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Towards a Functional Contact Lens

Prof Babak Parviz,

University of Washington, United States

This presentation was given at Printed Electronics USA 2008 on Dec 03, 2008.

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Presentation Summary

Building multi-functional high performance systems on unconventional substrates
Optoelectronics on plastics and glasses
Converting contact lenses into smart microsystems

Speaker Biography

Babak Parviz is a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Washington. He received his graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from the University of Michigan. He worked as a product manager for integrated photonics devices at Nanovation Technologies and completed his postdoctoral training in the Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department at Harvard University before joining UW where he serves as the Associate Director of the Micro-scale Life Sciences Center. Prof Parviz has received a number of awards including the NSF Career Award and the MIT Technology Review's TR35.

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The University of Washington, founded in 1861 with its main campus located in Seattle, Washington, is one of the oldest state-assisted institutions of higher education on the West Coast and is ranked the 11th best public university in the United States. The University is ranked the top 1 in grants and contracts exceeding $ 1B annually and is one of the pre-eminent research universities in the world with many top-ranking graduate programs. The University has a full time teaching faculty of 4,000 and provides education to over 43,000 students including over 12,000 graduate and professional students.