoral research at the Berkeley Sensors and Actuators Center in the area of ultrasonic MEMS. After working at University of Wisconsin-Madison as an assistant professor, he is now a professor at Cornell University, in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He holds 17 patents and has published >145 research papers in the area of microsystem engineering. Most recently, he served as a Program Manager at DARPA in the Microsystems Technology Office, from 2005-2009. At DARPA he managed ten and started six new programs in the area of navigation, low-energy computation, bio-robotics, and atomic microsystems. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award, and with his students several best paper awards at the IEEE Ultrasonics and Frequency Control Symposium, and IEEE NEMS conferences. He is also a recipient of the Department of Defense Exceptional Service Award, and a Best Program Manager Award for his work at DARPA.

In addition to School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Prof. Lal is a field member of Biomedical Engineering, and Applied Engineering Physics. He is a member of Cornell CCMR, NBTC, and KAUST-CU Center.

Research Scientist

Dr. Serhan Ardanuc

Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2010)
Cornell University
B.S. Electrical Engineering (2001)
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

Post-Doctoral Researchers

Dr. Xinwei Wu

Ph.D. Material Science and Engineering (2012)
Cornell University
B.S. Material Science and Engineering (2007)
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Dr. Kwame Amponsah

Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2013)
Cornell University
M.S. Electrical Engineering (2008)
Cornell University
B.S. Electrical Engineering (2006)
Cornell University

Dr. Sarvani Piratla

Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2013)
Cornell University
M.S. Mechanical Engineering(2009)
The Ohio State University
B.Tech Mechanical Engineering(2007)
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Graduate Students

Jason Hoople

M.S. Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering (2009)
Rochester Institute of Technology
B.S. Electrical and Microelectronic Engineering (2009)
Rochester Institute of Technology
Research - CMOS-MEMS SONAR

Po-Cheng Chen

M.Eng. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2011)
Cornell University
M.S. Electrical Engineering (2008)
National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
B.S. Electrical Engineering (2006)
National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan
Research - Ultrasonic Neural Probes

Ved Gund

M.S. Electrical Engineering (2011)
Stanford University
B.S. Electrical Engineering (2011)
Stanford University
Research - Transient Micro-Integrated Remote Sensors

Sachin Nadig

B.E. Electrical and Electronics Engineering (2011)
P.E.S. Institute of Technology, Bangalore
Research - Self-Calibrating Inertial Sensors

Justin Kuo

B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering (2012)
Cornell University
Research - Photo-Acoustics

Joseph Miller

B.S. Physics and Economics(2010)
UC Berkeley
Research - Chip Scale Particle Accelerators

Tiffany St. Bernard

B. A. Biology (2011)
Univ. of Connecticut
Research - Neural signal recording using acoustics

Alexander Ruyack

B. S. Material Sciences and Engineering (2013)
Cornell University
Research - Graphene sensors

Visarute (Earth) Pinrod

B. S. Engineering Physics (2013)
Brown University
Research - MEMS multiplier