Textile-based Printed Bioelectronic Sensors (Printed Electronics & Photovoltaics USA 2010)

Joshua Ray Windmiller received the B.Sc. (Provost's Honors) and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering in 2007 and 2009, respectively, with a specialization in photonics, semiconductor devices/materials, biomedical imaging/sensing, and wireless communication systems from the Jacobs School of Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. His B.Sc. and M.Sc. research focused on parametric signal processing, distant wavelength conversion, tunable optical delay lines, and optical amplification in nonlinear fiber optic waveguides. He was awarded with the Charles Lee Powell Foundation fellowship, the Powell bonus award, the SPIE educational scholarship, CP Kelco scholarship, and is a Bernard and Sophia Gordon Scholar in engineering leadership. Joshua has industrial experience as a wireless systems engineer for Entropic Communications and RF Micro Devices and has completed the CONNECT Springboard Program in entrepreneurship for his winning of the 2007-2008 UCSD Entrepreneur Challenge. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the UCSD Jacobs School where his research focuses on the development of advanced sensor and actuator devices for the detection and treatment of trauma. He has published over 20 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings and has four US patents pending. He is a member of the SPIE, IEEE, OSA, the National Society of Collegiate Scholars, and Eta Kappa Nu and has been recognized by the Governor of the State of California and the United States Senate for his academic achievements.

The University of California, San Diego (also referred to as UC San Diego or UCSD) is a public research university located in La Jolla, California. UCSD is the seventh oldest of the ten University of California campuses and offers over 200 undergraduate and graduate degree programs, enrolling about 22,700 undergraduate and 6,300 graduate students. Institutional rankings of UC San Diego have commonly ranked the university very highly. For example, ScienceWatch ranks UCSD 7th of federally funded U.S. universities, based on the citation impact of their published research. UCSD established the Department of NanoEngineering within its Jacobs School of Engineering effective 2007. This sixth department will cover a broad range of topics, but focus particularly on biomedical nanotechnology, nanotechnologies for energy conversion, computational nanotechnology, and molecular and nanomaterials. The Department of NanoEngineering's educational program will develop in phases, with plans to reach a steady state of approximately 20 faculty members and an enrollment of 400 undergraduate students and 120 graduate students.