Challenges of Piezoelectric-based Energy Harvesting Solution for Automotives Electronics and Consumer Electronics (Wireless Sensor Networks, Energy Harvesting and RFID Asia 2010)

Dr. Ivan Sham has both academia and industrial experiences, including Senior R&D Process Engineer, Visiting Assistant Professor to Post-doctoral Research Fellow. He has extensive exposures in multi-national research environment, including Japan, Korea and Germany. Currently he is project leader of R&D projects on automotive electronics and energy harvesting technologies in ASTRI. Ivan received a PhD Degree on mechanical engineering from Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and pursued his post-doctoral fellowship on spinal mechanics at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Germany).

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region founded the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) in 2001 to capture the promises of technological advances for Hong Kong through applied research. Its missions are to perform high quality R&D for technology transfer to industry worldwide, develop needed technical human resources and act as a focal point that brings together industry and university R&D assets.