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ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

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I am a Ph.D. student in the ECE department at Michigan State University. I am a research assistant in the AIM Laboratory under the direction of Dr.Shantanu Chakrabartty. I received M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Institute of Intelligent Machines, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2004,and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China in 2001.

My research interests are in the interdisciplinary areas of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Hybrid-CMOS Design for Life Science Applications, and Nanocomposites Sensors. Specifically, I am interested in the area of Bio-Silicon interface and its application to the design of novel hybrid biological/solid-state devices. A particular emphasis of my current research is on the development of a Forward Error-Correcting (FEC) biosensing system, which includes the Nano-Biosensor Encoder and integrated CMOS decoder. With embedded error-correcting function in biosensors themselves, they can not only detect multiple pathogens simultaneously,  but could correct some errors induced by stochastic nature of proteins interaction and some artifacts of biosensors structure, thus providing robustness to biosensors and increasing their accuracy. By applying encoding-decoding principles, which is widely used in communication systems, to biological system, some fundamental limitations of engineered biological systems and stochastic nature of complex protein-protein interaction can be better understood and these limitations are expected to be alleviated.

A starting point of my investigation involves achieving biosensor encoder with biologically-driven self-assembled biomolecular nanowire array and the design of corresponding decoding algorithms. Some preliminary results can be found in my recent publications.

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	Look at my online photo album filled with pictures from my vacations, and my family.	Email: liuyang4 at egr.msu.edu Phone: 1-517-432-2155 Address: 1226 Engineering Building Michigan State University East Lansing, MI 48824