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Andrew J. Mason, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
E
lectrical and Computer Engineering

Mailing Address:
2120 Engineering Building 
MSU, East Lansing, MI 48824-2252

Office:
1217 Engineering Building
Ph: 517-355-6502
Fax:  517-353-1980
Email: mason@msu.edu

 

 

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Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2000 (Electrical Engineering) 
M.S., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1994 (Electrical Engineering) 
B.E.E., Georgia Institute of Technology, 1992 (Electrical Engineering) 
B.S., Western Kentucky University, 1991 (Physics)

 

Principal Scholarly Interests

Adaptive low-power mixed-signal integrated circuits; Nanostructured biological/chemical sensor arrays on CMOS; Microsensor signal conditioning and signal processing circuits; Integrated microsystems and Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS).

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Low Power 4x5mm Sensor Signal Processing SoC in 180nm CMOS


Research Update (Spring 2010): AMSaC Newsletter

Recent Highlights

  • Congratulations to 2010 graduates from the AMSaC lab: Awais Kamboh (Ph.D.), Waqar Qureshi, Xiaoyi Mu, Xiaowen Liu (MS)
  • IEEE BioCAS 2010 Best Student Paper Award goes to Awais Kamboh, Andrew J. Mason, “On-Chip Feature Extraction for Spike Sorting in High Density Implantable Neural Recording Systems”
  • AMSaC research recognized in IEEE Spectrum <here>
  • AMSaC lab presents three papers at IEEE BioCAS Conf., Nov 2010, in Cyprus
  • Dr. Mason receives $1.9M R01 grant to develop gas sensor arrays for mine safety
  • Dr. Mason receives the 2010 Withrow Award for Teaching Excellence
  • AMSaC lab presents two papers at the IEEE ISCAS Conf, May 2010, in Paris France
  • Dr. Mason named General co-Chair of 2011 IEEE BioCAS Conf.
  • Welcome new AMSaC lab members: Lin Li, Xiaoyi Mu, Waqar Qureshi (Fall 2008), Yuning Yang, Haitao Li (Fall 2009)
  • AMSaC lab presents two papers at IEEE BioCAS Conf., Nov 2009, in Beijing China
  • Dr. Mason and colleagues receive funding from the NIH Grand Opportunities program to work on nanoparticle safety.
  • AMSaC lab presents three papers at the IEEE ISCAS Conf, May 2009, in Taipei Taiwan
  • AMSaC lab presents two papers at the IEEE Sensors Conf, October 2008, in Italy
  • Dr. Mason and colleagues received funding under the DARPA Real Nose program to develop biochemical sensor arrays
  • Congratulations to 2008 graduates from the AMSaC lab: Chao Yang (Ph.D.)
  • Dr. Mason and colleagues receive NIH R01 grant to develop wireless neural sensor interfaces
  • Dr. Mason travels to India July 2008 to give a workshop on teaching VLSI Design for the Indo-US Engineering Faculty Institutes
  • AMSaC lab presents a paper at the 2008 IEEE ISCAS Conf.

Project Websites

NSF IDBR Temperature Controlled Array Microsystem for Functional Proteomics (began Sept. 2007)

Associated Labs

Advanced MicroSystems and Circuits (AMSaC) Research Laboratory (Dr. Mason's Lab)

Micro and Nano Engineering Facility (MNEF) ERC Cleanroom

Keck Microfabrication Facility

Other MSU/ECE Research Labs

Associated Centers

Center for Nanostructured Biomimetic Interfaces (CNBI)

NSF Center for Wireless Integrated Microsystems (WIMS)