Using RFID Technologies for Medical Implants and Remote Monitoring

Professor J.C. Chiao received his Ph.D. degree at California Institute of Technology. He is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Texas - Arlington and a graduate faculty at the Biomedical Engineering Program, UT-Southwestern - Medical Center. Dr. Chiao has published 139 peer-reviewed technical journal and conference papers, authored three book chapters, edited 11 proceedings and three books. He holds 4 patents in RF MEMS, MEMS optical and liquid crystal technologies and six pending patents in medical devices. He is the chairs for 4 international conferences, one of the cofounders for American Academy of Nanomedicine and with the editorial board of the Journal Nanomedicine: Nanotechnology, Biology and Medicine. His website is at http://www.uta.edu/faculty/jcchiao

The iMEMS group at the University of Texas - Arlington focuses on research in RF MEMS for microwave and millimeterwave radar and sensor applications, optical MEMS for telecommunication and medical applications, and medical micro devices for applications such as pain management, endoluminal sensing, wireless implants, in vivo and in vitro imaging, and microfluidic platforms for cancer metastasis study.