Principal Investigator and Professor
Edwin C. Kan
E-Mail: kan at ece dot cornell dot edu
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
College of Engineering
Cornell University
325 Phillips Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-5401
Biography
Professor Edwin Kan received his B.S. in 1984 from the National Taiwan University. He received his Ph.D. from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992. He was a Senior CAD Engineer at Dawn Technology from 1992-1994. From 1994-1997 he was a Research Associate at Stanford University. He joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering at Cornell in 1997 as an assistant professor. Professor Kan is now a full professor.
Selected Awards and Honors
- Cornell Inventor Award (Cornell University) 2006
- Robert ’55 and Vanne ’57 Cowie Excellence in Teaching Award (Cornell College of Engineering) 2003
- Cornell Inventor Award (Cornell University) 2003
- Best Chapter Chair Award (IEEE) 2002
- PECASE (Presidential Early-Career Award for Scientists and Engineers) Award (US Government) 2000
Education
- BS (Electrical Engineering), National Taiwan University
- MS (ELectrical and Computer Engineering), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Ph D (Electrical and Computer Engineering), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ph.D. Students
Thomas B. Conroy
E-Mail: tbc38 at cornell dot edu
I joined the group in the fall of 2019 after completing my Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York. My research interests are non-invasive biomedical sensing, specifically of cardiac behavior, in both human and veterinary models for early detection of disease. Outside of the lab, I enjoy golfing and playing hockey.
Upekha Delay
E-Mail: ud36 at cornell dot edu
Kapil Gangwar
E-Mail: kg434 at cornell dot edu
I joined in 2022 after receiving my B.Tech. degree in electronics and communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad in 2019 and an M.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada in 2022. My research interests include microwave antennas, RF sensors, biomedical imaging, tomography techniques, and ultra-wideband radar. I like to play cricket, dance, travel, and cook.
Aakash Kapoor
E-Mail: ak2247 at cornell dot edu
I joined the Kan group in 2022, after having completed my Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2020 and working at Samsung Research as a Research Engineer thereafter. My research interests include building sensors for biometrics; human-computer interaction; and machine learning on embedded environments. Outside of the lab, I enjoy cooking, engaging in philosophical debates, poetry, blogging, table tennis, and badminton.
Anusha Muralidharan
E-Mail: am2757 at cornell dot edu
I joined the group in the fall of 2023. Previously, I received my Master’s degree in Bioengineering from University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (UIUC), after which I worked as a Research engineer at the Health Care Engineering System center, UIUC. My primary research interests include physiological sensing and contactless health monitoring. Outside of the lab, I like to spend time with my friends and watch TV shows.
M.Eng. Students
Alumni
- Guoyi Xu, Ph.D, now at Columbia University (gx36@cornell.edu)
- Zijing Zhang, Ph.D, now at Apple (zz587@cornell.edu)
- Jianlin Zhou, Ph.D, now at Northwestern University (jz899@cornell.edu)
- Xiaonan Hui, Ph.D., now a professor at Zhejiang University (xh273@cornell.edu, www.xiaonanhui.com)
- Pragya Sharma, Ph.D., now at Biofourmis (ps847@cornell.edu)
- Kshitij Auluck, Ph.D., now at Intel Oregon (ka323@cornell.edu)
- Yingqiu Cao, Ph.D., now at Google (yc923@cornell.edu)
- Udayan Ganguly, Ph.D., now a professor at IIT Bombay (ug23@cornell.edu)
- Philip Gordon, Ph.D., now at Diversified Technology in Boston (phg35@cornell.edu)
- Anirudh Gorur-Seetharam, MS, now at PG&E (ags28@cornell.edu)
- Alex Tou-Hung Hou, now a professor at National Chiao-Tung Univ. in Taiwan (th273@cornell.edu)
- Blake Jacquot, Ph.D., now at Google (bcj7@cornell.edu)
- Krishna Jayant, Ph.D., now an assistant professor at Purdue (kj75@cornell.edu)
- Jinsook Kim , Ph.D., now at Spansion (jk368@cornell.edu)
- Myongseob Kim , Ph.D., now at Xilinx (mk156@cornell.edu)
- Chungho Lee, Ph.D., postdoc and lab manager, now at First Solar (cl266@cornell.edu)
- Jaegoo Lee, Ph.D., now at Samsung (jl548@cornell.edu)
- Zengtao Liu, Ph.D., postdoc, now at Intel (zl27@cornell.edu)
- Yunfei Ma, Ph.D., now at Alibaba North America (ym274@cornell.edu)
- Jami Meteer, Ph.D., now at Intel Oregon (jam248@cornell.edu)
- Venkat Narayanan, Ph.D., now at Qualcom (vn23@cornell.edu)
- Weiping Ni, Ph.D., now at Binoptics (wn25@cornell.edu)
- Gen Pei, Ph.D., now at IBM (gp35@cornell.edu)
- Shantanu Rajwade, Ph.D., now at Intel Santa Clara (srr77@cornell.edu)
- Hassan Raza, postdoc, now at Center for Fundamental Research (hr89@cornell.edu)
- Jonathan Shaw, Ph.D., now at TSMC (jts57@cornell.edu)
- Yu-min Nick Shen, Ph.D., now at TSMC (ys69@cornell.edu)
- Lieh-Ting Tung, Ph.D., now at Intel Santa Clara (lt277@cornell.edu)
- Pingshan Wang, Ph.D., now a professor at Clemson Univ. (pw30@cornell.edu)
- Sarah Xu, Ph.D., now at Intel Oregon (qx33@cornell.edu)
- Fan Yu, Ph.D., now at Google (fy34@cornell.edu)