Human Augmentation Technologies Lab (HAT lab) | microsystems to enhance health and cognitive performance

Welcome!

Welcome to the Human Augmentation Technologies Lab (HAT lab) at Michigan State University directed by Professor Andrew Mason. The mission of this research group is to develop integrated circuit and microsystem approaches that enable a bridging between novel nano/micro-sensor technologies and high impact biomedical and environmental applications. This research group focuses on the development autonomous, miniaturized sensory microsystems featuring nanostructured biological and chemical interfaces by exploring research contributions to mixed-signal integrated circuit design, microfabrication of sensor structures and real-time signal processing algorithms.

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Recent Projects

Flexible and Printable food safety sensing

This research aims to create flexible yet durable electrodes to detect food degradation markers for packaging with food safety monitoring capabilities.

Monitoring of human behaviors using multi-sensor modalities and machine learning algorithms

This research project addresses the challenge of utilizing and combining wearable sensors' data and machine learning algorithms to identify human behaviors that can be negatively impacting the quality of social interactions and individuals' well-being.

Electrotactile stimulation of peripheral nerves for machine-to-human-communication

Through stimulation of peripheral nervous system using our proprietary electrotactile stimulation technology, we seek to further our agenda of enabling seamless Machine-to-Human Communication (MHC). We are currently holding human trials to evaluate our electrotactile MHC.

Wearable Electrochemical Sensor Arrays in Health Hazard Monitoring

Wearable senors play an important role in ambient environmental monitoring for human health protection. In this project, different microelectronic circuits have been developed to address circuit challenges in wearable gas sensor array development.

Lab-on-CMOS Microsystem

This lab-on-CMOS project is try to integrate biosensor array, CMOS electrochemical instrumentation and Microfluidic channel together into a single device to make a compact high-throughput microsystem to fully develop the miniaturized monolithic realization. Biosensor, CMOS instrumentation and Microchannel fabrication, include with the packaging and encapsulation research was performed in this project for the on-CMOS single device microsystem target.

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Research News

Professor Mason's new NIH R01 grant featured in MSU Today

Spartan engineers are leading an all-Michigan effort to create wearable devices that monitor exposure to dangerous particle pollutants. Air pollution is responsible for an estimated 7 million premature deaths every year, according to new air quality guidelines recently published by the World Health Organization. That’s roughly one in nine deaths globally. But except in extreme cases such as wildfires that can spread smoke hundreds of miles, air quality is easily overlooked. Many of the pollutants that affect hearts, lungs and brains are invisible. And current technologies that monitor air pollution can take weeks to collect and process data. “That’s helpful for epidemiological studies, but it doesn’t tell you what’s going on today,” said Andrew Mason, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in Michigan State University’s College of Engineering. Teaming up with researchers at Oakland University and the University of Michigan, Mason’s lab is working to empower individuals to better protect themselves and their communities from air pollution in real time. With the support of a $2.78 million grant, the team is creating wearable devices that can track exposure to pollutants and help people steer clear of pollution. The grant is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, one of the National Institutes of Health.

Grants

Three papers accepted for presentation at the ISCAS 2022 conference!

Congratulations to all HAT lab members that got papers accepted for presentation at ISCAS 2022.

Papers Acceptance

Congratulations to Sylmarie for been selected to be part of the MSU 2020-2021 Cloud Computing Fellowship program

The MSU Cloud Computing Fellowship program provides the opportunity to participate in workshops where participants learn how to use cloud computing for their research, receive hands-on support in developing and executing a cloud-based research project, and have their work publicized by ICER and other university channels.

Fellowships

Review paper on technologies for monitoring human behaviors accepted for publication at the IEEE TBioCAS journal