2024.03.21 Paper “A Wireless Power Conversion Chain with Fully On-chip Automatic Resonance Tuning System for Biomedical Implants” by Mohammad Javad Karimi, Menghe Jin, Catherine Dehollain, and Alexandre Schmid accepted for publication in the IEEE Open Journal of Circuits and Systems.
2024.01.22 Paper “Wirelessly Powered and Bi-directional Data Communication System with Adaptive Conversion Chain for Multisite Biomedical Implants Over Single Inductive Link,” by Mohammad Javad Karimi, Catherine Dehollain, and Alexandre Schmid accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.
2024.01.18 Paper “An Analysis of An ASK Demodulator with Dual Self-Biased Separated Voltages for Implantable Applications” by Mohammad Javad Karimi, Yuxuan Zhou, Catherine Dehollain, and Alexandre Schmid accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs.
2024.01.15 Paper “A Low-Power and High-Precision Time-Domain Winner-Take-All Circuit Based on the Group Search Algorithm” by accepted to the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems, Singapore, May 2024.
2024.01.16 Mohammad Javad Karimi receives the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CASS) Pre-Doctoral Travel grant for the paper “Wireless Power and Data Transceiver in a Central Implanted Unit for Biomedical Applications,” by Mohammad Javad Karimi, Soroush Mehdi, Catherine Dehollain and Alexandre Schmid accepted at the IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems (LASCAS 2024), Punta del Este, Uruguay, February 2024.
2023.12.15 Dr Keyvan Farhang Razi is conferred the grade of Doctor of Science of the EPFL.
2023.11.20 Paper “Wireless Power and Data Transceiver in a Central Implanted Unit for Biomedical Applications,” by Mohammad Javad Karimi, Soroush Mehdi, Catherine Dehollain and Alexandre Schmid accepted at the IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems (LASCAS 2024), Punta del Este, Uruguay, February 2024.
2023.11.19 Paper “A Two-Wired High Input Impedance and High CMRR Active Electrode Insensitive to Component Mismatch,” by Gholamreza Jafari, Mohammad Tavakkoli Qouchani, Mehdi Saberi and Alexandre Schmid, accepted in the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement.
2023.11.14 Dr A. Schmid delivered a short course on Interface design, challenges and future, Master biologie et santé, CYU Cergy Paris University, France, Bioelectronics module, hybrid, November 14, 2023.
2023.09.20 Paper “Design of a Dual-Band Wireless Power and Data Transfer Coil for Multisite Biomedical Implants” by Mohammad Javad Karimi, Junyan Qian, Catherine Dehollain, Alexandre Schmid accepted at the NorCAS 2023 IEEE Nordic Circuits and Systems Conference, October 2023.
2023.05.25 Paper “A 13.56 MHz Active Rectifier with Digitally-Assisted and Delay Compensated Comparators for Biomedical Implantable Devices” by Mohammad Javad Karimi, Catherine Dehollain, Alexandre Schmid accepted at the 2023 European Solid-State Device Research & Circuits Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, September 2023.
2023.04.12 Paper “Digital One-Shot Charge-Balancing Method for Implantable Current-Mode Electrical Stimulation” by Keyvan Farhang Razi and Alexandre Schmid accepted at the 18th Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME 2023), Valencia, SP, June 2023.
2023.03.20 Paper “Power Feedback Control Unit For Closed-Loop Wirelessly-Powered Biomedical Implants” by Mohammad Javad Karimi, Catherine Dehollain, Alexandre Schmid accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs. following an invitation from ISCAS 2023.
2023.01.20 “Power Feedback Control Unit for Closed-Loop Wirelessly-Powered Biomedical Implants” by Mohammad Javad Karimi, Catherine Dehollain, Alexandre Schmid accepted at the the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS 2023), Monterey, CA, May 2023.
2023.01.18 Dr A. Schmid delivered an invited talk on Neuromorphic and Unconventional Computing and its Application to Information Science, 2023 International Workshop on Neuromorphic Computing, Information Science and Technology, JSPS Core-to-Core Program, Graduate School of IST, Hokkaido University, Japan.
2022.12.09 Paper “Hardware-Friendly Random Forest Classification of iEEG Signals for Implantable Seizure Detection” by Keyvan Farhang Razi, Raquel Ramos Garcia and Alexandre Schmid presented at the 7th IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES 2022), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 2022 is recognized with the best paper award.
2022.11.29 Paper “Programmable Seizure Detector Using a 32-bit RISC Processor for Implantable Medical Devices” by Keyvan Farhang Razi, Alexandre Schmid accepted at the IEEE Latin American Symposium on Circuits and Systems (LASCAS 2023), Ecuador, February 2023.
2022.11.18 Dr A. Schmid delivered a short course on Interface design, challenges and future, Master biologie et santé, CYU Cergy Paris University, France, Bioelectronics module, hybrid, November 18, 2022.
2022.10.14 Mohammad Javad Karimi receives the BioCAS 2022 Student Travel Grant for the paper “Modeling and Analysis of a Wirelessly Powered Closed-Loop Implant for Epilepsy” by Mohammad Javad Karimi, Keyvan Farhang Razi, Catherine Dehollain, and Alexandre Schmid, BioCAS 2022, Taipei, Taiwan.
2022.10.08 Paper “Hardware-Friendly Random Forest Classification of iEEG Signals for Implantable Seizure Detection” by Keyvan Farhang Razi, Raquel Ramos Garcia and Alexandre Schmid accepted at the 7th IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES 2022), Malaysia, December 2022.
2022.09.03 Paper “Computation Complexity Reduction Technique for Accurate Seizure Detection Implants” by Keyvan Farhang Razi, Alexandre Schmid accepted at the 22 29th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits & Systems, Glasgow, UK, October, 2022.
2022.08.13 Paper “Modeling and Analysis of a Wirelessly Powered Closed-Loop Implant for Epilepsy” by Mohammad Javad Karimi, Keyvan Farhang Razi, Catherine Dehollain, and Alexandre Schmid accepted at the 2022 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, BioCAS 2022, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2022.
2022.06.30 Paper “Epileptic Seizure Detection with Patient-Specific Feature and Channel Selection Techniques for Low-power Applications” by Keyvan Farhang Razi, Alexandre Schmid accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.
2022.06.03 Mohammad Javad Karimi receives the EDMI Best Poster Award on the EDMI Research Day for the poster “Wireless Power and Data Transmission for An Implantable Biomedical Closed-Loop Epilepsy Control Device,” Mohammad Javad Karimi, Catherine Dehollain, Alexandre Schmid
2022.05.10 Paper “Dynamic Probabilistic Pruning: A general framework for hardware-constrained pruning at different granularities” by Gonzalez Carabarin, Lizeth; Huijben, Iris ; Veeling, Bastiaan ; Schmid, Alexandre; van Sloun, Ruud accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
2022.02.xx Paper “Structured and tiled-based pruning of Deep Learning models targeting FPGA implementations,” by Lizeth Gonzalez-Carabarin, Alexandre Schmid, Ruud J.G. van Sloun accepted at the International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2022, Austin, TX, May 2022.
2022.02.15 New book published by EPFL Press, Alexandre Schmid, Raphael Holzer, “Microcontrôleurs, Théorie et Pratique de l’AVR.”
2022.01.28 Dr A. Schmid delivered a seminar on “Unconventional microelectronic systems: biomedical, neuromorphic systems challenges and prospects,” EPFL IEM Seminar, EPFL (hybrid, ELA2), Lausanne, Switzerland, January 28, 2022.
2022.01.09 Paper “An active charge balancing method suitable for integration in the output-stage of electrical neural stimulators” by Ranjandish, R., Jang, T., Schmid, A. published in Springer Nature Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
2021.06.15 Dr A. Schmid delivered a keynote at the CNRS Topical School on Interfaces 2021, “Interface design, challenges and future,” Paris, Fr., December 2021
2021.12.10 Keyvan Farhang Razi receives the Best Student Paper Award of the BioSMART 2021 International Conference for the paper Keyvan Farhang Razi, Mohammad Javad Karimi, Catherine Dehollain, Alexandre Schmid, System-Level Modeling of a Safe Autonomous Closed-Loop Epileptic Seizure Control Implant, BioSMART 2021, Paris, Fr, and online, December 2021
2021.06.13 Dr A. Schmid delivered an invited talk entitled “Implantable Neuro-Modulation Devices and Technology,” at the Silicon Nanoelectronics Workshop 2021, SNW-2021, Satellite Workshop of VLSI Symposia 2021, All Virtual (Kyoto), Japan.
2021.04.xx Paper “Walsh-Hadamard based Orthogonal Sampling Technique for Parallel Neural Recording Systems,” by Ranjandish, R., Schmid, A., published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I.
2021.03.15 Paper “Wireless Power and Data Transmission for Implanted Devices via Inductive Links: A Systematic Review,” by Karimi, M, Schmid, A, Dehollain, C., published in IEEE Sensors Journal.
2020.10.08 Invited Paper, “A Review of Microelectronic Systems and Circuit Techniques for Electrical Neural Recording Aimed at Closed-Loop Epilepsy Control,” by R. Ranjandish and A. Schmid published in Sensors 2020, 20, 5716. Invited paper in the Special Issue on Integrated Circuits and Systems for Smart Sensory Applications.
2021.01.01 BNMS research group formally established in IEM (IEL) as the SCI-STI-AXS
2019.11.xx Paper “A Design Methodology for Charge-Balanced Stimulators Based on Anodic Current Variation Monitoring,” by R. Ranjandish and A. Schmid published in Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, Springer.
2019.11.27 Paper “Chopped-Anodic-Phase Charge Balancing Method for Electrical Stimulation” presented at the IEEE 26th IEEE International Conference on Electronics Circuits and Systems Genova, Italy
2019.09.25 2019 InnovativeFPGA (Intel/terasIC) World FPGA Design Contest video of the project of J. Snoeijs “FPGA acceleration of recurrent neural networks for epileptic seizure classification” is uploaded (URL) as second step of the competition
2019.09.17 Dr A. Schmid deliverd a talk entitled “Closed-Loop Epilepsy Control: Towards semi-Autonomous Implants” at the Implantable Neuro-Modulation Devices and Technology workshop at the Biomedical Electronics Translational Research Center, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, TW and at A-Neuron Electronic Corporation, Zhubei, TW
2019.07.26 This website started
2019.07.23 Invited MSc diploma student S. Debenest defends his research entitled “A N-Channel EEG Feature Extractor and Seizure Classification HDL design”
2019.07.08 MSc diploma student J. Snoeijs defends his research entitled “System-on-Chip Implementation of Recurrent Neural Networks aiming at Biomedical Applications”
2019.07.07 J. Snoeijs is selected regional finalist of the 2019 InnovativeFPGA (Intel/terasIC) World FPGA Design Contest, “Artificial Intelligence at the Edge” for his MSc diploma work on “FPGA acceleration of recurrent neural networks for epileptic seizure classification”
2019.07.02 Dr Lizeth Gonzalez Carabarin is awarded the EuroTechPostdoc fellowship for the project “Epilepsy onset prediction based on power‐efficient Binary Deep Neural Networks.” as a collaborative work involving Dr. van Sloun at TU/e and BNMS/EPFL